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Helen is well and busy with her flowers. She had a fine visit with ,.,.... KITCHEN - KLATTER Mary, her husband, Jim, and the two -.... MAGAZINE little boys, Elliott and Jared. I think that from the description Helen gave "Mo>re Than Just Paper And Ink" us of Mary's home, she must live in LEANNA Fl'ELD DRIFTMIER, Editor. a section much like Dorothy's farm LUCILE VEAAESS, Associate Editor. the boys must be watched closely for S. W. DRIFT\MIER, Business Manager. it would be easy for them to get lost Subscription'· Price $1.00 per year (12 issues) in the in the New Jersey woods. U.S. A. When I write again I'll tell you Foreign Cour.-tries $1.50 per year. where we had our Thanksgiving din Advertising r,ates made known on application. ner and about our trip west. We Entered as ""cond claso matter May 21, 1937 at the aren't likely to leave for Honolulu Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia., under the Act of March •• 1879. (from Los Angeles) until around De cember loth, so I won't be able to tell Published Monthly by you about that part, but in February DRIFTMIER· PUBLISHING COMPANY Shenandoah. Iowa you'll get the full details of every LETTER FROM LEANN A Copyright 19,18, by Driftmier Publishing Company. thing. W:e send you our warmest wishes for a happy holiday, and you can be sure that I'll have you in my Dear Friends: something for a long, long time and thoughts on Christmas Day even This letter to you js the last thing never thought, in your wildest fancies, though I am far, far from home. I am doing at my desk before we that. it could ever come to pass, then A happy and blessed Christmas to leave early tomorrow morning on the you'll know how I feel now. you all ..... first lap of our winter trip. It gives The trip itself is exciting to think Leanna. me a strange feeling to sit here and about, of course, but imagine how look .at our suitcases all packed and happy I am at the prospect of seeing ready to be put into the car, to realize little Mary Leanna for the first time CHRISTMAS BELLS that when I wheel out of this little of when we reach the end of the trip! fice and go into the bedroom it will Not that I won't be extremely happy I heard the bells on Christmas Day be my last night in my own bed for to see Betty and Frederick, but you Their old familiar carols play, several months to come. It seems to know what it means to see a far-dis And wild and sweet the words repeat me that our own home, even though it tant grandchild for the first time. Of peace on earth, good will to men! may always be dear to us, is especial Since I last wrote to you the only ly dear in the hours just before we really important family event has I thought how, as the day had come, leave for a: long trip-and then when been the arrival of little Emily. The belfries of all Christendom we return. I had thought that I Everyone has stayed well at our house Had rolled along the unbroken song would write this letter from "some this faU, and we've more or less just Of peace on earth, good will to men! place along the road" but circum carried on the daily routine of c.ook stances put off our departure a little ing, cleaning and sewing for the ba And in despair I bowed my head; later than we had expected. zaar. As all of you know, I've always "There is no peace on earth,'' I said, It gives me a great thrill to tell you loved to cook and been grateful indeed "For hate is strong, and mocks the that Ma:rt and I have our fourth that it is one thing I could do well song granddaughter. Emily Law r e n c e even though I must get about the Of peace on earth, good will to men." Driftmier arrived on the morning of kitchen in my wheelchair, but I've November 4th to bless the home of done an unusual amount of cooking Then pealed the bells more loud and Abigail and Wayne. She is an ex and baking this fall. Lucile and I deep: ceptionally pretty little baby (this have had a good time testing many "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The wrong shall fail, the right prevail, isn't just a fond grandmother's pre recipes, and we share the results with judiced opinion) with a great dea:l of each other so that it gives us both a With peace on earth, good will to black hair, dimples, and big shining little more variety· than we would men!" eyes that may turn brown-only time have ordinarily. Margery has always Till, ringing, singing on its way, can tell. She tipped the scales at 7 done the cleaning here while I've been The world revolved from night to day, lbs., 'h oz., when she arrived, and has at the helm in the kitchen, but she gotten off to a good start. I'm so will take up my testing "business" after A voice, a chime, a chant sublime, ha:ppy that her parents are being tomorrow, and Abigail is going to try Of peace on earth,' good will to men! spared the sleepless nights that we new recipes too-between the three -Henry W. Longfellow. put in with Dorothy, and that Dor girls you should have many good rec othy, in turn, put in with Kristin. I ipes this winter, both on the daily "Help us to remember the birth of find it hard to believe that when we Kitchen-Klatter visits and in the mag Jesus, that we may share in the song of angels, the gladness of the shep return from our trip she will be try azine. herds and the worship of the Wise Men. ing to sit up, laughing, and eating a We saw Donald about a month ago variety of foods. You will be able to Close the doors of hate, and open the when we went to Des Moines to visit doors of love all over the world. Let get acquainted with Emily in next my sister, Martha Eaton. He came month's magazine for Russell has kindness come with every gift, and down from ..Lnes where he i3 a sen good desire with every greeting. De promised to get pictures of her soon. ior in the College of Engineering, and liver us from evil with the blessing When I read Frederick's letter that we had a nice time together for the that Christ brings, and teach us to be appears in this issue it made me feel day. Martha enjoyed 1a lovely trip merry with clean hearts. May the as though I were in a dream to think back Ea:st in the home of her son, Christmas morning make us happy to that before long I'll be "gliding down Dwight, and had a happy time with be thy children, and the Christmas out of a star-studded sky" at the air her two little grandsons, Douglas and evening bring us to our beds with port in Honolulu. Of course we aren't Craig. When she returned to Des grateful thoughts, forgiving, and for a:bsolutely positive yet that we will fly Moines she had to settle the problem given, for Jesus sake, Amen." to Hawaii, but things are beginning of whether to give up the family home Dr. Henry Vian Dyke:- to shape up that way at this particu and take an apartment, or stay where lar time. If we do go by plane it will she had lived a good many years, and be my first experience traveling in the after looking at it from all sides she THE UNCHANGING air, and I can honestly say that it decided to remain in her home. We'd. Let nothing distress thee, nothing af doesn't seem real to me! In fact, this like to have her join us in California: fright thee; trip to Honolulu just seems like a when we return from Honolulu, but All things are passing, God never happy dream from which I will surely she isn't sure at this time i it will be changeth. awakelll-if you've ever wanted to do possible. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 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are in tune with the season love to hear favorite ones repeated. There is Cozne into the Garden an undercurrent of good in these leg ends which will help us all, and the A GIFT OF LILIES . ing room window. They seem to grow dramatic story of the first Christmas, furiously for her, and as eoon as they as it is told in the Bible, never palls By Eileen Derr are large _enough they a:re transplant regardless of how often it is read. ed to bigger pots and go out t:o find Bells of Christmas! They ring out Many of us try our luck at garden the glad tidings of our abiding faith ing, but few of us specialize in one new windows in the homes of her friends. in an ever-changing world; no matter thing as does Mrs. Fred Evans who what else changes, this wonderful sea lives near Forest City, Missouri. She Mrs. Evans' garden is ideally situ ated along the foot of the Missouri son and all that it means to us will is an authority on the subject of come back year after year with the Lilies! Not only does she raise them River Bluffs. A large timber tract runs behind the house, and this furn same radiant message of hope and profusely in every size, sha:pe and cheer. color, but she likes to share them ishes a much needed shelter from the North winds. Her back yard is a: And speaking of music . . . can we with her friends. The gardens and imagine a Christmas without carols? yards of all her neighbors are well mecca for the many birds that come to feed there. She has counted as The shepherds tending their flocks by sprinkled with bulbs that originated night heard the first ones. To them, in her garden, and these neighbors many as twenty-one redbirds at one time, and has identified many other in the stillness of the night, came that and friends, whether they think they blessed music which has echoed down are qualified to raise Lilies or not, species of birds. Their brilliant plum age and joyous song may be seen and through the ages. find them;;;elves the proud owner of It would rea:lly be difficult to imag exotic members of the Lily family. heard from her kitchen window. Mrs. Evans has just one plant for ine December without a Christmas. Furthermore, when Mrs. Evans' Lilies It is true that we often liecome very bloom, they do not just bloom and which she could apologize-an arti ficial vine, put where she "wanted a weary because we undertake too much, die, but go visiting as cut flowers to so let-u.;; endeavor to keep our pleas delight the .hearts and grace the ta vine," ·;;;he said, "but just couldn't wait for one to grow!" ures as simple as possible, not forg~t bles of her friends. ting that it should be a season of Mrs. Evans is a member of the prayer, a's well as a season for feast North American Lily Society. She be THE SYMBOLS OF CHRISTMAS ing and exchanging gifts. came actively interested in the culture of Lilies in 1942, and in 1944 became By Mary Duncomb MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! a member of a Lily Round Robin Club from which she received many There is no season of the year when THE LEGEND OF THE POINSETTIA of her rare and unusual specimens. we indulge our fancy in the lore of In Mrs. Evan's garden, bulbs do not symbols so much as we do during the In Mexico, on a certain Christmas just go into the ground to live or die Christmas festival. They stand as a Eve many years ago, little Rosita wa:s as is the case in many gardens. They reminder to us of something precious, on her way to church for the service are pampered as so many babies, and and each and every one of them has to honor the Christchild. Other boys if 'one formula: does not agree with some real significance which has come and girls of the town walked along them they are fed another. A lot of down to us through the ages. with nimble steps and smiling faces; them were cultured from minute seeds The Christmas tree itself is a sym but Rosita was sad and ;;;he could or from scales taken from the mother bol on which we place many other hardly drag her feet along for she bulb and nurtured in especially pre symbols. The evergreen and other had no gift to lay at the foot of the pared soil indoors until they were able greenery used in wreaths, together altar for the Holy Child. to take care of themselves against the with their cones, stand for immortal Suddenly she remembered that she elements. ity; and when we decorate our homes had not prayed to the Lord for help It's quite a confusing experience for with them we are unconsciously voic in her trouble. So she knelt down on the novice to talk to Mrs. Evans a:bout ing our belief in the indistructabi!ity the cold ground, closed her tear-filled her lilies. One hears of the Maximo of the soul-~without which life would eye3, and offered her prayer. Hardly wiczii, Davidi Willmottiae, Aurelian be meaningless. Holly and mistletoe had she finished and opened her eyes. ense, and Speciosum Rubrum, and all were used as Christma·s decorations in when there before her a beautiful of those other unpronounceables pre very ancient times, and they are cer plant was springing up from the ceded by the world Lilium. Mrs. tainly a very vital part of our Christ ground, with bright red .leaves like a Evans says that it was necessary for mas today. gorgeous flower. Her prayer had been her to le'arn their botanical names in The stars in the heavens are par heard. Here was her gift. She quick order to decipher her r'ound robin let ticularly bright in December, a:nd so ly gathered the flame-colored flowers ters and translate her nursery books, we hang a bright silvery star on the and with a light heart she hurried into and that now it comes as second na tip of the tree because of the Guiding the church and placed them as her ture to her to can a Tiger Lily just Star which shone over the Manger. present to the Christchild at the foot plain Li!ium Tigrinum Splendens. We portray the events of that momen of the altar. It was the poinsettia To the average person a Lily is a tous night in arrangements which use the Flower of the Holy Night! Lily and that is all there is to it. small figures, and each one means Sent by Mrs. Henry Kramer, Most of us do not realize that there something to us and brings to mind Aplington, Iowa. · are many flowers of the bulb family the old, old story which is ever new classified as Lilies that are not consid again. LOOK TO THIS DAY ered true Lilies by the Horticulturiets. Because of God's great gift of His Among these are the Iris, the Dar only Son, we too enjoy giving to those Look to this day! Lilie3, Amaryllis, and the Magic Lilies. whom we love, and this spirit over For it is life, the very life of life. Mrs. Evans' garden contains all these flows into what we call the Christmas In its brief course lie all the varieties and many more flowers of the bulb spirit. The greetings we joyfully call and realities of your existence: family. She estimates that she now to each other are reminders of the The bliss of growth; has around twenty-five different spec season when we are at peace, in our The glory of action; ies of Lilies growing in. her garden, hearts, at least, with our fellow men. The splendor of beauty; and many varieties of the different To the children, whose thoughts are For yesterday is already a dream, and species. less serious, the most beloved symbol tomorrow is only a vision; Mrs. Evans' green thumb does not is old Santa himself. The stocking is But today, well lived, makes every yes- stop at outdoor Lilies and flowers. hung in many homes by expectant lit terday · She has scads of that temperamental, tle ones who will scamper out in the A dream of happiness, and every to the African Violet. They bloom pro • chill of Christmas morning to find morrow a vision of hope. fusely for her throughout the year, what was left in them. At this sea Look well, therefore, to this day! and she keeps a big dishpan full of son too, old legends are retold once Such is the salutation of the dawn! these crisp little plantlets in her liv- more, and even the older people who From the Sanskrit. PAGE 4 KITCHEN-.KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 194.8
THE STORY OF AN AMERICAN ed, aa I said, when the bomber swl FAMILY 'denly turned and disappeared. Well, that's all I can tell you~ By Lucile Driftmier Verness There wa,s never again any reference> to it in the papers. One person's guess: CHAPTER SIXTY-THREE was as good as another's. However,. Both Donald and Howard were able everyone was mighty uneasy for a to get furloughs in the spring of 1943 long, long time because up until that and visit the folks and Frederick-he incident we had assumed that ap was the only one of us children living proaching enemy planes would be at home during that period. Donald aighted far from the coast an HOMEMADE HOLIDAY GLITTER inside the house as well as by those on the window ledge. By sticking on AND GLAMOR who pass on the street. tiny seals, candies, etc., the trees can A front entrance flanked on either be decorated for added beauty. By Mabel Nair Brown Elide by giant candles is very attractive. Why not make some jolly Santa or The candles are made by making naments? A large red ball tree orna tubes of heavy cardboard and then December at last-a whole month ment is his head. A bit of cotton will covering them with paper resem of exciting days for you and yours! to make his beard, mustache and eye ble the candle flame. Evergreen gar This is especially true if the entire brows, and a red paper cone serves lands might be twined around each family gets its fingers in the Christ as his hat. A white or black crayola candle and also hung in a swag effect mas pie early in the month by joining can be used to draw in his eyes, nose across the 1;op of the door. hands to make lovely and inexpensive and mouth. These make clever favors Christmas tree baubles, strung on for Christmas meetings. decorations from materials at .hand. graduated lengths of ribbon and hung Had you thought of having the Give imaginations full rein and you'll to form 1an arch across your large win find that often the most prosaic, every whole family work on a creche for dow, are very effective, especially if your home, keeping it over from year day article, when combined with a bit indirectly lighted by some Christmas of traditiorual Christmas trimming, to year? The children could make lights hidden behind a bit of greenery. will pr'oduce an unusual and strikingly the tiny figures from modeling clay, If a Christmas cookie house center and perhaps Dad, could fix up a: small beautiful effect. piece is traditional at your house, try For instance, consider your individ manger from a box. Use a bit of real covering the windows with colored straw for the manger and the scene ual bread pans. Do you know they tissue paper and then place a flash can make wonderful candleholders? is complete. Each year add a new light or light bulb inside~the children Cover the pan with silver aluminum figure or. object to make the scene will be delighted to see the cookie larger. Mother and the girls can have foil, then fill it with sand or dirt and house aglow with lights. the pleasure of making tiny robes for place a row of three red or white the figures. We have a small card candles in the sand. Place the pan Another joy to childish hearts will board church around which we build on a window ledge or use as a table be .a popcorn tree. Tint the popcorn a .pretty Christmas scene on top of centerpiece. Surround the pan with ball syrup green and then mold the our piano each year. To us, Christ evergreen tips, with perhaps a few popcorn in your cone-shaped colander mas wouldn't be Christmas without it. pine cones or tree ornaments to high- (sieve) which has been well greased. Unmold and stick bits of bright color Just bear in mind that it is these light the greenery. * homey little traditions carried on year This same aluminum foil will give ed candies on it for ornaments with after year in your home which will be your pots of red geraniums, Christmas a tiny silver star at the top. Along the cherished Christmas memories of cactus, etc., a festive touch. Tie them the same line, a cake tree is tradition your loved ones in the years t'o follow. up with a big perky red or blue rib .al at our house. I bake two angel bon bow. food cakes, one in the regular tube Speaking of houseplants, if you have pan and a second one in the cone MARY, THE MOTHER a plant of English ivy, bend a wire shaped colander. When they are cold to form a circle and entwine the ivy I place the cone shaped cake upon the around it to make a growing wreath. regular one and then, using my sharp She little knew a shining star Place a red light bulb behind the flow bread knife, I cut out some irregular Above the manger stood- er p·ot in back of the wreath, or pla·ce pieces of the c.ake s·o that it will take She only knew the pains and joys it at the lower edge of the wreath to on the pointed ·branch shape of the Attending motherhood. make a glowing candle. This wreath evergreen tree. Then the whole cake could stand on a small table, with the is iced in a delicate green. Pretty Nor did she hear the angels' song family Bible (opened to the Christmas Christmas candies make the decora Ring out in glorious light- story) just in front of it. Perhaps you tions. I select the small cylinder She only heard her baby's cry. have some small angel figurines which shaped pieces and stand upright on Upon that Silent Night'. · can stand on either side of the Book. branch tips to resemble candles. Tuck This will be a favorite Yuletide ar lace paper doilies beneath the cake at Not knowing that the Three Wise Men rangement in many homes, I'm sure. the plate's edge for a snowflake ef Were bringing gifts so rare- Tiny angel figures are easy t'o make. fe.ct, and if you wish you can snip She only saw that Joseph knelt The skirt is a half-circle cut from tiny snowflakes from these doilies and In adoration there. white construction paper and pasted stick them on the cake. in cone shape. Make the head from Popcorn balls in a variety of pastel To her it never did occur an egg shell, painting on features (or colors can be strung on a string and The Prince of Peace was born use crayola). Glue on some bits of hung ,at the window to delight the She only kissed her baby's head yellow yarn· for hair, and also glue youngsters. If these are to be eaten On that first Christmas morn. on wings cut from silver or white later they should be wrapped in cello -By Mary Duncomb. paper. Instead of the egg shell you phane. can make the head by wrapping a You have probably silvered pine small piece of white crepe paper (or cones, but have you ever shellaced STAR OF THE EAST cloth) around a tiny ball 'of cotton them and stuck red cinnamon drops and twisting at the bottom.. Now snip on them while the shellac is still wet? Star of the East, that long ago off the point end of the paper cone They look beautiful among the Christ Brought wise men 'on their way skirt and insert the head into this mas greens, and I've used them also Where, angels singing to and fro, hole. Decorate the skirts with a few to decorate Christmas packages. Try The Child of Bethlehem lay silver or gold star stickers. These these, too, with hedge balls. Heap the Above that Syrian hill afar little angels will stand a:lone and can hedge balls on a large mirror, tuck Thou shinest out tonight, O Star! be used as a part of many different white lace paper doilies around the arr.arigements or for table favors. base, and then lay evergreens around Star of the East, the night were drear The children will · love an .outing the balls with a few sprigs stuck here But for the tender grace flannel snowman .on the glass pane in and there among the balls. Place the That with thy glory comes to cheer your front door or on a window. Sim cinnamon candy dec'orated cones a Earth's loneliest, darkest place; ply cut the round circles for head and mong the greens, and if possible use For by that charity we see body from white flannel. Sketch in delicate green tapers in clear glass Where is hope for all and me. the features or you can sew on button holders at either side of the arrange eyes and nose and embroider the ment. Star of the East! show us the way mouth. Fasten him to the glass with An attractive window decoration is In wisdom undefiled a bit of scotch tape. Add a black top made by painting several small flower To seek that manger out and lay hat set at a rakish angle. This can pots or tin cans a brilliant red. Fill 'Our gifts before the child- be cut from black cloth or paper. The with sand or dirt. Then stick an To bring our hearts and offer them features may be .put 'on both sides in evergreen sprig in each pot and set Unto our King in Bethlehem! order that he may be enjoyed by those a row of these tiny Christmas trees -Eugene Field. P AGE I KITCBEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948 A LETTER FROM FREDERICK ond cousin, the daughter of Philip Field and granddaughter of Henry Field. Dear Folks: She lives just three blocks off the It is a beautiful Sunday morning campus. I think that the "Trick or and while I am waiting for church Treat idea" is a good one, and I got time I shall get this letter off to a big kick out of talking with the you. We had a big breakfast of fried kids and acting as though I had no bananas this morning. The bananas idea who they .were. I actually didn't were from the tree in our neighbor's know who Billie Field was. Her dad yard and of course that made them all had helped her to get all fixed up with the more delicious. The best bananas an old mop for her witch's headdress, for frying are the great big yellow etc. ones, while the best ones for eating Betty and I are looking forward to raw are the small orange ones. After a wonderful Christmas this year be frying them in butter Betty puts cause we are sure that mother and brown sugar and cinnamon on them. dad will be with us. They have never We don't have any banana trees in our seen our little daughter a:nd they have yard. They have to be watered so never been in our home since we were often that I can't be bothered with married. After all, if Betty and I in them. sisit upon living our lives on islands Since last writing to you our little in the Atlantic and the Pacific we daughter, Mary Leanna, has started can't expect too many visits from walking by herself. In her first two home! When we lived in Bermuda weeks of walking she has never taken Betty's parents visited us, and now a fall that we know of-she is so very, that we are out here in Hawaii the very cautious. In that respect she Driftmier side of the family is going ta:kes after her grandfather Driftmier. to make the trip. We are confident I really doubt if Dad ever tripped or that the shipping strike will be over fell in his life. The other day Betty in time for them to get here, and even walked into the living room, took one if the strike isn't over for the east look at me, and then shouted, "If you Mary Leanna, aged fifteen months, climbing bound trip, they will be able to fly out are in here, who is it that is in the up the ladder of a playground slide. She can and then take the ship back. The Pan bathroom with the door locked?" scoot right to the top of anything, and yet American Airways boa:sts of its ability There was just one answer to that never has taken a fall. to handle wheelchair customers. question-Mary Leanna. While we Mary Leanna is t-00 small to under were debating the best way of getting nouncements over the airport loud stand about Santa Claus this year, her out, since it is next to impossible speaker system. but a yea:r from now she will be able to reach the bathroom window even During the course of the evening to get a kick out of the Santa Claus with a ladder because of the dense we heard the ·following announce legend, and she is going to get it with growth of shrubbery, the little darling ments, not all together as I give them all of the beautiful imagination that unlocked the door and walked out. A here, but spread out over a couple of we can muster. For a child not to little girl of fourteen months does not hours. "Arriving at gate 2 is Pan have the thrill of believing in Santa know how to lock and unlock door&, American Clipper Celestial from San Claus is criminal. When, some years and so the whole affair was quite ac Francisco.... Departing at Gate 1 is from now she says to me, "Daddy, is cidental, but lucky. the British Commonwealth Pacific there really a Santa Claus, or is that The other night I was acting as Airlines Royal Mail plane for Van just make believe?", I shall reply, "My chairman of a public forum here in couver, British Columbia. Will all darling, of course there is a Santa Honolulu where the American way of passengers for Calcutta, India, please Claus, and he is one of the most real life. was being much discussed. Most report to the customs officers' desk things in this whole . world. Santa of the speakers during the evening immediately? Arriving at Gate 3 is Claus is a spirit who whisks his way had been pointing out the need for a the United Airlines Mainliner 300 from into our lives bringing us happiness greater understanding 'of the Amer San Francisco. All passengers leav and joy. Of course we just have to ican way by the Hawaiian and Japan ing on the China National Airways imagine what a spirit looks like, be ese families here in the islands, when Clipper for Shanghai will check with cause nobody ha:s ever seen a spirit, a big Hawaii.an gentleman rose from the Agricultural inspectors before but since he brings us such a jolly the audience and asked to be recog boarding the plane. No smoking out time, if we could see him I'll bet that nized. When given the floor he said side of the waiting room, please. Will he would have a very jolly appear exactly this, and I quote him: "I am the man with the loud shirt and straw ance. We just have to imagine where a Hawaiian man. I am a good Amer hat plea.se put out his cigar'? Thank he lives because a spirit can live any ican. I have seventeen children all you, sir. No smoking please·! Arriv where and everywhere, but any spirit living at home. I am not so sure a ing at Gate 1 is the Pan American which brings such joy to children bout the American way of life. Clipper Cathay from Los Angeles, etc. must live in places just as interesting Whenever I get into an argument with etc. etc. etc." Betty and I were thrill or even more so than all the pictures my seventeen children they all shout, ed by the rom-nce of it. One after you have seen in picture books. You 'Let's do it the American way, daddy. another the huge planes came wing believe in Santa Claus, darling, and Let's vote!', and so we vote and it is ing their way gracefully down out of you believe in him with all your heart, always seventeen to one." Well, maybe the star-studded sky, and each one because if the time ever comes when the old gentleman had a point there. was carrying from 30 to 50 passengers none of us believe in Santa: Claus this At any rate we all gave him a good and a crew of five or six. The next will be a mean old world indeed." round of applause for his contribution time you are in Honolulu I suggest A Merry Christmas to you all, to the discussion. that you have a dinner at the "Sky Frederick. Night before Ia.st Betty and I took room." And after this advertisement a night .out. It had been so long since they should give me a free dinner, Have a professional portrait made from we had gone out to dinner that we don't you think? any one person in a group picture, or a favorite snapshot in which one person ap decided t'o make it a notable evening. Last night was Hallowe-en. For pears. Send only the black negative, not We ate at a most faecinating restau tunately for us during the afternoon red proofs or finished pictures. Portrait rant called the "Skyroom." It is a we remembered that in the evening it made on fine paper and mounted in hand beautiful place on the roof of the some folder. Would make an ideal gift. woud be "Trick or Treat" and so I PRICES Municipal Airport here in Honolulu. dashed down to a neighborhood store 1 Portrait 31hx5 ------25' Just below us was the big airport to buy some candy. Before we had 1 Portrait 5x7 ------50' 1 Portrait 8x10 ------$1.00 waiting room and while we ate dinner finished supper the hordes of children All orders postpaid. looking out through enormous plate started to pour in shouting, "Trick or VERNESS STUDIO glass windows at the planes landing treat". All of them were campus chil Post Office Box · 6 7 Shenandoah, Iowa and taking off we cou~d hear the an- dren with the exception of my little sec- KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948 PAGE 7 ,_., '''''111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111!J GOOD NEIGHBORS ~ ...... ;·~·~~ MY LETTER BASKET I By Gertrude Hayzlett Here are some things you can do to · 1!}1111111111111111111111u111111111111111111111111111111r§ · By Leanna Driftmier11•11••11••• ...... rlJ help make life better for some shut QUESTIONS and ANSWERS in: Send an order for greeting cards or QUES: "It has always been the cus in such an event it wouldn't make stationery to Mrs. Thelma Hanson, tom in our community for the three any difference what you thought Concord, Nebr. A dollar buys a nice teachers in our school to plan and pre about it, or what I might think. I box of either. She also will take your sent a Christmas program, but this can surely- see why you hate to be in' ma:gazine subscriptions. Thelma has year we have all new teachers from the hospital over Christmas, but un been shutin since she was a small towns far away who don't seem to be til you know his attitude on the sub child. interested. When it was mentioned ject it scarcely does any good to make plans. Write a friendly letter to Mrs. to them they said they didn't have Emma McGee, c/o Burson Nursing time to prepare anything, and really QUES: "13 there anything I can do Home, Paola, Kana. She is 76. She seemed completely indifferent. We to discourage my son's interest in a has a heart ailment and when her mothers and fathers know how much girl who isn't worthy of him? He is husband died last December she was a Christmas program means to chil twenty-four, a college graduate, and dren and are wondering what we can not able to live alone so went to this working up to a fine job in his field. Home. She is so lonely and blue, and do to improve this 'Situation."-S. D. T}lis girl hasn't gone to college and ANS: I would like to suggest that a feels there is nothing to live for. simply isn't t:he type who can help my Send a card to Louis Cohen, 524 N group of parents go . to th.e teachers son achieve a place for himself. I'm and have a friendly discussion regard Dale St., Saint Paul 3, Minn. He has afraid that they will be married this been bedfast for a long time, suffering ing this problem. If the teache.rs still winter and it just makes me heart express indifference, ask them if they from arthritis. His joints are all lock sick. Plea;ae tell me what I can do to object to you parents preparing the ed, including his jaws. He is having program. It's highly unlikely that prevent it."-Minn. to have his teeth taken out now in they will refuse, so with the coast ANS: King Solomon himself couldn't order to make it possible to get food clear you can work up a good pro have answered this. Furthermore, it down. I gram by cooperating together. The strikes me that you'll have to produce Send a book to Mrs. Olive Tidwell, children should have their program, more evidence than the fact a girl Twain, Calif. She is shutin and in but don't let them feel that you are hasn't gone to college before you can order to keep in touch with the outer critically dissatisfied with the teach enlist my sympathies. I can only world and at the same time be of ers for after all there are still five earnestly hope that you experience a some help in that world, she has months of school ahead. These girls change of heart if your son does gathered .a number of books into her must be v,ery young and inexperienced marry this girl. It isn't pleasant to home and loans them to her neigh to take such an attitude where a com find th.at your husband's mother is bora. Twain is a lumbering camp and munity custom is concerned. inclined to snobbishness. has no library s.o Olive's bookshelves QUES: "Our parents will celebrate QUES. "My husband and I have .a.re well patronized. She wants any their Golden Wedding anniversary on only lived in this town six months so and all kinds of books. December 24th, and the six of us we've no way of knowing if it's cus Hunt up the jigsaw puzzles that you children have always wanted to en tomary here for a couple to return have finished with and send them to tertain at an "open house" in their the minister's call. We've had two , Miss Amy Farnham, Ladies G.A.R. honor. Three of us feel that Christ very nice calls from our minister Home, Anoka, Minn. With cold weath mas Eve is not the time to have such and his wife and I'd like to return er here, when they cannot get out an affair because too many old friends them, but my husband says that it'a doors, the ladies in the Home spend and relatives will be busy with Christ just part .of their routine and they lots of time with jigsawa-when they mas plans, while the other three think don't expect people to call on them. can get them. that it would be a shame not to have What do you thlnk?"-Nebr. Order a box of greeting cards fr.om it at that time since it is the original ANS: It may be part of a minis Miss Ruth Luman, 1901 Kennedy Ave., wedding date. Can you give us your P a: r s o n s , Kansas. She has many ideas on the subject? ter's routine to make such calls, but you can't tell me that he and his wife kinds, all pretty. You can ask her for ANS: I am wondering why Christ wouldn't be delighted to have you re prices or just send a dollar and tell mas Eve is necessary? If the date is turn their call. her what you want. the 24th, you have the entire after Mrs. Tillie Leonard, 2019 N 13 st., noon at your disposal. I think that so QUES. "My fourteen-year .old daugh Kansa:s City 2, Kansas, is doing all many people attend chur~h pro~r.ams ter and I are on bad terms the bulk she can to help clothe a: famiy of on Christmas Eve that it definitely of the time becauae I won't permit her small children living near her. She would cut down the number of those to have dates on any nights but Fri makes over things for them, but tells who would attend ordinarily. My sug day and Saturday, and then I insist me she has run out of things to make gestion would be to have, an "ope!1 that she be home by eleven. She says over. You might have something suit house" running from two o clock until that I'm the only old-fashioned moth able that you could send to her. Tillie five o'clock, or even an hour or so er in these parts, and sulks to the after five. People feel in a festive has been shutin for many years, but point where life is made miserable for is able to ·aew. mood the day before Christmas, and I both of us. Sometimes I wonder if I feel certain that almost everyone Send a card to Mrs. Lydia: Roy, 124 might not as well give in and follow W 3 St., North Vancouver, B. C., Can .... would be able to attend an afternoon the crowd-what do you think?" affair. ada. She has rheumatism and heart Kansas. - trouble, and is just home from a QUES: "We are expecting our fourth month in the hospital. She lives alone baby just before Christmas, and I hate ANS: I think it a genuine shame and ha·s a hard time getting along. so badly to have my children without that any mother and daughter are on Posta.ge on a letter to Canada is 3¢; mother at Christmas time that I'm such poor terms that life is a misery considering having this new baby at for both of them. I really don't know a postcard is 2¢. home rather than at the hospital what has come over parents .that an Ask me for the leaflets telling about where I had my other three. This entire crowd of girls go out .on dates shutins and thinga they have tQ sell. way I could be home on Christmas practically every night. To my way You can make them and yourself hap day and everything would be so much of thinking you are sufficiently len pier by patronizing them. The leaf- better. What do you think?" ient in permitting your daughter to go ; lets are free-and my address is 685 ANS: I believe that .your doctor is out on Friday and Saturday until Thayer Ave., Los Angeles 24, Calif. the one to answer this for I know eleven ·o'clock. This situation has be If you know of a shutin child, or older many, many doctors who will not come such a: problem to other mothers person, who would enjoy hearing from handle confinements at home. Your that f would appreciate hearing vari folks through this column, tell me a doctor may belong to this group and ous viewpoints on the question. bout him. l'AGE 8 KJITCREN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948 HOLIDAY FRUIT CAKE We used this recipe for our 1948 fruit cake and thought that we'd like to share it with you. "Recipes Tested 1 lb. candied .pineapple 1/2 lb. candied cherries 1/4 lb. candied citron in the 1/8 lb. candied lemon peel 1/8 lb. candied orange peel 1 lb. golden raisins Kitchen - Klatter 1/2 lb. seeded raisins 1/4 lb. currants 1/2 cup pineapple juice Kitchen'' 1/4 lb. blanched shelled almonds 1/4 lb. shelled walnuts .or pecans By LEANNA DRIFTMIER 2 cups sifted all-purpose flour 1/2 tsp. mace 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/2 tsp. baking soda 5 eggs · 1 Tbls. milk 1 tsp. almond flavoring Those of us who love to cook are CHRISTMAS NUT LOAF"" 1/4 lb. butter moving right up into the season when 1 cup sugar we can have the time of our lives 3/4 cupful brown ;sugar 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed without one single tiny prick of con 1 1/2 cupfuls molasses Set oven at 275 degrees. Sift f)our. science to say that we're neglecting 1/4 cupful butter Measure 1 1/2 cups lightly by spoon other duties by taking extra-special 1/8 tsp. soda ing it into the cup. Sift with spices pains to make things fancy and beau- . 2 cupfuls chopped dates and soda on to waxed paper. Mix re tiful. If anything can surpass the ex 1 tsp. lemon flavoring maining flour with fruit. Beat eggs citement of preparing for Christmas I 1 cupful of walnut meats slightly. Measure milk and almond don't know what it is. Every mother 1 cupful of blanched almonds flavoring into a cup. Cream white knows how much more .she can ac 1 cupful hickory nutmeats sugar and butter; add brown sugar. complish in the kitchen if children 1 cupful Brazil nutmeats. Mix in eggs, milk and flour thorough aren't underfoot, but don't, please Boil sugar and molasses together ly. Pour batter over fruits and nuts. don't make the Christmas cookies, until the mixture forms a hard ball Bake 3 hours and 15 minutes. Let cakes and candies when they are in when tested in cold water. Add the stand a full half-hour after you take school. That's almost a: sin! Most butter and .continue to boil until brit it out of the oven. Then turn upside grown-ups can't tell you what they re tle when tested in cold water. Add down on wire rack. This makes a ceived for Christmas in the line of the soda, dates, lemon flavoring and 5 1/2 lb. cake. Store in air-tight pan gifts, but they certainly can recall nutmeats, broken fine. Pour into a with a -few pieces of raw, unpeeled with vivid pleasure how much fun it buttered loaf pan and cool. Slice &:s apple. Every 4 weeks pour over it was to help Mother in the kitchen. needed. This candy should be stirred 1/2 cup grape juice 'or pineapple juice. .Juflt resign yourself to gett,ing the job constantly while cooking. done in twice the time you'd ordinar MOCK STRAWBERRY DESSERT ily consume, and remember that this PECAN PRALINES is Christmas just as much a·s the gifts themselves on Christmas morning. 1 package of strawberry gelatine Time flies by too swiftly. You may 2 cups white sugar 1/2 cup boiling water not believe it now when flour and 1 cup molasses 1/3 cup sugar sugar are on the floor and flticky 2 cups thin cream 2 cups fresh cranberries hands are everywhere, but the day is 1 Tbls. butter 2 slices of pineapple coming when you'd give all you ever 2 cups pecans 1/4 cup nuts · hoped to have to go back for just Combine all ingredients, aside from Small orange divided in half one blessed hour when the children pecans and butter, and boil until a 8 marshmallows were still safely at home and "help soft ball is formed in cold water. 1 cup heavy cream Then remove fr.om fire, beat until ing" you i~ the kitchen. 1/2 cup powdered sugar thick, add butter and pecans, and drop Dissolve gelatine in boiling water. by teaspoonfuls on to buttered slab. Add sugar and stir until dissolved. DATE A..."IU> NUT BREAD This recipe for pralines is the gen Using fine blade on food chopper put Wonderful to bake in small loaves uine article. Anyone who has eaten through cranberries, pineapple, and for bazaars, or to have on hand during this candy in the Deep South or Mex the half of a small orange. Measure the holidays. ico will recognize it instantly, at the juice left in chopper-this will prob 4 cups cut-up dates very first taste, as being a perfect ably be about 2/3 cup, but if neces 2 cups broken nuts praline. sary add sufficient pineapple juice to 2 cups boiling water ma:ke it 2/3 cup. Add ground ingre 1/2 cup shortening SCALLOPED CABBAGE DE LUXE dients, plus liquid, to gelatine mixture. 1 1/2 cups brown sugar Then add chopped marshmallows and 4 cups cake flour 2 Tbls. butter nuts. Set aside to cool. When thick, 1 tsp. salt 2 Tbls. flour but not stiff, add heavy cream, whip 2 eggs 1 can cream of mushroom soup ped, to whicn the 1/2 cu}'l powdered 2 level tsp. soda: 1/2 cup milk sugar has been added. Pour 2 cups .of boiling water over 1 Tbls. chopped onion cut up dates and nuts and let them 1 Tbls. chopped pimiento CRANBERRY MOLD etand. Pour shortening in bowl; add 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce eggs. Now add soda to dates and 1 small head cabbage shredded Add 1 cupful of water to 1 quart nuts, but don't do this earlier because Melt butter; add flour; blend. Grad- of cranberries. Cook until berries the soda will turn the dates red. Stir ually add soup and milk. Add onion, burst, and then press through a sieve in flour and fruit alternately and mix pimiento and Worcestershire sauce. with a wooden spoon. Add 2 cupfuls 'thoroughly. Add 2/3 cup of water if Cook over low heat until ;smooth and of sugar to the hot strained fruit and batter seems excessively thick and thick, stirring constantly. Cook shred-. stir until dissolved. Pour into a mold then turn into lightly floured bread ded cabbage in small amount of boil and chill. Unmold and serve, and be pans (4 small ones). Bake 45 min ing, ;salted water until just tender. sure not to cook the mixture after the utes at 350 degrees. Drain. Add sauce. Mix lightly. sugar is a INSCRIPTION FOR A COOK BOOK SPECTACULAR POPOVERS! A VISIT TO, A DANISH KITCHEN 1 cup flour By Myrtle E. Felkner FROM THE GROOM'S MOTHER 2 eggs 1/2 tsp. salt My Darling, here's a little book 1 cup milk When I was a: child I looked upon That tells you how I bake 1 Tbls. salad oil , adults as fearful and wonderful be T.he cakes and pies and other good Set oven for 425 degrees-thi3 will ings, demanding obedience and only things be temperature throughout entire bak occasionally having any fun. A grand His "mother used to make." ing period. Sift flour, measure, a:dd exception to this rule was Uncle Leon, salt and sift again. Beat eggs. until and it was always a joy to know that For men are hungry creatures, .dear, light and thick. Add flour and 1/3 he would help you get away with any But this we- know about them, cup of milk; continue to beat slowly thing within reasonable limits, and That cooking would not be such fun until all flour is moistened (about 30 som'etimes a little outside those limits! If we had to eat without them. seconds). Add remaining milk and During the depression years, Mom be shortening, beating until mixture is came well known for her superb di So take this book with my fondest free from. all lumps-1 to 2 minutes. vinity candy which she sold to mer love, Pour into grea:sed glass cups-little chants and acquaintances in town. An.d a thought I now impart: less than 1/2 full. Bake for 40 minutes. During the Christmas season she When you feed a husband, keep in If you've never made popovers, would earn many a doll, sled, and pair mind please try this on Christmas morning of roller skates in this manner. In His stomach's near his hoo.rt. and give your family a great surprise. the evenings after we had gone to bed They'll actually amaze you if you we could still hear the steady whir ·of AN APPLE SANTA follow these directions ca·refully. This the rotary egg beater as Mom made recipe makes 8 popovers. pound after pound of this candy. This year why don't you surprise Don't think that "we kids" got all the Mother and· Daddy by making a clever HAWAIIAN OOFFEE CAKE candy we wanted, however. The same little Apple Santa Claus to put in 2 cups sifted flour theory that said "no-pancakes-for front of each person's plate for your 3 tsp. baking powder school-children-because-then-t he Y-a re dinner on Christmas Eve or Christ 1/2 tsp. salt too-busy-digesting-to-think" a 1 s o ap mas day? If you can do this work 1/2 cup sugar plied in some strange way to "candy secretly and if you can resist talking 1/3 cup shortening before-bedtime." about it, they'll be ast.ounded and de 1 egg, beaten Thus it was that Uncle Leon became lighted when you arr'ange them on the 1 cup milk a top-notch guy in our estimation. By table. 3 slices pineapple some colossal coincidence, Uncle Leon This is all that you will need: A TOPPING and Aunt Olge usually maniaged to small, round red apple for the body; 1/2 cup sifted flour visit us once or twice during the pre a marshmallow for the head; tooth 1/3 cup brown sugar Christmas candy rush. The candy picks for arms and legs and some 1/4 tsp. cinnamon would be cooling in luscious mounds cotton to wrap around the toothpicks; 1/4 cup melted butter over ironing board, tables, ice box and cloves or little candies for eyes, nose Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and what not, and Uncle Leon would di and mouth, use cotton for hair and sugar together. Cut shortening into vert Mom with an exclaimed, "Golly, beard, and a strip up the front of the dry ingredients until mixture is dry Florence, look at that big spider up apple and around it for coat trim and crumbly. Blend egg and milk. there!" Mom, with apparent innocence, ming. Add liquid to dry ingredients and mix would turn to stare at the imaginary just until blended.· Place in a greased spider, and while she was thus oc GRAHAM CRACKER & 8-inch square pan. Cut pineapple cupied, Uncle Leon would be dishing DATE CANDY slices into thirds and arrange in rows out candy to the. willing hands of his over top of batter. Mix flour, brown accomplices. We would then retire to 1 1/2 doz. large graham crackers sugar, cinnamon, and melted butter. the front room with the spoils of our 1/2 cup chopped dates Sprinkle over top of batter and pine victory, and somehow the candy Mom 1/2 cup cream apple. Bake in a 375 degree oven for passed later on in the evening was 15 marshmallows cut fine approximately 45 minutes. never so good as those first luscious Pinch of salt pieces Uncle Leon ·swiped for us (and Put 1/2 cup cracker crumbs in bot WATCH THEIR EYES GLEAM himself) as he came in the door. tom of dish. Mix the remainder of Here it is, then-Mom's own di the crumbs with the other ingredients vinity recipe: and press into pan.-Mrs. W. S., Gar Combine 3 cups sugar, 3/4 cup of den City, Mo. water, and 3/4 cup of dark syrup, boil together until s.om.e dropped in cold BAKED EGGPLANT CASSEROLE water will have a crackling sound, or until it is about as thick as the syrup 1 medium sized eggplant you used. Pour this over three stiff 1 Tbls. salt ly beaten egg whites. Add 1 teaspoon 1/4 cupful water vanilla and a pinch of salt, then beat 1/2 cupful grated American cheese ,.. until it has a dull color and will hold 2 eggs, well beaJen shape. Drop .on waxed paper, dec •' Dash 'of black pepper orate with nut halves. 1/4 cupful dried bread crumbii or 2 zwieback, crushed . Another candy which you will find Peel and dice the eggplant. Sprin- frequently on Danish tables this kle with salt, cover and let stand for Few things in life give greater joy than Christmas season are the kisses. 15 minutes. Drain. Add water, cover the laughing eyes of happy children. These are 9o simply made that you Youngsters will squeal with delight and might let the youngsters try their and cook for 10 minutes. Drain thor dance with joy when they see this per oughly. Reheat, add the cheese, and fect cake for all special occasions. hands at it! Beat three egg whites until they are cook and stir until the cheese is melt This Lamb Cake mold is made fl:!lm oo. Stir in the eggs and pepper. heavy cast aluminum for easy, fancy bak very stiff. Add one cup of powdered Turn into ·a buttered baking dish, ing. The baked cake is 6:Y.x9x31h inches. sugar gradually, beating constantly. Individual and complete baking instruc When stiff, add two teaspoons of vine cover with crumbs ·and dot with but tions are included with each mold. ter. Set in a pan containing 1 inch of gar and a pinch of salt. Drop from a hot water and bake in a 350 oven for Price only $5, postpaid teaspoon on heavy waxed paper on 35 minutes. A most delicious and un cookie sheet. Bake until done, about usua:l vegetable dish that will have all LEANNA ORIFTMIER one hour, in a very slow oven, 200 to 225. Remove from paper while still of your guests wondering what it could SHENANDOAH, IOWA be. warm. I .know you will like them! P A G E 10 KI.TCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948 A LETTER FROM LUCILE ter by? In my deadly earnest efforts Dear Friends: to do exa;ctZy the right thing I just lost out on all the fun. I lived those Tonight when I sat down at my first few months in clouds of steam desk I had three projects lined up that from boiling bottles, boiling diapere, I waa determined to complete if it boiling everything. I measured that took until two in the morning. The formula with the precision of a chem first thing on schedule was to finish ist in some great research laboratory. a new dress for the doll that Santa I took exact readings on the ther Claus will leave here on Chri&tmas mometer to gauge the right amount morning. The second thing was this of clothing. Oh, there isn't an.ything letter, and the third thing was to start I missed from the viewpoint of the digging· through my recipe files for an old scientific school, and it was all extra-apecial cooky that I'm eager to ao foolish, eo remarkably foolish. make tomorrow. Whenever I look at one certain pic Perhaps it sounds odd to speak a ture of Juliana dating from her fifth bout sitting down at a desk to sew, month of life I always have to burst but that happens to be exactly where out into a peculiar snort of amuse I do all of my sewing, and if you re ment and chagrin. She is so fat in call my description of this desk you'll that picture that her cheeks look as readily see why it's a convenient place. though inflated balloons had been My typewriter is .shoved over to one tucked inside. Where one more ounce side, the portable machine comes out., of weight would have gone I'm sure the three drawers at my right can be I don't know, but it was at exactly rea:ched and pawed through without that age that I went to her pediatric stirring from my chair-and there I I was hard at work on a batch of Christmas ian in tears becauae "my baby won't am-it's a perfect set-up. candy one night when Russell snapped this eat." He should have laughed with Juliana has just now gotten up· (for picture. Yes, I like to have things handy, as you can plainly see. me in a cheerful sort of way, but in the umptieth time) to get another stead of that he-oh dear, I don't re drink, so it's a blessing that the doll member what he did or said, but I do dreas has been completed and is safe It looka extremely effective standing remember that I walked out of the ly tucked away. FIVE MINUTES on the mirrored top of our big round office, my big, fat baby bouncing a LATER: She wandered in and stood table, and for just a split second no way, in darkest gloom and despair. beside my chair and asked me to read one can figure out the source of the I think you can see now why I'd like what I had written, so I did some dazzling and unusual colore. to live those days over again in an speedy fabricating, and it makes me I wanted to be sure and tell you entirely different fashion. realize that before long I won't be able this month about two books that will to write to you with Christmas plans exactly fit two different situations. Comm.on senee tella me that no one when she ia around for she'll be able If you are presenting a gift to a little is going to be fooling a:round with pic to rea'd every word herself. girl who adores her doll house and ture frames this month, so I'll let Are there many of you who agree plays happily with it for hours on end, those few suggestions go until Janu with me when I say that making doll then do try to get a copy of a book ary. I figure that any spare moments clothes is one of the nicest things a called "Big Susan." I have read this at this aeairon of the year should go bout Christmas? Juliana adorea her to Juliana. at least twenty-five times into cooking and decorating for Christ dolls, and I truly enjoy jigging up new the pa&t six weeks-she loves it. The mas - furniture and other trappings things for the old ones so that they story is about what happens in the will have to stand just as they are. can be placed in a circle at the base doll house on Christmas night, and the It will seem very strange not to of the tree near the new doll, and not pictures are charming. It's the kind have the folks here during the holi suffer too much by comparison. of a book that a: little girl never for days, but all of us are happy that Baby-Doll dates from San Francisco, gets. they can be with Frederick, Betty and and is minus one leg and one arm. The other book is for someone who Mary Leanna. I do hope they get She has a special claim qn Juliana's has traveled through Louisiana and eome good picturea around their heart because, as Juliana puts it, she wishes, wi&tfully, that he could go Christmas tree. We will 'open our is badly handicapped. Sherry comes again. It is titled "Ghosts Along the presents on Christma·s morning, and next in age and she is intact physical Mississippi" (The Magic of the Old give the day over to feasting and re ly, but has never seemed too bright Houses of Louisiana) and is a col joicing. This is the first Christmas mentally. I say this because Juliana lection of .one-hundred magnificent that Martin can really appreciate, and haa invested all of her dolls with a photographs, probably the most re it's so much fun to see a youngster of real personality - only Sherry seems markable photography that hae ever that age with new gifts. Juliana still dull and unwieldy. Susan Lavonne been done for such a purpose. Some believes that Santa Claus will make a came to live with us last Christmas, day it will be a collector's item for personal call with her things, although John arrived on her fifth birthday, books of this kind have a steadily in she is at a loss to understand why he and Anna Diana (isn't that a terrific creasing value. After we had first works so hard at the North Pole when name!) joined us only three months gotten it and admired it so much I the ·at'ores are just full of things. ago. She represents Juliana's first wrote to a number of friends who Probably she suspects many things concerted attempt to save money. have been in Louisana and suggested , that she doesn't choose to express. John ia hard to sew for and all of us it for a Christmas gift, and the:r;i ju&t It's only ten o'clock so I'll have regret that his wardrobe is so unsat yesterday when I was dusting in the plenty of time to rummage through isfactory, but the other dolls look living room and moved the book from my files for that recipe. When you pretty decent. The dress that I fin the coffee ta:ble I thought that I'd re write to us this winter please aend ished tonight wa:s for the new doll, as member to mention it to you . . . be along your favorite recipes and tell I mentioned before, and when she is cause it may be the answer to a per us what you like to serve with it. properly clothed I think that I'll take plexing problem of what to give to And don't forget too, that January fresh heart and start in on John. someone who has "everything." (Don't l&t ia the deadline for letters in the Before long now our boxes of think I'll ever be in that bracket my- little contest that I mentioned last Chriatmas decorations will come down self!) · month. I should have told you too that from the storeroom . and we'll see The new baby in our family carries I'd appreciate having those particular what needs to be repaired or replaced. me right back to those early days letters addressed to Box 67, Shenan- Our angel that stands at the tip of the _ with Juliana:, and oh! how I wish that doah. · tree &till looks all right, and we also I could live those days over again! Juliana, Ruasell and I a;ll wish for have the collection of angels made I'd do everything differently - well, you and yours the most happy holiday from heavy cardboard that was cover practically everything. If you too are imaginable. We'd like to hear the de ed with tin foil. I always fix up my the mother of an only child haven't tails of your Christmas when all of huge wooden bowl with a big assort you wished repeatedly that you had the excitement has died down. ment of brilliant Christmas tree balls. been blessed with a second to do bet- Alway&-Luoile. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948' 'PAGE 11 HERBS FOR YOUR KITCHEN applies if you're planting herbs out Method: Fry the .onion and green doors. The leaves have less scent and pepper in part of the drippings until By Hallie Barrow flavor if the 3oil is too rich, and fur tender, but not brown, and mix them The herb business of Mrs. Rex Ot thermore the plants grow tall and with all the other ingredient3 except tinger of Parsons, Kansas, is JUst an leggy. the soup. Form into a loaf, place in other story of a woman who started Every herb enthusiast makes her a baking dish in which remaining in a small way, soon found herself own vinegar. One recipe reads to heat drippings have been melted and add 1 "head-over-heels" in a hobby and encil white vinegar, then add leaves and cup of hot water. Bake in a moder ed up in a thriving business. We vis stems of fresh dill, thyme, marjoram, ate oven for 30 minutes. Pour the ited Mrs. Ottinger late this summer savory and anise and even a bit of vegetable soup into a sauce pan and and found tnat to fill all her orders onion. Let this stand 4 or 5 weeks add an equa:l amount of water. Bring she had 21 acres in herbs, and in her and then drain off the vinegar. My! to a boil and frequently baste the loaf little herb house there were jars anel but herb vinegar will give a tangy taste until the soup has all been used-per bottle3 and kegs of "smelly" things to your potato salad and sala:d dre3s haps 40 minutes. By the time the from all over the world. You would ings. loaf is done, a delicious gravy will have loved her herb house-the place have formed in the baking dish. where she stores, drys ,and mixes. Oc Then there is herb butter. Take 4 Tbls. of butter and add 1h Tbls. of By Chri3tma:s time next year per casionally a bee will fly in because haps you can have your own herb gar they keep bee3 and also sell herb mixed dried herbs, a little chopped green parsley and a few drops of lem den growing in the kitchen window. honey-honey made from the flowers Good luck to you with your herb ex of their rows and rows of herbs. on juice. Season with salt a,nd pepper to taste. It's very good with fresh periments - and a merry Christmas Mrs. Ottinger first 3tarted because too! she liked to use her grandmother's whole wheat or rye bread. recipes and always they were calling No one can tell you just how much for something she couldn't buy - a herb seasoning to use. Let your fam A CHIMNEY FOR SANTA fragrant geranium lea:f for a glass of ily be the judge. If they say, "What By Catheritne Scott jelly, mint leaves to be crystalized for have you done to these scrambled eggs Christmas wouldn't seem like Christ cake decorations, a sprig of basil for -they ta3te awful!" you've used too mas without a tree, and once ours any tomato cookery, etc. She decided much. But if they say, "Some way stood up to a gra·cious height, large ·to raise these herbs just to improve these scrambled eggs are the best you and important in its corner. But, her own cookery. But soon neighbors ever made" then your touch has been with the years, it kept shrinking, until and friends were begging for sprigs of light and right. finally-well, it was a very young and this and that until she started selling Herbs will sprea:d in your garden . tender tree that made its appearance herbs and added more each year. If and you'd better decide right from each Christmas Eve. you have never experimented with us the start just how much space you So one year we started out to be ing herbs to differ the flavor and want to give them. The be3t example ju3t a little different. Two 30-dozen taste of ordinary foods, you have an of this was a garde.ner who at some egg cases, 3 empty quart jar boxes, a interesting field ahead of you. old blacksmith shop found a very piece of heavy cardboard the width of For instance: "Ba3il is a natural large wheel with many spokes. This the boxes and the length of the 3 com sea:soni1ng for tomato cookery", says she had taken to her herb patch and bined, another piece a little wider, a Mrs. Ottinger. "Use it in tomato soup, put down on the ground. Then each fold or two of red crepe paper, tacks, tomato sauce, in spaghetti and maca herb was confined to its place be pins and a: piece of white chalk-these roni dishes, about 1 tsp. to each quart tween the spokes. And she had all 18 were the tools. of liquid. And do you use dill seed spaces filled between those 19 spoke3. The egg cases were stood .on end, only for pickles? Always have a jar Among her herbs were tarragon, win open end to the wall, and covered with of dill seed on hand; ,add it to your ter savory, applemint, rue, coriander, the paper. The three boxes were lined potato salad and just see what folks sage, thyme, sweet woodruff, lavender, up on the cardboard, caught together say. You can also add dill seed to fennel, pennyroya:l and tansy, besides with string and a darning needle, then apple pie, apple sauce, slaw, and in others we've mentioned in this article. covered. The wider cardboard was stewing chicken, veal or beef." Coriander, fennel, caraway and an covered, then laid on the floor, an egg Don't say you haven't room in your ise are the seed herbs. Seed herbs are case was set at each end, and the cov garden for an herb patch, she went on harvested at the first sign of ripening ered boxes placed acroos the top.. With to suggest, for you can even grow a for if left beyond this stage, many the chalk, bricks were marked off on tray full in a window garden and will be lost by falling to the ground. the paper. Here l will say a ruler you'll be surprised what you can har The best method is to clip the entire would be a great help. Without one, vest from that garden. Pot them up seed head and spread loosely in a my blocks ha:d a most irregular look. a3 you would other flowers, although, dark room, where the seeds will fin By using a red light bulb, protected in general, herbs prefer poorer soil ish maturing and can later be shelled. by a metal shield, andirons, if you than flowers. Just add 2 or 3 teaspoons of caraway have them, and a few sticks of wood, The chances are that you have al seeds to your favorite lemon-f1avored a fire can be "built". If the boxes ready started growing p,arsley inside, 3ugar-cooky dough and you'll have a are rough, a sheet or two of news but you can also have a pot of chives new treat for cookie lovers. Caraway paper can be wrapped around them and chervil. Sweet marjoram is an seeds also are added to cabbage dish before the crepe paper is put on. erect, small bush when grown outside, es, sauerkraut, beets ia.nd rye bread. Beside this emergency fireplace a but is more trailing in the window Mrs. Ottinger now sends out a small small tree took on new interest. Even garden and still fragrant. Its le.aves, package with a number of herbs in it 3tockings coul!l be hung from it with fresh or dried, are U3ed for a cook and encloses suggestions for the use care - with care because it wasn't ing flavor. Garden thyme may be of the different herbs. With other made fo/ too rough handling, but just used with lamb and rabbit. Burnet is orders goes a booklet of 25 tested for atmosphere. a beautiful plant, bushy and with lacy recipes and a few pages devoted to leaves which are almost evergreen. the lore and history of herbs. COVER PICTURE The ieaves are beloved of French and Just in case you have a few herbs Surely no one tn this world· ever Italian cooks for giving a cucumber on hand, try this meat loaf recipe of gets so old and dis:i,llusioned that his flavor to salads; ,a constant supply of Mrs. Ottinger'a. heart isn't warmed by the sight of lit tender young leaves is produced by 1 lb. of ground beef, 1 egg slightly tle children decorating a Christmas cutting back. Lemon verbena: has beaten, 1¥.i tsp. of salt, 1h tsp. pepper, tree. Juliana and Kristin are old lemon-scented leaves that are often 1 cup of canned corn, (not whole enough this year to remember other u3ed in finger bowls or fruit cups. grain), 1 green pepper diced, 1 large Christmase3, but even Martin's eyes Borage flowers are used to float on onion minced, 3 tbsp. dripp1ngs, 1 tsp. sparkled when he first saw the tree summer drinks (they add a subtle each of basil, marjoram, summer and he seemed to know that it was flavor and decoration) but they may savory, thyme and parsley, 1 cup of something extra-special. May this also be candied and used for cake coarse bread crumbs, 1 can vegetable Christmas be blessed and wonderful decorations. soup or equal amount of stock and for all little children the whole world The same caution about rich soil cooked vegetables. · over. P A G E 12 KITCBBN-KLATTER HAGAZINB, DECEMBER, t94a IT'S CHILD'S PLAY tween mattress and springs to hold By Mildred Dooley Cathcart the pocket within easy reach of the patient. This Christmas if you have a small A wall pocket with compartments cl:µld to buy for, why not look about similar to the one described above can be tacked to the back of a closet door the house for gifts? It's possible you to hold mother's c 1 ea n i n g cloths, know, and it is also economical. brushes, polishes and other articles of Almost anyone has a variety of this nature. spools. Put these into a gaily dec All of us are very interested in the orated tin container or string them United Nations conferences, so enliven on very heavy thread. A baby can your childrens' spirit of good will by rattle them or play with them stretch helping them make· tiny clothespin ed across his buggy or play pen. For dolls, dressing them as they would be an older child pai;nt the spools in dressed by youngsters in other coun bright colors. Buy a dime store spool tries. Hang them on the Christmas holder and paint the spindles the same tree to give it a genuine glow of real as the spools. The child can learn his peac.e everywhere. primary colors by putting the red spool on the red spindle, etc. The following list of toys and A nice little wooden cheese box or equipment suitable for various age cigar box painted a gay color, with levels is intended to serve as a guide perhaps some little transfers pasted for parents, relatives and friends who on, can have a string attached and be do not know at what age certain a fine wagon. A tin coffee can, with things are appropriate. We would the lid fastened securely, can be paint We all miss Mother, of course, but it's doubt ful if anyone is more bereft than Martin. suggest that you keep it on hand and ed, filled with· a: few pebbles, and be One of hi!!I favorite occupations was to ride refer to it when Christmas and birth come a noisy, interesting pull toy. around on her wheelchair-he braced himself days roll around. We painted coffee cans at school on the bottom. foot-rest and they went scoot ing all over the house. We have to keep him Suggested Lists Up To Two one year, enameled sticks to match away from pictures of his "Granny'' because Plastic rattles and discs; Celluloid and what a fine toy drum we had! if he sees one he starts searching for her in cracks and chips; Strong large beads; every corner. Any child will love a "Surprise Box". Small soft dolls and animals; Small Search the house for bits of bright blocks and nests of boxes; Rag or ribbon, an old bracelet, rings, beads or HOLIDAY FUN oilcloth books; Balls; Push-and-pull costume jewelry, pretty shells or rocks toys; Kiddie car; Play yaro and or other trinkets. Put these into a By Mabel Nair Brown clothes that can get dirty without box and what fun some child will have trouble with Mama, with them. My grandmother had an Instead of serving Christmas cook ·old metal vase on her dresser and it ies to callers this year, why not pass Two To Four was filled with odd buttons, pins, etc. open-faced sandwich.es cut out with Blocks (large ·hollow); Wagon; -things that we children fou;nd most Christmas cookie cutters? For the Wheelbarrow; Beads to string; Sand delightful and never once thought of trees, color some soft cheese spread toys; Blunt scissors; Hammer and as JUNK. a very delicate green. Bits of pim nails; 4-piece picture puzzle; Doll bug Scraps of print can readily be con ento, parsley and olive can be the orn gy; Broom; Dump trucks; Simple verted into toy dogs, sheep, cats, or aments. The doughnut cutter can trains and boats; Dolls and doll cor other stuffed ainimals. And then the make the wreath shape and sprigs of ner material; Easle or blackboard; old favorite rag doll from a man's parsley will give the green holly ef Crayons and modeling clay; Toy tele work sock is ever much beloved. fect. These colorful sandwichee, with phones. Clothes pin dolls with yarn hair and coffee or cocoa, will delight your Up To Six crepe paper dresses are amusing to a guests. They can be prepared a day Blocks; Dolls; Scooter; Tricycles; child. Or to the child · who is old ahead for special parties by placing a Roller and ice skates; Jump ropes; enough to sew for her doll, scraps of dampened cloth covered with a piece Tools; Puzzles; Garden tools; House material, ribbon, bits of lace or rick of waxed .paper in the bottom of a keeping toys; Sand box; Play tents or. rack are a fine gift. large kettle, then lay the sandwiches big packing box; Swings and teeter Scraps of wood, all sizes and shapes, on the paper, cover with waxed pa totter; Dishes and tea table; Easel, can be sand papered and painted to per and place the lid on the kettle. paints and crayons; Modeling clay; make ideal blocks and building ma Gather up spools, bits of wood, tin Simple lotto games; Scrapbooks; Tur- terial. cans with smooth edges or small tles and fish. · Perhape you have an old chest or boxes and enamel in gay colors for Middle Years Six To Ten wooden box that could be decorated some baby or small child. You might Gym equipment; Croquet set; Hoops and transformed into a toy chest for try making some cute toy figures by and tops; Stilts; Kites; Jump ropes; a child. I am sure mother would ap tieing several spoole together. Paint Marbles; Sleds and skis and ska.tes; preciate this too. • on eyes, mouth and hair with a brand Soap bubble sets; Dolls and dressmak A little wooden box, such as a cigar of paint that won't hurt the young ing material; Complicated construe• box, needs but little dOille to it to make ster. tion blocks; Costumes; Doll houses; a doll bed. Make a head board and Use oatmeal cartons cut down and Toy theatres and grocery stores; four legs, add a tiny pillow, quilt and sewed together, then papered over to Bead looms; Wool looms; Sewingkits; spread and you have a pretty little make a little toy what-not shelf for Musical instruments; Dancing Les a small girl. She will enjoy using sons (Teachers say not until 7); Desk bed. this as a safe place for her miniature Children of all ages like scrap books and room furniture; Sta,mps and al figures. bums. Games - Parchesi, Dominoes, with pictures suitable for their age. Cover cold cream jars with pastel For the older child you might buy a Checkers, Jacks, Marbles and Num enamels or pretty paper, and add bits ber Game3. scrap book and pictures and let him of ribbon or tiny flowers to make paste them in. This will give. him pretty containers for a little girl's Late Childhood Ten To Fourteen something to do on those wintry daye pins, hair ornaments, etc. You'll ·be Real building materials; Baseball when he must stay indoors. surprised at the new order on her equipment; Tennis equipment; Bi Begin early and search your· house dresser top if she has such jars for cycles; Hockey sticks; Real jig-saw for children's gifts. I'll wager they her belongings. puzzles; Dolls (national costumes, will be more acceptable than many For someone who is ill, make a etc.); Card games; Board games; store gifts and think what fun you bed pocket of bright material, divid Cameras; Globes; Typewriters; Soap have had too! You will surely agree ing it into several compartments to carving sets; Tool chests; Model con that shopping this way is really Child's hold books, writing materials, hank struction sets; Microscopes; Magnify Play for you as well as for the -chil ies, toilet articles, · etc. At the top ing glasses; Collectors bo.oks and dren. fasten ~ large cardboard to slide be- equipment.-Lucille Sassaman. KIT~BEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948 PAGE IS A LETTER FROM DOROTHY day, all the color had gone. Lucile, Russell, and Juliana had plannecJ, to spend laat week-end with us and when Dear Friends: Once &:gain I'm sitting at Mother's they called that they couldn't possibly desk as I write my letter to you. make it we were just sick because we Kristin has just rlliil down the alley wanted them to see it more than any to spend the morning with Juliana; one else. The folks had been up just Mother and Margery are in the kitch the weelt-end before and it was beau tiful then. Dad got some wonderful en and Martin i3 running around the house. The folks went to Des Moines color pictures of it. Frank and I al yesterday to spend the day with Moth ways say that our house may look er's sister, Martha Eaton, and also pretty decrepit, but no home ever had with D.on who came from Ames to a more beautiful setting than ours visit with them. Kristin and I met does set right down in the middle of this timber. them in Osceola on their return home We thought that the children would be amused. and r'ode to Shenandoah with them so by this picture of Kristin, Martin and Juliana. Russell just: called that he is ready They had posed patiently for the cover pic to take some pictures of Kristin and that I could attend to some buainess ture, but when we were all done they sank would I please come d'own and do here this morning. We are going back down and giggled for a long spell over noth something about her hair. So until to Lucas on the train this noon, so ing that the grown-ups could see I Martin this has really been a short, short had fallen against Juliana's shoulder in sheer next month when it will be time to fatigue and was all but asleep three minutes say happy New Year (this is hard to trip. later. believe!) .•. This is a busy, busy time for us on Sincerely, Dorothy. the farm; as I know it is for all of her just as happy as some expensive you. Frank and I haVe been spending gift. every day in the cornfield, taking ad With all due credit to Grandmother "THE SEVEN CANDLES OF vantage of this wonderful fall weath Johnson, we have accomplished one CHRISTMAS" er to get the corn picked. I like to thing this month that has made us all "Christmas is not a day to me .but pick corn by hand, and so does Frank, very happy. I don't know if I had a state of being that begins on the but this year we had , so much corn ever mentioned that Kristin was one morning when I get "that feeling", that we wouldn't have gotten it all in of these children who has alwaya and since that is always sometime in until time to plant again next Spring sucked her thumb. Of course the past early December, Christmas lasta a (as slowly as I pick), so· we got a two years it has only been when she long time. As our girls grew older I single-row pull-type corn picker this was tired or very bored, and always began to feel that we should develop fall. For a couple of weeks Frank when she went t'o bed at night, but our own Christmas traditions in our picked by himself, stopping when the now we think we have it stopped en own family, and out of this grew what wagon was full and taking it in to tirely. Kristin had seen a lovely set we like to call "The Seven Candles of the crib. I had told him I thought it of dishea tha:t she wanted very badly, Christmas." Briefly, it goes some would go much faster if he would let and her Grandma Johnson told her thing like this: me run the picker while he unload that if she would stop suckfng her "Seven days before C h r i s t m a s ed, but he kept putting me .off. I thumb entirely, she w.ould be very (counting Christmas day one) before· don't know whether he waa worried happy to get the dishes for her. Kris the girls go to bed, we gather in the a;bout leaving me in the field alone with tin was very honest about it, and a living room and get ready to "begin" it: for fear I would get hurt, or wheth couple of days when she slipped and -it's the moat exciting feeling, or do er he was skeptical about my operat- sucked her thumb she told her Grand you think me childlike?" (NO!) . ing it at all, but anyway, a week ago ma she did and that she would have "Daddy reads from the . Bible the today I convinced him that he should to start all over. After she had gone various verses of Prophecy, I read give me a try. The outcome of . it two weeks without sucking it once, from other literature or tell in my was that I have been .on the picker she went to her Grandma and told her own words this story of foretelling, from 7: 30 until 5: 30 every day for a · that she thought it would be safe to and then Judie (who is now eleven) week. And furthermore, I plan t'o be get the dishes for her now, that she lights a red candle Oill the table. This on the picker every day until we have had really stopped sucking her thumb. is the first candle of Christmas, the all the corn in. He has admitted that So Grandma fulfilled her promise and real beginning. We join in prayer, I do ·as good a job as he does, if not last week after she had been to town and then the children go off to bed. better, and that's something for a she brought home the diahes. "Each evening's "Candle" is similar, man to admit! I don't know when I have seen Kris although after the first:, the girls re I have quantities of sewing stack tin so thrilled over anything, and she call what each lighted candle repre ed up to do, but it :will just have to very proudly tells everyone how she sents. And I must be sure to say that stay stacked until after the corn fa in. got the dishes. They are the cutest on each succeeding evening we begin I did manage to get some necessary things I have ever seen, with a real with the foregoing candles that have patchjng done on Frank's jeans Satur little drip-coffee pot. Every day aft already been lighted. These are our day morning when it rained, and was er seho'ol she and Grandma have a Candles: 1. Prophecy; 2. The Annunci · too muddy to go fo the field. Then tea party with real (weak) coffee. ation; 3. Christmas Long Ago; 4. when Kristin and I were in Shenan By the time you read this we will Christmas in Other Lands; 5. The doah a couple of weeks ago for a probably have snow on the ground Wise Men; 6. The Shepherds; 7 Our week-end, Lucile and I' spent· .one un and our nice warm fall will have been Christmas Today (a summation of the interrupted day at the sewing ma forgotten long ago, but I muat stop whole wonderful Christmas Day of chine. She helped me get a plaid and exclaim again about how beauti our own family). During Christmas dress made for Kristin just like one ful our timber has been. Pe'ople who week we burn all seven for a while she had made for Juliana, and later I have lived there for years say they each evening, and somehow this tradi made one identically like it for l\l[ary can never remember when the trees tion that means so much to us has Jane, the favorite doll. Kristin calls have turned more perfectly than they come to be the high light of the holi them her "Mother and Daughter" did this year. From the bottom day season for us, and I wouldn't be dresses and she and Mary Jane now ground where we have been picking the least surprised if Judie, Kathy and have two outfits alike. corn, we looked up to this hill that Susan carry it on in their own homes I honestly believe she is more thrill was one solid mass of color as far as when they are married."-Muriel Gil ed over Mary Jane's dresses than she you could see, ranging from pale yel lies, Omaha, Nebraska. is her own. With Chriatmas not s.o low and pale pink, to the deeper pur far away this might be something you ple and browns, with every color 15 Reprints from any size negatives, could do for your own daughter. If imaginable in between. It was truly 50' pp. Roll film developed and print you have any scraps left over from breath-taking. ed, 30' pp. dresses you have made for her, make The timber was at its heighth last VERNESS STUDIO Doz 67 dressea for her doll for Christmas just Sunday, but about Wednesday . it be Shenandoah, Iowa like hers. I'm sure this would make gan to fade; and . yesterday,. a Sa.tur- PAGE 1' K I T C H E N - K L A T T E R M A G A Z I N E , D E C E M B E R , 1 9 4 s· "Little Ads" If you have somehing t.o sell tr) (( this "Little Ad" Department. Over >> 100,000 people read this magazine every month.. Rate: 10¢ a word, pay able in advance. When counting words, count each initial in name and address. Rejection rights reserved. Your ad must reach us by the 1st of the month preceding date of Issue. FOR THE CHILDREN Send Ade direct to Driftmier Publishing Co. A, PRECIOUS GIFT Let's go tell Mother that we guesaed Shenandoah, Iowa By Myrtle E. Felkner her secret." Susan and Johnnie ran quickly to the kitchen. "FOR DIAMONDS, wedding rings, watches, "We guessed it, we guessed it!" they necklaces. brooches, and other fine jewelry, chanted. "lt'a our home, isn't it, write for details and prices. Send your "Oh, Mother! Mother!" Susan cried watches and jewelry to be estimated for excitedly as she and her brother tum Mother?" correct repairs. Address Kathryn Ross, bled breathlessly into the house. Mother smiled, "I am proud of you. Henry Field Jewelry Dept., Shenandoah, Ia." "Everyone is giving something, and You are good detectives, for that is Johnnie and r can't think of a thing." exactly right." BEAUTIFUL CROCHETED BED SPREAD. "But Moth.er," said Johnnie, "how Poyeorn stitch. Mrs. Mattie Wills, 13th "And Misa Peterson said we should & Army Post Rd., Des Moines 15, Ia. know by tomorrow because Christmas do you want us to share our home?" "Johnnie, I think you would be giv QUILT TOPS, made from quilted silk patches is almost here and-0 Boy Mom! sateen lined, ,$15.00. Many other things. Ginger cookies! May I have one? ing a lovely gift if you would invite Effie M. Hoar, Willow River, Minn. some orphaned boy and girl to apend They really am.ell good!' LADIES: Send me your old blankets. I will His mother laughed as she handed the Christmas holidays here with us. weave them into rugs for you. $1.25 per each of them a big, warm cookie. Your Da:ddy and I would not be able yd. Mrs. Harm Dirksen, Bancroft, South Then she said, to buy such expensive presents for Dakota. "You are talking s·o fast I can't Ul'l you as we had planned, but I think XMAS ORDERS, for hand loomed rugs, derstand you at all. Tell me all about we could manage some little package Colorful wool or eott.on. Wool, 27x50 in. under the tree for each of you and $3.00 Cotton 27x50 in. $2.89. Postpaid. it, only more slowly." Mrs. Lewis Vermillion, Shenandoah, Iowa. "Well," began Susan, "today at re your guests if you would like to do this." APRONS, made from feed sacks, any size, ceas time we were all talking about price $1. Mae Bugbee, 620 Willis, Perry, the lovely gifts we want for Christ "Mother, I think you're wonderful!" Iowa. exclaimed Susan. mas. Then Miss Peterson told us that DARLING SMOCKED DRESSES, 1 to 6, the best joy of Christmas is in giving, "Me, to·o!" said Johnnie, only Susan cut out and smocked $3 ; finished $4. Send not in receiving, so we decided to try and Mother could hardly understand measurements. Mrs. Raymond Linebaugh, Maryville, Mo. it by giving gifts to the boys and him because he had just stuffed an other cookie into his mouth. CROCHETED BABY BOOTIES $1.50, Bibs, girls who live in the orphange on 75¢. Hat pin cushion $1.35. Ruffled Doil Maple Street." ies, $2.50. Sock Dolls, $1.50. Doll Dress "Yes," interrupted Johnnie, "and pot holders 65¢. Mrs. W. J. Oostenink, everybody has thought of something Hull, Ia. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, Corn Husk to give except ua." Mother smiled as Dolls. About 8 and 5 inches tall. Baskets. she brought more cookies from the Red dresses. $1 per set. Add 10¢ handling· oven. charges. Miss Lois Neff, Bethany, Mo. "Why, Children," she said, "you CROCHETED VANITY SETS. White, ecru, have a very wonderful gift to offer. blue, pink. yellow, rose, green. Patterns, Garden Gate, Flower Spoke, Star, $3 set. It is the finest thing you possess. You Crochet orders taken. Violet RIDoades, cannot give it away, but you can cer Craig, Mo. tainly share it." FOR SALE: Beautiful textile paintings. "Oh, Mother, what is it? What is Oletha Jacobs, Triplett, Mo. it?" the children 8.f!ked excitedly. LAPEL PIN, made from real "WISH BONE" wear for luck. Attractive gold Mother just laughed mysteriously and color, each $1. Laura Craven, Denver, Mo. said, STAMPED FANCYWORK: Pillowslips, 42 in. "I'm ·aure that before the evening is pillow tubing, hemstitched. Choice cross over you will think of it. Then we stitch flower, or .outline butterfly design $2.25 pr. Floral dresser scarfs $1.25 ea. will plan together how to share this Applique aprons. Choice red poppy or blue lovely gift." Johnnie and Susan look It looks as though Richard Corwin Pearch of water lily, 75¢ . ea. Postage paid. Orders ed at their mother and looked at each Greensberg, Mo., would have a snowy ride accompanied with remittance. Offer good other. What ever in the world did to school on his faithful pony. until January 31st. Mrs. Merle E. Burt, they have that was so valuable? All Needlework Distributor, Bassett, Nebr. CHRISTMAS TIME PILLOW CASES, embroidered with crocheted the rest of the afternoon they won-. insets, $5. Ad good any time. Mrs. Carl dered as they looked through their When I'm as good as I can be, Rochek, Wolbach, Nebr. books and toys in the playroom, but My Mummy smiles and says to me, DOLL CLOTHES: Good material, lace, fur the more they thought the more trim dresses, pajamas, slips, 79¢. Buntings, "I hope that Santa Claus will see housecoats, $1. Coats $1.25. Bonnets, puzzled they became. Finally they How good you are today." handbags 50¢. Virginia Thomas, Rt. 1, wandered to the window and watched Rockport, Mo. the street lights flicker on as it be But when I'm cross or very bad, CROCHETED BUTTERFLY, CHAIR SETS: came darker and darker outside. My Mummy doesn't get real mad $4. Two sets, $7. White, ecru 24xl7. Davenport set $6, white-ecru. 38xl 7 pine "It's not a very nice evening," sigh Just sighs and says, "It will be sad apple in the wings designs. Crocheted cof ed Susan. "Just look how the wind If Santa looks today." fee table doilies, oval pineapple, 22xl5, is blowing. The poor policeman at 20xl2, white $3. Crocheted tea aprons. the corner looka very cold." Pineapple, medium, large, $3, white. Beau Sometimes before I say "Good night," ties, always on hand. Postpaid. Mrs. Edna "Yes," agreed Johnnie. "I'm glad And Mummy dear turns out the light, Sutterfield, Craig, Mo. we're warm and safe at home, aren't I gaze up at the stars so bright GORGEOUS CHENILLE CORSAGES. Roses you?" And think of the next day. or Orchids, 75¢. Several 65¢ ea. State color. Freda Poeverlin, 1700 E. Court, "I'll say! It would be terrible to be . Beatrice, Nebr. .-Johnnie! That's it!" Then as my eyes begin to close, FQR SALE: Ironstone, and wedgewood, china "What, Susan? What are you talk I wonder if old Santa knows tea leaf pattern. Washed print feed bags, ing about?" How very slowly the time goes 25¢ ea. Mrs. Will Patten, Aurelia, Ia. "Don't you see,. Johnnie? Our home Until it's Chriatmas Day! "12 INCH RUFFLED DOILIES. 180 inches around ruffle, white, shaded pink, blue, is our most precious possession. We ' Sent by_ Mrs. C. F. Sherwood, yellow or green. $3. Dorothy Briney, Al c:an. lbare it every day Of our lives. Lincoln, Nebr. bion, Ia, KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948 P A G E 15 TATTED EDGED HANDKERCHIEFS: Tat "HOISERY MENDING, price according to HA VE ,A PRETTY DRESS MADE. (Peplum ted earrings, any color. Crocheted n~t~uP width and length of runner. Address or pockets for small and medium, sweet holders, pineapple, chair sets and doilies. changed from Arlington, Ia., to Cooks, heart neckline for large) by sending your Mrs. Clarence Helbig, Alburnett, Ia. Michigan, Ruth Baker. measurements, 3 feed sacks, 3 buttons and $1.50. Comfort tops (crazy-quilt pattern, NOVELTY CLOTHESPIN DOLLY, pin .cush GENUINE IRISH LINEN TABLECLOTH, large size, $5. Sent C.O.D. Quilt-block ion 75¢. Mrs. E. Thul, Prairie Du Chien, and napkins. Water lily P'attern. Write aprons-the newest, the prettiest, $1.10 ea. Wis. for details. Mildred Schleiger, 418 North Mrs. E. R. Hinks, 2012 H. Street, Belle Cleburn, Grand Island, Nebr. GIFTS AS ADVERTISED, in October and ville, Kans. Noven1ber issues: Ladies ap.rons, $1.10 and BUY YOUR XMAS HANDKERCHIEFS NOW. FOR SALE: Registered Cocker Spaniel Pup $1.35. Hat pincushions, $1.35. Pri~t Negro, Homecoming special-special hand trimmed pies. Mrs. M. A. Beecher, Munden, Kans. Mammy pincushions, 75¢. Yarn pillow tops hankies, in tatting in all white. White trim containing 12 differP,nt colors, $5. Thelma med in any color you choose. Pastel hank LOVELY INFANT OR DOLL CLOTHES. Wagner, Hampton, Ia. ies, trimmings to match. Price 50¢ ea. Made to order, write for prices and ds. A free photo of us with each order if you tails. Mrs. Howard Vanbaale, Prairie City, THREE SPECIAL OFFERS-21 beautiful wish it. Jim Kendrick & Mother, 1114 W. Ia. Christmas cards, personalized with ~ny Sheridan Ave., Shenandoah, Ia. name, $1. Twenty sheets, 20 envelopes, fme FOR SALE: Print feed sacks, 3 for $1. stationery all personalized $1. 100 postcards, MY PRIZE CANDY RECIPES, Neverfail. Mrs. Glay Van Horn, Rt. l, Little River, personalized, $1. All three offers. only Rich chocolate fudge, heavenly divinity, Kans. $2. 75. Postage paid. Midwest Stationery, luscious marshmallows, ten cents each and Service 2-C, 1024 Quincy, Topeka, Kans. stamped envelope. I sell candy using these FOR SALE: Registered Cocker Spaniel Pup recipes. Esther Schleiger, 418 North Cle pies. Mrs. Fred Woodruff, Rt. 4, St. HAND MADE FIGURINES, and novelti7s. burn, Grand Island, Nebr. Joseph, Mo. High quality at low prices. Send for price list. Order now for Christmas. 'Ideal gifts. CASH PAID FOR OLD GOLD. Mail your FOR SALE: Shell Brooches, $I. Earrings, 50¢. Felt baby sandels, $1. Send stamp Miss Gwen Hawkins, Monroe, Ia. rings, bracelets, watch cases, pins, chains, optical scrap, dental gold, filled and plated for list of felt and shell novelties. Lillian FOR SALE: Crocheted tablecloth, pinwh';"l Christiansen, Underwood, -Ia. design, size 64x64, price $50. Mrs. Chris. scraps, for prompt estimate, to Henry Field De Young, Laurens, Ia. Jewelry Dept., Shenandoah, Iowa. BEAUTIFUL GIFT: Tiny pastel colored shells formed into flowers on safety catch SEWING: Ladies dresses $1:50 up. Childs, FOR SALE: Hand made shell brooehes all shapes, $2.25. She]] earrings, $1.50. Mrs. pin, $1 ea. Mrs. M. J. Young, 603 East $1.25, smocked $1. 75, . weavmg carpet, r.ug Yerby, Marshall, Mo. $1.10 yd. Send materials to Mrs. A. Wrn Vernon Tyler, 1418 Grover, Lynden, Wash. ters, Rt. l, Des Moines 11, Ia. PRINT APRONS: MotJher and Daughter, tie CARDS, and extraordinary fine every-day as aprons, $1.50. Bib aprons. Small, medium, CUSTOM WEAVING: Also rugs of .new cot sortment embossed with ribbons, ties, all large, $1.25 and up. Mrs. William Phillips, ton or woolen material for bale. Mrs. Fred birthday, all get well, $1 a box ea. post 2280 E. North St., Decatur, Ill. Martin, Sheldahl, Ia. paid. Gay wrapping paper and" stationery. BEAUTIFUL PINE SCENTED, and other WOMEN'S DRESSES: Send 3 sac.ks, or print. Write, Melba Hoffschneider, Rt. 2, Box 63, Waco, Nebr. numbers stationery. Scripture, Christmas, w·aist, skirt, length, bust waist measure and everyday assortments. Christmas and ment, thread, $1.10. Mrs. T. R. Anderson, SALEM COOK BOOK, 536 best (signed rec everyday wrapping. Humorous and Corre Garden Grove, Iowa. ipes by Ladies Aid). Also sugarless rec spondence notes and new Plastic cards, FOR SALE: . At any time, Pekingese d?gs ipes. Spiral binding. Postpaid $1. Send $1.25. Balance $1.15. Millie J. DeWild, made of wool yarn. Colors: yellow, white, orders to Graphic, Lake Mills, Ia. Eddyville, Iowa. or pink. Price $2. Mrs. Otto Schott, 1202 FOR SALE: Beautiful American Eskimo So. 5th Norfolk, Nebr. Spitz PU'ps, also some brood matrons, Crav BEAUTIFUL PILLOW CASES, hemstitched, en's Kennel, Menlo, Ia. PETROFIG crocheted edge, inserted rose ~edallion FEET HURT? Get quick soothing relief for (rose or varigated peaeh) or pmeapple The laxative that tastes like Jam. sore aching feet with Kleen-Foot, Balm Made of natural fig syrup and mineral medallion (white center with any color Rub-On. No stain, fnss, or muss. Good-by border). $5 pr. Mrs. Iva Miller, 1707 Q. oil. Does not gripe, is mild and well pads and plasters, 25¢ and 50¢ boxes post tolerated. St., Belleville, Kans. paid. George Pidgeon, Box 43, Tonawanda, WOOL QUILT BLOCKS. Mak~ beautiful N. Y. PRICE: $1.65 POSTPAID warm quilts, 70x80 from umform wool RECIPE: Bohemian Delicious, Kolachi, 35¢. PETROFIG COMPANY blocks. These are wool blocks made from 3 cent' stamp for mailing. Rose Brabec, Box 540 expensive mens suitings. Assorted colors. Box l, Weston, Nebr. $3 per bundle or 2 bundles for $5, post San Bernardino, California paid. Quilt Block House, Dept. KK, Wood NEW DIFFERENT A NI M A T E D CHIL bine, Ia. DREN'S BOOKS. Set of four, $1 postpaid. Redick Tower, Lobby Shop, 1504 Harney, FOR SALE: Bib print aprons, rick rack Omaha 2, Nebr. trimmed will fit anyone, except extra large LOOK! ladies. $1 ea. Mrs. Mae Ross, 700 So. CROCHETED WHIRLY GIG, BEDSPREAD, Fourth St., Chariton, Ia. 90x102, $35. Mrs. Charles Glotfelty, Mil Who is your favorite little girl? ton, Ia. WILL DO any kind of crocheting. Babe If it's your daughter, granddaughter, or Thompson, Klemme, Ia. SEWING SCISSORS, Hollowed ground, sharp niece, you'll be inspired to start sewing ened. We make them look good as new, by FOR SALE: Pineapple, .fan chair sets, ecru for her after you· read "It's Fun To Sew putting on a high polish, one scissor 50¢. for Little Girls" by Leanna and Lucile. or white. $3.75. Northern Lights Doilies, Two scissors 40¢ ea. Three pair scissors or rainbow color 17 in., $3.50. Hazel Heg Illustrated with photographs of Juliana more, 35¢ ea. Postpaid. Established since and Kristin. wood, 1600, N. Second, Knoxville, Ia. 1914. Harry Walters, Mediapolis, Ia. PAINT YOUR OWN PLAQUES, Figurines. Formerly 50¢. Now reduced to 35¢ for ALL KINDS OF EXTRA HAIR PIECES, Christmas gifts. 3 for $1.00. We furnish, white., extra hard. Write for made of your own hair. Switches, trans list. Cora Brinker, 810 Victoria, Harlan, formation, puffs, to order or will furnish Order from Leanna Driftmier Iowa. hair to match. Mrs. N. S. Stewart, 4508 Shenandoah, Iowa TALKING CHRISTMAS CARDS, Santa really Izard Street, Omaha, Nebr. says ''Merry Christmas". You can make him talk, recording wire attached, 35¢ ea. 3 for $1. "MAREAN" Magic Shop, Box 551 K, Hopewell, Virginia. OUT OF SIGHT • • OUT OF MIND! PETS, Golden Hamsters. ~ales $1.50, l!'e males, $2. Trio, $5. Write for fre.; m Not if you send the Kitchen-KJatter magazine as a Christmas gift. formation. Dwaine Schaffner, 1316 Eighth Every month for a year your friend will receive a copy of this maga Ave., North, Fort Dodge, Iowa. zine that has found its way into the hearts of thousands of people scat BRILLIANT COllDUROY RUG STRIPS: Make unusually beautiful corduroy rugs, tered from Coast to Coast. for only $1.00. New clean stock. Will For those who love to cook, the recipes are an inspir<1-tion. For make a rug approximately 27x42 in. As those who enjoy gardening, "Come Into ·the Garden" is ever helpful. sorted colors. Order now. Send check, money order, or C.O.D. Postage paid. For those who need new ideas on club programs or entertaining, there Quilt Block Ho11Se, D0Pt. K., Woodbine, Ia. are always sensible, unusual ideas. And for those who just plain don't SMORGASBORD FOR CHRISTMAS? Plans get as many letters from home as they'd like to have, the personal complete with 10 Swedish recipes, $1. Box letters from us help to fill up the gap. 857, Essex, Ia. If you sent Kitchen-Klatter ;;i,s a gift last year, don't forget: to renew WANTED: Bleached white, 100 lb. sacks. No holes, suitable for tea towels. Mrs. Art it for your friend. If you've never sent a gift subscription, insure your Ingham, Beverly, Kans. self this year that "out of sight won't be out: of mind." CROCHETED WOOL 4 PIECE DOLL SETS, We'll see that your friend gets a Christmas c,a.rd containing news $2. Fit 14 in. doll. Eloise Castillo, Rt. 4, of this gift (your name will be written in) if you get your letter to us Bentonville, Ark. by December 15th. A subscription is $1.00 per year. This is the day to FOR SALE: Dachshund Pups, Black and Tan. send it In. Registered. Floyd Reighard, Menlo, Ia. PRINT QUILT BLOCK APRONS, $1. Print pot holders 3 for 25¢. Nettie Fudge, 600 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE N. D. St., Indianola, Ia. SHENANDOAH, IOWA CROCHETED BEDSPREAD, slightly used, $35. Mrs. Theo. Jacob, Fulda, Minn. KlTCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, DECEMBER, 1948 left hurries to table carrying bowl, DEATH IN LIFE spo~n, other cooking utensils. ~tirs busily. Danish girl runs in from right, carrying bundle of wheat.) He always said he would retire Girl: "Mother, I have found the best When he had made a million clear, of the wheat as 'our Christmas gift And so he toiled into the dusk for the birds! Is it time to hang it From day to day, from year to year. THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS on the pole in the yard?" Mother: "Of course! Hang it now At last he put his ledgera up By Myrtle E. Felkner so the birds will be full for Christmas And laid his stock reports aside- , Eve. But hurry, your brothers will But when he started out to live (Note on special effects:. Use is be here with the Yule Log and you He found he had alrea:dy died. made of spot lights and dimming stage will want to help them." (Girl exits · -Unknown. lights to dramatize and to denote pas right. Mother stirs. Pianist begins sage of time as well as change of s~t to play "Deck the Halls" softly. Four ting. Practically every commum~y boys begin singing softly off-stage, as Let LA DANA Solve Your possesses an ambitious youth who will though in distance, then increasing Gift Problems! welcome the opportunity to try his volume until they prance onto stage SPECIAL $1 CHRISTMAS . OFFER- ability along these lines. ~n case such from right. They pull the Yule Log Includes tlhree popular items, as fol an individual is not ava11a·ble, how lbws: •A regular size jar of GLO~ which is tied with ropes, two boys at FLUFF Shampoo; An introductory size ever the platform for the Spirit of each rope. As they enter, Mother jar of La Dana Hair Cream ; ~nd a full Chri~tmas may be erected on the dram of really fine Floral perfume • , • stands back, hands on hips. Boys What a Gift 1 It's all for $1, postpaid. stage apron and the curtains used for drop ropes, stand arms around shoul And if you order THREE or more of the other effects.) these Dollar Offers, you get ONE bot ders to aing verse of "Deck the Halls." tle of wonderful Extract of Pme Nee As program begins, a:ll ~hur~h or As they finish, Mother speaks:) dle FREE (see note below). auditorium lights are extmgms~ed. Mother: "You are merry! And that SPECIAL $3 CHRISTMAS OFFER- Pianist plays "0, Come, All Ye Faith A full pound of GLORI !"LUFF Shi:tm is a fine Yule Log!" poo ($4 value) packed m a beautiful ful" as choir 'or small group of 8-10 Boy: "And we're hungry, too. Is pla~tic utility dish (with. cover) and voices proceed down aisle to choir loft in addition a generous size bottle of the Christmas porridge ready, Moth concentrated Extract of Pine Needle. or stage loft, carrying lighted candles er?" It's yours, pootpaid, for $3. and singing the processional number. A drop or two of La Dana's Extract of Mother: "No, but it will be soon. Pine Needle, placed on a hot surface, such At close of song, a: blue spotlight. is T.ake your log to the fireplace, and I as a light bulb or stove, gives off the focused upon "The Spirit of Christ wonderful aromatic fragrance of a pine will hurry with the porridge~" (Boys mas" who is attired in floor-length or apruce forest. It's the r~al old-time exit left, Mother stirs again. Light Christmas fragrance of Frankincense and white gown or robe. She should be fades, Spotlight again to Spirit of Myrrh . , . makes real holiday atmos- on a:n elevated platform at right stage. Christmas. Exit Danish Mother.) ~B'0 HERE IS THE GIFT FOR MEN I Choir hums "Silent Night," then pi?-i: Spirit of Chriatmas: "Now you have Special $1.00 Xmas package contains ist plays this carol softly as the Spirit THREE items, including: 3-oz. Mento seen me, not' only in your own homes, Cream (used after shaving or for every of Christmas speaks:· . . but in the homes of friends across the day skin protection) ; 1-3/4-oz. Hair Cream; Spirit of Christmas: "I am the Spirit and 2-oz. Men's Cologne (a fresh, man great waters. You can find me out nish, invigorating fragrance). It's all for of Christmas! I dwell within every side your homes, if you will, for walls $1.00, P