YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
Sheridan, Mary
Your Money's Worth By MARY SHERIDAN EVEN conservative economists now forecast that there will be no real shortage of consumer goods next year so long as consumers buy moderately. We'll be smarter,...
...This gadget for holding six pairs of shoes costs $2.98 from Parade Products, 366 Fifth Ave., New York City...
...A catalog and price list of the three Gense patterns (Thora, Facette, and Thebe) and other stainless steel equipment like gravy boats, platters, and salt and pepper shakers can now be had for 10 cents from Gense Import, 15 E. 26th St., New York City...
...Six neither owned, nor owed for, durable goods...
...this helpful legislation will go into effect during 1952...
...Ideas like these, a relaxed attitude toward "mixing" periods and styles in furniture and furnishings, and the conviction that a satisfying house reflects the owners' interests and tastes, get Mr...
...Saved money does not drive up prices," George Soule reminds us...
...A well-designed shoe holder with built-in shoe trees will keep footwear in shape as well as off the closet floor...
...Before you buy a can, shake it...
...unless you have a refrigerator with a reliable frozen food section, it's wiser to buy just enough for current needs...
...Age isn't a measure of value, nor is newness...
...But is it unreasonable in a democratic society where we say that any child can look forward to being President to say also that any family may look forward to owning a washing machine, a refrigerator, a radio, a car, or even a television...
...More, the desire for social status knows no economic bounds and possessions are one way to register it...
...Free from the Office of Information, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washinqton, D. C. your Food Dollar...
...Many of the stories illustrate the terrible economic handicaps of serious illness or lack of breadwinning trades or skills...
...The body's digestive system is built for natural food, and most of us respond, appetite-wise, to aromatic, well-cooked food that is pleasant to eat and to talk over...
...to the mind of many a hard-pressed housewife...
...Dudley Le Blanc, the Hadacol promoter running for governor in Louisiana, claimed the FTC's action was prompted by political pressure...
...A new bulletin covering the most recent research on freezing and loading directions, planning pointers, tables of yield from fruits and vegetables, descriptions of containers, information on thawing, and timetables for cooking frozen vegetables...
...The tariff is $1.50 (50 cents for refills) from Dover Products Co., 3840 Fullerton Ave...
...A single copy is 35 cents from the Carnation Co., Los Angeles 36, Calif...
...A 96-page, illustrated, spiral-type booklet built around the uses of evaporated milk...
...Food took the greatest chunk out of these low incomes, and shoes were "the stiffest all-family" clothing problem...
...Three million families spent their full income...
...Free from the Office of Information, II...
...Lamson has some of the best advice I've seen anywhere on fertilizing, pruning, and staking...
...Another meaningful label: in buying household wax, look for the "carnauba" type...
...A beautifully designed and illustrated book, and a rewarding one...
...Pamphlet Parade The Cook's Handbook...
...Perhaps labor-saving devices come under that heading too...
...A revision of a 1945 pamphlet, this covers standard heating systems and two systems unknown six years ago—warm air perimeter heating for slab-floor basementless houses and hot-water heating with baseboard units instead of radiators, a method which can be used in all types of houses and in remodeling as well as new building...
...Ten cents a copy from the Small Homes Council, Mumford House, University of Illinois, Ur-bana, 111...
...The Mouli Mincer is another worthy gadget which chops parsley and other herbs at that . last minute: it eliminates those finger nips from hurried knife-cutting...
...Wherever there were children, the stories unanimously reveal a hunger of parents to give their young a better educational or vocational chance than they had...
...Granted that many labels are meaningless technical lingo, the new fur labeling act requires labels to give the real name of furs instead of just the glamorous pseudonyms used in the past...
...The report, incidentally, is quietly tolerant of their installment buying: "Necessity jogs a family's elbows when it comes to furniture and clothing...
...With the mounting mobilization payrolls, there will be more spending money...
...The efficiency of a heating system depends on correct installation and operation of properly chosen equipment," the pamphlet advises, and "the real cost is not just that of the original equipment, but is equal to the initial cost plus maintenance and fuel costs...
...This has a removable drum and is easy to clean...
...Gump's keen attention...
...Expense doesn't assure beauty...
...Seventeen million families spent more than they earned during the year...
...Some 40 nutrients are needed for normal physical health, so far as scientists know, and others will probably be discovered...
...Recipes include soups, salads, sauces, one-dish meals, frost-ings, and candies...
...Home Freezing of Fruits and Vegetables...
...More and more department and specialty stores are handling these lovely, modestly priced patterns, and Gense can tell you where to find the ware locally . . . Homogenized milk is sensitive to light, and the taste reacts unfavorably to it...
...It's crazy to try to live beyond your means...
...Money-saving tips on food buying, storage, and cooking...
...Its available in red or white pamt or hammered metallic, $1.49 postpaid, from Hobby Hill, 14 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago 2, 111...
...The news that there will be plenty of meat in 1952, and an increased production of beef and veal, raises a slight hope that larger supplies will bring meat prices down...
...Food Is Better If you've been persuaded, reluctantly, to go along with the current health fad of the yogurt and blackstrap molasses school, so profitably boosted by Gaylord Hauser, and the prevalent assumption that vitamin pills are necessary for well-being, or to ward off colds, or to supplement food inadequacies, take heart from government nutritionists...
...1 each at hardware and department stores or Mouli Manufacturing Corp., 91 Broadway, Jersey City 5, N. J. A wallpaper cleaner called Speedee is a gadget with a red rubber sponge attached to a short wooden handle by a wire brace...
...Less than $2,000 Making Ends Meet on Less than $2,000 a Year, a report made by nine voluntary organizations to the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, is a sobering reminder that 10J/£ million families in prosperous 1949 received cash incomes of less than $2,000...
...a center section can be used for storing umbrellas...
...So pride, too, jogs the elbow . . . "There is understandable impatience on the part of those in comfortable circumstances when people reach out beyond their means to grasp at the alluring new devices which our country has to offer on every hand...
...Turkey on the Table the Year Round...
...S. Department of Agriculture, Washington 25, D. C. Products & Gadgets Any cook who has ever skinned her knuckles grating chocolate will welcome a Mouli Grater, a rotary cutter which makes grating cheese, chocolate, or nuts an easy, quick affair...
...Notes...
...The contents are equally intriguing...
...Lam-son, a landscape architect, is a bit too solemn about the whole gardening enterprise—flowers or shrubs or vegetables—but she knows what she is writing about, and her emphasis is on those cast-iron plants which most practical gardeners of limited income cultivate...
...Unlike most nursery experts, she believes that next year's perennial flower plants—-anything that blooms before September 1—should be planted in the fall instead of the spring...
...It stays in our pockets or in defense savings bonds, for us to use later when more goods come onto the market and prices stop rising...
...As usual, most of the savings were tucked away by the top 40 per cent in the higher income brackets...
...Minute Maid and Birds Eye are among the Grade A brands . . . Ever since mention appeared here of one of the Swedish stainless steel cutlery patterns, requests have come in asking where it could be seen or purchased...
...Price Stabilizer Michael Di Salle's comment that if housewives "just watch themselves, they will get along all right" with meat prices is acid advice to the thousands of housewives who have been watching themselves at meat counters for months—and not getting along...
...a partially thawed can will have a slushy, liquid sound, a completely frozen one no sound at all...
...Liquid waxes should contain 10-15 per cent wax, and paste waxes 20-35 per cent...
...Until that day when all milk is sold in specially treated cartons or amber-colored bottles, keep homogenized milk away from light as much as possible . . . On the same day that the Federal Trade Commission charged the Le Blanc Corp...
...Esther Phipard of the Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Nutrition and Home Economics, show that animals thrive better on foods containing these 40 nutrients than on carefully prepared synthetic rations...
...Labels as Guides This column, in October, mentioned the Food and Drug Administration's pamphlet, Read the Label (15 cents from the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C.) which is a cleverly designed guide •to help consumers get more for their money...
...Chicago 47, 111...
...Acting as a brake on consumer spending will be the new excise taxes on automobiles, liquor, and beer and the 10 per cent tax which has been extended to mangles, dishwashers, clothes driers, and power lawn mowers—and the cost of eating...
...The report covers in detail 100 families...
...Of the 100 families, only one seemed "completely to lack common sense and to have no sales resistance whatsoever...
...In an exciting exploration of good taste and good design, Mr...
...Experiments to date, reports' Dr...
...This costs 50 cents from the Small Homes Council at the address above...
...Five cents from Consumer Education Department, Household Finance Corp., 919 N. Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111...
...Good Gardening Ardent gardeners can spend some fine winter evenings with Garden Housekeeping (Oxford...
...An informative book...
...hammers, and screw drivers...
...Heating the Home...
...It's good to get scientific confirmation of common sense...
...Among his tenets: A fundamental of good taste is good looks...
...The paper is wiped with the dry sponge...
...Because "our surroundings exert a great influence on the kind of people we are, it is common sense to make them as good as our money can buy...
...Information on buying and cooking the modern turkey—a meatier, more tender fowl than its ancestors—together with recipes for gravy, stuffing, and leftover dishes are in this new government bulletin...
...She is insistent on leaving a garden free of weeds and dead flowers for winter, recommends a winter mulch after the ground is frozen, advises saving wood ashes for fertilizing iris, peonies, and lilacs in the spring, and suggests planting narcissus with tulips to keep the mice and moles away...
...with "false, misleading, and deceptive" advertising olHada-col, the patent medicine that's 12% alcohol, the company filed a petition for reorganization under the bankruptcy act...
...In a guide that covers gardening upkeep month by month, Mrs...
...Frozen orange juice, that postwar blessing for housewives, will deteriorate unless it is stored at zero degrees Fahrenheit, or lower...
...Last year 33 million out of 52 million families saved something out of their personal incomes, according to the Federal Reserve Board...
...The best insurance of good nutrition is a varied diet of foods in their natural form...
...A description of houses with the living level separated with a half-story from a utility level below and a sleeping level above, illustrated with 14 house plans...
...Practical suggestions are included on meal planning, food shopping and storage, preparation of babies' formulas, kitchen equipment, knives and meat carving, and basic cooking principles...
...A spring-grip tool bar called Grip-R, which can be attached to wood or wall, has eight adjustable clips for holding tools like phers...
...Split-Level Houses Designed {or Solid Fuel Heat...
...Most of the families had radios, and five had television sets...
...Gump points out some helpful guideposts and treacherous "booby traps...
...Foods have something the synthetics lack...
...The Cost of Taste Richard Gump, the San Francisco merchant and designer, has written a book with the intriguing title, Good Taste Costs No More (Doubleday...
...We'll be smarter, all the crystal gazers advise us, if we save, instead of spend, any extra dollars...
...when the sponge gets dirty, it can be washed in soap and water and reused after overnight drying...
...3.50) by Mary Deputy Lamson...
...Now that turkeys, small to big, can be bought the year around, they compete with chicken in price and popularity...
Vol. 15 • December 1951 • No. 12
