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PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT
YOU TOO CAN BE AS
SAFE AS HOUSES
MOST
By W. P. MATTHEW
London. tite upper half, and if the [OST people have a good fastenings can be reached idea of what a crowd from a broken, square of of a thousand people looks glass he is in a matter of like--when the lights at the seconds. cinema go up, for instance.
AN EXTRA LOCK Multiply that crowd by ten and you have the num- FOR the back door a good holt at top and bottom ber of people who are con- victed of stealing from is important, particularly nt houses in this country in a the hottom, but what about single year. And that is only the front door? You cannot bolt that after you. But you those who get caught.
can fit an extra lock - mortice dead lock housed in the Thickness of the door --
IT'S EASY
HALF of them will be under 21, But they will not, most of them, be very clever people, and it is not at all difficult to make your house Hullciently burglar proof for it to be safe from these in-
truders.
How does the burglar get in? Quite
often in the same way as you
do.
through the door.
Many mod- ern back and front doors have
glass
2. Screw-in acorn,
panels in 3. Sash bolt.
Don't take chances
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Home Built with Many Levels
By Joan O'Sullivan
MORE and more people
are talking in terms of split-level homes. Why? The answer's two-folds. The split-level design has all the convenience of n ranch house plus the economy of two-storey construction.
A short flight of steps usually Just six-plays a very important part in this design. The steps separate the activity rooms and sleeping quarters. By split-
a washes is fairly safe untilting one level Into two, pri I becomes old and worn, then it can be opened in a jiffy:vacy is achieved. This plan and the
the also makes it possible to fastenings on casement windows. add extra rooms above the lower level or under the TWO DEVICES
rulsed level. In this way, you can build a home with as
many us five
six
which just cannot be shifts! on added safety you can use without a battering rain
netwo excellent safely deviren. 212- 14111 screw-in (diagram 17.
Alternatively, you can fil cylinder lock which looks just like the one you have now, but which can be dead- locked from the outside with one turn of the key in the reverse direction.
Now the windows. A stuffy room is better than a burgled house, so they ought to be fast shut when the house is left.
De provents a sash window um being lifted even if the Fastening 13 furced beders
Magram 2).
AN you see, it hangs by
nut in use and who screws into a plate on the sash when It Is.
diagram
AS
The me tice sth bolt is fixed into the thickness of a eustinent window, or indeed doo (diagram 3).
an interior
It is operated by a key and once the key is withdrawn there is no possible way of moving
the bait.
Cleaning Schedule For Bathroom
By Eleanor Ross
there's any atmosphere Pour hot soupsuds into toilet
IF that encourages harm- bowl and clean with toilette ful bacteria, it's one that is sun off the
Buriner of bowl und tank,
warm. moist and grimy. In Spread uut shower curtain, and such surroundings, bacteria wipe off moisture with a damp Damp mop the floor to can really settle down and cloth.
pick up dust and grime.
And, he healthy!
finally, suds out cleaning cloths, and brushes and hang to dry.
This is one reason that bathroom cleanliness is 30 There are all Jiffy jobs, and essential to family health. it done regularly, the bathroom And if you've found it the will be in such good condition thorough weekly Job hardest spot in the house to the Bre keep clean to your satisfac should not be a chore. tion. perhaps a change of
The Weekly Clean-Up method could help. A few
For the once-n-week cleaningg minutes each day, a little
Do the regular daily cleansing longer each week, can keep Job on webbas and bathtub, it spotless.
and, Dddition go over ex- terkors with sponge and hot sonpeuds, rinse with a sponge. wrung out of warm water, and The best way to start the polish with a soft cloth. Then daily cleaning is with a thorough do the same for tallet tank and airing. Throw open the window base. And door, so there'll be a brisk
This Gu draft through the room.
Daily Cleanings
levels.
or
PRETTY ON THE OUTSIDE, practical on the inside. That's the story of the Frederick, one of twenty house designs featured in a book written by Architect Samuel Paul.
In his latest book, "New Split-Level Homes," which contains construction-tested plans for twenty houses. Architect- Samuel Paul pollits out that such dwel- lings are not only fine on flat land but also the perfect On this lower level, Mr solution when construction Paul has planned for a well. is on a sloping site.
proportioned den. On today's page, you'll well-placed that Dad, Mom see one of the houses fea or the youngsters will really tured in his publication. be able to get away by themselves for study, read- ing or hobby pursuits. The
It's 80
in the true
The Frederick is the re- sult of some very practical planning. As usual, activity den receives no traffic, is | rooms-living, dining and free of audible annoyances.
kitchen are on the main It's a haven level. Below it, the usual sense of the word. six steps lead to a utility floor. Here the homemaker finds a spacious laundry with a doorway direct to the drying yard. This arca, which is so close to the kit chen, also acts as a storage amex for food.
Sleeping quarters-three. bedrooms and two baths- are on the top level, direct- ly over the den and laundry. The first floor plan of the Frederick comprises
1,228 square feet.
SHOULD HIS TONSILS BE REMOVED?
By H. N. Bundesen, MD
Many of the
long
NOT to Band be due to allergy, as well Once the teeth were being done on a as infection.
ia wholesale basis as a pre- allergy or the infection
of ventive measure. This is no cleared up by the use longer the case.
desensitising and antibiotic drugs, most of these small It had been believed that pockets of infection will also
of these clear up.
However, those that do more not will sometimes require
surgery.
plumbing uver exposed
I will help cut down surface under the basin with a sudsy chronic infection
moisture caused by steam, which sponge, rinse with hot water and parts of the body might
it left, creates a lin
polish with a soft cloth. Wash
tollet bowl as usual, Bush, pour give rise to other Following the airing,
the bleach into it and let stand for serious diseases. routine might go something like an hour or SD. this: Scour the "working" parts Spread out shower curtain, of the washbasin and bathtub and if it's plastic, To over it will scap
cap and very hot water; with suray sponge, Finse with
powder, use scouring
when sponge wrung out of warm water Go ever faucets with and wipe dry. If it's fabric, necessary.
a sudsy sponge, being careful to plunge it up and down in warm
Some persons, may have
however, infoctions of
use it on the underside of the soapsuds in the bathtub, rinse these organs continued for faucets and handles to wash in the same way, and hang it long periods of time with- away any accumulated dirt. up ngain to dry..
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washable
out the appearance of a systemic disease. This does not alter the facts that these infection pockets may be responsible to some ex- tent for such diseases as rheumatic fever or nephritis. The error in
theory
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DINING AM
KITCHEN
1947
LIVING R
VEST
15:33:0
HALL
BEDROOM
DEDROOM
BEDROOM
A REALLY SPACIOUS LIVING ROOM is an asset to any home. The Frederick has one. A room divider. separates it from the dining area.
ENTRÄNGE - LIVING ROOM
3-BEDROOMS 2-BATHS
KITCHEN - DINING ROOM
GARAGE DEN
HEATER ROOM UTILITY ROOM
THE HOUSE' shown above is designed on throu devels). The lowest level with its den and laundry room will be a joy to homemakers,
IT CAN BE FASCINATING EVIDENCE TO ALL
By Garry C. Myera, Ph.D.
to strive
was in its very broad usagry SOME wise mothers make keep "Improvement books" might feat impelled
scrapbook of the Each child dates and enters harder. drawings their little child a sample of his work. It's a For such a display, the teacher Doctors redlise that, al-has done, and of stories and very good plan to encourage files a ample of a ceftain kind light, colourful, though tonsils should not verse he has created. They children in neatness and of work by each child. A few months later, she filos a 'second Washing removes now, the home and its pretly and a cinch to look after.
Something new and novel is had repeated cases Obtainable furnishings are as exciting
of ton or to make up yarns for practice samples of work of each chlid are placed ride by to women as the latest in a plastic that can be sprayed
rubber
car Infection, or fun. The verbal creations displayed on the walls are side and compared to that all the ccata to Billitis,
from the best children might be able to pick clothes fashion. What's es over foam
evidence of in- the mother writes down, of picked There are continued pecially nice about a home replace upholstery,
also new plastic Burfaces fections auch as fever, in-course, exactly as he said achievements of the whole out several samples of best im- furnishings show,
cleverly disguised as beautiful creased white blood count them. A few mothers, and class. The same child may, provement. This way, cach to compare his store display, is that the wood.
and an Increase in his children have let me see then, have his work display child is able Model kitchens, too, display sedimentation. rate, may such scrapbooks.
ad repentedly. This work present work with his earlier many wonderful innovations. often be helped by this sur-
may not reveal his effort as efforts. He measures self- much as his native talent. Improvement. Designed to make meat prep.rical procedure.
Even though he is thus
be taken out in every child, begin this about as soon as legibility. a young person who has the child begins to scribble In the usual classroom, sample. Then the two samples
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The mode of living, today muy "aration much eatler is the built bo casual, but interest in the in range unti, with oven and hame isn't casual, by any mean, range placed tight in the wan It is all-absorbing.
One Installation of two bulit. However, before
is anticipated, The home today isn't just in in units takes less than two net. of wall space. Another range
be lived in, with many members has enough insulation for four should be put
of the household regarding it regular ovens, and has pull of the antibiótic merely as a place in which 10 down door that comes in such age if they eat, sleep, and change clothes. It luscious shades as silver, copper
is a recreation contre, it is gold, as well as white,
workshop, 11 is 'n place where,
Another - wall unit; this.
thered fine entertainment, gaay had waist-level- musle and fun that is shared by in: red; all. and what with all the do- black gr
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CHILD ENCOURAGED
EXAMPLES
By this means, the gra- stimulated to strive harder, dual growth in the child's most of the other children,
Parents who use stars very several feeling it Impossible to do
stimulate better conduct and easily observed, as well, may actually be manners in each of severni young family. dence thereof is discouraged by this display. children In the same in
child Some other children may often find that one child wins any-feel fealous, and the lucky malt often, with the result that
the other child
childrán feel; this ere-
child, 6ocky:
child' in mesbe their loss. further
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