If your college room gives you the definite glooms; if the room looks like a storage place instead of a living place for you, do something. It's easy to turn your little "home" into something that's really individual.

When Monday rolls around in Australia, the homemaker rubs her soiled clothes with soap and boils them in a huge copper kettle until the dirt comes out. Imagine having washed that way for years and then suddenly being confronted with a newfangled automatic washer. That's what happened to Helen Morley, wife of Frederick Morley, animal husbandry graduate student from Sydney.

That proverbial green thumb is easy to acquire, and potted plants can give your room a spring lift. All a plant asks of its gardener is a good location and water, and if you supply these, you'll find that your potted plant will almost take care of itself.

Whether your new spring cotton is imported from Dior's workshop in Paris or whether you made it yourself from material bought in Iowa you're bound to catch the texture fever that's infecting spring wardrobe.

Summer-Time Is Job-Time, Barbara Short, page 2

Vicky Favors Cottons, Margaret Schaeffer, page 3

How To Be a Make-Shift Decorator, Lois Longfellow, page 4

Homemaker From “Down-Under”, Alvin Mahan, page 6

What’s New, Nancy Voss, page 7

Grow Plants, Jane Novak and Ruth Peterson, page 10

Here’s an Idea, Carol Dee Legg, page 12

Quotes from Career Days, page 14

A Better Diet for You, Lois Kohout, page 16