January 1959

BEWARE: The advance-fee real estate racket!

IN UPSTATE NEW YORK, a salesman purporting to represent a nationwide real estate agency talked a homeowner into paying over $1,000 in advance for "special" selling services. The woman owned a handsome old house, but not an easy one to sell. It was too large. She never heard from the salesman again.

Collapsible go lightly

How to use fiberglass

One of the most important new materials available to handymen is plastic reinforced with glass fibers. Known under several trade names, and popularly known as "fiberglass," this versatile material has become familiar in its uses in automobiles, furniture, sporting goods, and so on.

How to protect your children from sex offenders

"'Bye, Mummy, I'm going to play at Ricky's, I'll call you when I get there." Proud, if a trifle wobbly, on her first sidewalk bike, our 7-year-old daughter disappears around the corner. In a few minutes the telephone rings. "It's me, I'm here." "Okay, honey, have a nice time."

The dye is cast

HERE'S HOW TO . . . FINISH YOUR BASEMENT

How well you prepare your basement walls, floor, and ceiling for the finish materials is very important. Extra care where it won't show may avoid costly, annoying mistakes or delays when you install the materials that will be visible.

Sparkling newcomers for '59

COLOR-the plumber's new friend

An exciting new way to build

New ideas for your older furniture

ARE YOU A CANDIDATE FOR HEART DISEASE?

Dr. White: Generally speaking, the broad muscular type of individual is more susceptible in his youth to a certain kind of heart disease, that is, coronary heart disease. This is especially true if there is a history of coronary thrombosis in the family. He is a marked man. I look at these young men as I walk down the street and want to ask them if they're getting enough exercise and watching their diet.

Little touches add lots of charm

KIDDIE CAPER COMING?

Personal help in planning, decorating and furnishing YOUR home

Look for this Better Homes & Gardens "Home Planning Center" seal when you're looking for ideas to help make your home more comfortable and attractive. It identifies leading stores who feature personal counsel on home planning, decorating, and furnishings problems.

How to Build a partition wall

How to get plans

Suburban notebook-Potluck

We hadn't seen Josie and Marv for a long time, so my wife thought it would be fun to have them over for what she calls potluck.

$50,000 in prizes just for improving your home!

The diary of a Plain dirt gardener

When I awakened this morning, there were blue jays and cardinals flitting around in the branches of the red oak, outside in the dawn's early light.

THE MAN NEXT DOOR

Seeing a whiff of smoke, Frank Walton and I slipped around the garage, expecting to catch our sons red-handed puffing on pipes. But they were only burning that old rubbish for us, so we slipped quietly away so they wouldn't catch us red-faced. Then we estimated a dollar apiece would be about right to pay for their trouble-- and the lesson we learned.