The beauty of the house is order;
The blessing of the house is contentment;
The glory of the house is hospitality;
The crown of the house is godliness.

There are four themes in the lines of this quatrain, and each has an inspiration all its own, but the third detaches itself most easily as a special phase of homemaking.

Inside your doorway
What treasure is there?
Wide open fireplace,
A straight Windsor chair,
Bayberry candles,
And teacups of blue,
An old-fashioned spinet
Whose tone is still true * * *

Thus someone wrote of her tiny white dream house, with its "shiny knocker of brass," its "quaint dormer windows and slant roof of green," its "hollyhocks, and all the little things" that make su-ch a dream house. But no such dream house could be perfect without rag rugs, and though the poet doesn't mention them, they are there, the oval crocheted one in front of the wide-open fireplace, the fat, round, braided one beside that straight Windsor chair, and all the others, some gay, some gray, silk or wool or cotton.

"Grab your lunchbox, sis, the bus is coming," calls Harry as he races out to the road. Sis follows, and the busload of chattering youngsters is off over the hill to the fine, big consolidated school.

Fall, the most glorious time of the year! Isn't it just an ideal season, not only to begin new activities and duties, such as school and business, but also to be happy and to make others happy? And the very best way to do this is to entertain.

Table of Contents

What is Your Child When He is Malnourished? by Elizabeth Storm, page 1

Vitamins – Just What They Are by Florence E. Busse, page 2

Attractive Filler for Lunch Boxes by Blanche Ingersoll, page 3

The Throne Room of Childhood by Harriet Schleiter, page 4

“The Glory of the House is Hospitality” by Eda Lord Murphy, page 5

Indian Summer – The Season for Picnics by Esther Rayburn, page 5

Utilizing Nature in Entertaining by Clara Jordan, page 6

Rewelcoming the Old Rag Rug by Eleanor Murray, page 6

Who’s There and Where by Jeanette Beyer, page 9

Chicken of the Sea by Katherine Goeppinger, page 11

Our Aristocratic Weeds by Opal Wind, page 12