September 1960

Better Homes & Gardens introduces FIVE smart gardeners!

Month by month, gardening differs in every region. Sometimes just a little, but mostly quite a lot. Because we want you to have the best information for your region, we've asked five experts from as many areas to bring it to you each month. Most of them might be called professional amateurs. They garden because they love it, and because they love it so much, they make it their profession. Introducing . . .

SEPTEMBER GARDENING WHERE YOU LIVE!

THE countryside will soon be ablaze with color. Why not use nature's own paint pot to enliven your garden? I've always preferred a Fall Planting schedule for most trees and shrubs (your nurseryman will warn you of exceptions), because that's the time of the year I can best judge the effect of new plantings. Get conifers in right now-- wait until the end of the month for winter-bare trees. Select some of the trees with their fall color in mind.

HANDYMAN HOW-TO . . .

Room enough for all that stuff

HOW TO BEA TWO-CAR FAMILY ON A ONE-CAR INCOME

ONE DAY last spring, Joe Arnold handed his ticket to the conductor for its last punch and bade farewell to the 8:12 train to Philadelphia and a $35-a-month commuting bill. Like seven million other Americans (an increase of 67 per cent in less than six years), Joe had become a two-car owner --partly from need, but also by choice.

Why a BETTER HOUSE?

THIS IS the eighth consecutive year Better Homes & Gardens has presented its "Idea Homes of the Year." For 1960, we offer four of the best family homes ever published. And probably these Idea Homes will have more significance than ever before

3009-A Smartest Traditional home ever

3009-B Western living for the whole country

3009-C Neat, trim, wonderfully practical

3009-D A budget home with a growing future

THE STRANGE THINGS PEOPLE EAT TO STAY YOUNG!

Ponce de Leon didn't find the elixir of youth because he didn't know where to look. But who would have thought the secret of everlasting youth might turn out to be one part steers' blood? At least, that is the testimony of that fountain of youth himself, Sugar Ray Robinson. And if we add Archie Moore's "youth juice" and British marathon walker Dr. Barbara Moore's chickweed juice, we might just have the complete formula for youthful good health.

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These were just planted!

Walter Cronkite: On and off the air . . .

WALTER CRONKITE' S activities and interests are designed (1) to accommodate his demanding schedule and (2) to allow five people, ranging in age from 3 to 43, to do them together. It is a remarkable performance. Mrs. Cronkite does not view it as such. "The reason I can cope with Walter's strange hours is probably because I'm not very efficient," she said.

How to turn trousers cuffs

Good cooks--1970!

Although you hope your daughter will learn how to cook by watching you, she'll do better sooner if you take time to really teach her. It'll be fun and serious, all at once, if you have a cooking school for her and a few of her friends.

Grow grass that can take it!

First of all, imagine the problem. A football field is the average home lawn multiplied in size eight times. It is 57,600 square feet of grass that is mauled, ripped, pounded, torn, and slashed into chunks of mutilated turf. It is on the receiving end of all the punishment that 22 cleat-footed, husky men can give it during 60 minutes of playing time--week after week after week.

When choosing a college, don't fall for these fables:

EVEN before they set foot on campus, nearly half of the freshmen entering college this month are on the road to disillusionment. Guided by folklore, misconceptions, and unqualified advisers, they've enrolled in unsuitable institutions they know virtually nothing about.

WHAT COMES AFTER AFT?

Hearing a lot of talk about boats lately? Chances are you have, since boating is now the country's most popular sport.

POLIO ISN'T LICKED UNTIL EVERYONE GETS HIS SHOTS

What is a FLOOR?

Manners for men

NOT only on Father's Day, but 365 days of the year a man finds himself escorting a girl, wife, or family all around town. Though the days of knighthood and the gallant gesture have long since passed, there's a whole new set of problems to plague the long-suffering male.

How to measure gasoline mileage--the RIGHT WAY

How to get Five Star home plans

Five Star Homes 3009-A, B, C, D start on page 44. A monthly series for which you can buy complete plans with the following features:

Get personal help at a Home Planning Center in furnishing and decorating 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 which feature personal counsel in furnishing and decorating your home.

What's NEW in MEDICINE?

Malaria drug for arthritis. Chloroquine, a drug used mainly against malaria, has been found to have beneficial effects in certain rheumatoid arthritis patients. A long-term study of the "surprise" drug is reported in Annals of Internal Medicine by Dr. J. Paul Young of Asheville, North Carolina. After 50 patients who had long arthritis histories-- nine years, on the average-- were treated with chloroquine as the main medical agent, 88 per cent showed complete remission or major improvement.

PROBLEM-SOLVING HARDWARE

Wilbur Wilt reaps a HARVEST

What is a ROOF?

the man next door

I don't know of a single friendship that has been broken up, even temporarily, by politics in this campaign year. I can't decide whether this is a sign of tolerance, which is good, or apathy, which isn't.