If you're having trouble concentrating on the books and notes before you, there is one important thing you can do about it. You can make sure you have a well-lighted study desk. Sometimes when you're just too tired to study, that study fatigue is the result of poor light.

I Had a Career on the Companion, Mary Dodds Schlick, page 3

Improve Your Lighting, Katherine Williams, page 4

What’s New, Virginia Foth, page 5

Cold in Name Only, Barbara Allen, page 6

Fill Your Hopechest Free, Mary Kay Pitzer, page 7

Convening in Sweden, Janet Sutherland, page 8

Cook’s Favorite at Sigma Nu, Patricia Binder, page 10

Here’s an Idea, Barbara Short, page 14

Put Spring in a Winter Wardrobe, Margaret Wallace, page 16

It was a stifling summer day in New York when I set out to make a good impression on the Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. A strange city far from home, seasonal but uncomfortable weather and the strain of my first interview made me wish my proper summer suit were taking me sightseeing instead of in the door of the Postum Building on Park Avenue, up the elevator to the sixth floor and down the hall to a large forbidding door with a shiny brass plaque inscribed "Woman's Home Companion Home Service Center."

Proof that baking cherry pies and rearing children is just about the same the world around was found in the International Home Economics Federation meeting held last summer in Stockholm, Sweden.

Cold in Name Only is the refrigerator demonstration work which has Janet Nauman's warm approval