Better Homes And Gardens 1950s Housewife

August 1950

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A little change--a big difference

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Easy hospitality for last-minute guests

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How to hold on to a HAPPY MARRIAGE

Anybody can get married, but not everybody can find happiness in marriage. For a marriage is only as well adjusted as the two personalitiesinvolved.

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My boy's not going to go to college!

My son is NOT going to college. This, of course, is heresy against present-day thinking. But I'll stick by it-- even if my own father and I are both college graduates.

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BUILDING COSTS

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HAVE YOU HEARD?

A by-product from an upholstering material is proving to be a superior mulch for lawns and gardens. Wastes from turning Spanish moss into furniture stuffing have been piling up along Louisiana streams for over 50 years. The waste has decomposed to form a springy mass which tests have shown to be ideal for mulching and for mixing with soil to add humus. The material is now on the market.

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Spray your troubles away

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There's an extra room in your house

Could you use an extra room in your house? Would you like to get it without building an addition? It will be well worth your time, then, to investigate what we mean when we say here that there is an extra room in your house.

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One-story plans can be compact

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How to take a vacation yon "can't afford"

It's only seven degrees warmer at Sarasota, Florida, on September 15 than it is on February 15, the height of the Florida season. But it's $15 a week cheaper for each member of your family at Florasota Gardens, luxurious new family apartment resort. And across the state at Daytona Beach, Ellinor Village, low-cost the year round, will pay $10 of your transportation, no matter how you travel, for each week your family stays during September, October, November, and December.

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Paths and walks you'll want to make

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Planned for the comfort and fun of the whole family

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Open up your house

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Versatile green--in every room

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Its extras pay for themselves!

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Something new in low-cost furniture

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Pretty from every angle

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Supper Outdoors--cool and easy

You don't have to have fancy food when you eat outdoors. You have to have good food and plenty of it.

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How to eat in the kitchen and like it

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Quick plate and platter meals

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Pick it up with kitchen tongs

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These keep food hot or cold

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"The best chocolate we ever tasted" chiffon pie

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Prize recipes for the pickle jar

A relish dish of crisp pickles can step a plain meal right up to the company class. Here are three wonderful pickle recipes we think every good pickle shelf should own!

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Sparkling iced tea and iced coffee

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Spacesavers for your kitchen

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Middle-aged house up to date

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Jelly making

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Clean plate club

A new club has come to our house. It's the "Clean Plate Club," complete with a tally calendar and a scoring system all its own.

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More use from small rooms with careful planning

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Ice-cream freezers

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Burn your dishes behind you

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Cooks' contest

Your favorite chocolate dessert recipe or way of dressing up leftovers may win you a prize. We will send you $10 if you win first place, $3 if yours is one of the 20 other top recipes.

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Make your doors and windows work

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Something out of nothing

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Does it suit your needs?

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Consider location and setting

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Your dog and mine

Our 2-year-old Dachshund is terrifically shy, even though she has always received kind and loving care. Why is she so timid, and what can we do about it?--

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WATER RIGHT

Applying water to your plants is the most important job you do around the garden. The reason is that water is the most important chemical plants use; it must be applied in the right way and be constantly present around roots for beautiful foliage and flowers. Growing plants suffer a setback when they lack water.

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Pick up! Wash up! Clean up! Give up?

Do you dream, sometimes, about what it would be like to live with a couple of youngsters who never drop their clothes in heaps, never dribble food when they eat, never leave toys for you to pick up or to trip over? You probably do, if your kids are at all like Andy.

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Your sofa likes company

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how-to helps

How to Make and Fit Slipcovers-- summer perspiration is hard on your furniture. Here's a book full of ideas on how to make slipcovers, plus other novel ways of protecting and brightening up your home. Order number 45-- 25c.

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BETTER HOME Product News

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Easy does it

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August Garden Guide

Sow warmth-loving annuals in the Lower South such as balsam, calendulas, cosmos, marigolds, and zinnias. In Middle South plant quick-flowering annuals such as alyssum, candytuft, marigolds, phlox, and zinnias.

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A narrow lot--but full of ideas

Garden planning isn't too hard when you have a yard of normal size and shape. It's the unusual lots that create problems-- the kind of problems faced by Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Matthews on their long, narrow lot in Philadelphia.

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Garden clinic

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The diary of a plain dirt gardener

August 1 Excuse please, for mentioning it again, but glads are among the highlights on our plantation at the moment. Going over my collection, not of the ultranew ones, I took note of good old Picardy, that large salmon-pink. Came out in 1931, and soon became the most popular glad in the world.

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How to fix those wobbly chairs

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How to get plans for this house

For help in furnishing, decorating, remodeling your home, or in planning a new home, visit one of the stores listed below. Each maintains a permanent Home Planning Center ready to serve you without charge.

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What to do about garbage

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Through the Shops

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The MAN NEXT DOOR

Late summer is so wonderful. The skies are wonderfully blue, the golf courses are wonderfully green, my daughters wonder if I'm good for another set of swim suits, my wife wonders if I shouldn't fertilize the chrysanthemums for fall, and I wonder how much longer, O Lord, will we have to endure this stifling heat.

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