"Every member of our family feels that the 'home' belongs to us all, and that it is up to all of us to look after it, working together..."

... That is how "Mrs. America," Linwood Findley, is able to run her house with consummate skill without help, save for the services her four young children and her husband provide..

She entered the contest in Florida along with forty-nine other mothers who had found in themselves the competence, the energy, and the charm to qualify them for this distinguished position...

But how was this contest, unique of its kind, conducted?

After these ladies had each won the title in her