-rx I I ,.. ~, . I . Kitchen-Klatter MAGAZINE AUGUST VOLUME V NUMBERB 1940
£'opyrtght 1940 by l..e&nna Field Drlftmler SHENANDOAH, IOWA Price 10 eents
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MY AMERICA • America, whose fertile fields Lie still beneath the summer sun, Your soil by war is not disturbed, There is no sound of rumbling gun.
America, above whose hills Far distant in the August heat The fleecy clouds float lazily- Nor hear the sound of tramping feet.
America, hold high the torch ! 'Tis yours to shed true freedom's light, That those in other lands may see And hope on, through this darkest night. -Leanna DriftmA.er PAGE Z K I T C HE N - K L A T TE R M A G A Z I N E, A U G U S T, 1 9 ' t ======glad to have me home a.gain as the children were. Kitchen - Klatter While we were gone the hollyhocks had bloomed all up and down our Magazine alley. We call them our family flower, LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER, Editor and I can't have too many in our yard. LUCILE VERNESS, Associate Editor Thanks again that I can number DOROTHY D. JOHNSON, Associate Editor M. H. DRIFTMIER, Business Manager you as one of my friends. In my Subscrtptlon Price, $1.00 per year (12 P.E.O. Rec.ord I find this verse: iseues) In U. S. A. I may not have wealth, 6 Months 50c (6 Issues) Foreign Countrlee, $1. 50 per year. I may not be great, Advertising rates made known on appir- But I know I shall always be true, catlon. For in my life Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia.. That courage you gave under the Act of March 3, 1879. Through the years I've touched Published Monthly by shoulders with you. A LET'IEB FROM LEANNA I.EANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER Shenandoah, Iowa This expresses a thought I have ha.d many times but could not put into words so beautifully. Dear Friends: I always reserve this sippi, reaching Keokuk by night. We Write me when you have time, for first column in my magazine for a followed the river road and enjoyed you know that I am alWlays glad to personal visit with you. Day after day every bit of the drive. hear from you. as your friendly letters come to my Saturday morning we visited the his Sincerely, Leanna desk, I wish I had the time and toric town of Nauvoo, Ill. I was glad strength to write each one of you a that I had recently read the article in PRAYER FOR EVERY HOUSEWIFE letter to let you know how much I "Reader's Digest" which dealt with the Dear God, I thank Thee for the mate appreciate your interest in Kitchen early history of the Mormon church whose years are ones of toil at hard KJ.atter and your contributions to its and the very people whose houses were and disagreeable Labor th.at our chil radio program and this magazine. You still standing. We could not have en dren and I may have comfortable are very kind not to expect personal joyed this visit to Nauvoo so much had clothes, good food, fire, shelter, and replies to your letters. When I can, it not been for the arrow-shaped signs the safety .of home. I answer your questions by radio-I that guided us past places of historic I thank Thee for the joyous cry of can do this if your question is of gen inter.est, and the placards that told Daddy! Daddy! Daddy! which rings eral interest. us who lived where and what positions throughout the house whenever Father We have had a very pleasant sum of importance they had held in the comes, and which expresses the love mer in Shenando.ah. My flowers have early history of the town. I had never and happiness of our little ones. been beautiful, for the rains came just seen so many houses that were more I thank Thee for that line of red in time to give my new perennial bor than one hundred years old. In many and yellow and blue and pink which der all the moisture it needed. We of them people still live, and the yards I have hung up to dry in the morning have picked many bouquets of beauti were very well cared for. sun, and that the joy of washing those ful flowers for the house, and one of From Nauvoo we journeyed on, small garments has been given to me. Margery's jobs has been to go out crossing the Mississippi back into Iowa I thank Thee for small arms about early in the mo.rnlng and see that .at Ft. Madison. Here we drove by the my neck at bedtime. I thank Thee viases are filled for the living room house where Lucile was born, for Mr. for little fumbling hands that always and dining room. Driftmier was manager of the Bell want to help. I thank Thee for Telephone Company there at that time. childish voices, with their singing and The last week in June I took a laughter and questions. short vacation. Mr. Driftmier, Mar We reached home Sunday, June 3oth, at about seven o'clock in the evening, "I thank Thee for my home where I gery iand I drove to Spirit Lake where may serve those whose health and we spent a few days. The weather and I felt once more that the nicest part of a vacation is getting back comfort have been given into my was very cool while we were there hands. and every evening we sat around a big home again. Lucile had taken care of my mail during my absence so there "Oh, God, make me big enough al fireplace fire. ways to love my job. Give me the On .Tune 27th the 1annual Kitchen was not a lot of work piled on my desk waiting for me, but she had patience to bear with childish ways, Klatter picnic was held at Gilbert's and may I have wisdom that I may Park in Spirit Lake. There was a big stacked up your letters at one side and what a good time I had when I gently lead my children to grow into crowd and wonderful Kitchen-Klatter fine adults, happy because they have food. I am more convinced than ever sat down in my office on Monday morning to read them. I had had found the joy in work and service, that the world's best cooks live in the and beauty in little things about them middle west. After the dinner we had such a fine rest that I felt like a new every day. an informal visit and discussed the person. The old nursery rhyme came to my mind-"If this be I, as I sup "Oh, God, may I, an humble house best way to make strawberry pre wife, never miss a sunset or a rainbow serves and dill pickles. Mrs. Mohler of pose it to be, I've a little dog at home and he'll know me." Well, my little because I am looking down, instead of Sac City, who was my guest, gave two up." -Just A Homemaker--Selected readings that were enthusiastically en dog knew me all right and seemed as cored. During the .afternoon there was a sprinkle of rain, but we moved under some big trees and didn't get wet. I was very happy to see the many old friends who were in attendance, and also meet new listen.ers who were at tending their first Kitchen-Klatter picnic. I hope that we can all meet again next year for it was lots of fun. We left Spirit Lake on Friday, June 28th about noon, 1a.nd drove across northern Iowa to McGregor where we stayed all night on "The Heights" which is the top of the bluffs overlook ing the Mississippi river. I had heard of the wonderful scenery ar.ound Mc Gregor and found that the descriptions had not been exaggerated. Saturday morning we visited the state park, Alma Miller of J,ake Benton, Minn. snapped this picture of our Kltchen-Klatter plenl.c crowd M Pikes Peak, and about ten o'clock we Gilbert Park, Spirit Lake, 1"wa In June, 1940. We all felt well-filled and happy, as I think continued our trip down the Missis- you can see by our fa.ees. ll IT It may seem strange to think of planting seed for next year's flowers so early, but if we want to get the full benefit from our plants and enjoy a long season of bloom and extra large blossoms, August ls the time we must plant seed. Pansies like the cool spring sunshine and it is truly amaz ing what .a large root system thes.e AUGUST IN MY GARDEN could hardly walk, yet she had special wintered-over pansies do have. Then long-handled tools made and she raised too, they are ready to use at our con Most of my garden is taking a sum the finest sempervivums I have ever venience just when weather conditions mer siesta. The thrill and urge of seen. are the most favorable; delay in order spring growth bursting into 1a cloud of "Maybe they can't affoi;:d to buy any ing plants is avoided also. orchid Pasque flowers, blue forget-me thing for the yard ..." and then I First of all buy the best seed pos nots, pink creeping phlox, rainbow remember the old man who .asked for sible. Then plan to sow it in late colored dwarf iris, and snow-white some of the trimmings from the August, either in a cold frn.me or else hardy candytuft are now a treasured honeysuckle hedge in Clarinda's park, in a spot in the garden which may memory. and made these grow into a beautiful be left undisturbed until spring. If Like a gleaming dream is the later hedge .around his little home. the garden location is chosen, dig up pmcession of gorgeous peonies, grace And I think of .our Mother, who car the soil thoroughly1 and work with it ful .and stately iris, perfect Canterbury ried with her to her new Iowa prairie until it is very fine. Sow the seed bells, flaming poppies, and exquisite home when a bride, a i;:oot of Merten thinly and cover it lightly with very roses. sia Bluebells from the woods along fine soil .or sand. Press the surface Yet even now as I forget for a time Spoon River in her Illinois homeland. lightly with a board, water carefully my trusted trowel and my sharp and This she tucked with loving, skillful with a fine spray, and cover with bur shining hoe, the brown-eyes Susana fingers into her back yard under the lap. (Rudbeckias) are very gay. The gentle wild plum trees where she could see The bed may be protected by placing rose-pink of the "ghost lilies" has it from her kitchen door. I know she boards or bricks around the sides. come like magic from the bare ground must have smiled at it very often, fo•r Keep watered and covered until the where the earlier leaves of the hardy each of the seven little Fields growing tiny plants appear; then remove the amaryllis had entirely disappeared. up to watch for its ever-increasing burlap, substituting in its place a The new gladiolas I planted are giving drift of soft pink buds, opening into covering made of spac.ed laths. This colorful sprays for our living room, hosts of bells as cleai: and blue as may be dispensed with when cooler and the first chrysanthemums and Mother's eyes-these children always weather arrives. However, the young asters are heralding their later glory. called this her flower and I think she plants must be protected from the hot With all of the August garden tasks knew it brought a gift of love for sun and beating rains. Be sure too attended to, I will still have time to home fo her family. that they never are allowed to suffer think of things I have noticed about When Leanna planned her new gar from lack of water. the ways of flowers-how each one den last spring she had a dozen or has ,a queer little quirk of its own, more roots of bluebells put in under In late fall when the ground is like each person I know. And how the tree by her rock garden slope, frozen hard, cover lightly with corn easy it is to tell when each one is close to the brick walk that Russell stalks, old zinnia or tomato foliage, or quite happy by the way it thrives and made for her chair to move easily some similar material which is free blooms. And when they .are unhappy, over. How warmly she will welcome from seed and which will admit air. too-but let's not think .about that. them when they coax the blue .of the In the spring uncover gradually, not Isn't it strange that the troUius al spring skies to earth! too early, and when transplanting time ways want wet feet, while the lilies And so beauty lives on and on, in comes each plant will have a fibrous prefer theirs dry? The Ozark violets your home and in my home, and in network of roots. Transplanting may demand thin, pebbly, poor soil while the homes of our children, born be done as soon as the ground can be roses demand clay with the richest of through loving .appreciation and nur worked. drinks? Yellow violets and primroses tured through the years by that same Place in rich, well-fertilized soil in just have to have real shade, while quality of Spirit which is ours for the beds, borders, rock gardens, or over pinks and creeping-phlox grow anemic seeking. old tulip beds. In the spring they may and spindly unless they have full sun -Jessie Field Shambaugh be planted in the full sun, which is shine. I wonder why Canterbury bells Sunny Side Gardens, quite the opposite of plants grown live two years only, while lilacs bloom Clarinda, Ia. from spring sown seed, requiring as freely for a century O•r more? It is so they do protection from the hot sum strange, too, that my giant delphin I would be glad to have your com mer sun. iums like plenty of room and lime and ments about the contributed articles Keep the flowers picked and you will cultivation, but the pink prairie-phlox a p p e a r l n g in the Kltchen-Klatter prolong the season of bloom far into blooms best when it is crowded by Ma~azine. Tell me which you like the summer. Pansies are easy to grow other plants. Well, all living things best.-Leanna. by this method, and perhaps give more are so breathlessly interesting because satisfaction for spring bloom than any of their infinite variety. other annual flower. Even if the But one thing they all have in com weather conditions are bad you can mon: to be happy they •must be loved. keep your plants well under control if If we are to have a lovely garden, the seed has been carefully sown in we must .at least smile at it every day. prep.ared and sheltered beds. Let's all And anyone who cares enough for have lots of pansies next spring! flowers to do this, can surely have this -Mrs. R. J. Duncomb, beauty foi;: her own home. When I Luverne, Minn. pass •a house without trees and shrub bery and flowers, I always think to myself, "I wonder why they don't Members of the Avoca Garden Club care?" Often I try to think up ex of Avoca, Nebraskia called on me one cuses for the people who live there. afternoon and we had a good visit. I "Perhaps they are sick or lame ..." was glad that my snapdragons had and then I remember the sweet face just burst into wonderful bloom, for of the girl who visited my garden who I'd like to walk Into this Inviting garden one they made a good showing to women of these summer evenings and enjoy the beantl w.as so terribly afflicted with rheuma fa.l flowers and sweep of lawn. The home of who know their flowers backwards tism that she could not bend over and Mrs. George Price, Alb1m1!ltt, Ja. and forwards. PA GE 4 KI TC HEN - KL A TT ER M A G A Z I N E, A U G U S T, 1 9 4 0 The Story of My Life (At the request of my friends I am writing this brief story.) CHAPTER 24 After both Lucile and Dorothy had gone away we settled down into our usual routine ag.ain. Fr.ederick and Wayne were both in Junior High school that winter, Margery and Don ald wen' in the fifth and third grades, R.nd Howard was working on the farm of his uncle, Paul Otte, north of Clar inda. Every morning 'as soon .as the chil Dear Friends: For the past two weeks I haven't There are so many ways that a known whether I have been coming or home-miaker can add a "wee mite" of going because we have had one long money to buy the "extras" that the blackout. The only lights in our rooms regular inc,ome seems to never quite are so faint that we have to grope cover. If you have a knack for grow about the room like blind men. We ing plants-as Mrs. Helen Fischer can't read or write anything at night would probably say, if you love plants because of this, and then in the daytime -why not grow vegetables and dif it's been so hot that we can't do any ferent flowers, also have potted house thing! Despite the fact that the w1alls plants for sale. Let your friends in my room are 18 inches thick and of know that you have these for sale. solid concrete they are heated through Do not be afraid to risk a few cents and through, and when I touch my on an advertisement in your local hand to them they are ,actually hot. paper. Advertising nearly always pays. Yesterday at ten o'clock in the morn Just recently, there is .a great deal of ing it was 113 in the shade with a comment in poultry columns about the strong wind blowing. necessity of moisture in the brooder During this blackout there has been house. As plants require moisture, The fir~t sails ever used were constructed in too, why not make the bro,oder house no moon, and it is certainly an ex Egypt. These boats have fi.shing nets hung on perience to, go from here to town on thern to dry. serve the double purpose of chick a street so dark you can't even se.e brooder 1and green house, by suspend your hand in front of you. The safety ing your boxes of growing plants from that I recognized many of your names. the r,aof out of the way .of chicks and zones which are all along the center In several cases I couldn't remember of the street are marked with little placing a container of water on the whether I had met you, or if I had just brooder stove. red lights, and all we could do was to heard Mother speak of you, but either follow them and hope for the best. So way your name was famili.ar to me. Cottage cheese is another source ,o,f fm· I have run into only one thing Even those names which I did not pin money and this, too, may be com a policeman. recognize did not seem to be the bined with the poultry industry as April was a bad month for mail fol' names of strangers. I had the feeling there is nothing better for keeping me. Very little mail came throng.fl :o>,t that every card I received was from baby chicks in healthy growing condi all, and what did arrive was for every an old friend of the family. tion than the whey that is dl\ained one else. But one day in the last At least twenty-five or thirty of you from the cheese. week of April my servant came run very politely requested that I send you As summer approaches many farm ning to me all out of breath and shout various things for your hobby collec women are wondering how they are ing, "Big! Big! Big!". I fin.ally got tions. Well now, there is nothing I'd going to dispose of their Leghorn him calmed down long enough to like better to do. I would love to hens for more than 30c or 35c. Why learn that there was not only some help out all of you folks with your not sell them as chickens and noodles? mail for me .at the club, but that hobby collections, but I just can't do Cook the hen until it will slip from there was a stack of mail for me at it. Because of the war it is extremely the bones, remove from the broth and the club. When I saw it I was speech difficult to send even the smallest cut meat into coarse pieces. There less, simply dumbfounded. I couldn't article through the post. Everything should be enough broth to make ap imagine what it all meant. Hurriedly has to be examined by postal inspec proximately one gallon aftei: noodles I opened the one on top, and as soon tors, censors, 1and the packages have are added. Divide the meat into four as I saw the birthday card I knew to go through customs both here and equal parts having some light and what had happened-radio friends! in the U. S. I know you'll understand some dark meat in each jar. A quart For many years I have enjoyed the when I say that all of this confusion Mason jar is a very go.ad cntainer in kindness of radio friends, but when I and delay would take more of my time which to market your chickens, as came to Egypt I thought I was bid than I can afford to spend away from you have no added expense for con ding all of that goodbye. I see now my work here at the college. I haven't tainers. You will have no trouble in dis that I was wrong, even been ,able to send things home to posing of this product at 25¢ per I 1am very grateful for the many my parents. A few of you sent dimes. quart. beautiful cards that you sent. I have A dime would just pay the postage on The lowly dill pickle can also be received over-one hundred and ten up a letter to you, so I am sure that you made to buy "that woolly sweater for until this time, and there will prob will not be unhappy if I give your the new grandson .or a watch for atly be more in th0 n•nt mail. Mu1c.y dime to some needy student rather daughter." It is a pr.oduct that do.es of you sent me newspaper clippings th.an to go to some expense and effort not require a great amount of cash or of interest and selections of poetry to send you something for your hobby labor to prepare and is easily disposed which I have enjoyed very much. Of collection. of to restaurants, also to individual all the cards sent there were only two Please consider that every letter of customers. alike. Now isn't it surprising that mine that you hear and read is a per Unless pi:operly managed, marketing people can think up designs for so sonal letter to you. I shall certainly products fr.om the form may easily eat many different kinds of cards? The have everyone of you in mind every up the profits. A v.ery go.ad plan is thing that thrilled me the most was time I write to the folks back home. to market your products the same day Sincerely yours, that you go to town to do your week Frederick ly marketing. Sell first quality and don't be afraid to ask a reasonable GOD WILL NOT CHANGE price. A bunch of I\adishes or some tomatoes delivered with your chickens God will not change; the restless years or even a bouquet with your cheese may bring builds an immense amount of good Sunlight and shade, the glories of the will, for after all what does the aver spring, age citizen of the U S. like better than And silent gloom of sunless winter to get something free? In the case of hours, cooked foods, there is no advertisement Joy mixed with grief-sharp thorns equal to a sample with a penny post with fragrant flowers; card, self-addr.essed, foi: ordering more Earth-lights may shine awhile, and in case the prospective customer is then grow dim, satisfied with what you have left. But God is true-there is no change You do not need to leave many These are Egyptian boy scouts on parade for ... ~·· in Him. samples as one woman will tell an the Prime l\llnlster who made a visit to AuuH. -Selected. other.-Edith Moran, Woodburn, Iowa. PAGE 11 KI T CJ HE N - K LA T TE B M A G A Z I N E, A U G U 8 T, l 9 August is the last month of vacation Letters From My Letter Basket for the school and college young folks, I so I imagine that many of you are A. TffiED MOTHER yourself, it was not so long ago that I busy getting them was in the same position as the busy fitted out for the Dear Leanna: mother. However, like yourself, I September term. "I am wondering if any of your lis finally evolved my own philosophy Last month, my teners have ,a recipe for a combination which this mother will also do in the husband, m o th e r and I made a trip housewife, mother, laundress, tele course of time. Sometimes it is just phone operator, .and all the rest of the unavoidable that there are so many down to our farm combined duties in the home to help tasks to be done, that we see no end in Kansas for the her find time from her duties to take to them and that they just go on and wheat harvest. The a little leisure for herself? My life is on. This is the time to sit down and crops all seemed to be fine at that a never-ending r.ound of duties. I'm take a little count on the situation. In actually so tired when night comes the first place, one must get into a time, and the farm ers had their hands that I feel like a rag .and can't even proper frame of mind and get the full taking care of read or rest. Surely everyone doesn't right slant on her work. It is im them. The house- go at this rate ,and I wonder if some portant, very important, this job of be Eva Hopkins wives with their one can tell me how to take life easier, ing a wife, a mother, and a household live just as well, and be a better com manager ,all at once. It is the most canning and chick panion to my husband and children." important job in the world. Every ens were also not wasting any time. A listener in Topeka, Kans. thing else hinges on it, so one should This cross-section view of rural Amer feel the importance of it and the ica pr.oducing .and storing food and supplies is a very pleasant contrast to SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TIRED worthwhile-ness of it. That will help the destruction that is raging else MOTHER a lot when sometimes it seems no one cares. Some one does care. Every where in the world. "I can't help but think .about the lady body cares. A mother holds the des Beauty experts divide the summer beauties into three classes: those who who was wishing someone would show tiny of the future of the world in her her how to manage her w,ork. You hands. What she is doing now in tan, those who stay lily fair, and those remember she said, "This just c.an't molding the lives of children is hid who burn or freckle. If you belong to the latter class, let me warn you go on etc." Well, I've wondered if it den from the world. She seems to be would help her to do as I used to do, doing nothing, but in a few sh,ort .again to take all possible precautions when my five children were little and years all that was done in modest re and keep away from the strong rays of the sun. Many, many of my friends as I still do when I have a very big tirement will reflect credit on her. day. I make a list of evezy job I have Then too, a mother may liken herself find that a good covering of a creme powder helps to combat the burning to do during the day and estimate to great explor.ers or scientists. Many about how long it will take me to do times they toil much too hard, and no sun's rays. each job, so that my list reads some one knows or oares, but after a while Suntan must be a gradual process thing like this: Breakfast 6:00-7:00; results appear. We ,only go over the and not a quick going-over. Eagerness Dishwashing 7:00-7:30; Separator 7:30- road once when our children are to ,acquire that outdoor look is prob 7:45; Bedrooms 7:45-8:30 and so on. small. To.o soon they are gone, the ably responsible for more small dis Then as I do each job, I strike it off tasks lighten, we are free. Free for asters of summer vacations than any the list. You'd be surprised what a what? What pleasures will ever com thing else. big help this is for you do make every pare to the fun we had with our A good cleansing creme to use at minute c.ount. I allow for interrup babies, giving them baths, and yes, I night to· help supply oil to the skin tions and I take out time in each half say It in face of modern thought that the sun and wind have dried out day to relax, sit down to read the mail, rocking them to sleep and putting during the day, will not be amiss at lie down 1and relax on the bed or what them to bed! We must learn to take this time of the year. ever it may be, but I keep right on pleasure in ou:r: work. Also we have If you have .any pr.oblems, I will be time and it becomes a sort of a game to to learn what to do and what to leave g1ad to help you to the best of my see if you can do it in the time you undone, regardless of what the neigh ability. Just write, and I'll do what have allowed yourself. I've done this bors say. And to rest when we ar.e I can for you. so much that my girls have adopted tired, even if something is put off till Sincerely, it and they say they can accomplish tomorrow. If at all possible, one should Eva Hopkins much more and are less tired when try to get out at least one afternoon Box 13, Shenandoah, Ia. working this way, a week, either a trip to town or to a The lady whose letter you read may friend's, or at least to do something have had an especially wd day when at home .one likes that is not directly GOOD HEAVEN she wrote. We all have those dis connected with their work. When do (Reprinted) couraging days now and then I think, ing a job, concentrate on it. Don't when it seems as if there is no end think of all the other work there is to to it and it is a funny thing, but every do. When it is done, forget it. Don't Here lies an old w,oman who always one of us can find someone worse off go over your grievances .or past was tired; than we are if we just stop to think troubles. Don't plan work over and She lived in a house where help was and if we were given the chance, over-meet it when it comes. not hired. would not trade our life for any other All this does not tell an overworked Her Last words on earth were: when it came right down to it, no mother how to get rid of her work. "Dear friends, I am goin' matter how glamorous theirs may If one has a large family, especially Where washin' ain't done nor sweepin' seem. I can think of many who have a on a farm with no money to hir.e help, nor sewin': much easier life than I, but I can't with extra men to cook for, sewing to But everything there is exact to my think of any one I would trade with, if be done and a very slim purse, the wishes- it means trading husband and chil work is simply there to do and one For where they don't eat there's no dren too."-White Lake, So. Dak. must do it, knowing that no lane is so washin' of dishes. long that it has no turning, also God I'll be where loud anthems will always "Speaking about work makes me watches especially .over mothers, for be ringin', think of that busy mother wh,o felt as they are His best helpers-bearers of But havin' no voice I'll be clear of the tho she were on a merry-go-round, so children. And those of us who have singin'. I shall write a little about that. If traveled this same weary road know Don't mourn for me now, don't mourn you should read this, do not read my there is a definite purpose in every for me never- name as I do not want to set myself thing. So be courageous and of great I'm goin' to do nothin' forever and up as an authority on wotk. Like faith."-Mother of Seven. aver." KITCHEN· KLATTE R MAG AZ IN E, AUG U S T, 1 9 4 O PA GE 7 4-H CLUB LETTER Here is where I need your help, for I want you to suggest the subjects It has been said that the ladies of that you would like to have discussed. the Old South simply ignored any un Would you like to reorganize the pleasant situation that they could not Friendly Fat Society? Those large change. I think they had something abdomens should be reduced, you there, don't you? Since we cannot help know. So'.lner or later they will catch the dreadful things that are happening up with us and may cause serious across the two oceans, it seems to trouble. They are excess baggage .and many of us that we will do well to ig should be disposed of before it is too nore them as far as possible. At least I.ate. we can refoain from talking about the Then too, nerves usually run riot horrors of war, and the latest atrocity trying to solve some problem for propaganda before our children. Does which there seems to be no solution. that sound heartless? I do not mean If you have a family of children to it to be; but .after all it won't help get off to school and lunch pails to our unfortunate neighbors across the fill while baby is exercising his lungs sea to talk war and give our children -well, you are just not normal if you a bad case of "war jitters." don't feel like blowing up sometimes. We were getting it! I didn't realize That's nerves-whole bundles of them. it until Donald Paul said, "Mom, I Other things that you might be in dream about bombs and bombing terested in are problems that we all planes .at night." face at one time a.r another-a balanc I can spare them that. Nearly every ed diet for the lunch box, why we night at bedtime I read a story or a have trouble sleeping, colds, tonsils, chapter of a good book, something wh~ your child refuses milk, and why quiet but fascinating, and totally un he 1s far too nervous-well, there's no related to war. Just now it is "Lad Mrs. Walt Pitzer end to the things that we could dis die" by Gene Stratton Porter. Our cuss to advantage in this column. next book will be "When Life Was This is only a How-do-you-do mes Young" by C. A. Stephens. These are Dear Kitchen Klatter Friends: sage, and I am expecting you to speak good books for country children, and I have written personal letters to next. Drop me a card or ,a letter to I, too, find much inspiration in them. many of you when I wa;s radio nurse, day and let me know what you would The youngsters go to sleep with their broadcasting health and diet helps, so like to have me write about. I will minds filled with tranquil, wholesome this seems like picking up many fa be waiting for your suggestions. thoughts. Donald doesn't talk in his milhr threads .again. Some time has Sincerely, Mrs. Walt Pitzer sleep so much either. Try it, if you passed, and probably there have been Shell Rock, Iowa. don't believe it helps. many changes in all our lives. I have been a grandmother for four months And perhaps the next time the high The Kitchen-Klatter circle is growing way workers set off a huge charge of now. .Justine, whom many of you once heard when she sang over the steadily. More th.an 30,000 read the dynamite I won't rush around frantic magazine every month. ally gathering up the children like a radio, has a fine baby girl, Karlene Plymouth Rock who has sighted a Ardis Epley. Her Grandfather Walt, hawk! whom you may have heard on the air, FRANK'S DARK BROWN Above 1all things, American children thinks she is the prettiest baby he ever COLOR RINSE must not hate. It is, with greed, the saw. Gr.andf.athers are like that, you A pure harmless vegetable most destructive of human emotions. know. rinse, NOT a dye. Gives a glossy, Phyllis has been ill for a week. To W.e are now living at Shell Rock, natural color to dull or faded day she is sitting up in bed and sew Iowia. If you are near, call on us. We hair. Just the thing for those ing on her 4-H things. It will not be stopped and called on Leanna in Shen first grey streaks at the temples andoah when we were on our vacation, and along the hairline. Colors long until the Achievement show, and and blends the grey with your she will have to work steadily in order and she told me how much she en natural shade. to finish the garments that she has joyed her radio and Kitchen-Klatter The price is 24 rinses for $1.00 planned to make. friends-and I told her how much I post paid. Rally Day was fine. Phyllis brought missed mine. Then when I told her Send orders to home a tiny 4-H pin which she receiv that I was writing health and diet DOROTHY JOHNSON ed because she made a perfect score in hints for mag1azines she thought you Box 467, Shenando·ah, Iowa music recognition. I began to expand folks might like to hear some of them. visibly, wher.eupon she said, "There were eighty-three of us who made per fect scores out of one-hundred and twenty-four girls." I think that is BUILDING A NEW HOME? even better. I would rather have two thirds of the girls make perfect scores than to have Phyllis be the only one. It means so much more-and 4-H is t snecifY like that. be sure o ·r er of There is lots of exciting news this denuate numb month. Out in California our 4-H ana ~ :ETS friends, Vivian and Nadine, are to be :ELECTRIC ouTL married. Good luck, girls! You will have it, I'm sure; you are tr;ained for BUILD your "new jobs." , And Cousin Dorothy has a new 4-H for the future. girl, 1955 model. It is a pretty good world, after all! -Helen Loudon "Dear Leanna: I have had the plea sure of reading your Last issue. May An Advertisement of I compliment you on your splendid magazine and the continued improve & ment it shows as time goes on."-Mrs. Iowa-Nebraska Light Power Co. John Honkomp, Ashton, Iowa. PAGE 8 K l T C H E N - K I. A T T E R M A G A Z I N E, A U G U S T, 1 9 4 0 and orange juice. Turn into ice cream freezer and freeze to a mush. Be.at cream until stiff and add sugar and salt. Separate yolks from whites of "Recipes Tested eggs. Beat yolks until thick and lemon colored, and whites until stiff; add to cream. Turn into frozen mixture and in the continue the freezing. This will serve twelve people and is fine to serve for Kitchen Klatter your club refreshments. Kitchen'' LADIES AID SPECIAL 1;,, cup butter B)I LEANNA VRIVTMIER % cup sugar 4 egg yolks, beaten 1/3 cup milk 1 tsp. vanilla PICKLING DILEMMA solution and .add Lo it 3 more pounds 1 cup cake flour of brown sug.ar and boil again. Let it 2 tsp. baking powder Pickling time is now at hand, get cold and then ,add 'h pint of tarra 1h tsp. salt Cucumber reigns as king, gon vinegar, 'h pint of olive oil, and if Cream the butter and sugar; add Jars and lids like armies stand your family likes garlic, 4 sections cut egg yolks and mix thoroughly. Add While vinegar does a fling. very fine. Mix well and pour over the milk and vanilla, then flour sifted with pickles cold.-Mrs. J.T.T., Des Moines, baking powder and salt. Spread in Pickles mixed and pickles dilled; Iowa. two greased and floured layer-cake Mustard, bread and butter- pans and cover with the following Some are cooked and some are chilled, DILL PICKLES meringue: Goodness, such a clutter! 4 egg whites Cucumbers 1h tsp. salt Onions here, and peppers there; 1 cupful salt 1 cup sugar Cabbage over yonder, 2 quarts of water Nuts (if desired) 1 quart of vinegar Tomatoes, and some to spare Beat egg whites until they hold a The housewife stops to ponder. 1 head of dill for each jar w.ash the cucumbers and pack them peak; fold in sugar gradually and add in jars with the dill. Mix the water salt. Pile roughly over each layer of Picalilli, chutney too; cake and sprinkle with chopped nuts. Chowchow, chowder, relish. vinegar and salt, and when boilin~ pour over the cucumbers and seal. Bake and let cool in the pan. Turn Hecipes both old and new one layer upside down on a platter These vegetables embellish. PICCALILLI and spread with custard filling. Place the other layer meringue-side up on Sugar, salt and celery seed, the custard. Cinnamon and allspice; 1h peck of ripe tomatoes 1h peck of green tomatoes 1 cup scalding milk Tumeric's another need, 14 cup sug,ar Peppercorns and cloves are nice. (or 1 peck green tomatoes and no red) 1 Tbls. cornstarch 2 egg yolks beaten Winter's coming all too soon, 12 red peppers 12 green peppers 'Is tsp. salt Frost will get the garden, 'h tsp. vanilla Pickles to our meals are boon, 12 small onions 1 Tbls. butter So om· speed please pardon. 4 stalks celery -Gertrude Park %. cupful of salt Mix sugar and cornstarch and add 2 quarts vinegar scalding milk. Cook over hot water, stirring occasionally, until a smooth There are several pointers to keep 3 lbs. brown sugar (2 extra cupfuls sauce is formed. Add the beaten yolks firmly in mind when you start think if sweeter relish is preferred) gradually and stil'.'. until thick and ing about the jars of pickles that will 1 Tbls. mustard seed smooth. Remove from fire, .add salt, soon be on the shelves of your fruit 1 Tbls. whole cloves cellar. Don't forget these things: 1 Tbls. stick cinnamon vanilla and butter, then cool. Spread 1. For best results use vegetables Put the peck (2 gallons) of tomatoes, between layers. that are not more than 24 hours .old. the peppers, ,onions and celery through 2. Bleached pickles are caused by the meat choppe~. Add the salt and using too strong a vinegar, and soft let stand overnight. In the morning, pickles are more than likely caused by drain. Make a syrup ,o.f the vinegar, New! Different Cleaner! using too strong a vinegar. brown sugiar, mustard seed, cloves and 3. Tough or shriveled pickles may be stick cinnamon. Scald the syrup and caused by using too much sugar, too add it to the chopped mixture and sim much vinegar, or too much salt. mer, after it has been brought to boil Sweet and ·Crisp Tarragon Pickles ing, for 35 minutes. Mrs. R.D.S., Gal 4ftrf•1,, Cut enough dill-size cucumbers in 1- latin, Mo. inch lengths to fill a 2 gallon jar. e Guaranteed for'~£=~~!:==,~~ Make a brine of 1 g,allon of water and ORANGE CREAM SHERBET dresses, suits, •. '· woodwork, rugs, -~ 1 cupful of coarse salt. Bring the upholstery. Odor. . ._·,.... brine to a boH and pour it over the less - non-explo- 1 envelope gelatine sive. Hurts on I y pickles while hot. Each day for 9 1 'h cups sugar d trt. i'aY'Cl1Ai11 days pour off the brine, make a fresh 1 'h cups hot water -..:::--- supply, and add to the cucumbers. On Grated rind 2 oranges ...... :::::_ the 10th da,y :rinse the cucumbers in 1 cup lemon puice 25c cold water and drain well. Make a 1h cup cold water syrup of 2 1h quarts of vinegar, 1 pound 1 'h cups orange juice MAKES 20 GAL. CLEANING FLUID of brown sugar, 'h cupful of whole 'h cup suga~ black pepper, 'h cupful of whole all 14 tsp. salt Ask Your Grocer spice, and 2 sticks of cinnamon which 2 cups cream whipped or write have been broken up. Let this solu 2 eggs tion come to a boil and get cold, then Soften gelatine in cold water. Add pour it over the pickles. On the sug.ar and hot water and stir until dis Oh. Father's been to lunch and !:"One, The house is very still, The puppy romps upon the lawn, The cat rnws on the sill. Unheeded rings the telephone My goodness, what's the matter! Why, this half-hour is mother's own, It's tbw for Kitchen-Klatter ! This happy time is always blest Ry sc01·es of busy mothers, It m£>.ans a bit of quiet rest Unhindered by the others. Thl' little folks are out at play, HP.shed is thl' baby's p.atter, The 1·adio says, "K M A, It's time for Kitchen Klatter!" -Helen Loudon USE LARD IN BAKING 'l'hese women bel 930 Kilocycles Shenandoa:h, Iowa NBC Blue Network Iowa Broadcasting System KMA'IS DAILY PROGRAM MORNING 5 ;00 a. m.-·Chick Holstein 6:00 a. m.-·-\Veather & News 6:15 a. m.-Mary Lou & Frances 6;30 a. m.--The Family Altar 7 :00 a. m.·--lVIorning Headlines 7 .15 a. m.-Crazy Radio Gang 7:30 a. m.-Lem Hawkins & His Gang OVER THE FENCE 7:30 a. m.-Family Altar (Sun.) 7:45 a. m.·-Coffee Pot Inn (Mon. thru Fri.) 8:00 a. m.-Josh Higgins One of the highlights of this sum 8:00 a. m.-Uncle B1'11 Reads the Funnies mer was the very happy time that we (Sun.) 8:15 a. m.·-The Bachelor Eloy had visiting with members of the 8 :30 a. m.-Mid-~1orning Devotions Homemakers club of Galt, Mo. They 8:45 a. 1n.-Ma Perkins (Mon. thru Fri.) wrote in advance that they were com 9 :00 a. m.--Jessie Young, Homemaker 9 :45 a. m.-'Western Valley Folks ing in a rhartered bus, so we had en 9 :4~ a. m.--Frank Field (Sat.) gaged cabins for them and arranged 10:00 a. m.--Earl May, News to have Frank Field take them on a 10 :00 a. m.-Church Services (Sun.) 10 :30 a. m.-Favorites tour of the nursery fields. At noon 10:30 a. m.-National Farm & Horne Hour This wide-eyed baby is Mr, and Mrs. Earl they had a covered dish luncheon at (Sat.) May's first grandchild, Betty Jane Rankin. our house, and shortly after this they 10.45 a. m.-Frank Field (Mon. thru Fri.) Her m..ther, Frances May Ra.nkln, Is holding went down to Helen Fischer's home 11:00 a. m.-Chick Holstein (Mon. thru Fri.) her. 11 :15 a. m.---Between the Book Ends to see some beautiful colored photo (!\ion. thru Fri.) graphs of her garden. Approximately 11:30 a. m.--Kl-.1A Country School SEWING HELPS 12 :00 Noon--Midday Melodies twenty-five women came, and I believe 12:15 p. m.-Earl May, News that they all had a grand time. If your 12 :45 p. m.-Market Ti'me The ,always pressing problem of club wants to come here to visit us, AFTERNOON school handkerchiefs was solved very just drop me a line and I know that 1. :00 p. m.-Mary Lou & Frances 1:00 p. m.-Semi·So!id Ramblers (Sun.) nicely by this Kitchen-Klatter friend: KMA will be glad to cooperate in giv 1 :20 p. m.-A. L. Stithem "With four girls in the family my ing you a fine trip. 1:30 p. m.-s.o.s. Program niece solved the school handkerchief 1 :30 p. m.---.Major League Baseball Game (Sun.) problem by stitching a small triangle One of your favorite announcers, 1:15 p. m.-Crazy Radio Gang of plain-colored material in the corner Mott Johnson, was married to Miss 2 :00 p. m.-Kitchen Klatter of each handkerchief. She made four 2:30 p. m.-Club Matinee (Mon. thru Fri.) Mary Sulliv.an recently. They had a 2 ·30 p. m.-Major League Baseball Game out of each small sugar sack. IDach beautiful church wedding, and will (Sat.) girl selected her own color and, being soon be settled in their own home here 3 :OO p. m.-M1jor League Baseball Game so individual, lost hankies were more (Tues. thru Fri.) in Shenandoah. often returned to the O•wner." EVENING 6:00 p. m.-Sports Review 6 :15 p. m.-Chick Holstein "When sewing kitchen aprons or August brings us our first reminder 6:30 p. m.-Earl May, News work .aprons, sew two pockets on that fall days aren't far ahead, so 6 :30 p. m.-Pot 0' Gold (Tues.) them. Then when a patch is needed Margery and I have be.en busy gettint: 7 :00 p. m.-The Green Hornet (Mon. & Wed.) clothes ready for school again. She 7:00 p. m.-Singin' & Swtngin' (Thur.) one can be taken for the patch and 7 :00 p. m.-This, Our America (F'ri.) you will still have a pocket."-Mrs. N. loves to sew, and I'm so glad that she 7:00 p. m.-Gordon Jenkins & His Musi'c does, This September she will enter (Sat.) S. Hanson, Audubon, Iia. 7:~0 p. m.-Paul Martin & His Music (Mon.) her junior year at Maryville, Mo., and 7:30 p. m.-Fun With the Revuers (Tues.) "When cutting off a pattern, cut Donald will leave home for the first 7:30 p. m.-Roy Shield's Encore Music (Wed.) time too. He enters Bark College 7:30 p. m.-Farm Bureau Program (Fri.) notchee out instead of in, as directed. 7 :30 p. m.-Grant Park Concert (Sat.) Then there's never the trouble of ma near Kansas City for his freshman 7:4b p. m.-Harry Kogen's Orchestra (Fri.) year. 8:00 p. m.-Madison Square Garden Boxing terial pulling at the seam where a Bouts( To Be Announced) notch was cut."-Mrs,, Everett Kron, 8:00 p. m.-T. R. Ybarra, News Whiting, low.a. When you have a new baby at your (Mon. thru Sat.) house won't you write and tell me 8:30 p, m.-Adventure in Reading (Mon.) about it? The other day a Kitchen 8:30 p.m.-Monsieur Le Capltaine (Tues.) "In trying to get a few weeks more 8:30 p. m.-Radio Magic (Wed.) wear from old socks, split the sock Klatter sister in Missouri wrote to 8:30 p. m.-Melody in the Ni'ght (Sat.) from the top to the foot with scissors. me and said that they were expecting 9:00 p. m.-Newstime •a new boy or girl just any time, and 10:00 p. m.-Associated Press News Now open the sock and sew on your 11:50 p. m.-Midnight News patches with the sewing machine. then a postscript dated the next day 9:15 p. m. to 12:00 Midnight-Dance pro said, "Dear Leanna, I didn't get to grams (Matty Malneck, Jimmy Dorsey, When you have finished, sew up the Cecil Golly, Lou Breese, Cab Calloway, sock in a narrow seam. The men say finish my letter yesterday because it's Jan Savitt, Carlos Molina, Ray Kinney, that this never bothers and the mend an eight pound boy, our seventh, and Charlie Barnet, Bobby Byrne, Enric we did so want a girl!" Madriguera, Gene Krupa, Carl Ravazza, ing can be done so much more quick Johnny Messner, Harry Owens, Lou ly,"-Mrs. Ralph McCray, Genoa, Nebr. Holden's Disciples of Rhythm, Harry "To make .a dust cap for the broom In this issue we have a new con James, Ray Heatherton, Erskine Hawk tributor, Mrs. Walt Pitzer, To many ins, Joe Sudy, Deke Moffit, Glenn take a 25 lb, sugar sack and sew a Miller, Vaughn J\..:Ionroe, Al Donahue, double ruffle of outing flannel in the of you she is an old friend, for a num Woody Herman, Eddie Du.chin, Bob bottom se,am, Add two more single ber of years ago het broadcasts on Chester, Alvina Rey, and others.) ruffles several inches up on the bag health problems helped countless pe0> FREE with yearly subscription and put a draw string in the top. These ple. I have felt for some time that we Beautiful Aluminum Jelly Molds. Set of Six ruffles can be hemmed or pinked. This needed good sound advice on questions Molds given with every yearly subscription to pertaining to our family's health, so K1tchen·Klatter Magazine plus lOc to pay for dust cap is surely handy to put on the packing and postage AT $1.00 PLl.:S lOc TO broom to wipe down the walls, .and I Mrs. Pitzer has generously offered to PAY FOR PACIUNG A1"D POSTAGK have given them as gifts with this bit write such a column. If there is some of poetry: thing that you want discussed, won't "The old woman who t:ried by riding you please drop me .a card, or write Holds 3% oz., 2% in. across t-Op, ~ 1 111/16 In deep, 26 gauge alum- high, directly to Mrs, Pitzer at Shell Rock, inum. Bright natural finish. Fits To sweep cobwebs from out the sky, Iowa. electric refrtg·erator trays. Could have quickly swept them from a ro.om The Kitchen-Klatter circle is growing Offer good for llmlted time only. If she'd just had a dust cap for her steadily. More than 30,000 read the LEANNA DRIFTMIER broom." magazine every month. Sherumdoa.11, Ia. -May Saxton, Burdett, Ka.na. -Leanna Driftmier KI T 0 BE N - KL A T T E R M A G A Z I N E, A U G U S T, 1 9 4 O PAGE 11 This fine old mansion was once the home of Pres'ident Grant when he lived In Galena, Ill. We took this picture on our vacation. THE KNEELING CAMEL (Author Unknown) The camel at the close of day By Kneels down upon the sandy plain, MISS ANNA DRIFTMIER, Librarian To have his burden lifted off Clarinda, Iowa, Public Library And rest to gain. To A. 0. G. of Kansas we apologize. remember the story? A mermaid loved My soul thou shouldst to thy knees, It is not because we consider chil a beautiful prince so much that she When daylight draweth to a close, dren's literature unworthy of consid bargained with the seawitch to ex And let thy Master lift thy load, eration in this column, but because change her lovely voice for feet so she And grant repose. adult reading material has been asked might live on earth with hum.ans. Oh, for every month while the other has the sorrow of it all! Full-paged pic Else how canst thou tomorrow meet not. We thought that you were leav tures are exquisite in color. With all tomorrow's work to do ' ing that to your schools. Anyway, here If thou, thy burden all the night ' Another book of beauty is Mandal's Dost carry through? is an assortment we think is the best. THE HAPPY FLUTE, illustrated by We shall give lists of the inexpensive the same .artist as the one mentioned The camel kneels at the break of day and the more costly books f.or children above. It is less expensive. and youth. The .adults may sit on the To have his guide repLace his lo.ad s~delines temporarily. For the young Democracy Readers Then rises up anew to take ' The desert road. er readers, not including the primer Let us mention a series of De So thou shouldst kneel at morning's age: mocracy Readers, new and timely in dawn, Previously we listed an Applemarket these days .of uncertain future. They are graded from the primary to high That God may give thee daily care, Street story by Betsy Hill. There is Assured that He no load too great school age. Note the .objectives: a newer one called SURPRISE FOR Will make thee bear. JUDY JO. Again there is the map of "Respect for the dignity and worth of the individual human pel'.sonality. the little village, showing the homes of TOGETHER the story children, the bridge, the Open opportunity for the individual. Economic and social security. Your way and mine go down life's Christmas Tree park, etc. Little girls beaten track, The search for truth. will like this Apple Market Street So let 'Us make the best of it since story. Free discussion; freedom of speech; freedom of the press. there is no going back. The Macmillan Company published a Your way and mine-with joy to give Universal education. series of readers, filled with delightful and take The rule of the majority; the rights pictures, which are ever popular in the And each to help each other, for each of the minority; the honest ballot. library. These pictures, we may other's sake. Justice for the common man; trial add, do not tell t.he story so complete Your w:ay and mine together we will by jury; arbitration of disputes; order ly that the print is neglected. They wend, ly processes; freedom fr.om search; encourage reading. The books are right to petition. Up hill, down dale, right to the jour bound in heavy paper and are very in ney's end Freedom of religion. expensive, informational and interest And may God grant we travel brave Respect for rights of private proper until ing. Titles are: ty. The song of life is ended, and our beat WE GO A\VAl' ... travel in trains The practice of fundamental social and ship and airplane. virtues. ing hearts are still. -Elizabeth Anne Barrow. ALWAYS READY - duty of coast The responsibility of the individual guards and their service. to participate in the duties of De mocracy." "The magazines are getting better TRAILS IN THE WOODS wild and better and I read them from cov life. These bo.oks are worthy of reading, for the standards of American de er to cover. One ought to be very ANIMALS WORK, TOO ... life for mocracy are upheld and told in ways thankful for such a good paper and animals is hazardous and difficult. suitable to each grade. Fair and un for so little money. May y,our good FIFTY WINTERS AGO . . . farm selfish play in the elementary grade· work continue, is my wish for 1940." life, chores, ice-cutting, fairs, etc. enjoying our land in the next; love of Mrs. Anna Campbell, 313 I St., Fort Dodge, Iowa. KURTI AND HARDI . . . child life country; toward freedom, contrasted in the Swiss mountains. with the lack of it in other lands; and LITTLE BEAR ... the Indian boy. finally, for the older child, the way of There are many more in the series. democracy, how it was established and Public libraries usually have them. is carried on today. These books are One of the most deli!l'htful books for well worth your examination. intermediate grades is Hans Christian Now for the older boys and girls. Andersen's old fairy ta.le ca 11 e d A FRIEND IN THE DARK, the story LITTLE MERMAID, dressed in new of "The Seeing Eye" dog. The value color. Dorothy Lathrop is the artist and purpose of the schools established and has made a book of rare beauty. for the training of dogs to direct the This, too, is published by the Mac blind and for training to be directed by them is set forth in this book. Well This ferry boat plies between Nanvoo, m and millan Company. The cost is more Montrose, Iowa. The Mississippi river Is over than two dollars but is worth it. You worth whil'e. a mile wide at this point. PA 0 E lZ KI TC HE N - K J, AT TE R 1\1 A G A Z I N E, A U G U S T, 1 9 4 0 >> << OUR CHILDREN TAKE OUT THAT THUMB! never do it 1again. And we were right. He never did. If he had hack-slid, as the saying goes, we would have taken The other day someone in St. Joe the suit away until he could prove wrote to me .and said, "Leanna, I'm again that he was "grown-up." Now ~imply distracted with my four-year you might find out what your four old who sucks his thumb constantly. year old wants more th.an anything I've tried everything my friends and else and try the same scheme. The relatives have suggested, but I'm still chances are that it will work, only SCOTTY TWIN TEA TOWELS saying 'Take that thumb out of your with a four-year old it would be better mouth' from morning until night. to set a time limit of two weeks. The What in the world would you do?" Two mischievous Scotties disastrous difference between a four-year old ,and ly inquire into every phase of the \Vhat in the world would I do? Well, a five-year old is just enough that the household work in forming these en not knowing what methods she has older child can gr.asp longer periods of tertaining new te.a towel motifs. Do tried this far along in the battle, I'm time. the perky cross stitch bows and day ~omewhat at a loss to know exactly Then there was Dorothy and the names in gay colors for a cheery note. what to suggest. However, I can tell struggle I had with her. She sucked And order these 7 Scotty designs and you what I did with the three young her first two fingers, and this looked the matching panholder as C9193, 10¢. sters in our family who developed the even worse than if she had sucked her The 7 designs for tea towels may habit, and perhaps from these suggest thumb .and was harder on the shape also be had ready-stamped on soft ions you may get an idea that will of her mouth. I tried putting her arm 24x36-inch muslin, as C9193M, $1.00. iead to the solution of your problem. in loose splints so that she couldn't get Send orders to Leanna Driftmier, And it is a problem, a re1al problem; her hand to her mouth, I tried tieing Shenandoah, Iowa. no one will deny that. socks over her hand . . . it would be I want to say first that there are hard to say just what I didn't try. some children who become thumb And nothing did any good. Don't hurt your child's hand when you take it out of his mouth. I've never suckers in ::ipite of all your precau Finally it occurred to me to put ad tions and constant efforts. The tiny believed much in this thing of cuffing hesive tape on her fingers from top to children about. I don't like to see it baby who pokes his thumb into his bottom, 1and paint the tape with oil of mouth may get over the habit in no because I firmly believe that it does cloves after it was on. This tasted so far more harm than good. If you time if you tie the sleeve of his night bitter that she couldn't get past it. gown down over his fist, but there is strike your child's hand every time She wouldn't stay with it long enough you see his thumb in his mouth you'll a chance too that he'll get his fist up to get any amount that might upset make him surly .and sly. Don't do it. to his mouth again at the very first her stomach, and after a while she be opportunity. You can tie on the alum came so discouraged with the nasty inum mitts that are so popular now tasting tape on her fingers that she WHEN MOTHER STAYS IN BED and leave them on twenty-three hours stopped altogether. It took a number out of the twenty-four, but in the of tape treatments, as I remember, but When Mother has a real bad cold twenty-fourth hour back will go that it worked---.and she was one .of the Or isn't feeling well, thumb-sometimes. most stubborn finger-suckers that you An' Daddy makes 'er stay in bed, In telling you about my first exper can imagine. It certainly is hard t' tell ience I will have to turn back the ·when Margery came along and What we're supposed t' wear t' school, clock many years. Howard was one started the same habit I thought that Or when it's time for us t' go, of these chHdren who are determined I had the solution all at hand and Or if we've got our books and things to suck their thumbs no matter what wouldn't have any trouble. That's Our Daddy doesn't seem to know! you do. No amount of shaming would . where Margery surprised me. She do any good, and finally when he got sucked her two fingers just as Doro An' when it comes t' breakfast-Gee to be five years old we'd tried every thy had done, and the adhesive tap11 There doesn't seem t' be a bite thing our friends and relatives sug was practically useless. I can remem For us t' eat! But Daddy says gested-and still he sucked his thumb. ber seeing her wrinkle up her face, That everything will be all right! Then one day the little boy down the cry, stop for a while to look at her He tells us that he learned to cook street was given ,a wonderful Indian fingers, and then light into the tape When he was just .a little kid, suit with all of the trimmings, a feath with real determination until she had An' when his mother wasn't well ered head band, a make-believe toma it off. Here was a child too young to That's only part o' what he did. hawk, and moccasins. He was the reason with as we had reasoned with envy of every other child in the neigh Howard, and the trick that cured But if he learned, he soon forgot, borhood, and Howard was beside him Dorothy wouldn't work, so what w,as I 'Cause all the toast is hard an' black, self wishing for an lndtan suit of his to do? An' every egg busts right in two own. This g.ave us an idea, so we told 'This was the place where new gad When Daddy flops it on its back. him that if he went through an entire gets saved my life; aluminum mitts But I fe.el kind .o' sorry then, month without sucking his thumb one were just out and I got some. She Because he does the best he can single time we'd buy him .an Indian couldn't pull those off as she had pull And, anyhow, a cookin' job suit. We showed him on the calendar ed off the different coverings I had Don't look so e.asy for a man. how long the month was, and told him tried for her hands, and in about six that if we ever found him with his weeks or so when I tried taking them No, sir, it ain't a bit o' fun thumb in his mouth he'd have to start off I found that she had forgotten When Mother isn't well and strong, all over again. the old habit. The rest .of my children, An' everything we try t' do Well. the desire for something w.on fortunately, never did develop the Gets all mixed up an' turns out over the habit, and much to our sur thumb or finger-sucking habit. wrong; prise we found that when the month Perhaps my experience will give you But when she comes down stairs again was UP' we had to get the Indian suit. some clues, and if you try one of It doesn't take her long t' see We set that length of time deliberate these methods and find success I shall What should be done, an' very soon ly, believing that if he went for a be very glad. Just one word about She's got things like they oughter month without sucking his thumb he'd the subject while we're still on it. be! K I T C H E N - K L A T T E R M A G A Z I N E, A U G U S T, l 9 4 o PAGE lS A LETTER FROM FRANK If it is brome gmss that you want PRACTICAL POULTRY POINTERS to sow, follow the directions exactly Well, here it is August again with as given above for alfalfa. And re As a general rule if anything has to its cloudless, blistering days, and member, your pasture will be better be neglected during the busy summer sweltering breath and 19.st longer if you use five pounds months, it is less nights. Most of alf.alf.a along with your ten of 8Ure to be the folks think of Aug brome to the acr.e. The alfalfa feeds chickens. House ust .as a slack time, the brome, and the brome takes away hold duties have a time when every from the, alfalfa all the danger of a way of piling thing's caught up bloating. You had better use the up along with and there's nothing Canadian Brome, for it is not only canning, and ex much to do. That's much more pure and weed free, but it tra washing and true all right so far is also a heavier, better quality seed. ironing. Y o u r as this year's crops Well, these are just a very few of time simply are concerned-the the things that should be done in Aug won't reach to corn is laid by, the ust, and I'm sure that you can easily c o v e r every small grain harvest think of a hundred more. Goodbye t h in g, so the is over, and the for now. See you next month. poultry comes in haying is all done on the lean end Frank Field except for the last of the deal. cutting of .alfalfa I think that which will be light. But on the up ~kkl Mrs. Olinda Wiles chickens suffer to-date, well-managed f.arm there .are the most from AN E~ffiARRASSING MOMENT a hundred and one things to do in lack of water. Quite often this task August. When I graduated from college, over is left to the small son or daughter 40 years ago, de.ar father took me with flnd c~ickens have a provoking way One important job that should be of qm?kly emptying their pans and done very soon now is weed cutting. him to his old home in Montreal. After a wonderful six weeks visit fou.nt~ms when the sun is hot. The About 95% of the mid-western weeds w:a:ermg pail seems heavier and the are .annuals and oan best be kept un meeting scores of relatives, we left distance the water is to be oarr1e. d der control by mowing them off at for home. There had been a grand 0 ~eems longer just when Johnnie or this time of year; their seed has al get-together earlier in the evening and they all went to the train. We filled MRry are enjoying themselves in the ready bloomed, but it hasn't yet ripen shade, or '.lt some favorite game. ed and shattered off to come up next a street car. I shall never forget the scene as our train slowly pulled out And _agam when the task is left for year. So get out the m.ower again and the ch~ldr_en they neglect to clean out go around all the fence rows inside of the st"l.tion and they 1all began sing ing "God Be With You Till We Meet the drmkrng vessels as thoroughly as and out. Then go over all the blue t~ey _should. As a large portion of an grass pastures where the coarse an Again." Next day, in getting out our lunch e"'g is water, good clean fresh water nual weeds are threatening to kill out '.'hould be where a hen has access to the blue gr.ass entirely. You will be box (those days folks ate lunches on it at all times. surprised to see what a new lease on trains) I decided to open a bottle of catsup. A cousin had been compli Also provide plenty of shade. 1 have life the grass will take with the com seen_ places where chickens have been ing of the fall rains. mented previously on her delicious catsup and we thought it might pep confmed to small bare pens without There is still time to sow turnip seed shade or protection of any kind from wherever you have a little waste spiace up our roast beef sandwiches. As I loosened the bottle co.rk, the most aw 'he sun. The sun's rays .are a neces such as the turn row across the end sary element to a hen's life the same of the corn field. Just run the culti ful explosion followed. Catsup shot out, covering father's face and clothes as to a child's or any other individual vator up and down a few times to stir but when they get great doses of it day up the ground, and then scatter the and my light grey suit. Two men on the opposite seat across the aisle after day they too suffer the same as seed on top of the ground. Don't a person from its heat. jumped up and left. Some one opened bother to cover it. The first r.ain will Vines mg,y be planted to give quick the window and I threw the bottle out. do that very nicely. You can safely shade, but you will not have much Poor father was in agony with his sow turnips until the middle of Aug luck getting them to grow along the eyes and a kind lady back of me ust, so don't let any odd pieces of land fenced enclosure if you do not have brought wet towels. My suit was ruin go to waste. Figure on one pound of any other green feed for your chick seed to the acre. ed and such a time as we had getting ens. cleaned up. We kept wet towels on The most important job of all for I saw just such a bare place a few father's poor eyes for several hours. this month is the seeding of alfalfa days ago, and I thought how those L_ater the two men came back, stop and brome grass. It is true that both hens m_ust suffer for a taste of green can be sown in the spring, but after all pmg to ask, "What was that stuff?" Edith Seabery, Plainview, Nebr. ~ood with all the green things grow fall is better, and of the fall months mg ar_ound them as they scratched in August is best of all. Put in an extr~ that little bare pen. day or so working up the seed bed and T.h~ owner of this flock was com you will be well repaid. Don't plow un r:am1m~ becau.se _the hens were eating less it is necessary in order to turn n,,gs. I m afraid 1£ I were one of those under the trash, for plowing loosens ilem, I 'Nould do worse than "eat up the ground and leaves lumps and eggs." I wouldD't even lay any, for in air pockets which would all have to that pen of about sixty hens there be worked out. Several discings would were only three, one-pound coffee cans be better. Then harrow .a time or two for water ..and although it was mid to level the ground. ' ftfte1·n.oon the oans were all emp~y and When this is done, roll the piece very likely wouldn't be filled agiain be with a cultipacker or corrugated roll fore evening. No telling how long er, packing the ground down good and they had been empty either. solid. Now comes the actual seeding. I do not know of anything that will You can use a horn, a cyclone s.eeder, rn quickly repay you for the care an endgate seeder, a broadcast seeder ghown to a flock, as a hen. Please, or a drill with the shoes lifted. An~ please see to it that your flock of of these methods will do, but you must chickens, both old and young, have use ten or twelv.e pounds of seed to plenty of water and plenty of shade the •acre and broadcast it right on top during these hot summer months. of the ground. Then go over the piece -Olindg, Oarolyn Wiles ·again with the roller, only cross it ~lrs. Mary Hart of Battle J,ake, Minn. who this time as that covers the seed bet made the highly original button house pictured USTEN TO KITCHEN-KLATTEB ter. oo page 14. 2:00 P. M. OVER KMA PAQB 1• K I T 0 H E N - KL A T TE B M A G A Z I N E, A U G U 8 T, l 9 4 0 CLASSIFIED ADS WHAT HAVE YOU TO l!!ELL'l Make use of this ad column. Rate of 5¢ per word. Minimum charge 50¢. Payable in advance. SCRIPTURE POST OABDS - High quality, beautiful Illustrations, each containing a scripture text and suitable verse for birth days etc. Package of twelve for 25c post paid. -Gertrude Hayzlett, Shenandoah, Ia. FOR SALE-50 antique buttons, $1.00. Mary Amman, Volland, Kansas. I'LL BE GLAD to send everyone a gift who sends me 50 or more fancy and old-fashion ed buttons. Mrs. Raymond Becker, O'Ka bena, Minnesota, Box 3. !IPEOIAL-One ot my 211c "King Com" recipe books for 10c PP. while they Jut. 1'aJl)" new W&7S to aerve th!• healthful Teretable. Order soon. Mn. M. Zeigler, George, Iowa. A Hobby House is a pleasant place Stamps and old issues of T.B. Christ Where everyone likes to be, mas seals - Sylvia Ginther, RFD 3, THE GREEN SHUTTER BOOK SHOP at Clarinda, Iowa can supply you with any Whether rich and famous as movie Clay Center, Kansas. book that you need for club programs, stars, gifts, or just for your own particular en Or humble like poor little me. joyment. Write to Ema Driftmier, Clarinda, This past month I have received e. Iowa for the solution to your book problems. There are hobbies old and hobbies card from a friend at Flanagan, Ill. rare, LETTERS ARE COMING to Mrs. Helen that contained a justified compl1aint. Fischer from all over the United States Odd, unique, .and plain; She said that she had spent money for these days commending her on her fine And the folks who ride a hobby horse items that different folks requested, book, "The Flower Family Album." This Are welcome as the rain. "Family Album" has taken flower lovers and in return had received nothing by storm, so order your copy today from -Reprinted from Hobby House for her collection and, in some in Mrs. Helen Fischer, Shenandoah, Iowa. News stances, not even a thank-you. It's Price $1.50 P.P. not the first time this complaint has One of the nicest little magazines come to me, and I believe you'll agree SALMARINE SOAP that has come to my desk in many a that to neglect to send even a thank (Sea Salt) ------$ .00 you isn't the spirit that we'd like to BEAUTY SOAP day Is called the Hobby House News. (Carotene Oil) ______.50 It Is published by Inez Baker, Box 222, have in OU!;'. Hobby Club. Corning, Iowa and those of you who Sometimes people say that they will EVA HOPKINS CREME POWDER with sponge ___ 1.00 are really riding a hobby horse these exchang.e items-in fact, so many peo days should write to Mrs. Baker and ple say this when they request that MULTI-PURPOSE inquire about the work she is doing. their names be listed, that I finally bad CLEANSING CREME --- .60 In the June issue ther.e is an article to conserve space by simply putting All prices p.p. on vases that I found highly interest down the hobby. I would make this sug EVA HOPKINS ing, and I'm sure that those of you gestion: when you wish to send some thing for a hobby collection, why not Box 13 who collect vases for a hobby would Shenandoah, Iowa be Interested in it too. drop a p.enny postal card to that per son and ask if they would like an ad dition, and if they can send something Stamps and postmarks - Robert for your collection in return? If you Cook books and old money - Mrs. Slight, Aplington, Ia. don't get a reply you'll know that they Martie Goldsmith, 3304 N. 52nd St., Movie star pictures and pen pals. aren't interested, and if they do reply Omaha, Nebr. Miss Lilah Mae Linder, Milford, Ia., you can go ahead as you had planned. Handkerchiefs-Mrs. B. Hines, 509 Box 82. W.C. Street, Hastings, Nebr. Small elephants-Miss Elsie Bjork, Wash cloths and hot pads - MI"l!I. c/o Blondies Beauty Shoppe, Remsen, Elmer Mensik, Linwood, Nebr., RFD 1. Ia. Hot p.an holders and handkerchiefs Stamps-Geneva Haight, Log.an, Ia. Agnes Mensik, North Bend, Nebr. Pictures and biographies of dis Pot holders-Mrs. A. A. Cowan, 1616 tinguished people for scrapbook; also Grand Ave., Omaha, Nebr. poetry-Mrs. W. R. Wright, Olathe, Paper napkins-Mrs. Clara Deaton, Kansas, RFD 4. 245.7 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines, Ia. Stamps, postmarks .and paper nap Will exchange handkerchiefs, Oactl, kinS'---Miss Dorothy May Mueller, Vic plants and all kinds of fancy work for tor, Ia., RFD 2, Box 117. view cards from every state.-Mrs. F. Poetry-Mrs. A. Cross, Leon, Ia. F. Schmedtberger, Gorham, Kansas. Movie stars, post cards, hankies Odd-shaped pencils and ones with from different states, buttons. Would advertisements on which all printed like to correspond with girls from words show-Mary C. Trumbull, RFD other states. Aged 13.-Miriam Wen 6, Towanda, Ba. ger, 1015 West First St., Abilene, Kans. Handkerchiefs and crochet patterns Fancy work patterns - Mrs. 0. E. -Mrs. Ole Jacobson, RFD 1, Hayfield, Steinberg, Charles City, Iowa, RFD 1. Minn. Is a shut-in. Buttons-Mrs. Frederick J. Ahrens, Salt and pepper shakers; also but RFD 2, Brewster, Minn. tons.-Mrs. Fred Moore, 1627 N. 57th Dolls up to eight inches tall-Mrs. M. St., Lincoln, Nebr. Wagner, 323 W. 4th St., Larned, Kans. Post cards-Audrey Jensen, 193 E. China dogs .and buttons-Ida Burton, This remarkable butt.on house made by Ml"!I. 604 Fifth St., Sibley, Iowa. Fremont St., Elmhurst, Ill. Mary Hart of Battle Lake, Minn. has 4,170 Wash cloths and turkish towels buttons inside and outside. Nine shallow Crocheting holders, c ha i r sets, Alyce Mensik, North Bend, Nebr. drawers slide lnt.o the back and are filled with doilies, edges, and braiding, crocheting Crochet patterns and pen pals-Mrs. loose buttons. At one end ls a large window or knitting i:ugs. - Bessie Dingsley, with a candle In It, and the~ MO two windows Mary Linder, Box 82, Milford, Ia. at the other end. Box 44, Rowley, Iowia.. ll I T 0 II E N - ll LA T TE R M A G A Z I N E, A U G U 8 T, 1 9 <& O PA GE 111 OUR KIDDIES CORNER trick without scratching me. Per haps his silliest trick is kissing me on the chin. He will do it whenever I pick up his front feet and bend down to meet him. These two pretty little girls, Genita Cunning ham and Phyllis Joan Cunning'ham, live near PET STORIES Do you have pets who do unusual Kirksville, Mo. but this picture wa., taken things? If so, I wish you would take while they were visiting their relatives, Mr. I have decided to tell you three short a few minutes to tell me about them. and Mrs. Charles Cunningham of Triplett, Mo. stories instead of one longer story, I'd love to hear from you. Just send because I want you to hear something a card or letter to me at Browerville, FLOWERS about my pet animials. Perhaps you'll Minn. Did you know you can preserve be more interested when I tell you that -Mrs. Fred Zappe flowers and ;eaves with paraffin wax? these stories are true. This is how to do it. Probably mother First I shall tell you about the little HOW THE FORGET-ME-NOT GOT will let y.ou have some like she uses deer, a pretty speckled fawn. In the ITS NAME to seal jelly. Melt the wax. You will cold days of last winter, deer food was soon learn juRt how hot it should be. hard to find in Minnesota and many When to the flowers so beautiful If it's too hot it wilts the flowers or deer became very bold, bold enough to The Father gave a name, too cool it won't go on evenly. Dip' the be seen in barn yards 1and near farm Back came a little blue-eyed one, flower or leaf in the wax. Be sure it buildings. One little fawn seemed to All timidly she came, ;3 all covered. Hold it by the stem un forget fear entirely. It was glad to And standing at the Father's feet til it is hard enough to lay uu\\l ll. This eat out of our hands, and in a few And gazing in his face, will make a lovely bouquet to have '.n days became so tame it followed us She said with :ir.aek and timid grace, your ro.om for a long time, and they into the house. The fawn liked it "Dear Lord, the name thou gavest me, will look like fresh flowers. there, and on the third trip jumped Alas, I have forgot." upon the bed and curled up to take ,a The Father kindly looked on her SOME RIDDLES FOR YOU rest in ;a nice warm, soft spot. After And siaid, "Forget-me-not." Ques.-When is a horse like a good this visit the fawn came back very student? Ans.-When he knows his often and did not disappear until the WHEN PAPA WAS A BOY (s)table. w.armer days of spTing arrived. We Ques.-How do you make a slow wonder if the fawn will come back to When papa was .a little boy horse fast? Ans.-Stop feeding him. make a call next winter. You really couldn't find Ques.-Why should one avoid giving My next story is about Lucky. Now In all the country 'round .about a colt a cold? Ans.-Because he might Lucky is a fine looking police dog who A child so quick to mind. become a little hoarse. could easily run a Lost-And-Found His mother never called but once, Ques.-Why is a horse such a queer department. How do I know? Well, And he was always there, feeder? Ans.-Because he eats best listen to this: about a week ago we He never made the baby cry wl:en he hasn't a bit in his mouth. were camped at a lovely lodge on the Or pulled his sister's hair. Ques.-Why is a colt like an egg? north shore of big Lake Superior. One He never slid down the banisters Ans.-He must be broken before you morning I went to the car, unlocked it, Or made the slightest noise, can use him. got some things I wanted, and then And never in his life was known Ques.-Why is a race horse like a locked it ag.ain. I put the keys in a T.o fight with other boys. boy's nose when he has .a cold? Ans. pocket of the old coat I was wearing He ahw.ys rose .at six o'clock Because it runs. and walked toward our cabin. And went to bed at eight, Ques.-Why is a horse like a stick of After a few minutes I discovered And never lay abed 'till noon, candy? Ans.-The more y.ou lick him that the key was gone! It had fallen And never sat up I.ate. the faster he goes. through a hole in my pocket! Then He finished Latin, French and Greek the search began. Soon the owner of \\rhen he was ten years O·ld, TRY THESE AT YOUR NEXT the lodge joined us and he suggested Arnt knew the Spanish alphabet PARTY that if Lucky had found the key in its As soon as he was told. Ques.-What insect frequents dis little leather case that I would find He never, never thought of play trict schools? Ans.-Spelling bees. it on the porch of the lodge where he Until his work was done, Ques.-Just what is the board o.f usually puts things he finds. In a few He Labored hard from break of day education? Ans.-It is nothing but seconds I was on the porch picking up Until the set of sun. the schoolmaster's shingle. my key case just where Lucky had He never scraped his muddy shoes Ques.-How does a boy feel when he dropped it in his Lost-And-Found de Upon the parlor floor, is kept in for poor spelling? Ans. partment. I was lucky that Lucky And never answered back his ma, He feels spellbound, of course. knew his business. And never b9.nged the door. Ques.-What is the difference be The last story-it's also true-is "But truly, I could never see," tween ,a fisherman and a lazy school about my pet cat whose name is Silly. Said little Dick Mallory, boy't Ans.-The one halts his hook; He earned that nia.me by the things he "How he could never do these things, the other hates his book. does. Since he was a small kitten he And really be a boy." Ques.-Why is a naughty school boy has enjoyed car riding and crawling -Selected. like a postage stamp? Ans.-Because into a large paper bag for a nap. I he is licked and put in a corner to have taught him to jump up on a high The Kitchen-Klatter circle is growing make him stick to his letters. kitchen stool, and from there he leaps steadily. More than 30,000 read the Ques.-What dances at a ball, yet 111 to my shoulders. He does this last magazine every month. nothing iat all? Ans.-Shadow, PAGE 18 KI T <' HE N - K J, A T TE R M A G A Z J N E, A U G U S T, 1 9 4 0 HELPS FOR STORK SHOWER NAMING THE TWINS "I want to give you a few sug Divide your guests into two groups gestions for a stork shower. When and ask each to give a baby's name, serving lunch, use an empty baby talc either boy or girl. To the name given can for sugar and a baby bottle with the player opposite must give a "twin" nipple for cream. Cut the very tip of name. Failure to do so puts a pl1ayer the nip•ple off for easier pouring. Use "out". Another way to play this game plain white paper napkins folded like is to· ask guests to make lists of a diaper and pinned with a tiny gold "twins" names. The lists are given to AID SOCIETY HELl.:,; safety pin. the honor-guest to pick from, and the prize goes to the writer of the longest One game we played was, take a Mrs. Julius M.anke of Gaylord, Minn. large white stocking and in it place list. wrote to me about an effective plan as many articles as possible pertain DRESS THE BABY that their Ladies Aid uses for making ing to babies, such as teething ring, For all kinds of fun and excitement, money. She says that several times a bottle; nipple, talcum powder, a string nothing is quite so good .as the popu year they have what they cg,ll the Aid of safety pins, baby comb and brush Grab Bag. Each member takes a gift, lar .old contest called "Dress the or anything with shape. Pass this Baby." Get a large baby doll for this (most of them take aprons, she adds), around to the guests allowing each game, and see that it has a complete and these are 1all put into a big con one to feel it for minute, then pass 'h outfit of clothing. Be sure that pins tainer of some kind. Then the mem out papers and pencils and have every are provided for the diaper, and then bers draw out their gifts and have a one try to remember what they felt in turn each guest lose with the doll that great deal of fun showing what they the stocking. Give a prize for the has been undressed first. Time the draw. A chance at the Grab Bag most nearly correct list."-Mrs. Elmer players and see who can get the baby means only twenty-five cents for the Garber, Seward, Nebr. dressed in the fewest minutes; give a ~embers, and needless to say quite a big amount of cash can be raised this prize to the winner. This always pro way when there is a good-sized mem The Kitchen-Klatter circle is growing vides lots of laughter and gayety, and bership. steadily. More than 30,000 read the would be a good way to open your magazine every month. party. APRON SPECIAL This n~at little apron is sent to you, And this is what we wish you'd do; The little pocket you plainly see, For a special purpose is meant to be. NOW YOU CAN Now measure your waistline, inch by inch, GET ALL SIX OF And see that the measure does not pinch. For each small inch you measure MY COOK BOOKS 'round, In the pocket put a penny sound. FOR ONLY $1 The game is fair, you will admit; You waist your money-we pocket it. And the money the pockets so freely pay, Will be used by us in the surest way. The Ladies Aid Society This Offer Good of the Name of Church Town, State During August ANOTHER IDEA Here's your opportunity to get a grand collection of "I do like so much the helps for recipes that you can use for almost every occiasion. raising money for aids and pa;rty sug gestions. Here is the way our aid Think of it ... 80 different cookie recipes; 78 ways did: I was chairman of our division to make candy; ho-\v to can such things as squash; for August and in April I gave out a vegetable Ralads; tomato soups; what to do with your dime to each with this original rhyme •neat left-overs; how to preserve a husband; more written on a card: than 50 different cakes; new and different icings, Please, for our aid accept this dime fillings. tempting pies and pie crust recipes. Keep account of its t;ravel thru the Yes, these and dozens of other things are in these time, grand Kitchen-Klatter Cook Books. Every page is Multiply its worth as much as you're full of ideas you can use every day in the year. Don't able miss getting at le1ast one of these cook books for your By sewing, giardening, or something recipe collection. And ONE may be obtained for only for the table. 25 cents. But you can get all six of them for only Four months we have to scheme so one dollar, if you send before August 31, 1940. Put a cleverly dollar bill, check, or money order in an envelope and The fifth we'll join for a joyous revel- send today while this bargain offer is good. Remem ry. ber, I pay the postage. In case this dime for you doesn't grow Bring it back and let us know. 1. Candies and Cookies