April 1961

KITCHEN IDEAS IN ACTION

You're just being smart when you improve a kitchen. You not only increase resale value of your home, you make day-to-day living better for every member of the family.

ANCHOR FENCE

Dreamed about your next house lately?

Want a masterpiece of a color scheme?

A FAVORITE PAINTING is an excellent source for your new decorating scheme, for if you are especially fond of a picture, evidently you like its colors and the mood they suggest. The best advantage of all is for you as an amateur decorator: the artist already has carefully selected your color scheme.

Everything in a hint of space

the return to elegance in home decorating

Try a one-wall laundry

How to get plans for FIVE STAR homes

How to teach a woman man-talk

MY wife was never a wallflower, but like most women, she found herself forced out of conversations that took certain masculine turns. But no more. Now she sparkles with poise. She learned a simple gambit called man-talk.

Good FIT means good FEET

Make sure to invest shoe-dollars so that they pay lifetime dividends in foot health for your children. Here's how:

How long is 15 MINUTES?

Janie's mother is upset. She had given her 15 minutes to undress, take her bath, and start dressing for a friend's birthday party. Now, she finds that all Janie has accomplished is to take off her play clothes. Absorbed in dressing her doll, she has forgotten all about the bath.

Build your own kitchen island

cutting diagrams for your kitchen island

A GI returns to the great battle areas of EUROPE

In the lives of every one of us, man or woman, there are events which we recognize even at the time of their happening as more real, more fulfilling, more impossible, more demanding than anything we have known before or will ever know again. For many of the men of our generation, the biggest such event was the war.

Fast facts on European travel

Reading Paul Deutschman's description of the great battle areas of Europe (page 121) may very well start you planning a Continental tour of your own.

New garden hose-end sprayers

How to choose and use DUSTERS

More SPACE per drawer

the man next door

This is the wonderful time of the year when a good figure becomes more important to a woman than an expensive fur coat.