Few of us realize what a tangible effect color has on our lives. Did you ever stop to think just what you're saying when you remark that "He saw red.", "I feel so blue.", "I was green with envy."? Psychologists have done a great deal of research on color. Not on the technical angle, but the "human" angle. How does color actually affect people? How can we use the psychologists' findings to help us decorate our homes or business places?

Lamps From the Sea, Harriet LaRue, page 3

Gifts by You, Carol Dee Legg, page 4

Chlorophyll, Green Drug of All Trades, Barbara Short, page 5

You’ll Like Home Management, Mary Kay Pitzer, page 6

Here’s An Idea, Darleen Bornschein and Jean McGhie, page 8

Plan Your Policy, Marjorie Miller, page 10

Let Color Set the Mood, Darleen Bornschein, page 12

What’s New, Constance Cornwell and Harriet LaRue, page 14

Trends, Ruth Anderson, page 16

Chlorophyll, the same green color you see in grass on your lawn, in leaves of all plants, will soon be a much demanded drug in your medicine cabinet. Scientists tell you to use it for Johnny's scraped knee, for your own sore gums, for cabbage smell in your kitchen, or for Sally's poison ivy rash.

Home management had me scared for three years. When I was a freshman I shrugged off my worries with, "By the time I'm a senior and have taken all those home ec courses I'll surely feel prepared for it." But suddenly I was a senior and I still didn't feel capable of coping with all the jobs I'd have to perform. Housekeeping and laundering didn't worry me, I thought I could handle that; and I even looked forward to caring for the baby, but the cooking! How could I ever satisfy nine hungry people who depended on me for three meals a day?

If you forgot to start knitting that sweater soon enough-or didn't save enough of you: summer's earnings-or don't have success shopping during Christmas vacation-or want something extra-special to give to those extra special somebodies on your Christmas gift list (Don't we all fit in here?)...