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()op)'J'lght ltMO by Leanna Field Drlftmler SllENANDOAll, IOWA
GARDEN FLOWERS • For our exalted moods God made the hills, His purple mountains clad in deathless snows, Against the morning skies of amethyst Or evening skies of flaming blue rose. But God knew we were human, and could lift Not always to His mountains and His skies, And so He wrought the miracle again And laid it at our feet in humbler guise; So close that tired, downcast eyes can see, So small that we can clasp and call it ours, But still in blue and rose and amethyst, The miracle of common garden flowers. -HeZen Field Fischer PAGE 2 KITOHEN-KLATTEB MAGAZINE, MABOH, 1940 THE FLOWERS YOU BRING Kitchen - Klatter TOME Ma2azine Not wrapped in a florists package LEANNA J'IELD DRIFTMIER, Editor For all the world to see, LUCILE VERNESS, Associate Editor DOROTHY D. .JOHNSON, AHoclate Editor But only a dear little nose gay M. H. DRIFTMIER, Business Manager The flowers you bring to me. Subscnptlon Price, $1.00 per year (12 Issues) In U. S. A. 6 Months 50c (6 Issues) It may be but a handful of violets, Foreign Countries, $1.50 per year. Picked when the wind blows free, Advertising rates made known on applr- catlon. But much mo re precious than Entered as second class matter May 21, orchids- 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia., The flowers you bring to me. under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Monthly by A LETTER FROM LEANNA l.EANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER Perhaps just a rose by the wayside, Shenandoah, Iowa Or the bloom from the old apple tree, But I'll treasure them always in mem- Dear Friends: Wayne work almost every evening ory- Such a surprise as I found on this and Sunday is about the only time we ·.rhe flowers you bring to me! page last month! Dorothy brought all see each other for a visit. -Mary Duncomb me the first magazine off the press. Our biggest pleasure is the letters I opened it eagerly to see h'ow it look and pictures we receive from Fred ed, and turning to the editorial page, erick. He is working hard and having VERSES THAT STRENGTHEN could scarcely believe my eyes. I one interesting experience after an looked in bewilderment at Dorothy other. and she began to laugh, "Now Mother, I love so to think that God Appoints you know why Dad and I did all the Lucile is still in Tucson, Arizona, where she and her husband have My portion, day by day. proof reading at the print shop this Events of life are in His hand, time." spent the winter on a ranch. Margery is in Maryville, Missouri in school, And I would only say, To tell the truth, I had been actual Appoint them in Thine own good time ly exasperated that I had not been and Don will soon be graduating from High School. College year books hold And in Thine own best way. able to read the proof myself, as I al -Anon. ways had done. My husband would special interest for him, d'or he is try put off getting it d'or me, giving all ing to decide where he will go to col lege. Soon the last one of our chil sorts of excuses-a broken down press SMILING THROUGH -type setters sick, etc. I had wond dren will be out of the Shenandoah ered what was going on. The whole Public Schools-the first time in family had acted so mysterious the twenty-five years - and it seems As I read my mail I am impressed last day or two! They might have strange to think of it. with the nu:mlber of my friends w'ho thought they were behaving just the Yes, I too, am anxious for spring have met adversity with a smile. The same as ever, but you know how to come.-Leanna.. road <>f life will be smoother and the load lighter if one ca.n remain cheer mothers are. ful. We can be overcome by our mis We can feel something out of the LAZY COOKS fortunes if we allow ourselves to be. way long before anyone else, when Do not lose your ability to smile. It our children are concerned, but I may be a very wan smile, at times, but wouldn't have dreamed in a hundred A grocery man told me the other it indicates th81t you are not letting years, they had Laid aside my editorial day that women are getting too lazy misfortune get the best of you. page and put in its place that letter to cook. The manufacturers know this No human is immune from misfor they wrote, together. and are even putting up fried onions tune. Suffering, Joss, and disappoint I guess they must have reasoned in tin cans. "Or course," he went on ment come to all of us alike. The that after all the stories I had told to say, "all women are not too lazy to difference lies in the wayi we IBlCcept about them in the Kitchen - Klatter cook a good dinner but far too many these hardships. If you accept it as Magazine, they should have the liberty of them slight the every day meals, something sent to strengthen your to say a thing or two, themselves. they are too busy going to parties to character and develop your spiritual Maybe they were right. put much thought on the food they nature you can profit by it. If you When I asked Dorothy if they are going to serve to their families." do not, then there is no hope for you. couldn't have left out some o:f the If your child develops stomach trou You will become hardened and em personal references, she said no, for ble, don't lay it to some tendency he bittered. they would never have another chance has inherited but rather, think of as they knew I'd always, hereafter, what food he has been eating. We "'The hills ahead look hard and steep be suspicious if I couldn't see the mothers have a tremendous responsi and high, page proof of the magazine; that they bility that should not be taken lightly. Often we behold them with a sigh; had to get it all said at one time. I Yet, feeding our families is the job But as we near them, level grows the am glad they told you how much my that should take real planning and road, radio friend:;; have meant to me, and most careful consideration. We find on every slope, with every how much I appreciate all the friend Our mothers and grandmothers con load, ly letters and cooperation I have re sidered cooking a serious business. The climb ii! not so steep, the top so ceived. That is something that never They spent hours in their kitchens and the result was well fed children d'iar- can be told strongly enough. and healthy adults. The hills ahead look tougher than If there are any mistakes in the I do not advocate as many hours they are! February issue, just Mame M·r. Drid't spent in the kitchen as they spent for And so it is with troubles, though mier and the children who did the with our modern equipment and up they seem so great, proof reading. I can shift that res to-date methods of cookery, this is not That we complain, and fear, and hesi sponsibility, anyhow. necessary, but I do believe in careful tate: We had one birthday in February, meal planning and adequate prepara The journey is more pleasant than Margery, and this month Wayne be tion. If you don't want to plan menus we dreamed, comes of age on the 9th, and Howard fC';!," the week, at least plan them a day It cannot prove as hard as once it is ·one year older-we are all well and ahead. An ideal time to do this is seemed. busier than ever before, it seems. This right after supper, when the children There never comes a hill, a task, a is the rush season in Shenandoah. The have gone to bed. You may wish to day, seedhouses and nurseries more than put some beans to soak o:r set a batch IBut nearing it, makes easier the way." have their hands full. Dorothy and of bread. -Selected .KITVBEN-KLATTEB MAGAZINE, MAB Geraniums are perhaps the easiest of all house plants to grow and might be said to be the most popular, for they are seen in the windows of both rich and poor. They seem to hold the warmest place in our hearts, for we nearly always find them in sunny kitchen windows, right in the very heart of the home where we live our QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS intimate, everyday life. Perhaps the reason for their popularity may be Ques.-For one who has almost no time for workiJng in the garden, but accounted for by the fact that they loves flowers and has plenty of sunny Stpace, what perennials would you SU!JI are easier to grow than any other gestf house plant. Ans.-I have planned for you a group that will furnish bloom from April In early spring we are thinking of to October and will require no attention other than keeping the grass from future gardens. This is a good time choking them. They will even put up a good fight against the gmss and will to increase our supply of geraniums probably be blooming after you are dead and gone! and thus insure bloom for another April-Baby Iris; M.ay-Meretensia Bluebells; June-Hollyhocks and peon year. Old plants which have finished ies; July-Platycodens; August-Hardy Phlox; September-Sedum Spectabilis; blooming may be broken up into slips October-Hardyi Chrysanthemums. or cuttings to start new ones. If the old plant is to be kept, instead of tak Ques.-What ground cover can I use in shady places where grass will not ing olif the slips at the place where growY they join the main stem, the plant Ans.-My first choice would be the evergreen Vinca, sometimes called Grave may be trimmed down ey cutting off Myrtle. It is lovely for both foliage and flowers. Bishops WJ!ed (Aegopodium) the leggy shoots and these used for hasn't much of a flower but its variegated green and white leaves are attract propagating. ive. Ajuga reptans has spikes of purple flowers at tulip time. Wild violets, Creeping Charlie and Ground Ivy are to be avoided unless you These gel'aniums so started may be do not mind their tendency to spread. set out of doors in a bed. Some will bloom, but all may be taken up in Ques.-What plants shall I buy for my rock garden r the fall for winter bloom. If the slip Ans.-Select them ae you would children !for adoption! You surely have is not pinched back when set out of your own ideas of beauty and character. Visit many gardens and at many doors, it will be a long, leggy plant seasons, for often a bright bloom is not followed by satif'ft!)actory foliage, and it instead of a branching one. is the foliage effect on which we must depend for all-season be·auty. In the fall take cuttings of the While gradually selecting choice perennial plants, you can fill the space large stocky plants which will grow with the rapidly growing sedums and with_ dwarf annuals. during the winter, making plants for summer bloom. If these are simply Ques.-I have never raised flowers of any kind but I love roses. Am I to be carried over, in case there is not foolish to try to grow such a choice flower as a starter f enough window room for many pl,ants, Ans.-Without knowing it you have chosen the flower with which you can start the cuttings as stated before, most surely succeed. Select a sunny spot with ordinary soil such as would and when rooted plant severel in a grow good lettuce or radishes. Buy two->y'ear old dormant plants of Grus an large pot or box. These need sun Teplitz, Pink and Red Radiance, President Hoover and Kaiserin Augusta Vic light, but only enough water to be toria. Cut them back to within eight inches of the root and plant just as soon kept growing. They will make beauti as the frost is out of the ground. By June you will be picking roses and you ful bedding .plants for summer. will continue to pick them every day far into October. In the spring, set out the old plants Yes, it is as easy as that. right in their pots into the open border. They can then be lifted di Ques.-W.e just finished a new home but twill have to landscape it gradually rectly to the window in the f,all with as I oain afford it. What should I do firstr out set back. At first they will lose Ans.-Think of your yard as a room. The lawn will be the rug the hedges their leaves, but in a short time they and tall shrubs are the walls, the trees are the large pieces of furniture neces will recover. sary for comfort, and the flowers are the pictures against the wall. Geraniums like fresh air, but not Don't you want your lawn, shrubs and trees right awaY', and the flowers later? drafts. If buds drop off there is in dication of gas in the air. They do Ques.-What are the important points in m;aking a good lawnt not care for too-constant waterings. Ans.-First of all try to have better than common eoil. Y.our grass will VV!ater well and then not again until have to use it for life. Add plenty of fertilizer, and it is best to use the com the soil seems quite dry. The struc mercial brands because barnyard manure brings in weed seeds, and weeds are ture of the geranium is such that it death to your grass. can go without water for a considera Bow as early as you can work the soil. Grass likes to grow in cool weather ble period and no harm is done. Ex and weeds do not. Every day counts in their race! After sowing your seed cessive dryness will be indicated by be sure to roll it in. Grass roots hate loose soil. It is economY' in the end to the shrivelling of its rather woody be lavish with your seeds for if your stand fails you will have to start at the stem. beginning and do it all over again, and will have lost a year meanwhile. Towards spring a little plant food is beneficial, either commercial or Ques.-What shrubs are •most drouth resistantr home-made. Soluble barnyard fertili Ans. All of the Spireas, (Barberry, Japanese Quince and Rothmogensis Li zer diluted to the color of weak tea; lacs. soot water to remove worms and give Ques.-How can I have shrubs that bloom in succession all through the color to leaves and blossoms; ground summert bone meal or crushed burned bone to Ans.-April-Foreythia, Japanese Quince and Spirea Thunbergi; May-Bush give sturdiness - all these may be Honeysuckle, Prunus Trilba, Red Bud, Almond, Spirea Van Houtte, May Lilacs made at home. Water in which of many kinds, Crabs and Syringas; June-Kolkwitzia, Pearl Bush, Weigelia, chicken is soaked (no salt) is fine for Villosa Liliac; July-Purple Fringe, Spireas Billardi and Anthony Waterer; plants. Feed your geraniums, and August-Hydrangea Arborescens, Grootendorst roses; September-Hydrangea they will repay you many times-Mrs. P. G., Althea, Vitex, Desmodium (Sweet Pea Shrub). Second blooms on Spirea R. J. Duncomb, Luverne, Minn. Anthony Waterer and Spirea Billardi.-Helen Field Fischer, Shenandoah, Ia. PAGE 4 K I T CHE N - K L A T T E R M A G A Z I N ;E, M A R C H, 1 9 4 0 I had not realized Joplin was such The Story of My Life a good sized place. We found a nice tourist camp, which also had in con (A.t the request of my friends I am nection with it a smaH tourist home. writing this brief story.) We rented our rooms, unpacked and CHAPTER 20 got our supper, and then went down to the main business district, did some window shopping and bought S'Ome Many of you who have children post cards. If I had known that this know with what anticipation you look was the last time I would ever go forward to the time when they would shopping on my two feet, I might have be old enough to leave for a few days walked a few more blocks and looked so that you might get away for a lit in a1 few more store windows, but tle vacation trip. Well, Mr. DrLf'tmier maybe it just as well I didn't know it. ·amd I had waited patiently seventeen The next morning we had breakfast yearS' for that time. Oh! of course in a cafe. Before we left the table, there had been trips for both of us, I remembered the post cards I had but for my husband these had been to bought the night before and wrote mesS'ages to the children. look after business and I had always taken most of the children with me We were on the road again by eight o'clock, :flor we anticipated a wonder when I had gone out of town, even ful drive, which would take u~ for a day. Like you, I imagined my through the real Ozark country. I fo1mily couldn't get along without me. did not know that there were such I learned diflferently! extensive lead mines in that part of Lucile had graduated from the the country or that the scenery was Shenandoah High School and had had really so beautiful. When a winding one year at Creston Junior College road would finally reach the crest of where Mr. Driftmier's sister, Erna, 01 hill, we would stop and enjoy the was a teacher o.f Physical Education landscape, beautiful rolling hills, The year preceding this time in our Leanna Drlftmier in 1929. reaching as far as the eye could see. story, she had stayed at home, help Rocky ledges hung over the side of ing me with my radio mail, the care the highway and tumbling streams, of the children, and giving a few sured them I would be back in a few the water clear and sparkling, ran music lessons when she had time. days and for them to take good care a1long the other side. We took a num Although Lucile is a gifted writer she ()J! each other. ber of pictures but in the excitement is also a very talented musician. ' As we drove south on No. 71, that of what happened that day, the kodak I hated to ha.Te her not go on with morning, the sun was just coming up. was lost.-Leanna. her education, and so it was decided We all felt like singing so our voices (Continued in April) she should attend school at Cottey rang out in "All the World is Waiting College in NeV'atda, Missouri, for her for the Sunrise." I never hear that " I received my renewal notice yes !!ophomore year. song without remembering that per terday, 1and I'm going to send it right By this time our children were all fect morning when we drove along, back with a dollar bill for a ye1a1r's in school, no one had the mumps or happily watching the sun rise. subscription to Kitchen-Klatter, the the m e .a s 1 e s, every one v.1as hale Beulah and I had packed a real old best little magazine ever. I enjoy it and hearty. It seemed as i:i' this were f·ashioned lunch for our first day, for from cover to cover, pictures, poems, the time for Mr. Driftmier and I to we love picnics, 0llld when we found etc., and get them out and read them take a little vacation. My sister, a shady tourist park between St. again. I enjo:111 Fredrick's letters very Helen Fischer, lived only two blocks Joseph and Kansas City, we stopped much and hope he can continue to from us and she promised to keep and ate our fried chicken, potato write more."-Mrs. C. Eaton, Dickens, her eye on my family. A good neigh salad and other good things we had Iowa.. bor was to come in and help with the fixed. 'Then on our way aga1in ! I meals and the cleaning. Yes! no had never been in Kansas City, so we doubt about it, there was no reason drove around and saw the lovely parks why we could not take Lucile to Cot and public buildings. Near Kansas tey College, and then go on down City I saw tobacco fields for the first thro the Ozarks for a nice trip in time, a.n.d learned that the large barns our new Studebaker car that had just I thought were for hay, were the been delivered the week before. tobacco drying sheds. About the mid dle of the .afternoon we reached Neva There were many preparations to be da and I inquired the way to Cottey made. Gertrude Hayzlett kindl:111 agreed College. It was not hard to find d'or to broadcast the Kitchen-Klatter pro we recognized the beautiful campus gram. Lucile's trunk had to be pack aind college buildings from the pic ed, the cookie jar and the bread box tures we had seen in the literature filled and the children's closets gone Lucile had received. over to be sure there would be clean Cottey College is a girl's school, own clotheS' to Iast until I came back. You ed and operated by th~ P. E. 0. or would have thought I was planning a ganization. Altho· it is not a large trip to Europe, I was so excited about college its standa1rds of scholarship this vacation. are high, its atmosphere cultural, and There was plenty of room for two its instructors very well qualified. more people in the car, so we asked When we drove into the driveway Mr. Driftmier's brother, Bert, and his other cars were parked ahead of us, wife, Beulah, to go with us. It had and girls were busily unloading boxes been a long time since they h The birds awaken } "• --~·---''~~,~ us with their sing For where a. few short days ago ing in the morning, Enshrouded in the death-like snow by noon it is hot, The violets and tulipa lay and towards eve With tfern and rose of yesterday- ning we smell burning leaves as gar dens are prepared for planting. I The earth will green and once again The home of my daughter Luelle Vemet1s and always associate .this smell with the her husband at Tuseon, Ariz. Caressed by warming sun and rain middlewest in the spring, amd I can The flowers wake--and with them almost believe that I am back in Iowa bring- when I catch a whiff of it on the like drinking it. Had we buried it in The Miracle of Life-the Spring. wind. ice it couldn't have been cooler when Last Friday we packed a picnic we finally fished it out about five And so I know that winter's storint- lunch and went up into the San Sab o'clock. By the way, Judy lfell into The dark'ning hours - the parting ino canyon for the dey. This turned this stream when her foot slip.ped on breath, out to be one of the most beautiful a rock, and since it was only a few Are but the p.relude to the Spring days we have ever had. We drove inches deep at that spot she only Eternal Spring-there is no death. across the desert for several miles had a good soaking and not much of first, and then our road turned and a scare. She had to lie in the sun and -E. 0. Fishbaugh ran straight into the mountains. A let her clothes dcy. great deal of money hias been expend It is my understanding that in Tuc PRIZE WINNERS IN LETTER ed to subdue the wilderness sufficient son there are 7,700 people flat on their CONTEST ly that people can get into it and en backs in an effort to recuperate from joy it, and I felt grateful to the men whatever 'ailments might have sent who laid that road out so successfully. Economy in the Kitchen them here, and anothe~ 5,000 are able 1st-Mrs. Chas. Ankeny, Marryville, We wound right up into the gorge, to be up and about only a few hours and beside us rushed a crystal clear out of the day. Yet the amazing Kansas, Rt. 1. stream that dashed and churned over thing about it is that you never get 2nd-Mrs. J. L. Edwards, Hale, Mo. the rocks. In places the road crossed the feeling that the city is nothing 3rd-Mrs. Alma Robinson, James the stream by way of a miniature but a health resort. Most places of port, Mo., Rt. 3. concrete bridge only wide enough for this kind are depressing, you know, Marion Paulsen, Luverne, Minn. one car, and sunk almost level with but Tucson lies in a bowl at the base Mrs. C. A. Swartzendruver, Rip the water so that you seemed to be of the mountains and is surrounded ley, Iowa. skimming right along on the surface. by such incredible displays of Nature Mrs. M'ay Bunting, Shambaugh, We could see 'fight to the bottom, that nothing man can do seems to Iowa. and the water was so calm in these make much difference. I have been My Great.est Difficulty Overcome dammed up pools that you could in places where you were constantly 1st-Mrs. Will Janeck, Cortland, sc,arcely tell where the earth foft off aware of illness and death about you, Nebraska. and the water began because of the yet this could never be said of Tuc reflections. 2nd-Mvs. Luella Asper,gen, Saron son. It is a desert city, and nothing ville, Nebraska. I'm afraid that this picture isn't concerned with the desert has the very clear, for the lighting in it is 3rd-Mrs. R~ S. Baker, Britt, Iowa. same proportions that it would have Mrs. G. A. Hadfield, Greenville, tricky, but I wanted you to see where elsewhere. we ate on the side of the mountain. Iowa. Great stone steps led down to this Our days are full and happy. We Mrs. Harry T~be, Allen, Nebr. table from the road, and we were have gotten Judy into a much better Mrs. L. H. Smeitzer, Melbourne, completely alone without a sound in condition now, and she hasn't had an Iowa. the world except the mountain stream. attack of asthma for a long, long Child Training When we had finished our lunch we time. Last week we got her a little 1st-Mrs. L. C. Corbin, Brooks, Ia. took the remainder of the milk that kitten which she calls "that creature" 2nd-Mrs. G. G. Evans, Granger, you see in the bottle on the table, and it is very lfunny to listen to her Missouri. and put it in the ,water until we felt playing with it. The other night 3rd-Mrs. W1. F. Baumunk, Clare, when it got tangled in a piece of Iowa. rope she ran over to it and cried, Ethel Erickson, 2524 Ave. A., "Why, my poor, poor creature. You're Co. 1Bluffs, Iowa. in an awful congestion, aren't you!" Mrs. F. C. West, Osceola, Nebr. Wle laughed until we cried when she Otto Honig, Rt. 1, Wheaton was out of hearing. ~ansas. We understand that one of these days the spring rains will come ac companied by very heavy winds which Eva Hopkins Creme Powder blow away anything that isn't secure (with sponge) ______$1.00 ly nailed down. Since we're out of (White, natuml, tint, Lt. or 2 the tornado region I won't care how Dk. Brunet and Peach). hard it blows and how often, for it's Multi-Purpose Cleansing Creme .60 only tornadoes that bother me--and Hollywood Beauty Soap- containing carot.ene _____ --- .50 I wouldn't be true m!lddlewesterner if this weren't so. Rug looms with 2 balls jut.e I'll write more to you later and tell complet.e ------1.50 you about our trip to the underground EVA HOPKINS caves which we expect to make Fri- Box lS A picnic In Arizona. Luelle at the right side day. Lovingly always, of the table, Judy and her mother on th& Shenandoah, Ia. Jen. -Lucile PAGE 8 KIT "Recipes Tested in the Kitchen Klatter Honey Angel Food Cake 1h cup sugar Kitchen'' lh cup cake flour 1 tsp. cream of tartar By LEANN A DRIFTMIER '\4 cup honey '%, cup egg whites (6 or 7 eggs) % tsp. salt 1h tsp. flavoring Measure sugar and flour, sift to gether 5 times. Beat egg whites until WHAT SHALL WE HAVE TO EAT? frothy, add salt and cream of tartar, continue _beating until stiff. Add By Elsie Duncan Yale honey· gradually (If too thick to pour maybe warmed). Fold in sugar and There's such a puzzling problem that perplexes oft my mind flour mixture a fourth at a time. Add That daily, hourly daunts me, for an answer must I find; flavoring. Bake in ungreased tube pan I meditate on menus, my confusion is complete, for about 50 minutes at 325 degrees. For breakfast, dinner, supper, Oh what shall we have to eat? Mrs. G. L. Clark, 2414 Ave. E. Council Bluffs, Iowa. For Grandpa don't drink coffee, Aunt Eliza won't take tea, And Grandma can't have cocoa, for with her it don't agree, SUNDAY SALAD While fish don't do for Father, Mary Anne refuses meat. For breakfast, dinner, supper, Oh what shall we have to eat? 1 pkg. lemon jello 1 cup grated cheese Priscilla pleads for pastry, while Pauline don't care for pies, '\4 cup green olives And Dora dotes on doughnuts, which the other folks despise. 1 can tomato soup Preserves please Paul precisely, which the others find too sweet. '\4 cup celery For breakfast, dinner supper, Oh what shall we have to eat? '\4 cup pickle Heat the soup to the boiling point While Lucy must have muffins, Samh don't eat bread that's hot. and pour it over the jello. When cool Wlhat half the folks are d.'ond of, why the other half are not. add the grated cheese, chopped celery, I comb with care my cook book, as I search for new receipt, olives and pickle.-Mrs. John Koltz, F'or breakfast, dinner, supper, Oh what shall we have to eat? RFD 1, Wilson, Kansas. DATE BARS MARSHMALLOW DELIGHT PRUNE BREAD 1 cup br,own sugar 2 eggs 1 cup hot milk in which you dissolve 1 cup sugiar 2 cups flour 25 marshmallows. Let this cool and 2 Tbls. melted butter '\4 tsp. salt then add 1 cup crushed fruit, pinch of 1h cup prune juice th cup nutmeats salt, 1 cup whipped cr,eam, and a tea 1 tsp. salt 1h cup shortening (scant) spoon of vanilla. After it starts to set, 1 cup graham flour 1h cup sour cream put crushed graham crackers over the 1 tsp. soda 1 tsp. soda top or nut meats. This is delicious. 1 egg 1h lb. chopped dates Pineapple and strawberries are good 1h cup sour milk Vanilla to use for this, but other fruits may be 1 cup chopped prunes Mix in the order given, and spread used.-Mrs. W. E. Fleischauer, Friend, 1 cup white flour on baking sheet 1h inch thick. Bake Nebr. 1 tsp. baking powder 25 minutes at 325 degrees. 1 cup chopped nuts I like to put the following marsh GOLD CAKE mallow mixture on the batter before I Mix together the sugar, egg and put it into the oven to bake. melted butter. Then add the sour Cut '\4 pound marshmallows into %. c. butter milk, prune juice and chopped prunes. l'\4 c. sugar quarters. Mix with the marshmallows Sift together the salt, white flour, gra 1h cup nutmeats and 1h cup brown 8 egg yolks ham flour, baking powder and soda. 4 t. B. P. sugar. Put o·n top of the batter and Add to the other ingredients, stir in bake.-Mrs. John Kubik, Trae;r, I.a. 21h c. cakeflour (sifted before meas.) nuts, and bake in a slow oven for one %.c. milk. hour. - Miss Dora Madsen, Exeter, YEAST 1 t. orange juice Nebr. grated rind of one orange Cream butter, add sugar and cream Soak 1 fresh yeast cake in '\4 cup together. Add grated orange rind. FRENCH PIE of warm water. Scald 1 pint of rich Add beaten egg yolks and beat well. butter milk. Let cool. Add 2 tblsp. of Sift flour and B. P. together, add al sugar and dissolved yeast cake. 1 cup ternately with the milk beginning and Cut 1h pound of marshmallows and flour R.nd let stand over night. In ending with the flour. Add orange melt in double boiler with 1h cup of morning add enough corn meal to juice for flavoring. Bake in 10 x 14 milk. 1 can (small) crushed pine make a dough. To handle easy, make sheet pan or cake tube, 350 degrees, apple, 1 cup whipped cream. Nuts and in cakes and pat them flat. Lay on a 45 or 60 minutes, depending on which marschino cherries are optional. Crush cloth to dry. Turn every morning till pan used. A good recipe to use egg 20 graham crackers and divide into clear dry. Ready to use in 2 weeks yolks left from angel food. More two parts, and place in bottom of pan. and makes 40 cakes. I use one cake flavoring may be added if desired. Pour in mixture and sprinkle with re at a baking. This has to be started Either chocolate or cocoanut frosting mainder of crumbs. Chi 11 in re with yeast foam. No other kind will makes a special cake of this.-Grace frigerator until set.-Mrs. Pete Soren do. I start mine in the evening.-Mrs. M. Jones, Richland, Iowa. sen, Plattsmouth, Nebr. Jessie Gieber, Blue Springs, Nebr. KlTCREN-KLATTEB MAGAZINE, MARCH, 19'0 PAGE 9 COOKING HELPS CRISPETTES ESCALLOPED POTATOES-"When For 4 quarts popped corn take: r make escalloped potatoes I stir the 1;2 cup brown sugar flour with a little Olf the milk. I like 1h cup Karo, Blue Label it so much better than to sprinkle the 'h cup water flour on the potatoes before baking." 1 tsp vinegar -Mrs. Ella Nissen, Hamlin, Iowa. 1 tsp. Mazola 1h tsp. salt CORN MEAL MUSH-"When mak Pour over corn and mix thoroughly. ing corn mead mush, put 1 pint of Spread into deep piepan and cut in whole or skimmed milk in the water to squares as desired. To keep fresh and bring it to a rolling boil. Thicken and crisp, wrap in wax paper. with corn meal, season with salt e.nd mold in pudding pan. When cold, MOLASSES TAFFY slice real thin and fry. The miilk makes it brown so nicely." - Mxs. 1 cup molasses Grace Gentzler, Leona, Kansas. %. cup sugar CAN BEEF SUET-"Did you ever 2 tsp. vinegar can beef suet? It's handy to have it 1 tblsp. butter of margarine ready to make suet pudding. Fill a 1/8 tsp. baking soda Paul Louis Trauemleht, of Liberty, Nebr. set. 1/8 tsp. salt pint jar half full of ground suet and up early In t'he mornlnir &O he ean enjoy the finish filling jar with sorghum or flowen. Boil molasses, sugar, and vinegar to hard-ball stage (265-270 degrees F.). corn syrup. Let stand ai few hours for the air bubbles to come to the top. DOWN TO GBAN'MA'S Remove from fire. Add butter or margarine, baking-soda, and salt. Stir Then add more syrup and seal. That's only to blend. Pour into well-buttered all there is to it. No Cooking is nec By M. GOFF pan. When cool pull until light and essary. It keeps perfectly." - Mrs. porous. Cut in 1-inch pieces. Fred E. Fritz, Menlo, Iowa. My, how good things used to taste FRYING APPLES-"! heard you Down to Gran'ma's. Big fat cookies, brown an' sweet, PLAN YOUR GARDEN spealk one day' of frying apples. Well, Doughnuts 'most too good to eat, I have been doing that for some years. Fruit cake-um, that was a treat Whether it is to be a vegetable gar I also fry apples in the same pan Down to Gran'ma's. den or a flower garden, now is the when I make hamburgers. Just lay time to plan it. the apples on top of the hamburgers A successful vegetable garden is and fry them slowly. wthen the ap After school was out we'd haste preceeded by careful planning. There ples are done, the hMuburgers are Down to Gran'ma's. are many new varieties of vegetables done too. In this way there won't be Yes sir, we'd jes' run a race, that deserve your consideration. You such a hard rrust on the bamburgers An' I always won first place should plan so that, from the first and it gives them a nice flavor." In that helter-skelter chase early lettuce, until the last turnip is Mrs. GustJav Neuhaus, Benson, Nebr. Down ,to Gran'ma's. pulled, there will be a continuous sup ply of vegetables available in your THE EGG YOLKS-"When making I can see us goin' in garden. You must also plan to raise angel food cakes and you do not care enough that there wJ.11 be plenty for to use the yolks in custiairds or other Down .to Gran'ma's. Gran'ma, in her rockin' chair, canning and winter storage. bakings at the moment, just pour Be sure to make a careful study of them into some boiling water and Looked so peaceful, settin', there. what successive planting you must do, cook till hard. They can be used in "Here's my boys, I do declare,'' that you may have each vegetable at potato salad or mashed fine and seas Down to Gran'ma's. the right eating stage at the right oned as :for deviled eggs BJlld used in time, all thro the summer. sandwiches for school lunches. The Wisht I was a boy again, We know that the very best seed is, cooked yolks would keep in the refri Down to Gran'ma's. in the long run, the cheapest. Make gerator foi: several days."-Miss Daisy With a slice of home made bread, out the list of vegetables you wish to Rudiger, Great Bend, Kansas. Jam as thick as I could spread grow, the amount of seed you will Me an' Jim an' Joe an' Fred~ USE APPLE SAUCE - "When the need of each variety, and then send Down ,to Gran'ma's. your seed order. roast is nearly cooked, spread gener ously with apple sauce mixed with brown sugar tllJild a little cinnamon and clove. Then brown until a slight crust is formed."-Ruby Jelinek, Lin You'll Enjoy This Program wood, Nebraska. TUNE IN TO BAKING HAM - "When I prepare ham for baking, I remove the skin, and His leaving about %, inch of fat. Stick the fat side full of cloves. Make a LEM HAWKINS GANG paste (ra1ther thick) of 1 cup of sugar, Ea.eh Week l>aJ' lllomlns (eseept SM.) 1 cup of flour, and vinegar to moist 7:30 A. M. en. Cover the top of the ham that has cloves in it, with paste. Bake for about 15 minutes to each pound, with KMA ------Shenandoah the fat side up. We like this very KRNT ------Des Moines much."-Mrs. GOOICe Spencer, 103 W. Lowell, Shenandoah, Iowa. WMT ------Cedar Rapids Earn Money ~~;:nes~ scriptions in your community. Make money for your church or club. Write for details. Leanna Drlftmler, Shenandoah, Ia. PAGE 10 KI T 0 HE N - KL A T T E R M A 0 A Z I N ;E, M A B 0 H, 1 9 4. 0 KMA PBOGRAM SCHEDULE MY KITCHEN 930 Kiiocycles Shenandoah, Iowa NBC Blue Network My kitchen is a cozy room, Iowa Broadcasting System With pot and pan and mop and Mutual Broadcasting Company broom KMA'S DAILY PROGRAM Like soldiers in a gay brigade HOBNING Alert to give mry househ:old aid. 4:30 a. m.-Haden's Hillblllles My dishes gleam upon their shelf, 6:00 a. m.-weather and News Their colors orange, cream and 6:111 a. m.-Lonnle OVER THE FENCE 6:30 a. m.-The Family Altar delft. 7:00 a. m.-Morning Headlines I've p}ants upon the window sills 7:15 a. m.-Chlck Holstein And dainty curtains with crisp 7:30 a. m.-Lem Hawkins and Hrs Gang I hope you will read all the ads in (Monday through Friday) frills. this magazine iand write to the adver 7:30 a. m.-Novellers (Sat.) Of course, the stove and box for 7:30 a. m.-Family Altar (Sundays) tisers if you can. It will mean a lot 7 :45 a. m.-H&ppy Hank ice to them and you can benefit by it, Are big, but comforting and nice, 8:00 a. m.-Coffee Pot Inn (Mon. thru Fri.) too. 8:00 a. m.-Uncle Bill Reads the Funnies For seeing them, I know I (Sun.) 8:15 a. m.-Carl, Jane, and Lonnie Can make sherbert or apple pie. The next few months are going to d:30 a. m.-Mld-Mornlng Devotions Some folks fo·r kitchens have no be very busy ones-chickens, gardens, 8:45 a. m.-Ma Perkins (Mon. thru Fri.) zest- 9:00 a. m.--Jessie Young, Homemaker and housecleaning-but please don't 9 :30 a. m.-The Haden Trio (Sun.) It is the room I like the best! forget Kitchen-Klatter. Make 2:00 to 9 ;45 a. m.-Earl May -Janette Thompson. 10:00 a. m.-Clmrch Services (Sundays) 2:30 your rest period and !;'.est near the 10:15 a. m.-Young Dr. Malone (Mon through radio. I will be at my microphone Fri.) every day and will need to feel that 10:30 a. m.-Markets and Farm News 10:411 a. m.-Old Favorites you are with me at that time. 11:00 a. m.-Toble s Corntussel Nooz (Mon. thru 1"rl.) 11 :30 a. m.-KMA Country School Our daughter, Lucile Verness, has a 12:00 Noon-The Noveliers story in the January "Scribner's Com 12:15 p, m.-Earl May with the News mentator." If you have enjoyed her 12:45 p. m.-Mo.rket Time stories write to the Editor of the AFTERNOON 1:00 p. m.-Humorous Squibbs m>1.gazine and ask for more of them. 1:00 pp, m.-Semi-Solld Ramblers (Sun.) Publishers like to know you read 1:30 p. m.-S. O. s. Program 1 :45 p, m.-H!ts and Encores their magazine and enjoy their choice 2:00 p, m.-Kltchen-Klatter of stories. 2:30 p. m.-Affairs of Anthony (Mon. thru Frf.) 2:45 p, m.-Between the Book Ends Mrs. Susie Hadfield, of Greenville, (Monday through Friday) Iowa, asks me to urge every one to 3:00 p. m.-Club Matinee (Mon. thru Fri.) 3:30 p. m.-Flesta (Sat.) use as much la:rd as they can. Lard 4:00 p. m.-News can be used successfully in baking if 4:15 p. m.-Malner's Mountaineers you cream two teaspoons of sweet 4 :30 p. m.-Tommy Tucker Boys (Mon. thru F'rl.) milk with each cup of lard and beat 4:30 p. m.-Met. Opera Auditions of the Air Ralph Childs it before you add the sugar. (Sundays) 5:00 p. m.-Flesta (Mon. thru Fri.) 5:30 p. m.-Bud Barton (Mon. thru Fri.) In the year 1908, to the Childses of "I am only one, but still I am one; 5:30 p, m.-Renfrew of the Mounted Waterloo, Iowa, was born a son, Ralph I cannot do everything, but still I c,an (Saturday) do something, and because I cannot EVENING Wlilliam Child. For 21 years Ralph 6 :00 p. m.-The Carter Family William remained in Waterloo and do everything I will not refuse to do 6:15 ·p. m.-Chick Holstein thus it became known as his home something that I can do." Selected. 6:30 p. m.-Earl May with the News 7:00 p, m.-The Aldrich Family ('l'uesday) town. In West Waterloo High School A good Kitchen-Klatter motto! 7:00 p. m.-Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra (Sat.) the seeds of his lfuture announcing 7:30 p. m.--Gallant American Women (Tues.) ability were sown when he achieved 7:30 p, m.-QUlck Silver (Wednesday) You are all so lovely to write to me, 7:30 p. m.-Farm Bureau Program (Thurs.) a small measure of fame as an orator that 1 don't want to find fault, ·but 7:30 p, m.-Carson Robison and His in decliamatory contests. Iowa State please be sure your name and address Buckaroos (Fridays) Teachers College at Cedar Falls edu 7:30 p, m.-Radio Guild (Sat.) 1s plainly written on your letter for 8:00 p. m.-The Green Hornet (Mon.) cated him for a Bachelor's degree, and sometimes I c·an't write you or send 8:00 p, m.-Cavalcade of America (Tues.) then he went out to teach high school your magazine because I lack part of 8:00 p. m.-The Green Hornet (Wed.) 8:00 p. m.-"The Grocer Speaks" ((Thurs.) English at Aplington for three years. your address. 8:00 p. m.-Plantatlon Party (Fridays) The University of Iowa took up the 8:00 p. m.-Alk&-Seltzer National Barn task of trying to educate Ralph then, Dance (S&turdays) I wish every one of you Kitchen 8 :30 p. m.-Rochester Civic Orchestra (Mon.) and in 1933, with ·a Master's degree, Klatter members would write me at 8:30 p. m.-Meet Mr. Weeks (Tues.) he found himself back in his old home least once a month. It would be a 8 :30 p. m.-Horse and Buggy Days (Wed.) town with a depression to fight and 8:30 p. m.-America's Town Meeting of the wonderful help to me in myi work. Air (Thursdays) no job. WMT in Waterloo then dis 8:30 p, m.-"The Grocer Speaks" (Fri.) covered Ralph Childs' abilities, and 9:00 p. m.-Little 01' Hollywood (Mon.) realizing hie value to the organization, Do you remember when my sister 9:00 p. m.-Roy Shield's Encore Music Jessie Shambaugh used to conduct a (Tues.) were finally induced to give him 9:00 p. m.-Madlson Square Garden Boxing $7.00 a week for his announcing servi Mothers Hour Program? Her children , Bouts (To Be Announced) have grown up, too. Bill is attending 9:00 p. m.-Roy Shield's Revue (Wed.) ces. This is what is known as get 9:00 p. m.-NBC Symphony Orchestra (Sat.) ting into the big money in radio. In Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, Iowa, 9 :30 p. m.-National Radio Forum (Mon.) 1935, school teaching jobs were open and Ruth graduates from High School 9:30 p. m.-Brent House (Tues.) this year. 9:30 p, m.-Adventures In Photography ing up again; so Ralph taught for (Wed.) another Y'ear. But the radio bug had 9:30 p. m.-Shenandoah Town Meeting done its work, and the next year You had better send lfor your Maga (Thursdays) zine as soon as I announce it is ready 9:30 p. m.-George Olsen's Orchestra (Fri.) found him in Hutchinson, Kansas, at 10:00-Newstlme (Mon. thru Sun.) KWIBG. Fame and fortune lured him if you want to be sure and get one. 11:00 p. m.-The Marriage Club (Wed.) east, and the next stop was WHBF, Of course it is much more conveniellt 10:15 P. m.-to 12:00 Midnight - Dance Pro to be a yearly subscriber if this is at grams: (Johnny Messner, Ray Noble, Rock Island. But Iowa claimed her Lou Breese, Jan Savitt, George Olson, native son again on January 1, 1939, all possible. Larry Clinton, Woody Herman, Carl Ravazza, Glenn Miller, Russ Mongan, and Ralph says he's mighty happy to Eddie Lebaron, Jan Garber, Mal Hallett, say, whenever the occasion arises, My aim-"A Kitchen-Klatter Maga Chuck oFster, Lani Mcintyre, Tommy "This is KMA, Earl May's station, ir. zine in every listener's home. Even Dorsey, Charles Barnet, George Hamil ton, and otllers. ) Shenandoah, Iowa." tually-why not this month." KI T C HE N - K L A T TE R M A G A Z 1 N E, M A R C ll, 1 9 4 0 :PAGE 11 BOOK HOUSES WHAT WE I always think the cover of A book is like a door Which opens into someone's house SHALL READ Where I've not been before, A pirate or a fairy queen 87 May lift the latch for me; MISS ANNA DRIFTMIER, Librarian I always wonder when I knock Clarinda, Iowa, Public Llbr&17 What welcome there will be. And when I find a house that's dull Several years ago there appeared in America I do not often stey, the Asia M•a.gazine an article by a TREE OF LIBERTY by Elizabeth But when I find one full of friends Chinese author, Lin Yutang, about Page i.l!I an historical ta.le of the per I'm apt to spend the day. China's native ·aversion to publicity. iod before ·and after the Revolution I never know what sort of folks He said they never courted it; they ary War. Matthew Howard, a front Will be within, you see, tried to keep foreigners from making iersman and follower of Thomas Jef And that's why reading always is a study of their people; yet in spite ferson, ml8lrried a beautiful girl from So int'resting to me. of all their eflforts foreigners would the aristocratic Tidewater region of come and try to understand Chinese Virginia. Their social life has been M~s. Lowell Dougherty of Waukee, ways of living. different as have their political loy Iowa, has found listening to the Kit This ma.y be true, for regardless of alties, causing friction and hardships chen-Klatter program that all home terror in Europe and war cries spread in the family. The story carries on makers' problems are the same, and ing over greater territory, the Chinese through severed generations of pio that we are apt to magnify our own are still in the limelight. They draw neering descendants. A very good troubles so much that we sometimes one's sympathy whether they want it story. forget others. She reminds us of this or not. People come into the library verse: and ask for something about China, SEA ISLAND LADY, ·by Griswold. "If you hold your nose to the grind not necessarily 11Jbout her war with An interesting story about a North stone rough Japan, but about their ways of living, ern woman marrying a Southern And keep it dOWn there long enough and stories about them. Our shelves plantation owner. She finds life vast Soon you will kriow there are no such are usually empty of books concern ly different in her Carolina home. things ing China. These are most popular. As brooks that murmur and birds that Westerns China sing. Hobart's OIL FOR THE LAMPS There are several new Westerns by> Three things your whole world will OF CHINA, a stocy a.bout the influ popular authors: Bower's SWEET compose ence of the Chinese servants upon GRASS is on Ill long calling liet which Yourself, the stone, and your poor old their American employees and the em speaks for its popularity; Hendryx nose." ployees' helplessness against it. The has ·a new one cal1ed THE EDGE OF OUR CHILDREN There were so many interesting are bound to play with youngsters who letters from you mothers in my mail are afraid and who giv.e the others a bag this month that it has been hard taste of fear. An only child is more to choose the ones that I thought likely to suffer from this than the might be the most helpful. Finally I child who has brothers and sisters, tlecided to use the following three be and it taxes our ingenuity to conquer cause all of them discuss pro·blems the fear. A Kitchen Klatter Sister in which most of us have had at one time Ft. Dodge, Iowa found an excellent Harry and Joyce, children of Mr. a.nd Mrs. or !mother. Sometimes we nearly lose way to help her child, and those of you Clay Ballantyne of Lamoni, Iowa. Two years ago Joyce won a Bulova watch, had her plc our wits before we stumble on to just who are about ready to give up in des tn:re in "Life" and her name read on the the right thing to cure some bad situa pair may find it worth while to try "Vox Pop" program as being one of five tion, and if you haven't tried these her suggestion. children chosen from 5000, who looked the most like the Dionne Quintuplets. It Isn't particular things, perhaps it would pay "My seven-year-old boy would never hard to see why she was a winner. you to give them a trial. go into a dark room or closet for he The first letter from a mother at was terribly afraid of the dark. He Osceola, Nebraska deals with her way has to sleep upstairs now, as we live noon if necessary. Make such an im of curing tantrums. Most of us know in the country and have only oil pression upon his mind at the begin that reasoning and persuasion do no lamps, I bought him a small flash ning that he'll think twice before he good when a child is kicking and is rude again. light which he takes with him when screaming -something has to shock he goes to bed. Now he will take the him out of his temper, and this mother flashlight and go into the basement OUR CffiLDREN found that right something. or anywhere I want him to go ,after "My young five-year-old son develop dark. The small investment w1as worth ed the habit of throwing himself on while a thousand times over, for he All of us mothers are no doubt em the floor, kicking an d screaming isn't afraid now and he really had a barrassed, but never-the-less glad, whenever something didn't suit him. dreadful fear of the dark." when our youngsters correct us on the Any amount of reasoning or persua pronunciation of a word or a mistake sion that I used was of no av,ail. Then in grammar. one day when he threw himself in Along with the letters which gave the middle of the kitchen floor I grab suggestions for breaking bad habits, We are embarrassed because we bed a dipper of water and dashed it there were some which asked for ad have allowed ourselv.es to be careless into his face. He got up immediately vice. I would like to print all o.f about these things that are really im and completely forgot all about his these, but space will permit only one, portant. We are glad that our child tantrum. After a time or two ,all I and so I have selected the one that ren are learning to speak correctly. needed to do was to start for the dip seems to apply to most of us. A A child who hears, "He ain't" and per, and he soon changed his mind. mother in Hastings, Nebraska writes: "She don't" in the home, will find it It put a final stop to those tantrums "I have three small girls, aged two, very hard to change the phrases to that were hard on him and everyone eight and nine, and sometimes I really ''He isn't" and "She doesn't", when he else in the family." don't know what to do next when they starts to school. It will take months get impudent. I wish that you would of drill for him to over come these Almost all children seem to pass read a letter on children talking back. errors so let us save our children this through a stage where they bite other I have tried several ways of punishing struggle by using only correct English youngsters, and this can be one of the the habit, but it doesn't do any good." in the home. most perplexing problems of all. It is Where is the mother who hasn't embarrassing for us mothers when been shocked one fine day when her "So glad to receive the January is this happens, and it is very bad for a children 'talked back?' All children sue of Kitchen-Klatter this morning. child to fall into the habit of inflict do this sooner or later, but the way Such a nice home woman's magazine. ing such cruelty on others. As near to prevent it from becoming a chronic I wonder how you ever think up so ly as I can tell there is only one sure habit is to nip it in the bud. The very much good information and news. It way of curing this vicious habit, and first time your child becomes impu seems to be getting better and better this is the way that a mother in dent and sassy, let him understand all the time." Mrs. J. R. Graham, Ot Clarinda, Iowa recommends. that in his home there can be no such tuma, Iowa. "When my children were small one talk. Don't let the first time slip by of them had a dreadful habit of bit -stop it then and there. ing the other children. I did every thing in the world to stop it, including I guess most of us will have to ad scoldings and whippings, but oh! dear, mit that when our children first talk nothing seemed to make any differ ed back we were nervous and had ence. One day I decided that it spoken sharply to them. Think back couldn't go on any longer, so the next and see if this isn!t right. When my time he bit someone I gave him a dose children were little I learned very of his own medicine and bit him. Evi quickly that they reflected all of my dently he didn't realize how much his moods. If I lost my patience and biting hurt others, for from that time spoke to them irritably, they replied on he never bit anyone again. and behav.ed in the same fashion. Of course there is always the time The last letter deals with something when the child "feels his oats" ,as the which all of us have to face at one saying goes, and talks back for no time or another, I am certain. I good reason whatsover. Con vi n c e guess there are children who have no· him at that momenit that you won't fear of the dark, but I have never seen tolerate such impertinence, and the them. Even though we do all we can next time he does it send him to his My niece Francis Conrad Harndon, and Davie! to keep our children unafraid, they room and keep him there all after- of Detroit, Mich. KI T C HE N - K LA T T E R M A G A Z I N E, M A R C H, 1 9 4 0 PAGE IS PLEDGE TO THE FLAG "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to • THE KIDDIES' CORNER • the Republic for which it stands. One I nation indivisable, with liberty and I~.~~~~~~~~ justice for all.'' I BETTY'S RUN-AWAY BICYCLE ·anyone on that runaway ride and she shot through the main street of the small town like a streak of red. Men ANIMAL TWISTS. I Betty w,as a brown-eyed, golden and women wei:e so shocked as they haired little girl about the time your saw her coming they couldn't speak. The next time you have a party and mother and daddy were children. She At last the runaway bike and its pale everyone has had a grand time tear I had a merry smile and there was a faced rider came to a stop right in ing around outdoors, give your guests mischievious twinkle in her eye for front of a statute of Paul Revere in .a chance to catch their breath by hav I she was a healthy happy girl who the village park. After Betty caught ing .a contest. Pass everyone a pencil loved to play all sorts of out door her breath she looked up and said, and a piece of paper; on this paper games and she lived good health rules. "Well, Paul, both of us have taken you should write the following names I The only trouble with Betty w'as that fast rides and I guess the only dif just as they are written here. Give she had a hard time obeying all of the ference between you and me is that everyone the signal to start, and see Safety rules. She had more fun when you are now famous and I am not. who is the first to straighten these I she was doing a trick that was just But, listen, Mr. Revere, I've taken my names out by writing the correct name a little daring and often a bit dan- last foolish ride. From now on I'll next to it. · gerous. obey all of the safety rules." 1. Shore, 2. Soon gome, 3. Tassy cup, I In the windy month of March Betty -Mrs. F. A. Zappe. 4. Areb, 5. Genody, 6. Sinob, 7. Kats liked to fly a kite as well as her Rum, 8. Chowdouck, 9. Padrole, 10. Al brother, Bob, She was pretty good at lam, 11. Talligora, 12. Hungry Doe, 13. I it, too, but bicycle riding was her WRITE TO MRS. ZAPPE Present, 14. Fullborg, 15. Somue, 16. greatest enjoyment. Therefore, just Kacopec. as soon as the snow had disappeared Mrs. F. A. Zappe of Browersville, Key to Animal Twists I 1. Horse, 2. Mongoose, 3. Pussy-cat, 4. in the spring, you would see Betty Minn., who writes stories for you Bear, 5. Donkey, 6. Bison, 7. Muskrat, sailing up and down the street on her would like to have you children write 8. Woodchuck, 9. Leopard, 10. Llama, bright red bicycle. her interesting things about your pets. I Oh, she wasn't afraid of tumbles. She 11. Alligator, 12. Greyhound, 13. Ser She will write stories about your own pent, 14. Bull dog, 15. Mouse, 16. Pea had taken many of them when she pets, for this children's page. hit sandy places and ruts. She just cock. laughed them off. More than once she came home with black and blue SOME RIDDLES FOR YOU He uses a pen marks after one of her thrilling rides. Every day of his life, Her mother would say, "Betty, please Question: Whrut can you put up a And yet he can't write, be more careful. You take too many spout down that yiou can't put down a And no more can his wife. foolish chances. Mother wants you to spout up? Like the lily, he never enjoy your bicycle, but if you aren't Answer: An Umbrella. Will labor or toil, more careful you may not be able to Question: If three men under one And oft like the lily ride again." umbrella keep dry, how is it done? He roots in the soil. In the town where Betty lived, there Answer: It is done when it is not (Pig) was a high hill. A sidewalk made of raining. wood was built on it, and it had long Question: WihY is aJl1 old umbrella BACK NUMBERS been a temptation to Betty. The only lost good as new when found? reason she hadn't tried it was that Answer: Because it is recovered. Send $1.00 for a yearly subscription trees lined one side of the walk, and Question: What does a little boy's to the Kitchen-Klatter Magazine. Start a deep· ditch was on the other and she mother do when he gets his stockings your year with April and receive knew that it would be hard to turn on wrong side out? February and March free or ask for a out for anyone who might be walking Answer: She turns the hose on him. free cook book as listed on page 15. on the walk. Then too, her bike did not have a coaster brake, and the only way to slow up or stop that kind of a bike was to hold back on the pedals. If she would lose her foothold on them the ride would be a fast and furious one. As I said before, this hill had often tempted her, and this time she couldn't resist it any longer. She thought to herself, "I can handle this bicycle. I've ridden it many miles up hill and down, ,and I won't lose con trol of the pedals and I won't meet anyone, and even if I do, I'll be able to turn to one side as I pass. Boy! This is going to be fun! I've always wanted to take this ride and now I'm doing it!" Well, soon after Betty started her ride over this long, steep, board walk her feet slipped off from the pedals. It w'as then she found herself on a runaway bicycle! Faster and faster she went. All she could do was to hold on and put up her feet far away from the swiftly turning pedals so they would not strike. All of her nerves and balancing skill were need ed to keep her on that rough board Leanna-listening for the first time to a tra.n•crlbed Kltchen-Klatter Program, on Thanksgiving 4 sidewalk. Luckily, she did not meet Day 1939. PAGE 14 K I T CHE N - K LA T TE B M A G A Z I N E, M A B C H, 1 9 4 0 Our Hobby Club CLASSIFIED ADS WHAT HAVE YOU TO ISELLf (For Suhllcrfbers to the ''Klt.chen-Klatt.er Magazine'' Make use of this ad column. LETTERS ABOUT HOBBIES Rate of 5¢ per word. Minimum charge 50¢. Payable in advance. "We are still collecting pitchers, salt and pepper shakers, and buttons. Have 760 pitchere; 300 sets of salt BABY SWEATERS. For Sale. Silken Shetland and pepper shakers; and 4700 buttons. knitted baby sweaters. Very lovely in pink or blue. Give baby's age. $1. each. Mrs. I like to hear from hobby friends. E. R. Hinks, Munden, Kansas. Mrs. Fred Mayer, Auburn, Nebraska, BEDTIME PRAYER REMINDERS. A cross Route 3. that shines In the dark. Made by "Bor rowed Timers." Just rl'ght for an easter gift or for your own use. Envelope size. "My hobby is collecting quilt pieces 15c each. Gertrude Hayzlett, Shenandoah, size seven by seven. Will exchange Iowa. for quilt patterns or pieces. Flowers VASES MADE OF IOWA CLAY. Sunset colors. Fine for hobby collectors. Price are also my hobby."-Mrs. E. J. West 35c PP. Order from Sue Field Conrad, gate, Le Center, Minn., Route 2. Clarinda, Iowa. "My hobby ie collecting chicken or COLORIAL~~c:::if~~-~~ $J.H fowl what-nots, salt and pepper shak CHICKS World's Largest Hatcheries •.• Day-old males, pullets. straight ers, and anything else in that design." nm In all leading breeds. Lowest prices. Blood -Mrs. Vernon Flaming, Topeka, Kan tested. Hatches year around. Four weeks' Uva· bll!ty guarantee. BOOK LOVERS-Our atock of old, rare and "I have several hobbies-they are new books 18 the largest In the wut. If collecting small attl"active rocks and Mrs. Glee Oleta. MeNntt of 9S No. Le:dogtoo, you want to bu1' nr aell books, write 08. souveniers from every state. Haven't Columbus, Ohio, hu a wonderfnl collection of Kleaer's Book store, Dept. :R:-8, 206 No. 618 pairs of Salt ILtl.d Pepper Shakers and lSO 18th st., Omaha, Nebr. but a few so far. rm also collecting Incense burners. stamps, postmarks, pot holders, em· SWEET PEAS :.:r.~ ...GI':~ B=: broidery patterns, and choice recipes." -211e, Including Mayfa.Ir--plnk, Lady-lav -Mrs. Francis Myers, Springfiield Flower holders or vases-Mrs. Rich ender, Jobll-porple, Chleftan-red. (Beg. Missouri, Route 1. catalog value 40c.) EARLE. MAY SEED ard Winburn, W\eston, Mo. co., Shenandoah, Ia. Embroidery pillow slip patterns Mrs. W. H. Lile, Avoca, Iowa. FLOWER ABRA:Di'GElllENT-A hand tinted "My hobbies are Scrap Books. J pamphlet, prepared by Helen Fischer and have 21 of them. My favorites are: Handkerchiefs, and salt and pepper Gretchen Harshbarger. Fine for use In 4-H poem, picture postcarde, house inter shakers-Mrs. Wayne Thompson, Box projects. Price 211c In silver and 6c In stamps. Send orders to Helen Fischer, Shen· iors, recipes, and snapshots of my 16- 71, Camden Point, Mo. andoa.h, Iowa. months old daughter. I would be glad House plants-Mrs. S. 0. Jorgensen, BOYS AND GIRLS - Make money taking to help people in your radio audience Guthrie Center, Iowa. subscriptions for the K!tchen-Klatter Maga with their hobbies if they would send zine. Write for Information. China animals and little china dolls me picture postcards from their town -Leanna Drlftmler, Shenandoah, Iowa. or any others they have. I mount the -Miss Dorothy Gustafson, 1413 Sum postcards with transparent Scotch mit St., Beatrice, Nebraeka. Cellulouse tape in a wall paper book Salt and pepper sets, pitchers and I covered with bright print material. vases.-Lenora A. Davby, Greend'ield, Theee wall paper books are available Iowa. in different sizes and if you tear out House plants, cactus and flower a few pages now and then through seeds-Mrs. Albert Peterson, Rt. 3, the book (so the back won't split), Meadow Grove, Nebraska. they are ideal for all kinds of scrap books. And dealers are usually glad to get rid of their old books."-Mrs. "My hobby is salt and pepper shalt Bruce Kauffman, Salina, Kansas, 651 ers and Ihave about 200 different Highland Avenue. sets. Some are so very cute. I have a set from A u s t r a 1 i ·a, Bmzil and Anyone wiehing to have a "Pen Pal" Hawaii. I heard you say your son is in Egypt. I wonder If I could get Club write to Mrs. Lem Stockwell, him to send a set lflrom there. I will Titonka, Iowa. be glad to pay you for the set and poetage and whatever else the trouble "I have a hobby. It's collecting is. So I hope you will write to me CLEVER KITCHEN ENSEMBLE quilt pictures and patterns. I have about it. I have sets from ia.11 states 1,000 different ones, but there are a in the United States exc·ept !Missig.. A gay and youthful apron to match lot more I don't have. One lady I sippi, Montana and Tennessee. I do your tea towel-that's the unusual heard of lately has between three and wish I could find people who live in idea launched on this new transfer, four thousand."-Mrs. Raymond Mil these states to exchange with me or C9021, 10c. Applique dishee embroid ler, 5521 So. 33rd Ave., Omaha, Nebr. else I would eend them money to get ered with a bright flower sprig are them. I like novelty sets best."-Mrs. delightful on the 7 tea towels; a cheer Ernest Miller, Wakefield, Kans. ''While collecting buttons for others ily steaming teapot pocket and a row Note: I have written to Frederick I became so interested in buttons thla.t of appliqued cups and saucers across asking him If he could send things to I started a collection for myself. I the bottom decorate the apron. people with hobby collectione. Will have over 2000 buttons collected since You'll want one of these clever en let you all know his answer. L.F.D. June 1939. I /Want to make it 5000 by sembles youvself, and the extra stamp June 1940. I use old, modern, all ings from your NUMO hot iron trans sizes, shapes, colors and kinds. I also "I collect hankies and will be glad to fer will make attractive gift sete as collect pitchers Olf all kinds. Have 52." exchange with anyone who has a hob as well. Send order to Leanna Drift -Mrs. Lena Frey, Rt. 1, Madrid, Ia. by."-Mrs. Lon Jones, Thompson, Mo. mier, Shenandoah, Ia. K I T C H E N - K LA T T E R M A G A Z I N E, M A R C H, 1 9 4 0 PAGE U PRACTICAL POULTRY POINTERS helps to eliminate any poisonous gases BEAUTY HINTS in the .bowel. After the severe winter we have Put newspapers under the feeders, You can combine beauty treatments just passed through, with the snow ,as this prevents a waste of feed, and with housework. If your hands are and ice and zero there is something about the rustle of rough and chapped, and your nails weather, I think the paper as they run across it that are brittle, I sug- we all will wel attracts other chicks to the feeding gest t h a t a f t e r come the March unit. Be sure to have plenty of water wa;shing the hands winds. available at a1Il timee, and if you feed Perhaps many milk be sure it is always sour as a thoroughly, y o u h ,av e set incu change to sweet milk may cause bowel give them a gen bators, or have trouble, strange as it may seem. erous coating of a h e n s that are And first, last, and always, be sure broody at th i s of plenty of heat and good ventilation. good c 1 e a n s i n g d a t e, if t h e y Put the thermometer on the floor oc creme. Then put h ,ave been lay casionally. A chick with cold feet on a pair of rubber ing heavily a 11 will soon be having bowel trouble. gloves, and p u t winter. The last two years I have started them in hot water. And for those all my chicks on the pellet :f'orm of WhY' not the dish who have brood feed and found it very satisfactory. water? Deprived er houses - do Some thought b>a1by chicks could not of air and 'activat Mro. Olinda Wiles not neglect eat the pellets, but my only trouble ed by h e a t, the them and hope seemed to be I couldn't keep enough Eva Hopkins skin perspires and to have thrifty chicks. Clean thorough of them in the feeders. the pores are opened and are recep ly-scrub with strong lye wM:er, and If you start on one kind of feed and tiv~ to the oils of the cleansing creme, after it is thoroughly dry use a good wish to change, always make the which these rubber gloves keep well spray and disinfectant before moving change gradual, even if you are just confined. It just has to sink in. So in any equipment. See that all cracks changing from one brand of feed to why should the family washing or a are covered in the floor and walls another, and you will h'ave no bad sink full of dinner dishes rob your and roof, and ai!l windows repaired if results. hands of beauty? Make these tasks damaged in any way. -OLINDA CAROLYN WILES do just the opposite, and help bring Set up the brooder stove, and be lovliness to your hands. sure it is in good running condition, A thin film of cleansing creme over and if any repairs are needed, order WORK your :!lace and neck, before you hover at once. Many times a hatch of chicks The Creator of this universe was over the hot stove or a steaming sink has been lost because the brooder wise when he fixed things so that or tub, will give you a fine home stove failed to function properly, after there would be so much work to be ste·aming treatment that also pays the chicks had been placed in the done. good complexion dividents. brooder house under the hover. When he created the world he could With the changeable weather it is Many different materials are used have made it so that we human beings very important that one use a good for litter for the brooder house floor. would have nothing to do but He cleansing creme every night, to help Peat litter comes at the head of the knew that wasn't wise, and instead of supply the oils that are so helpful to list in my estimation, with redwood being a handicap, work is one of our the soft pliable skin. I s u g g e st bark a close second, but of course in greatest blessings. multi-purpose creme, then one is trying to keep down the expense of We find it a cure for both mental is enough. raising your chicks we often resort to and physical afflictions. I have had many letters of "thank whatever material we have on hand. When sorrow comes, work helps us you" for suggesting that new soap I have found shredded corn fodder to forget. containing carotene oil, which is rich (not ensilage) makes a splendid floor When disappointments come we in vitamin A. They like it for treat covering. I have a friend thM: use~ can lessen the hurt by work. When ment of pimples, bl Those of you who are responsible i!lor the entertainment at some party S i n c e St. Pat this month might like to have a radio rick's D a y an d party, ,because it affords a re1811 oppor Easter both come tunity to try out some original ideas. in March, t a b I e Loud-speaker: equipment c an b e dee o r a t i o n s for rented veryi cheaply in almos.t every your parties c a n town of any size, ,but if it is impo!f use either motif. AID SOCIETY HELPS sible to 1get ah.old of a microphone, a If you wish to megaphone will serve the purpose. emphasize St. Pat March might be a good time to havf Arrange one end of the room (where rick's Day, a big that "Irish Stew" supper. ·Emphasize the pil!llll.o stands, if you have one) as wooden chopping the .flamily idea. Try to have each a studio is arranged with a table for mem,ber bring every member of her bowl heaped high with well scrubbed the announcer to sit at, and a large potatoes in the center of the ta1ble, family and as miam.y in-lawe, uncles, sign hanging above it on which the with green or white candles in potato cousins, and aunts as she can round words "Quiet Is Requested, Please" up. Am sure the Driftmier family candle eticks, make an effective, as have been printed. well as economical, table decoration. could fill a good sized table. Charge When the guests have all 18ll'Tived only fifteen or twenty cents for the If the emphasis Is to be placed on start the program by having one of Easter, make a nest of artificial gras; bowl of stew, crackers, pickles and the men act as "The Man On the coffee. You could charge 25c and add or gre·en crepe paper, cut in narrow Street." Have him interview various strips, and in it put many brightly a green salad and pie or cake. A pro members of the audience on questions gram of Irieh songs, everybody sing colored Easter eggs. A white rabbit that will provoke some good laughs. or two may be hovering, watchfully, ing, and a short talk on the origin of Alilter this is over pass a hat which St. Patrick's Day would be an eippro near. Favors of Easter eggs bearing contiadns slips of paper, each bearing the guests namee aire easily made. priate conclusion of a happy evening. the name of some famoll8 radio star. Let's emphasize the family in the Then a gong is rung for quiet and Almost any game may be played at church, this coming year. Have al' the fun begins. Each person must a March party. Let me suggest these many parties as· you can where Bill the impersonate the star whose name he two. The first one contri'buted by family are invited. I am afraid that has chosen, or forfeit a piece of cloth Mrs. S. Anderson of Oneida, K!ansas: in this age of so many other cultural ing. No two pieces of clothing can "Here is a game we plaiyed at a activities, our ~milies 0JI"e getting be accepted (the collection at the end gathering recently ·and it was very away from that good old custom of at can contadn only one shoe, one neck much enjoyed. We passed around tending church together. One of the tie, one collar, for instance). R is slips of' paper, on which wae a numbe1 happiest memories I have is of my pretty likely that most guests will do and the name of a popular song. father and mother and the eeven of their best to perform rather than lflor When a1 number was called the per us children sitting together in church feit a piece of clothing. son had to go to a blackboard and every Sunday morning. When this part of the entertain draw a picture, suggesting the song. ment has been concluded, pass menus To explain farther, if you had the Mrs. A. L. Crissy of Atchison, Kan which have been written out in long song "When the Moon Comes Over sas, sends this help: hand. They will read something like the Mountain" you would draw a "We have Aid groups here amd the this:: Charlie McCarthy, JIBACk Benny, moon coming over the mountain. one I am in had a "Sample Tea." We Hymns of All Chuirches, Kitchen The rest of the crowd tries to guess sent to different companies for sam· Klatter, Pot of Gold , Orson Wells, what song you are illuetraiting." pies of' their mercharcdise, and stores etc. The women will probably know Another game that is fun is a and mills here in Atchison also con what items to choose, but the men will balloon relay. Divide the group into tributed what they could. We put have a grand time when they discover two teams and have a starting line at these items in sacks iam.d sold them that they've ordered three cups of one end of the room. The first player for fifteen cents apiece. We had a coffee, for instance. Plates should ·be from each side is given an inflated short program, serving tea and cook prepared in the kitchen, and each balloon and a teaspoon. The game is ies, and made $23.00." order should 'be filled just as it was to carry the balloon to the end of the written. It iS' possible to serve a bal room and back on the teaspoon. If Once a year all members of a cer· anced luncheon by! using products that the balloon drops off it must be pick tain Aid Society bring to meeting e a.re advertised over the radio, but the ed up with the spoon. As the first favorite recipe. These are offered for fun will be in seeing how many people players reach the home :baee, they sale at ten cente each. Sometimes know what they are ordering when h!a1I1d the spoon and balloon over to they bring a dish of the prepared reci they select a name. the next line. pe and an informal luncheon is enjoy ed. LIFE By Jeanne Reynolds I'll take life as I find it, And lo·ve if it comes along. FREE BOSE! I'll cheer my ead companions And I'll always have a song. 1 PAUL'S SCARLET CLIMBER FREE I'm not afraid of the storms with each order of the Special Rose Offer Num That I'll meet along life's way. ber K7. In this offer you will get 6 EVER I can smile in the face of hardships BLOOMING HYBRID TEA, 2 year old, nursery And laugh on a cloudy day. grown roses for ONLY $1.00 p'Ostpaid. Includes 1 glistening red, 1 yellow, 1 white, 1 pink, 1 two I think that's the way God meant tone, 1 dark velvety red and the FREE dazzling it- red climber. ORDER TODAY and be sure of get The way he knew it should be. ting your roses. And I'll 'al'ways be happy, I think, Taking life aJS it comes to me. -From Trailmaker Use the classified "ad" column if you SHENANDOAH, IOWA have anything to sell. It c o s t s but Utile and reaches thousands of people.