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Photo by Stern PAGE 2 KITCHEN-KLATTER MA GA-E, AUGUST, 1958 seeing, and I guess they have all kinds of things lined up. Margery will have a chance to tell you all about it in her Kitchen·Klatte1; letter next month. (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.) Howard's wife, Mae, says that ever since Donna came home from college MAGAZINE for summer vacation she has felt al­ "Morn Than Just Paper And Ink" most as if she were on a real vaca­ LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER, Editor. tion. Anyone who works knows what a LUCILE DRn~rMIER VERNESS, Associate Editor. scurry it is to get lunch at noon, clean Rubscl'ipt!on Price $1.50 ner yt:>ar (12 issut>s) in thP up the kitchen, and then come home U. S. A. tired after a full office day and start Foreign Countries $2.00 per year. another meal. If you have this kind of Advei·tising rates made known on application. a routine you know how much it Ente .. ed as second class matter May 21, 1937 at the means to Mae to go home at noon and Post Office at Shenandoah, la., under U-u-• Af't of Marrh 3, 1~79. find a nice meal on the table, and Published Monthly by Donna does all of this, plus cleaning, LETTER FROM LEANNA THE DRIF'I'MIER COMPANY laundry, keeping up the yard, etc., so Shf'nandoah, Iowa I can see how Mae feels that she's on Copyright 1958 by The Driftmier Company. a vacation. Both Mae and Donna enjoy sewing Dear Friends: meet him at the airport and on the and handwork. Donna has just finish­ This much of the summer has cer­ drive back to ·Shenandoah we saw an ed a beautiful embroidered tablecloth, tainly given us all kinds of exagger­ ugly looking cloud that started us re­ and Mae always has something of this ated extremes in the weather. calling the old days. kind underway. Both of them sew One day we can be mighty thankful Frederick's visit went so fast it beautifully, and when Donna was here for om· Amana air conditioner, and the seemed to us he had only arrived-­ for dinner the other· day she had on a very next morning we can be equally and was then gone again. ·I hadn't dress that looked as if it had come thankful for automatic heat• At least been in our high school auditorium for from a very expensive shop. 8he made we've missed (to date) some of the many, many years, but the night he every stitch of it herself in April when severe storms they've had elsewhere. gave the Commencement address our she was in college. As a matter of fact, these severe Superintendent of Schools, Mr. L. A. So many of our friends have won­ storms elsewhere have made a big dif­ Logan, assigned some husky young dered why we don't move from this ference in our plans to drive to An­ students to carry me up the two long big house and settle down in a new derson. The sections through which flights of stairs. We appreciated all house all on one floor, but if they we would be driving have been hard the effort made to see that I could be could see the company that comes and hit and we've just about made up our there-and we also appreciated the goes all summer they really wouldn't minds to stay right here at home. lovely reception held later. wonder why we stay right here. I However, the trip to Anderson Sister Martha is making a fine re­ think when you live in a place so doesn't begin to call for all the pack­ covery from her broken hip and is now many, many years it seems hard to ing and preparations needed for a long up most of the day. Ma.rt and I went imagine any other house feeling like winter trip to Florida or California, so over to stay with her for two days and home. Once in a while I get an urge we may up and decide to go at the last two nights while Jessie went to Ames to do what many of our friends have minute. Some people could cover this to the 4-H State Convention. We hadn't done and move into a small new house, many miles in one day, but we take it spent the night in Clarinda for many, but when I think how often our up­ easy and make a two-day trip out of many years-almost thirty two years stairs comes in handy I decide that it. Both of us are very anxious to see or so---and it gave us a good oppor­ we'll just stay right here. (If Mart our newest grandson, little Paul Drift­ tunity to see old friends whom we and I are fortunate enough to cele­ mier, so if we do get to make the trip knew when we lived there. Many of brate our 50th wedding anniversary in I'll tell you about it next month. them are gone, of course, but this is 1963 we'll want all of our children here I guess there are a Jot of people who to be expected when you reach our age. with us, and then we'll certainly be never pay any attention to storms, but Bertha Field is having a wonderful glad we didn't move! J at this house we've always kept a visit with John Henry and his wife We've made several happy trips up sharp eye on the sky. All of our chil­ Ethel at their home in Denver. She to see Dorothy and Frank, and in this dren remember exciting trips to crawl was able to get rid of the heavy brace issue you'll see a picture that was under the big table in the Southwest she had worn for almost three years, snapped on the last trip. I've never corner of the basement, and we felt and all of us were happy about this yet caught a big fish, but I like to sit better down there even though Fred since Bertha's favorite love is garden­ on the bank and hold a line so it Fischer always said that the house ing-and it's hard to do much garden­ doesn't make much difference to me might come down on top of us. Mart ing when you're coping with a heavy what I catch. Frank's soy beans look always reminded him that this was brace. I'll be anxious to hear about fine-in fact, all the soy beans we've possible, but at least we wouldn't be her trip when she gets back in a seen look exceptionally good this year. blown into the next county! couple of weeks. Unless something totally unexpected I remember one particular time We've had exceptionally good fruit comes up we should see fine harvests when a terrible storm came up about to work with this summer and I put in the autumn, and from reading your five in the afternoon and we all went down many glasses of strawberry pre­ letters I know how much this will down to the basement just in case serves and cherry preserves. As soon mean. there should be a tornado in that as peaches are in the market I want seething greenish-black cloud. All of a to make up some glasses of these us­ I don't get to the microphone to sudden Frederick scrambled out from ing a recipe that calls for maraschino visit with you as frequently as I once under the table and went running up­ cherries. Probably I'll put down some did, but I don't want anyone to think stairs, paying no attention to all of sauce too because we still think you I'm lazy! It's just that when you get the yelling that he should come back can't beat some canned peaches. I al­ to be seventy-two you have to take instantly. Old Trixie hadn't gone to ways freeze some too and we enjoy things a little easier. But I still look forward just as eagerly to the morn­ the basement with us and Frederick them, but a few jars of canned sauce was determined to save him at any certainly hits the spot. ing mail and your letters, so you can cost. I can still see him urging· that Margery and Martin are packing be sure that I'm right here as I've been for so many years even though old dog down the cellar steps just as their suitcases and getting ready to I can't visit with you every day. the wind struck and we could feel the board the train in Red Oak for their whole house shake. trip to Denver. They can get on a I have a chicken boiling and now We were reminiscing about this night train and get off the next morn­ want to add some home-made noodles when Frederick was here-he recalled ing right in Denver, so that seemed for our supper, so I must wheel to the kitchen and get busy. all of it just as clearly as we did. easier than driving. Abigail and Wayne Mart and I drove up to Omaha to will have their car to take them sight- Affectionately yours, Leanna KITCHEN-KLATT~ MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1 9 5 8 P A G E 3 IT COULD BE YOUR TURNlilffEXT! been held I could expect to be sum­ moned to his office so they could talk By with me about their diagnosis. Mabel Nair B1·own Anyone who has gone through the experience of having a loved one crit­ ically ill, will know what I mean when I say that after talking with this fine Blue-Bewildered-Befuddled doctor only a short time I felt as if those words just about describe my a great load had been shifted over on state of mind as I walked through capable shoulders well equipped to the wide doors of our huge State Uni­ carry it! He was sympathetic and versity Hospitals behind the stretcher kindly as he explained all that would that carried my young daughter. have to be done. And all of the other She was critically ill, and along with doctors, nurses and aids were so un­ my anxiety over her condition I had a derstanding and kind to both Sharon severe case of "hospital fright." This and to me that in only a short time enormous building seemed almost over­ after our arrival we had forgotten our whelming to me, and I've thought unease and confusion in such a large many times since that afternoon how institution. It was plain to be seen many parents must have had the same that they had her best interests at sensations when they found them­ heart and were going to combine all selves for the first time in a great their skills to get her on the road to institution so radically different from recovery. their own home town hospitals. Back home we know our family doctors very WHEN DO YOU TALK WITH THE well, we know many of the hospital DOCTORS? The Pediatrics Ward staff personnel as family friends, and there of doctors make their rounds every isn't anything mysterious or frighten­ morning. They also seem to call on ing about going to the hospital our­ their patients after lunch each day, and we often saw Sharon's doctors at selves or taking a member of the fam­ This isn't a brand new picture of Aunt Martha ily there. and it doesn't begin to do her justice, but various times in addition to these you can see from her "sparkle" that she routine rounds. This gave me plenty BUT NOW .... here I was feeling co•tld work hard at getting well! "swallowed up" in the midst of what of opportunity to check with them on seemed to be a small city, helplessly her condition. I had been granted special permission for extra visiting caught up in what appeared to be for you to see him in his department. hours (this paper was signed by her ceaseless activity and endless red tape. Following this appointment he would All of it was such a strange and un­ doctor) because of her serious condi­ make arrangements for you to see as tion, so naturally I had more oppor­ known experience, and it's the strange many doctors and technicians as seem­ and unknown that leaves us fearful. tunity to see the doctors than some ed advisable to get the most expert people have. Circumstances kept me in that great advice available. Probably most peo­ hospital all of my waking hours for ple will find just about what I have However, had I been keeping regular many days and weeks, and the other outlined here because the bulk of the visiting hours I could have gone to the evening it occurred to me that per­ admissions ·are not on a drastic emer­ nurses' desk and asked that they page haps if I wrote a few "pointers" it gency basis. him-or I could have left word at this might be helpful to other parents who desk that I wanted to see him and suddenly find themselves face to face But we were an emergency, so when then he would have gotten in touch with a similar situation. We never ex­ we arrived in our Pediatrics wing we with me. This means that if you can't pect ·these terrible emergencies and found a staff of doctors and nurses see your doctors during the regular thus we're never prepared for them, waiting and the bed was ready for visiting periods, you can always make but they can happen to anyone. Sharon. I'll never forget the kindly arrangements to do so. And if you HOW DO YOU GET ADMITTED? ambulance driver who carried my suit­ can't be at the hospital, you can tele­ In our case it was an emergency, so case to the hospital room for me­ phone and ask to have the doctor our family doctor telephoned directly those things stick in your mind when paged and then talk with him. (At to the head of the Pediatrics Ward you feel so confused and bewildered. least I heard different calls coming in (where he wanted Sharon to be en­ IN THESE HUGE HOSPITALS DO like this very often during my weeks tered), explained the case, told them YOU FEEL LOST IN AN IMPER­ there.) It isn't necessary to point out that the patient and her mother would SONAL ROUTINE OR DO YOU GET that one wouldn't trouble these busy be arriving at the time the hospital A FEELING OF PERSONAL IN­ doctors in such a way unless it was specified, and made all necessary ar­ TEREST AND CONCERN? This wor­ absolutely very necessary. rangements so they could be ready. ries people, I've found, so I'd like to LODGING AND MEADS. The Main discuss it. I rode right along in the ambulance, Information desk has a list of sleeping carrying with me the records from our Immediately after Sharon had been rooms available near the hospital local hospital. put into bed, the man who was to be­ which can be rented at various rates, Upon our arrival, the receptionist at come her own special doctor from the depending upon how many conven­ the Admissions desk telephoned the large staff of doctors, introduced him­ iences you want, of course. Most big Pediatrics Ward, found they were ex­ self in the most friendly manner and hospitals have a special cafeteria, and pecting us, and told us we could go told us he'd like to sit down and visit at Iowa City there is a hospital bar­ directly there. a bit as he got her case history. Mean­ racks just across the street for use of Right here I should stop and men­ while, nurses and laboratory tech­ outpatients and for mothers (or other tion what you could reasonably expect nicians were busy getting pulse, tem­ escorts of patients) to be used through to experience if you weren't being ad­ perature, blood tests, etc., and then a doctor's 0. K. There is also a huge mitted on an emergency basis. followed trips to other floors for X­ University cafeteria just a short dis­ At the Admissions desk there would rays and other types of laboratory tance across the campus, and in ad­ probably be a file on your case which work. Her doctor assured me that I dition there are two coffee shops at had been mailed in earlier by your could go right along by the stretcher, the hospital that are open Mondays own home town doctor. After you were and at each stop an Aid kindly saw through Fridays. Of course there are questioned briefly, you would then be that I had a chair while I waited. motels, cafes, drive-ins, etc., which sent· directly to the offices of· what­ After other doctors had examined those who have cars can patronize ever department you needed (surgery, her (in order to get a number of when in town visiting patients or X-ray, internal medicine, etc.) and opinions), her own doctor told me staying with them. there your case history would be something about all of the tests that Taxi service is available at the main taken. When this had been completed would need to be made, and said that entrance of any really big hospital, you would be told that some certain when the results had been assembled and city busses usually pass by at doctor had been assigned to your case later in the day they would hold a and an appoin.tment would be made staff conference. As soon as this had (Continued on page 18) P A G E 4 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGA~E, AUGUST, 1958 DAILY LIFE WITH A SMALL BABY a meiJlre of skill. Already he Is very responsive to conversation aimed his IN THE HOUSE! way, and tries his best to participate in any attention he gets. His smiles are more and more frequent, and I I've got Paul tucked away for his almost had him laughing the other morning nap and Katharine is busy day. He's a very good baby and he playing in her bedroom, so I believe cries only when he's hungry-which Is with any degree of luck I can write invariably at supper time. It unnerves this letter in its entirety before there me to have him screaming in the are major interruptions. kitchen when we are trying to eat be­ We had hours of violent wind and cause he has such well-developed lungs rain storms all night long and con­ that even a normal voice can't be sequently I'm keeping Katharine in­ heard over his lusty yells. Just when doors this morning to avoid water­ I think I have a good hour in which logged shoes and clothing. All during to feed the family, Paul decides that I-a.st evening's television the local sta­ he is hungry too and then I either bolt tion in Indianapolis kept interrupting my supper and hardly know what I've the programs to report on the torna­ eaten or I try to feed him while I'm does that were hovering over our area. eating, which doesn't work out very Needless to say, I was greatly relieved well either. His weight at eleven weeks that Donald was home. was 16 pounds. I've never harbored any fear of Our house is slowly taking on the storms until three years ago when, for appearance of a public nursery. I've the first time, I found myself with a had to move our only dining table to tiny baby and a husband hundreds of the garage to accommodate the baby miles away and tornado warnings jumper and playpen and buggy in the posted for the area. I confess regret­ living room. We had this table placed fully that I look forward to spring against one wall in the front room, with dampened enthusiasm until the We think this is the only picture we've ever but as company dinners are pretty in­ had of Mother holding a fish pole! tornado season has passed. I've told frellJ.uent at our house these days we Donald many times that when we decided it was one item that would build our house I want some kind of high sides to keep baby from falling have to be moved out for the duration. storm cellar! These flat modern struc­ out sidewise. I sit Paul in it when he's Our bedroom is none too large, and tures certainly leave much to be de­ awake and he can see everything that with a big baby bed in it we rather sired. In this duplex apartment we goes on. I have a utility cart in the have to pick our way through to get have only three feet of space between kitchen which holds this chair nicely, to the closet. I have high hopes of our floors and the ground and that's and then I pull It with me all over moving this baby bed into Katharine's pretty cold comfort when the wind the house. rooni soon, as soon, that is, as I find a screams at the corners and windows Another new idea in baby equip­ place to move the play equipment that of the house. Donald keeps repeating ment is a long handled feeding spoon is lined up solidly between her bed that there Is absolutely nothing that for little ones stil! in the lap-sitting and dresser. This seems to be the story can be done if a tornado should come stage. The handle Is 5%" long, and of my life, moving furniture from our way, but just the same I'm anxious. this not only makes It very easy for place to place. Having children certainly changes a mother to hold, but it is also easy to Paul now sleeps from seven o'clock person's outlook on life In a multitude get down to the bottom of a baby food in the evening until six o'clock the of ways! container. The small tapered bowl of next morning, so there is no problem I've been busy rearranging our few the spoon is just right for a tiny of disturbing Katharine's sleep with kitchen cabinets to accommodate the mouth. a late evening feeding. He started dozens of small bottles of strained baby There are so many more baby food sleeping twelve hours at night when foods that have to be housed for the varieties available now than when I he was nine weeks old, and this is next year. Paul is enjoying the addi­ used them only three short years ago. surely nice for Donald and me. We tion of solid foods to his diet. In fact, There is a combination of orange and feel like our evenings are pretty baby we almost have a three meal a day pineapple juice that Paul seems to en­ free now and it's very pleasant to put routine with him now. At six In the joy. Fresh citrus fruit from Florida Is everybody to bed and be done at a morning he has only milk, but about not satisfactory this year so I've been reasonably earlY hour. eleven o'clock he has 8 ounces of for­ using the canned juices that are on We're celebrating two birthdays this mula, strained vegetabtes and cereal. the store counters. Our doctor told me month, and this makes Katharine hap­ There Is a fine variety of strained that this is a fine substitute for fresh py because she loves birthday cake foods available for babies these days oranges since in addition we are giv­ and parties. My sister Marjorie's little and, contrary to many mother's opin­ ing him a dairy cod liver oil and vita­ boy, Jimmy, is twelve days older than ions, I think they have a delightful min preparation. There are strained Katharine so he gets to have his birth­ flavor. Paul prefers the fruits, thus apricots and farina available and sev--­ day cake first. What a huge difference far. Vegetables call for a muscular eral other tasty combinations of fruit. there is in what they are getting for struggle because I find it necessary to Paul's favorite is a mixed fruit with presents! Jimmy is action personified pin his arms down when It's time to tapioca. I can't help but feel that to­ and all boy. He is getting one 'Illig eat them; otherwise I would have to day's babies are getting a splendid diet. present from all the grandparents and wash down the kitchen walls each Donald and I are both pleased with that is an outdoor, yard-size jungle evening. We have been loaned a feed­ the ease with which Paul is adapting gym. Jimmy loves to climb so In an ing chair, but to date it hasn't worked himself to eating from a spoon. He effort to protect furniture and his life out too well due to Paul's vigorous really does quite well considering the they are planning on wearing him out thrashing of arms and legs. However, few short weeks that he has been ex­ with this safer type of equipment. this feeding chair is truly a boon to posed to this new adventure. When Katharine is much more interested in mothers in other ways. If any of you we first started feeding him from a clothes and little toys. Her dearest are looking for an idea for a baby spoon he looked at us as though we wish now is to have her own wrist gift for some friend of yours this had lost our minds! Imagine putting watch which I'm sure the dime store would be a welcome present. It is such a foreign object into anyone's will provide beautlful}y. called baby's first chair because It Is mouth! These days feeding time goes We've had our first picnic and it constructed with a posture angle seat. very smoothly until the edge has been was such a success that we are plan­ It looks very much like an adult taken off of Paul's appetite and then ning to have lots more of them. Our lounge chair with a raised support he Is so busy smiling and showing us family has a yearly outing on Mem­ under the feet and dropped seat for what fine noises he can produce with orial Day when we go out to the lovely the hips and a raised back under the his newly discovered voice that he head and shoulders. There are medium makes the remainder of the meal quite (Continued on page 18) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 PAGE 5 WE HOPE OTHER SCHOOLS FOLLOW THROUGH ON WHAT DOROTHY REPORTS

Dear Friends: As I write this letter to you tonight while I am sitting here at my kitchen table, I am also getting another job .. done that is one household chore I dis­ like very much. I'm defrosting the re­ frigerator, so you can picture me jumping up after every paragraph and putting in fresh hot water to hurry things along. I expect to have it all de­ frosted by the time I finish the letter, even though the frost on it is very thick. I've had the freezing compart­ ment full of frozen meat, vegetables and ice cream, so the defrosting couldn't be done until this food was used. We finally got our new tile laid on the kitchen, pantry, and bathroom floors and are very pleased with it. We had a terrible time deciding on a color and pattern because we wanted something that we all liked and that At last! Russell caught the aftnnoon light just right to get this picture of Dorothy's and Frank's home. Frank's father and mother built this typical Midwestern house and reared four we wouldn't get tired of, since it will children in it. The tree is enormous and shades the porch that Dad Driftmier loves to sit on be there for years and years. We fi­ and look out over the fields. nally settled on a light grey with a black and white brushed effect. By We have had several nice visits year we have a large number of ex­ choosing this pattern we felt that we from the folks this summer. On one ceptionally good students, but after could have our kitchen walls painted of their first trips they brought with they start to high school we lose all any color, since anything would go them Aunt Jessie Shambaugh and track of them, or at least most of with it. Our walls will be painted Aunt Martha Eaton. Aunt Martha had them. many, many times before this floor been to see us once when we lived in These boys and girls ride the buses covering wears out, and we can change the other house, but it was the first to and from school. The boys can't our color scheme as often as we like. time Aunt Jessie had ever been to our all go out for sports because the ma­ We put grey tile congowall on the farm and we were so happy she could jority of them have to go home on the two walls behind the stove and sink come. She brought several plants for bus and do a Jot of chores before sup­ since that can easily be washed often, our yard and planted them the minute per. They can't come in to band prac­ and is the wall space that gets the she arrived. Kristin has been keeping tice early in the morning because they dirtiest. The rest of the walls are a them watered and they are doing just have to get up early and get their light turquoise blue and the woodwork fine. chores done before the bus arrives. is white. I had planned to do the paint­ I don't think Aunt Jessie spent a But I do know that they rank high ing myself, but since I have spent total of one hour inside the house that scholastically and I think they deserve every minute I am inside the house day! She thought our surroundings an award or a school Jetter for this. making peanut pixies, I guess it look­ were so beautiful that she spent all of I thought you might be interested ed to Frank as if I was never going her time outside. Right after dinner in hearing what one school did about to get it done, and he certainly didn't Frank took her into the timber to get this when school closed in May. A have time to do any painting. Anyway, some plants and they were gone half friend at Centerville, Iowa wrote to when I returned home from my last of the afternoon. When they returned me and enclosed some newspaper clip­ trip to Shenandoah to see Frederick Aunt Martha helped her wrap and pings from a Centerville paper. A when he was there, I walked into a pack everything that they wanted to teacher in the Centerville High School freshly painted kitchen! take home and put in their own yard. felt strongly enough that something The day I left he went to town and I was very pleased with all the nice should be done for these honor stu­ found a painter who could come out comments I have received about the dents that he got some of the civic and do it, and was I ever surprised! May cover picture of Kitchen-Klatter clubs and organizations in the town Kristin and Juliana both knew all -the pixie tree. It looks· as if there interested along with him, and this about it but had kept their secret well. are going to be lots of pixie trees in past year these clubs went together I still have the pantry to do, because homes all over the county! Many and gave a big banquet in honor of as Frank said, "There was just so friends have wanted to know where these students. Boys and girls in all much stuff to move and I didn't know they can get the little Swedish birds. four high school classes who had where to move it." He is so right, and Those birds belong to Frank's sister maintained a high scholastic average I am dreading to move it myself, but Edna., and she purchased them in a through the year were guests, and one of these days when I have the little Swedish shop in Des Moines. anyone in town who cared to attend tii;ne the stuff is going to be moved I don't know the name of it. was able to do so by making advance and the room is going to be painted. A few months ago I dwelt at con­ reservations for the banquet. Each Now that the kitchen floor looks so siderable length in my letter to you youngster was given an award, and nice, it makes the dining room floor about how I felt in regard to giving a lovely program had been arrap.ged look terrible, and you've guessed it­ honor students a little recognition for for their benefit. I gathered that this we are anxious now to Jay new tile in their ha.rd work and effort to attain was to be an annual affair from now that room. We know just what we a high scholastic record. Consequently, on, and I will be willing to bet that want this time, and this means that I've been highly elated to find that next year they have more boys and when we feel we can afford it, we'll many parents feel exactly as I do. girls on the honor roll than they had be able to go right ahead without When I wrote that letter I was think­ this year-a little incentive can do spending so much time looking and ing especially about the rural students a Jot. looking. We have new paper just wait­ who go to high school. I had just been Well, the refrigerator is all defrosted ing to be put on the dining room and recording the grades on the eighth and now I'm going to clean it out and Kristin's room, and I hope that be­ grade examinations as I ha.ve done then go to bed. Until next month fore I write my next letter to you this every year that I have worked in the Sincerely, paper will all be on the walls. County Superintendent's office. Every Dorothy P A G E G KITCBEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 A "LET'S GO TO THE COVER PICTURE FAIR" PARTY! There was a time (and it's not too By long ago) when uncles who lived in Mildred D. Cathcart one section of the country very rarely had an opportunity to see their nieces who lived in another section. But County fairs, state fairs, and even thanks to planes, Kristin and Juliana the World's fair this year hold many have had a number of visits with their attractions for everyone. Uncle Frederick through the years So why not use the "Fair" theme for they were growing up. This picture an out-of-door party this summer or was taken in the garden of the Drift­ early fall? mier family home when Frederick Invitations came out from Springfield to give the Invitations may be in the form of This cote little engine 1s m Nebraska City, speeches he mentions in his letter. handbills and must be very colorful. Nebr. Margery snapped the picture on a Son­ Make them out of bright colored pa­ day afternoon when Martin and Juliana climbed into the "cab". per or use wrapping paper or sacks LEGACY and draw bright designs. Print your invitations in the form of an ad to the FAIR" printed in large letters. At a given signal, the players search for I cleaned my silver spoons today fair. You might suggest some of the (My Great Aunt's legacy.) main attractions such as the horse hidden red letters. As soon as one let­ ter is found, the player returns to his A thousand times she said with pride: races, the exhibits, or the games. "My Jim gave these to me." Younger children would enjoy an in­ card and lays the letter over the cor­ responding letter on the card. The vitation to bring their trained pets Tarnished and dull, they almost for the "Livestock Exhibit," and little first to have "County Fair" spelled in red letters is winner. . seemed girls could bring their dolls for a Ready to throw aside, "baby contest." LET'S GO TO THE FAIR: Each player is given paper and pencil and But gentle care and cleansing touch Games and Decorations is to write "Let's Go To The Fair" on Their worthlessness denied. Crepe paper streamers, bunting, and his paper. At a given signal each per­ flags will add a festive look to your son tries to make a list of things seen They glowed like gems of precious lawn and a good "barker" might wel­ at the fair that begins with the let­ worth. come your guests. Party hats may be ters of the phrase he has written. For Though time had dulled their shine, easily constructed from crepe paper example, L-lamb, E-exhibits, T-tractor, They only needed proper care and will add to the gaiety. S-swine. For the other letters you For they bore a "sterling" sign. For your various games you might might have Goat, Officer, Track, Oats, wish to have "tents" made by using Toddler, Horses, Engines, Food, Ani­ It struck my thought that people too burlap or blankets with the clothes mals, Icing, Race. Are like my Great Aunt's spoons. line for support. Booths for tossing or Small children would enjoy sitting Encased in selfishness we move-­ shooting games are easily made by in a circle and telling what they saw Our lives discordant tunes. putting orange crates upon old tables. at the fair. Or they (and the grown­ When you are ready to serve your ups, too) might like to pantomime But the Master's .love and cleansing guests, invite them to the "Food Ex­ something seen at the fair and see word hibit." Place your table under your who could guess what it is. Restore the true design, For man was made like unto God: clothes line and run crepe paper SHOOTING GALLERIES: If the streamers from one side of the table, children have some target games, He bears the "sterling" sign. over the clothes line and down to the place the target in one of the booths -Mildred R. Bensmiller other side of the table. Leave one side and see who can win a prize by knock­ open for easy serving. ing down the object three times out of CONTESTS: If youngsters bring five-or ten tries. REMEMBER THIS GOOD IDEA their pets for a livestock show, plan WHAT I SAW AT THE FAIR: This your prizes so that every child's pet may be a game of charades in which gets a blue ribbon. There may be rib­ one acts out something seen at the "Last week we honored for the first bons for the smallest pet, the largest, fair. This will be strictly for fun. One time the members of our church group the best performer, the most unusual might imitate a prize pig, one of the who are seventy or older. It was ob­ and so on. performers, one of the 4-H demon­ vious these faithful workers were If the little girls have brought their strators, or a variety of things. If the pleased, and I must tell you how very dolls there might be blue ribbons for motions can not be guessed allow successful our entertainment proved the doll with the prettiest costume, questions to be asked too. the longest hair, the prettiest, and so to be. forth. Just be sure, when small chil­ "We asked each one to bring any dren are involved, that each one gets Refreshments old article she treasured, and at our a blue ribbon-this saves badly hurt Prepare any type of food that is meeting we suggested the person tell feelings. suitable or convenient for the group the story behind it. Even the most HORSE RACING: This will be quite you are entertaining. Anything from timid and quiet members were anxious sincere to the youngsters but hilarious a wiener roast to home-made ice cream to tell of the vase brought from Den­ for older guests. A broomstick horse is and cake may be served from your mark by a grandmother, the picture ridden and the contestants will race "food exhibit." Tell your guests that taken of a grandfather during Gold around the track to determine the some of the food has won blue rib­ Rush Days, a buttermold brought to winner. There may be races to deter­ bons and if they get a blue ribbon the Midwest by covered wagon years mine the fastest, the trotters, etc., to they may claim a prize. Beneath some ago. We were all amazed at the pre­ make it more amusing. of the cup cakes, sandwiches, cookies, cious old pieces and the fascinating PENNY TOSS: This is usually an or other appropriate foods, attach a history behind them. attraction at a celebration. Mark off tiny bit of blue ribbon with a tooth "Several have requested that we a sidewalk or a large cardboard into pick. Give small prizes to those pre­ plan to do the same thing next year, squares. In each square place a mys­ senting blue ribbons. for it seems they were reminded of teriously wrapped package. Players Picnic lunches are ideal for "fair things in their closets or attics . • . toss a penny or a stone and they take food," so plan a simple, attractive, and suddenly realized how interesting the prize in the square where their out-of-door type of food. they could be to other people."-E. S. penny falls. One prize to each if your guests are the small fry. Some people are making such thor­ Doesn't it terrify you to see so many COUNTY FAIR: Each player or ough preparation for rainy days that longing for immortality who can't even team receives a card with "COUNTY they aren't enjoying today's sunshine. amuse themselves on a rainy Sunday? KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 PAGE 7 LETTER FROM LUCILE when your subscription will expire, and take action before we have to spend so much for cards to notify you. Hello, Good Friends: The other thing you can do that will We drove up the long hill from help is to give gift subscriptions when town a few minutes ago, and as we you find yourself needing to give a passed one of our churches I noticed gift. Printing is like just about every­ the entire lawn covered with folding thing else in this world: It comes tables and chairs, lights being strung high to get only a little, but when up overhead, and a big sign in front the number increases, the individuai .. announcing an Ice Cream Social. item is cheaper. (If you've ever bought soup or canned fruit by the case rather The minute I saw this I stuck my than only one can at a time, you know head out the car window and looked how true this is.) So the same princi­ around quickly to see if the big dark pal operates in getting out a magazine, clouds we'd noticed earlier were mov­ and the more copies we have printed, ing up any faster or looking more the better chance we have of achiev­ vicious. There are sections of this This is one of our favorite "memory" pictures ing our goal: not increasing the price. country where you can safely schedule from the family album. Juliana and Kristin any kind of a church picnic or ice - both around two years of age. Taken I've gone into all of this because a when we all lived in San Francisco. cream social at any time in the sum­ year has rolled around since I told mer without giving one thought to you the history of our little magazine, the weather, but believe me, Iowa But one thing is certain: every single and I wanted to make a report and isn't one of them. All plans we make word. you write is read carefully and bring you up to date. for such affairs around here always all suggestions are saved. When All of you long time friends will be end with the phrase: if it doesn't rain. enough of you speak up in favor of very sorry to hear that Mabel Nair I'm certainly going to hope for the something, then we try our best to Brown and her husband, Dale, have best tonight and hold to the idea that supply it. Maybe the best }Ve can sup­ had serious worry and heartache be­ those clouds aren't going to let loose ply doesn't come up to your expecta­ cause of their daughter's illness. Shar­ and spoil all that nice set-up for the tions, but at least we've done our very on is having an uphill battle with a Social. (If I can get this letter written best and tried our hardest. heart ailment, so when you read without interruptions I think Russell These days we feel something like Mabel's articles in this issue you'll and I will get back down there and the families who were the last to give know that she speaks with the ring have some ice cream and cake for up a horse and buggy! They could of terrible experience. I don't know ourselves.) look around on every hand and see (nor does anyone else at this date) It was a year ago this month that their neighbors and friends driving how long Sharon will be in Iowa City, I asked you folks to tell me frankly those new-fangled cars, but they still but if you want to drop her a note or and honestly if you wanted Kitchen­ plodded along with old Ginger (that card I think it would be better to ad­ Klatter to keep coming to your mail was the name of my great-grand­ dress it to Ogden, Iowa (c/o The box and, if you did, what you wanted father's last horse!) and a buggy. Well, Golden Rule Store-that Mabel and to find in it. in every direction we turn we see Dale own) because they can always Well, all of those letters are in a magazines increasing their prices­ forward it promptly just in case she collection of folders tucked away in they say they can't avoid it with the is still hospitalized. a file, and whenever I get to feeling big postal increases coming into ef­ Last month I had a great thrill. in need of comfort, I take them out fect on August 1st. Some of these When Russell and I drove up to spend and reread them. You'd be surprised magazines have already increased the day with Dorothy and Frank, I how fast they make me perk up! I their subscription rates three or four ACTUALLY got into a boat and rowed always sit down to the typewriter times because of ever rising expenses. the length of their little lake-that's again in a whole new frame of mind. I don't question their judgment be­ about three-fourths of a mile, I guess. It is never, never possible to please cause I don't know the ins-and-outs I hadn't been in a boat since 1928-30 EVERYONE, you know. (Wouldn't of their problems, but I d.o know that years-and I just don't know when the world be a dull place if you all through the years we have in­ I've enjoyed anything so much. I Jove could?) There isn't a human being creased the price of Kitchen-Klatter to fish and could sit happily all day who doesn't number among his ac­ only once-that was in 1955. That was just dangling an old string over the quaintances someone who doesn't find a very hard decision to make too, if side of a boat. Russell says that some­ this or that trait undesirable-and you'll remember my account of the time he will take me to an honest­ those very traits, it turns out, are history of Kitchen-Klatter that ap­ to-goodness lake in Minnesota where what other acquaintances find the peared in August, 1957. I can stand a fighting chance of get­ most endearing and important! There What I wrote in that issue still ting a good-sized fish. That is a day isn't a human being who doesn't know stands today. If Kitchen-Klatter is I'm looking forward to. someone who has a real clear idea as helpful and comforting to people in My old and dear friend from Chi­ to how he should handle such and our chaotic, confused world, a world cago is visiting us, and my! what a such a problem, and exactly what he that often seems a terrible judgment joy to have an addition to the table, should do. Well, most of us listen to on Man himself, then we want to someone who has a keen interest in such suggestions and weigh them up make it possible for people to have it. cooking and is taken with all the test­ and down thoughtfully, but in the end That's why we say that we sometimes ing I do. Russell and Juliana do their we just do the best we can do-even feel as if we're driving old Ginger very best, but I'm sure they're relieved if it doesn't fit into the plans and while everyone else is racing around to have someone pitch in and help. ideas someone else has for us. in new cars! We don't want to in­ (Isn't it ironic that I, who must test If this is true in our own personal crease the price. so many recipes, can put on weight lives, then it is doubly true when it We're doing the best we can do at just by LOOKING at food?) comes to getting out a magazine! It's this end. It will make a very, very big I guess it will have to be a fall is­ humanly impossible to please EVERY­ difference to us if you will do two sue before you hear all about our two­ ONE, so all you can do is to ask peo­ things at your end. weeks' vacation, (if we can ever get ple what they want and then try and One: get in your renewal without away to have those two weeks!) but offer what the majority say they want. delay. (Cards that now cost .02¢ will I'll give a full report when the time I wouldn't know in what other way cost .03¢ after August 1st. If you use comes. you could manage-would you? only a few during the month you Not a single phone call. Not a single So, in the year that has now passed won't notice the pinch. If you use interruption. There's still time to get since so many, many of you good thousands every month, you'll Jose in on the Ice Cream Social, so we're friends took time out of busy days to sleep thinking about it!) It will surely leaving this minute. tell me what you wanted in Kitchen­ be a wonderful help if you can keep Always your friend . . . Klatter, I've tried my best to fill the an eye on the date that appears on bill. I've just done the best I could. your magazine, the date that tells you Lucile P A G E 8 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 A VISIT WITH FREDERICK with God's help, grow up to become the best of citizens. Our schools here in Massachusetts Dear Friends, let out for the summer vacation about a month later than the schools fur­ As I sit in my study tonight I can ther west. Just today I went to one of hear our large chorus choir rehears­ our big city parks to see 5,000 young ing its music for Sunday. Here in our people doing folk dances all at one church we do have a magnificent time. Of course that was only a small choir, and all of us look forward each part of the many, many children in week to music that is spectacularly our public school system, but it was beautiful. quite an event just the same. I hope that your church has fine My little Mary Leanna was out there on the field with 4,999 other children, music, for one of the few places where and of course she wanted to know one can escape from cheap and com- - mon music is in the church. I some­ how I liked her dance. Once I actually thought that I could pick her out of times think that there is no finer re­ ligious experience for children than the sea of faces, but then again I am not sure that I could. What an amaz­ that of going to church on Sunday ing bit of skill it must take to lead morning and there listening to great 5,000 children in folk dancing all at sacred music. A beautiful anthem not the same time. only inspires; it cleanses and purifies. Some friends of ours came to visit If you are ever in Springfield on a us last week in their own private Sunday morning, I do hope that you plane. The owner of the plane is a will visit our church. One of the first tractor salesman, and he uses the things you will notice as you come plane to fly from one part of the through the massive stone doorways country to the other, attending all of will be our organ music. The organ is We think this is a very good picture of the big fairs, corn husking and plough­ one of the largest in this part of New Frederick, Mother and Dad, and are sending ing contests, etc. Of course my David England, and our organist is a truly a big print of it for Frederick to have in his was very anxious to have a ride in great musician. Perhaps some of you study at South Congregational Church in Springfield, Mass. that beautiful plane, and he got his in the vicinity of Oklahoma City have wish. It was a terribly windy day, and heard Mr. Robert Stanley Swan play not a job for children; it is for people the combination of the wind and the the organ. We are certainly proud of summer heat gave us an exceedingly the fact that we now have him in who have gone as far as they intend to go in their formal schooling, and rough ride, but it was fun, and for Springfield. Before each Sunday serv­ David most educational. ice he gives a sacred recital, and many who have jobs that can support mar­ ried life. Colleges can drastically keep Every now and then I think that people come to church a half hour someday I would like to own a small early just to hear him. down the costs of building campaigns by insisting that their students be plane, but each time after I have been I had a letter from one of you good single, or if married, that they leave riding in one of them, I decide that Kitchen-Klatter friends asking my their mates at home. flying is not for me. It certainly is the opinion about young college students Ea.rly this summer I flew back to safest way to travel, and there is no getting married before graduating Shenandoah to give the commence­ question about its being the quickest, and establishing themselves in life. ment address at the local high school but I shall leave the actual flying of Since my opinion has been asked I and at the Essex, Iowa high school. the plane to others more skillful than will tell you quite frankly and em­ It was a most enjoyable and reward­ I. When I have to go any distance I phatically that I don't approve. I am ing experience. It is always good to wouldn't consider any other method well aware of the fact that more and visit the great Middle West, and there of travel, but I don't think I am cut more young people are getting mar­ is a special blessing in store for the out to be a pilot. ried at a much earlier age than when one fortunate enough to visit South­ Some of you people buy all of your I was a boy, and I know that colleges western Iowa. I like the people back groceries in the big chain stores or and graduate schools are making all there. They are so friendly, so ap­ super-markets. I wonder if you have kinds of adjustments to care for these preciative of things done for them, and any idea of their rate of profit? The married students; but this doesn't af­ so demanding of quality. Their schools very latest statistics reveal that the fect my thinking on the matter one are good schools; their homes are twenty-nine largest food chains actual­ little bit. When I give money to help well-kept; their food is America's ly reaped a scant 1.2 cents on each some school in its capital funds drive, finest; their children are given every sales dollar. Just think of what that I don't want to think that I am giving opportunity for success. means! It means that every time you money to help build a dormitory for While spending four days in my old spend a dollar in a grocery chain store, married students. Getting an educa­ hometown, I had much pleasure from the store itself only keeps one and tion is a full time job, and not one to looking at the school year book of two-tenths cents out of the dollar. be hampered by the responsibilities of some 23 years ago. If ever you be­ Needless to say, there must be a tre­ homemaking. come worried about the future of mendous volume of business to keep While I am absolutely positive that America's youth, just get out your going with this tiny, tiny margin of some young men and young women school year book and look at the pic­ profit. have done excellent scholastic work tures of your classmates. When you Perhaps it is quite a comment on while going to college as husbands and think of what some of them (includ­ our Times that the highest profits of wives, an education is a great deal ing yourself) were like during school all are made on the sale of drugs and more than good marks. Men who have days, and contrast that with what they medicines! Second in line are aircraft been working long hours to support are like today, you will have good parts, then soap and cosmetics, then families won't have an opportunity to reason for being optimistic about to­ office equipment, and in fifth place is travel and study abroad. Men who day's young people. the automobile business. (Probably if marry while still in college are not To us it always seems that the your husband is a dealer you figure free to do the many adventurous and younger generation is so much worse about now that fifth place is out of sometimes dangerous things that have than any of our generation, but it just line!) There are all kinds of statistics, for centuries produced the well-edu­ is not so. In each generation there are of course, but I found this particular cated, cosmopolitan individuals who those who are really bad, persons of report interesting because we are all have done so much to master-mind the bad character and bad reputation, but concerned and affected by what hap­ social progress of our country. in each generation there are the good pens to business in our country. Please don't misunderstand me! I do ones too. And when you look at your We are winding up plans for a sum­ believe in marriage, but I think that school year book you will have brought mer vacation-expect to get up to those who get married should be set­ to your attention quite forcefully the tled and established. Homemaking is fact that even the worst of youth can, (Continued on page 14) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 PA GE 9 WANDERLUST they left with directions to five dif­ they had plenty of cake. When they ferent places and a pessimistic "Now brought the sack in from the car it By the fish may be all gone!" they in­ was obvious that they DID have Evelyn Corrie Birkby sisted their opinion of this area had plenty of cake. Every place they stop­ improved. Getting lost on unknown ped people had given them the extra country roads is a bit hard on the dis­ cake and insisted that they carry it Wanderlust hangs heavy upon the position. I did mean it though when I along with them. We ate all we could family that lives in the white house said "Good Luck" as they left. I meant with ice cream .for our dessert. Lucy beside the busy highway! good luck in finding the fishing ponds seemed relieved to see much of it Starting late in May the cars which just as much as good luck in finding vanishing. go by take on a "new look." Now they a fish or two. The two hours they stayed was all are bulging with suitcases, trunks, bed Another car went by our house the too short. Olin started talking about rolls, sometimes a boat, clothes on other day. We were fortunate enough his medical practice in Eugene, Ore­ hangers across the back seat, mama, to meet the occupants at the morning gon. (He has since purchased an air­ daddy and children of various sizes. church service. From Pakistan, For­ plane to use in flying medical care up Now and then a happy looking station mosa, and Japan had come three boys to the mountainous regions.) He told wa.gon stretches by. More often than to study in Tarkio college just to the us also about the Friend's church not, a famly-sized trailer trots along south of us. It was so interesting to which they attend and of the many behind a car headed for most any­ hear them talk about the countries worthwhile activities the group is un­ place. By the first of August our case from which they came and their im­ dertaking. We admired their three of wanderlust becomes acute indeed! pressions of our country. We were fine children and they said nice things It is fun to imagine where these glad they drove by our house and stop­ about our three lively boys. Then the happy family groups might be going. ped where we could get acquainted visit was over and they vanished down When the cars go south we can imag­ with them. the concrete ribbon which goes any­ ine the Ozarks, Mexico, Disneyland, where, and in this case back to Oregon. We had a similar experience not the Rockies, Yellowstone, Salt Lake Sometimes the people on the high­ long ago when an IFY program par­ City, the Pacific Ocean-and Waubon­ way are on foot instead of driving in ticipant from India spent the summer sie State Park. When we see a heavy cars or station wagons. Transient la­ in this area. When he drove' up on the laden vehicle going north we know it borers sometimes come by and stop highway he stopped and came into our may have as its destination Goose­ for a drink of water from our cold­ home for dinner. Bobby brought our berry camp ground beside beautiful clear well. Once in awhile they will maps and the encyclopedia and asked Lake Superior, a tour of Canada, Chi­ arrive hungry and without funds. One Kenny myriads of questions about cago or New York, Washington, D. C., such man stopped just last n~ght. He the Atlantic Ocean-or relatives in India, about the children, their educa­ was headed north toward the harvest tion, their toys and the clothing they Tabor. It is really possible to go any­ fields and had run into difficulty on wear. That is, we let him ask his ques­ place in the world starting here on the way. Bob took a plate of dinner to tions in between ours! He was a per­ highway number 2. the porch and visited with him. I kept fect good will ambassador. How I wish each car which goes by thinking of the many people my fam­ would carry a sign (just as if any of vVhen the evening was over Bobby ily fed during the depression times. them would go slow enough for me to said, "Now when it is daylight over Never would Dad turn any one away read!) telling who they are, where here I'll know someone who lives on hungry. He would not give money; he the other side of the world where it is they are going and why. At least in did not have it to give and he was one case the other day we found out night." Perhaps the international un­ never sure it would be spent for food. who, where and why. Bob decided to derstanding gained from such an eve­ But he shared what he had. Our tran­ walk the two miles into Sidney to his ning was small, but it made an im­ sient seemed very grateful and left office for the simple reason that the pression on Bobby which will certainly only after Bob assured him we had family needed the car and were not be lasting. no work here to let him pay for his ready to leave when he had to go. He Sometimes the cars along the busy meal. barely took ten steps from the house highway stop when I am least pre­ We watch the cars go by. We visit when a car stopped. It was driven by pared for company. One Monday was with some who stop for a variety of a priest. Bob got in, explaining that particularly busy. I had spent the reasons. Our own wanderlust grows he was only going a short distance. morning writing. A hurried trip to a as the summer progresses. If possible, "You can go clear to Canada if you nearby hospital to visit a friend and we hope to get up some morning early, want to. That is where I am headed," her new baby took the early after­ pile our belongings into our big black said the new friend. noon. I arrived home at four and de­ camp-equipped pickup and join the Now that was a difficult offer to cided to wash and just let the house procession going somewhere! go until a fresh morning start could turn down! Thank goodness (at least from my point of view) he resisted! be accomplished the next day. That Traveling for the purpose of seeing was a mistake! I had just put the colored clothes into the machine when LORD, BLESS OUR HOME the United States, this man had gone a car pulled off the main road and all over the East, the South and the into our drive. Out piled a doctor Southwest. Now he was headed home. Lord, bless this house and bless us all Most pointed comment: "Your weather friend, his wife and three children In care and pleasure, great or small; from Oregon. vVe had not seen them is too hot!" Ca.nada does have a cool Blest be the door friends enter by, for four years. climate; even seventy is cause for And windows that let in the sky, complaint up there. I was surely caught with my house And roof above and walls about "Come and see me if you ever get £ nd larder down. When I know com­ That shut the world and weather out! to Canada," the good 'Samaritan waved pany is coming I like to do as much Lord, make my house a mansion of as he let Bob out in front of his office. cooking as possible ahead of time so Abiding loveliness and love, Just one car going by. Just one more we can spend our time visiting. I do A friendly, comfortable place. bit in the reservoir of kindness this try to keep an emergency shelf stock­ Let pleasant talk like firelight grace world holds. ed, but it seems as though we are al­ These rooms, and may friends linger We met the occupants of another of ways having emergencies, usually pre­ long the cars which whiz by impersonally. cip:tated by three hungry boys, and To join in laughter or a song. One pulled into the driveway and two the stock decreases at the most awk­ Bl est be these rooms for work or play! big men got out and came to tne door ward moments. Oh, let my house be sometimes gay of the house. A supper of sorts was finally put to­ And sometimes still as candlelight. "We are from Council Bluffs and are gether. It consisted mainly of bacon Be with us, Lord, both day and night. trying to find the fishing ponds we and eggs, tossed salad with olive dress­ Blest be our labor and our rest, hear are all through this area. All we ing, buttered corn and buckets of ice Our waking and our sleep be blest. can find are winding roads and hills. tea. Lucy insisted as we were prepar­ In care and pleasure, great or small, We haven't seen a splash, let alone a ing supper that they had plenty of Lord, bless this house and bless us all! pond." They were disgusted. When cake for dessert. Olin insisted that -Biblical Record2r P A G E 10 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 KRISTIN'S REPORT ON HER WHEN SUMMER SAYS FAREWELL SUMMER By

Dear Friends: Lucille Gripp Maharry Summer's almost over, And oh! what fun I've had! Helping Mother in the house This year, as in many years past, And working out with Dad; my sister repeated her saying, now a Fishing, boating, hiking, familiar one in our family, "When the Horseback riding too, Fourth of July is over, summer is Filling each day with work and gone." play- I used to consider this a sweeping There've been many things to do. statement, and accept it with private reservations. However, as years roll I taught two weeks at Bible School, along with the inevitable rhythm of And went to State 4-H Convention; nature, I am forced to agree this is Swimming and picnics are two more true. How swiftly each summer goes! things And how joyfully each member of the I must not forget to mention. family recalls, during winter-white Oh dear, where has this summer days, some facet of its fleeting magic gone? -a picnic in the timber, sweet Wil­ I think it flew past on wings' liam growing thick about a fallen log; But when I remember the fun I've a trip to a state park; or a jaunt to had the county fair on a sun-bright August My heart just sings and sings. afternoon! Probably there are few of us who have not wished on some fine day in summer, that Time could stand In all of my fifteen years this has Remember when you were fifteen and still still, if only for a little while. been the busiest summer I can remem­ liked to swing on big grapevines? Kristin, ber. Right after school was out Mother Juliana and Suzie Henshaw had a glorious We find actually just the opposite time just being ''kids". happens. Summer is like a child which and I went to Shenandoah. When we matures under its parents' eyes so came home we brought Juli and her quickly and surely they are unaware friend, Suzie Henshaw with us. You The week after Bible School was it is happening. In the twinkling of can imagine how much fun the three over I was privileged to attend the Iowa State 4-H Convention at Ames. an eye, fields of corn and oats lose of us had together. the pale green look of late May and My next big activity was teaching It was an especially thrilling event for early June. Almost overnight, clover Bible School. I taught the group of me because this year they honored my and alfalfa attain the luxuriant growth boys and girls who had just completed Aunt Jessie Field Shambaugh who is necessary for the first cutting. And kindergarten. Besides songs, stories, the author of the "Country Girl's Creed." Because I am her only niece before it seems at all possible, the and handwork we spent a little time golden hue of ripe grain touches the each day at the park two blocks away. in 4-H in Iowa, the State Committee invited me to say the "Creed" at the countryside. Through the miracle of One day we took a trip to the country modern machinery and the efficiency and the children each got to ride a opening session of the convention. This was an experience I shall never forget. of present-day methods, combines pony. They really enjoyed this. On an­ sweep across the fields, their quick other day we took a trip to the fire I got home on Saturday and the fol­ lowing Monday began to help in a day work replacing back-breaking toil and, station where the firemen showed the with an ease unbelievable until recent children all the different equipment. camp for physically handicapped chil­ dren. This camp was held each day years, another crop of oats or wheat They all got to sit on the fire truck is in the bin. and ring the bells. for one week from 10:00 to 2:00 on the Another thing they liked to do was Yocum farm south of Chariton. The In following weeks the vibrant foli­ to make the worship center attractive. helpers were divided into teams of age of trees and bushes shows an They took turns bringing flowers to two, and each team was responsible occasional yellow leaf, and winds arrange on the table and helped me for one child. They stayed with him all whisper of changes soon to become pick out different pictures to put up. the time and kept him entertained. even more marked. Days move on, We have had our County 4-H Rally We played games, did crafts, sang hot and humid. Nights now are so day, and this is always a day we 4-H songs, rode a pony, went fishing, warm that sleeping in the north bed­ girls look forward to. In the morning studied trees, birds, and plants and rooms of our ranch style house (new we have our election of officers. Each listened to stories. A simple lunch was about a century ago!) is impossible. club has a candidate for a county of­ served at noon. Harvest over, our neighbors leave one fice and the club members do a Jot of I have more plans for the rest of the by one for vacation spots. Before we campaigning for her before the busi­ summer but I will wait and tell you know it they are home again, singing ness meeting starts. This year I was about them in my next letter. the praises of Estes Park, the Red the campaign speaker for our club's Sincerely, Rocks, Jackson Hole, and every scenic spot between here and the west coast. candidate, Vicki Good, and we were all Kristin very happy when Vicki was elected My husband and I look at each Historian for the coming year. THINGS HELD DEAR other, weighing the advantages of a At noon we had a covered dish din­ vacation against that ever-weighted ner, and then in the afternoon we The common things of life are all so scale, the budget, and decide: next listened to a very interesting talk dear; year. The buildings must be painted, given by a young man who had spent The waking in the warm half-gloom especially the barn, red so long ago several months in Europe living with To find again the old familiar room, that not a trace of reddish-gray re­ different farm families as a part of The scents and sights and sounds that mains on its sides. Come September, the International Farm Youth Ex­ never tire, there will be school books, blue jeans, change program. The homely work, the plans, the lilt checked shirts, crayolas, and those Every year at Rally Day we have an of baby's laugh, happy little extras parents enjoy buy­ initiation ceremony for an honorary The crackle of the open fire, ing for that important "first day" of member. The person who is selected The waiting, then the coming near­ school. to be the honorary member is some­ The opening door, the handclasp, But next year like a mirage beck­ one who has been of great service to and the kiss. ons: all will be well next year. And the 4-H boys and girls in the county. Is Heaven not, after all, the now and then we smile at each other and real­ This service is put on each year by a here? ize: all is well this year. Right now. different club and this year our club The common things of life are all so And we wouldn't trade places with had that honor. dear! anyone we know. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 PAGE 11 FLY-OFF-THE-PLATE ROLLS A Few of My Favorite Recipes I was sold on trying this recipe be­ By Lucile cause the K-K friend who sent it said: "This is a fool-proof recipe if During the last few weeks I've used DELICIOUS THREE LAYER SALAD there ever was one. It has certainly all of the recipes that appear on these made the rounds, and girls who have pages. Some are old; some are new. 1 large can (No. 2) fruit cocktail trouble getting light rolls can make But they all have one thing in com­ 1 flat can crushed pineapple them literally to fly off the plate." mon: they're good. 1 pkg. red gelatine (cherry is fine) I believe that most of us go through 1 pkg. lemon gelatine 2 pkgs. dry yeast "fits" now and then of wanting to 1 pkg. lime gelatine 1/2 cup warm water break out of terribly familiar meals 1 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese 2 cups hot water and go to extra work to put on things Turn fruit cocktail into colander and 3 tsp. salt our families (or friends, if company drain thoroughly. Remove fruit to 1/2 cup sugar is invited) don't really expect. If such dish and put pineapple into colander. 3 Tbls. butter (don't substitute) a "fit" is just now overtaking you, do Press out as much juice as possible, 6 to 6 1/2 cups flour (approximately) try some of these recipes and see if and then add drained pineapple to Dissolve yeast in warm water. Heat they don't fit into the bracket "things fruit cocktail. You will have 2 cups two cups water and pour over the to fall back on" in your own recipe of fruit juic8. sugar and butter. Add 2 cups flour, collection. Dissolve red gelatine in 1 cup of beating as hard as possible after each (We always try to get the recipes to boiling water. Then add 1 cup of the addition and when mixture is warm, come out even at the bottom of the fruit juice. When completely cool, add not HOT, add to the dissolved yeast. page, but this time they may run over. half of the drained fruit. Turn into Then add balance of flour to which I want to make comments about these dish and let stand until absolutely you have added the salt. Knead well recipes and probably I'll not be able firm. to fit them in unless I continue the and then place in greased bowl and Dissolve lemon gelatine in 1 cup of let rise until double in bowl. Shape material into another column.) boiling water. Then add one cup of into rolls or buns, let rise again until cold water. Put into refrigerator until double, and then bake at 375 degrees it starts to thicken. Then whip until for about 18 to 20 minutes. SOUR CREAM CHERRY CAKE it is very fluffy and add to it the package of cream cheese which has I want to say something about the The friend in Trenton, Mo. who stood at room temperature and is soft. flour. sent this recipe called it a cake, but (If you're using an electric mixer, The first time I made these rolls I I can't adjust my thinking to terming whip gelatine at high speed. Then turn sifted the flour and measured care­ it a cake. I would say it comes closer to lowest speed when cheese is added.) fully. It took exactly 6 1/4 cups to to being a pie-a very unusual pie. Pour this layer over the first layer. make a dough of the right consistency. After you try it, let me know if you Allow to stand until very firm. The next time I made them up I had think it should be filed under cakes Dissolve lime gelatine in 1 cup boil­ a different brand of flour in the house or pies. ing water. Add final cup of fruit juice; and it took very close to 7 cups. 1 1/3 cups crushed Zwiebach crumbs cool and then add remaining fruit. For part of the rolls I used a tubed 3/4 cup sugar Pour this layer over the lemon-cheese cake pan and made a double row with 1/2 tsp. cinnamon layer. the balls of dough just touching. These 1/2 cup melted butter I made this to serve when Juliana came out wonderfully light and tender Combine these ingredients (be sure had a party and used one large clear and delicious. I baked buns with part crumbs are crushed very fine) and glass bowl-not the baking type bowl of a batch, rolls in a shallow pan with pat into an 8 x 8 square cake pan-I but a dish we sometimes use for big another batch, etc. have a glass one this size that works tossed salads. It so happened that I BUT ... here is something I want fine. Put it into the refrigerator to had in the house only two packages of to pass on. The last few times I've chill until very firm. lime gelatine and one of lemon. I used made up the recipe I've used half of 3 eggs the green lime for the first layer, then the dough for a loaf of bread. (I 1/2 cup, plus 2 Tbls. sugar the lemon-cheese layer, and the third knead this very thoroughly before 3/4 cup very heavy sour cream layer was just like the first with one shaping into the loaf.) Russell's fa­ 2 cups drained sour pie-type cherries exception: I had about eight green vorite of all foods is bread and he 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter almond maraschino type cherries in the re­ thought it was just about the finest flavoring frigerator so I cut them in two and he'd ever eaten. I baked this at 375 Beat 3 eggs, and then add the sugar, added to the top layer. degrees for around 50 minutes or so­ sour cream, almond flavoring and last­ Just before we were ready to serve, when you tap the top of the golden ly the well-drained cherries. Turn into Juliana used a commercial cream al­ loaf and it doesn't give at all under Zwiebach crust and bake at 325 de­ ready whipped that comes in a can your finger, your bread is done. grees for about 50 minutes. When a and decorated the top of the mold I'm not sure that I think this recipe knife blade inserted into the center just as if she were decorating a cake. is quite as good as my long-time stand­ comes out clean (just as if you were For additional color she put little by so many of you have-the roll testing pumpkin pie), it is done. snips of red maraschino cherries here recipe that calls for a little baking Everyone who ate this thought it and there on the whipped cream. powder and soda in addition to the was absolutely delicious. The first This salad looked absolutely beauti­ yeast-but it goes together faster, a time I served it chilled but with noth­ ful and tasted so good that the twelve lot faster, and when every minute ing on top. The second time I cut it girls cleaned up the entire thing-not counts, this makes a difference. Hope in squares and served it with a spoon­ a speck left . . . and they had a lot you try it. ful of vanilla ice cream on top. This of other food to eat! (I hadn't thought made a great sensation. they'd do more than pick at it!) We I think you will like it. I used com­ simply put the bowl on the table with RELISH PLATES I FIX mercial sour cream for this, but if a big spoon and Jet every girl help you have your own cream, just be herself. This salad looks so spectacular If I'm having any kind of a salad sure it's heavy enough. that I think it would be sort of a when company sits down at the table One more thing. When I take a shame to serve it in individual por­ I don't make up a relish plate. But if chilled crust out of the refrigerator I tions or molds. salad isn't on the menu I like to put put it in the oven when the stove is The friend in Indianola, Iowa who together a nice big relish collection­ first turned on. In dealing with a sent the recipe said that it was par­ it looks very tempting and, the one glass baking dish I am afraid it might ticularly pretty for Christmas, and by large crystal dish with compartments crack if I moved it directly from the using the three colors I can surely see that I own gives me enough room to refrigerator into an oven that has al­ how this would be. If I have any kind use quite an assortment. ready hit the temperature you're go­ of a buffet dinner during the holidays I consider a variety of olives and ing to use. I'm going to serve it. (Continued on page 22) PAGE 12 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 LUCILE'S BURNT SUGAR CAKE

This is a beautifully textured cake with the haunting "old-fashioned" taste that has seemed so hard to come Kitchen-Klatter Proudly Announces by in these days. There won't be a ·crumb of it left if you take it to a family reunion picnic this summer! TWO NEW FLAVORINGS: 1/2 cup butter or margarine 1 1/2 cups white sugar BLACK WALNUT 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring 3 beaten egg yolks BURNT SUGAR 3 Tbls. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar 1 cup cold water minus 1 Tbls. By far the best you've ever tasted. You'll find them 2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour 2 tsp. baking powder on your grocer's shelves along with our Kitchen-Klat­ 3 stiffly beaten egg whites ter Vanilla, Lemon, Almond and Maple. Cream together shortening and sug­ ar until the mixture is as smooth as ~ (If you can't yet buy it at your store, whipped cream. Add vanilla and burnt sugar. Then add egg yolks and beat ~ send $1.25 for any 3 flavors, 3 oz. bot- well. Sift together the flour and bak­ ing powder and add alternately to the first mixture with the cold water. Lastly fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. (This makes a thin batter but ~ tle~;;~HEN-KLATTER don't add more flour.) Turn into two well-greased layer pans and bake for ~ Dept. I 04, Shenandoah, la. approximately 25 minutes in a 350 de­ gree oven. ~ Please send us your grocer's name.) If you haven't time to make up the wonderful caramel icing given here, combine 2 1/2 cups of sifted powdered ~.~_,,~ Send 3 bottom lines from the label with sugar with 5 Tbls. milk, 3 Tbls. but­ ~~ ter, 1 Tbls. burnt sugar and 1/2 tsp. 50¢ to above address for 6 individual vanilla flavoring. (Put all of these in­ ~· ,, i= tubed cake pans of pol­ gredients, aside from powdered sugar, o· into a small pan and heat to the boil­ ished aluminum-regular- ing point. Then add to sugar.) This makes enough to put the layers to­ ly priced at 98¢. gether, and to ice the top and sides. BUTTERMILK CAKE about this than any other. Every ELEGANT CARAMEL FROSTING single girl wanted the recipe right 1 cup butter (I used half butter, away. They thought it was absolutely half margarine) wonderful. So I felt I should give you 1/2 cup butter 2 cups sugar this report along with my own obser­ 1 cup brown sugar firmly packed 3 cups cake flour vations. The recipe came from a friend 1/4 cup milk 1 tsp. soda in Edwardsville, Kansas-said they'd 2 cups confectioner's sugar 1 tsp. cream of tartar used it in their family for years. (And 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar 1/2 tsp. salt thanks right here to all of you who or maple flavoring 6 beaten egg whites took time to copy down recipes for Melt butter. Add brown sugar and 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter Vanilla white buttermilk cakes.) bring to a boil. Boil EXACTLY 2 flavoring minutes, stirring constantly. Add 1/4 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter Lemon MY VERY FAVORITE cup of milk and bring back to boil. flavoring CHOCOLATE ICING As soon as it has again reached the 1 cup buttermilk (I used commercial boil stage, remove from fire and buttermilk) 1 large egg add confectioner's sugar. Beat until Cream together until very smooth 2 cups confectioner's sugar smooth. Spread between layers, and on and fluffy the shortening and sugar. 1/4 tsp. salt the sides and top of cake. Sift all dry ingredients together and 1/3 cup soft butter 2 sqs. unsweetened chocolate Here is the caramel frosting we add to first mixture alternately with the buttermilk. Lastly fold in the stiff­ 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla searched for all of our cooking lives! flavoring It is as smooth as the proverbial ly beaten egg whites to which the flavorings have been added. Beat egg with electric or rotary velvet, gets firm enough to handle beater until fluffy. Sift sugar and add in any way, and yet never gets hard Bake in three, 9-inch cake pans for gradually to the egg. Add salt, soft and cracks off when cut. It isn't the about 25 minutes in a 350 degree oven. butter, melted chocolate and vanilla. cheapest icing in the world, but it has I want to say something about this Beat until smooth and creamy. such a delicious flavor (plus being cake. This handles beautifully, never gets completely dependable) that we al­ It made a delicious, moist, finely­ hard and cracks, and tastes more like ways turn to it when we want a car­ textured cake but I thought to myself a cooked fudge frosting than any other amel frosting. It's the one perfect that it didn't come up to my three­ uncooked icing I've ever made. frosting for our Burnt Sugar Cake. layer Anniversary Cake. I concluded Measure out two cups of confec­ that only people who had a supply of tioner's sugar and then sift. It al­ buttermilk on hand would really turn MAPLE SYRUP ways pays to sift such sugar. You may to it frequently. be tempted to hurry and just dump it Now, all of the girls in our Kitchen­ in, but far too often you'll end spend­ Boil together 1 cup water, 1 cup Klatter office had a big piece of this ing a lot more time trying to get out brown sugar, 1 cup white sugar. Then cake with afternoon coffee, and of all the lumps you hadn't been aware of add 1 cup of white corn syrup and 2 the many cakes I've baked and taken until you started to get a creamy, Tbls. Kitchen-Klatter maple flavoring. down, there were more comments glossy frosting. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 P A G E 13 IF YOU'RE GOING TO COLORADO, Estes Park via Raymond and Allens­ ABIGAIL'S REPORT WILL BE park. This is a longer route and has a good many twists and turns. How­ HELPFUL ever, it is a charming and lovely drive along the South St. Vrain river with Dear Friends, a quiet untouched beauty all its own. This is a typical summer morning The ultimate in spectacular beauty in Colorado. The sun is shining bright­ and mountain highway engineering in ly-it's quite hot in the sun, but cool this section of Colorado is the "grand and comfortable in the shade. A light Circle" trip. From Estes Park drive breeze is drying the clothes on the line on U. S. 34 via Fall River Pass, Mil­ in less time than it takes to hang ner Pass, Grand Lake to the new them all up. A power mower or two Shadow Mountain National Recrea­ provides the daily background music. tion Area. This first section is the One neighbor is painting the trim on famous Trail Ridge Road over the his house, another is planting a new Continental Divide, and is kept open tree in his front yard. Every home only during the summer months. Just has at least one sprinkler in operation. beyond Granby transfer to U. S. 40 Almost every afternoon the clouds to cross back over the Divide on Ber­ come rolling up but rarely do they thoud Pass. At Idaho Springs you can produce rain-their chief utility is to either stay on U. S. 40 and come into shade the city and keep the tempera­ Denver or else turn off on Colorado ture at a comfortable reading. 119. This latter highway will take you Ours is one of two homes in the through the pioneer mining towns of neighborhood with an air-conditioner; Blackhawk, (Central City is only a the other belongs to former Okla­ mile or so above Blackhawk), Neder­ homans. Neither of us found such ap­ land, and Ward. At Raymond pick up pliances worth much on the second­ Highway 7 to return to Estes Park. Alison and Emily Driftmier outside their hand market and so they were moved home in Denver. Mother made the dress Emily We spent most of our time in Rocky to Denver along with other household is wearing and probably will get started on Mountain Park hiking along some of furnishings. Our living room on the one for Alison when her current handwork project is completed. the shorter trails. There are many west gets rather stuffy in the late quite safe for children and adults in­ afternoon so the air-conditioner was a single item will be permitted to be experienced in mountaineering. The installed to alleviate this situation. sold at full retail price-everything trails are well marked and usually Because ours was a window unit un­ goes for less. Because few of our cus­ wide enough for two people to walk suited to our present type windows, a tomers have an opportunity to attend abreast. In June the streams are run­ very satisfactory solution was found a "good" auction, the plant auction ning very full from melting snow and to the problem of installation. The air­ meets with a very enthusiastic re­ are particularly beautiful. Our first conditioner was mounted in the gar­ sponse. hike was from the Glacier Gorge park­ age; the cool air travels via a duct The garden clinic was the "official" ing area up to Alberta Falls. The chil­ into an opening which matches the hot end to the madly rushing spring sea­ dren found quite thrilling the experi­ air register in the adjoining living son. Feeling a need for a restful ence of crossing the roaring streams room wall. This removes much of the change of pace, our family took off on log bridges just above the level of irritating noise and vibration. In addi­ for three days to Rocky Mountain the water. Needless to say, we kept a tion, the 220 volt wiring was located National Park while there was still tight clasp on their hands as we close by the garage in the utility room. time to take advantage of early season crossed over! Not many homes here have air-condi­ rental rates on cottages. Two weeks tioners because they really aren't es­ One road in the park stops very prior to this trip we had driven there near Bear Lake. It is but a short walk sential to comfortable living. As soon with the children for a few hours of as the sun goes down things cool off over to this lovely lake and there are picnicing and hiking. It has been such several trails originating from this rapidly. However, those of us who had a pleasant outing that we resolved to previously purchased them figure we point. We decided to hike up to return again at the earliest oppor­ Nymph Lake, then on up to Dream might as well get some use from them. tunity. This year the Wilmore Nursery Gar­ Lake which nestles at the base of It had been almost eight years since Ballet's Peak and Tyndall Glacier. den Clinic was moved from September we had been in that area, and you can up to June in order to coincide with At one point we had to climb a huge imagine I::!ow very much new building drift of snow still unmelted in mid­ the first blooming of the canned roses. had occurred during that period in the There were about 8,000 roses all in the June. No wonder these lakes are icy town of Estes Park and along Big cold. first bloom of June. It is an impos­ 'l'hompson Canyon. However, Rocky sibility to describe the magnificent Mountain National Park is virtually Both of these hikes took us along beauty of these blossoms; all I can do the same since it is not the policy of rocky formations and near small, is hope that some day you may have the National Park Service to per­ rushing mountain streams. Our last the opportunity of seeing such a dis­ mit extensive commercial develop­ expedition was through a deep pine play. ment within park boundaries. forest to Bierstadt Lake. We were You may not be acquainted with the For those of you who may be plan­ mighty glad to have the sheltering phenonenon known as a garden clinic ning your first trip to this popular pines over our heads when one of so I'll explain that such affairs are vacation area, I'll add a few commenb the frequent mountain showers came held by a nursery to help their cus­ about the routes into the area from along and started peppering us with tomers with their individual garden the east. U. S. Highway 34 from Love­ sleet. problems. Experts in various horti­ land, Colorado to Estes Park is the Clark was tired by the time we cultural fields such as lawns, roses, best known and is the one which fol­ insecticides, landscaping, etc., are on reached Bierstadt Lake so he, Alison lows Big Thompson Canyon. This high­ and I decided to take another trail hand for free and informal consulta­ way is pretty well lined with motels, tion. Drawings are held for registra­ which comes out down lower on the resorts, cabins, etc., but still offers a Bear Lake Road. Emily and Wayne tion prizes of value to devoted home great deal of beauty. It is a wide, gardeners and free movies on garden­ hiked back up the mountain to the easy-to-drive mountain highway. parking area to get the car and drive ing subjects are shown throughout the Highway 66 from Lyons, Colorado down to meet us. Our trail zig-zagged clinic. to Estes Park follows the North St. down the side of a huge moraine Perhaps the most entertaining ac­ Vrain river much of the distance. vVe covered with aspen. It wasn't at all tivity held during the clinic is the personally prefer this route because it tiring walking down, but for the next plant auction. Canned shrubs, roses, is easily driven and the natural beauty two days the muscles in the backs of trees and evergreens are all put up is less obscured by civilization's in­ for sale with the stipulation that not roads. Highway 7 from Lyons goes to (Continued on page 18) PAGE 14 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 THE END OF THAT SECOND JOB only a few minutes after we've finish­ ed a thorough cleaning and polishing By job on the house! Even the old rattle­ Maxine L. Sickels trap jalopy doesn't look quite so de­ crepit since the car port boasts new trappings. For many women the decision to quit the rat-race is about as difficult I belong to the school of thought that believes nothing must ever be as was the decision to begin in the first place! thrown away as Jong as there is a After six weeks or two months of a particle of use left in it, so I had been hectic shake-down, her first job and eyeing some leaky old ten gallon mi!J.o. her second job have adjusted to the cans that had stood out behind the twenty-four hours in a day. Her fam­ barn for a long, long time. One day ily has become reconciled, if not en­ I went into a deep session of thought thusiastic, about their contribution to on these cans and came up with this family living. Mother has become more idea: why not leave on the lids, turn adept at the frantic juggling act which them upside down and cut them in enables her to manage all of the duties half just below the shoulders? Who of her busy life and arrive at the right knows? Maybe I'd come up with an­ place at approximately the right time other piece of junk (plus another wry with family, meals, laundry, cleaning, smile from the family!) or maybe I'd marketing, mending, music lessons, come up with something really at­ dancing lessons, ball games, and both tractive. jobs almost under control. My friend, the blacksmith, accom­ Finally the day arrives when she Mary Leanna is really getting the tricks modated me again by doing the cut­ mastered with her flash equipment. Prince ting and my goodness! I even had might make up her mind to quit that Fritz is quite a noble looking beast, isn't he I second job and stay at home again. handles on the things when the job Perhaps finances have improved or was finished. The heavy bottoms made Do expect to work just· as hard and good cans for calf and baby chick feed special family needs have been met. be just as dependable as you were Perhaps her family has grown up and and these were passed on to the male when you worked for wages-and do side of my household. the children are making their own it for fun. way. On the other hand, perhaps her I sawed off the top of two pickets Most people are aware of the fact at each side of the driveway entrance job has ended for reasons far beyond that they would not want to Jive in a her own powers. and nailed my pots to the top of the community which did not have schools posts. Painted, they were no longer Now what? and churches and community projects Like other changes in our lives, this humble pots but good looking urns! and youth organizations. Many people I ordered four plants of the new cas­ one profits by planning. are unaware of the time and energy There will be a period of adjustment. cading chrysanthemums from a cata­ involved in keeping these organiza­ log and they have been blooming atop One of my friends said, "I have tions alive and working. These are the pushed all the housekeeping buttons the posts for several weeks. places which prove to us that the Another idea that has proved useful and sent the children to school. Now satisfaction of putting our shoulder to what do I do? Just sit here and die is a pair of old matching oval-shaped the community wheel is worth the washing machine tubs on either side of of boredom?" effort involved. I've been through this period of ad­ my front steps. I painted these a har- justment, so these are suggestions I;d monizing color with the house trim. make out of my own experience; pos­ In the Spring they hold single early sibly they can be of some help to you. A LETTER WE ENJOYED tulips; later these were replaced with Admit to yourself that you are in a tuberous begonias. period of adjustment. Give yourself a Dear Lucile: On the patio I have two unusual break, time to find out where you are At the end of summer it's fun to plant tables made from old-fashioned and where you want to go. reminisce about the things in our gar­ iron sewing machine frames. I cover­ If you are bone weary, ignore all of dens that have created more enjoy­ ed them with several coats of gilt and the things you can see that need do­ ment than all the others. had discarded windshields cut to make ing. Relax. You will have more energy The funny old plant containers that the table tops. One of them holds my later. I renovated from obscure nooks and big Christmas cactus that I like to If you are restless, tackle some big corners are perhaps the outstanding take outside in the summer, and the job that you have been putting off. thing I had to boast about and show other holds a huge pot of trailing I landscaped our yard the last time off this past season! Possibly you begonias. I quit teaching school. The time before would like to hear about them. None of my containers would be at­ that, I remodeled our kitchen. One day when I was waiting for tractive without the lovely plants they This gives you time to think about someone and killing time around a hold, but the combination of the two which kind of community work you car wrecking lot I found a pair of old has given me a world of pleasure, want to be associated with in the truck headlights, the kind that fasten­ oodles of compliments, and the warm months ahead. ed on the outside of the fender top. sense of having achieved something If you have children in school, that I've always been accused of kinship attractive out of almost nothing! is a good place to start. Just make it with a pack rat, so I went right ahead -Mrs. R. S. D., Washington known that you are willing to help and threw those headlights into the with the children at school or with back of the car. The reception I get PTA and you will soon have some­ at home is never enthusiastic when I FREDERICK'S LETTER-Concluded thing to do! present my finds, and the lights were Or try the Sunday School. I have certainly no exception. Nova Scotia for about two weeks, and never yet worked in a Sunday School But I tore out the inside, took them then back to our cottage in Rhode that did not need adults to help. to a blacksmith shop and had an iron Island. Needless to say, all four of us There are all sorts of Community piece welded to the back with two are looking ahead with great anticipat­ Projects which need more interest. small holes drilled at the top to nail ing to these relaxed days coming up. Just look around and take your choice. them into place. Presto! A pair of The choir has finished rehearsing Do admit to yourself that you are lovely cone-shaped planters which I and the clock on my desk says that I a beginner and expect to start with painted red and then hung on either should be going home. Mary Leanna some of the smaller jobs. side of my car port. and David will be in bed, but Betty Do plan to stick to whatever you These were planted with geraniums will be waiting up and we can go over start. A helper who lasts a month and and long trailing vines, and they have the events of the days while we have then gives up is not of much assis­ caught everyone's attention and given a little lunch. tance to a Cub Scout group that needs me a nice proud feeling-sort of like Sincerely yours, help the year around. the sensation we get when friends call Frederick KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 P A G E 15 WE'D LOVE TO VISIT WITH YOU Tune in to Kitchen-Klatter every morning over the following stations:

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You get the 200 Buttons who've driven many and many a mile NOW . . . you can make your own FREE of charge when you order the Lace-none without to see you. choice as to the filling and icing for Lace. But order TO DAY as supplies are limited to Two sets per customer. Money-back guarantee. This is the season, therefore, when this cake, but I'd like to urge you to BUTTONS & LACES, Dept. 919, Box 881, St. Louis, Mo. you want something particularly hand­ try the Cream Custard filling to put some and special in the line of a cake. between the layers. This is a not-too­ before serving in icy cold sherbert (I just don't know of anything that sweet filling of just the right con­ glasses or fruit dishes I add one ba­ makes a woman's heart leap like that sistency and is a pleasant surprise to nana cut in small pieces. There's tense moment when she unloads her people who don't run into it often never yet been one drop of juice left cake on a table where other cakes are these days. (Gives the cake sort of an over! And remember, it's the lime ranged up and down . . . and then old-fashioned taste that is very grati­ juice that makes the difference. hears the ohs! and ahs! of everyone fying.) who studies it!) Custard Cream Filling Now, here is a cake you can unload ODDS AND ENDS DEPARTMENT with pride with never a nagging doubt 3/4 cup sugar in the tiniest corner of your mind. It 1/3 cup flour At our house we have our main is absolutely delicious, it is obviously 1/4 tsp. salt meal at night. Noon always finds me "made from scratch" with good in­ 2 cups scalded milk or cream rushed and I don't go to much work. gredients, and it is handsome enough 2 slightly beaten eggs OR 4 egg We sit down pretty frequently to to make even the most rabid calorie yolks creamed chipped beef, creamed eggs counter break right down and have a 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla and creamed tuna or salmon on toast. piece. flavoring Any left-over dessert comes on at that Before I give you the ingredients Mix together the sugar, salt and time, and if there aren't any left-overs I'd like to make this additional com­ flour. Add 2 cups of scalded milk or we have fruit, canned or fresh. I also ment. cream. (I used milk.) Pour a small make up potato cakes from left-over There was a time when Coconut amount of this over the eggs. (I used mashed potato, hash (from left-overs), Cake left much to be desired, pri­ two eggs rather than the 4 egg yolks.) and combine left-over rice with eggs­ marily because the coconut available Stir thoroughly, and then combine the scramble them together. had a tendency to be very tough and entire amount and cook it in the top I try (but don't always succeed) to stringy. Today we have a brand on part of double boiler until thick. This keep home-made bread on hand. Some­ the market called "Angel Flake" that will get very thick if you cook it long times we have sandwiches and a dish must be just about as close as one can enough, and that's the way you want of commercial soup. If we have soup get to fresh coconut-which is some­ it. When cool, stir in the Kitchen­ made from scratch (and I often do thing of a job to grate. It is very Klatter vanilla flavoring. this) we don't have sandwiches. moist, it is cut in short lengths, and (One can of Angel Flake coconut There's rarely anything special about it is so light that it stays mixed all will give you a cup, firmly packed, our noon meals although we do sit through the batter and doesn't sink and a liUle left over. I stirred this left­ down at the table in the dining room to the bottom. No matter what your over coconut into the custard filling.) (kitchen is too small to eat in, you opinion may be of coconut cakes, don't When filling is completely cooled, see.) go arriving at any final conclusion for spread between layers of cake. Then At night I aim to get on a good all time until you make this up with I frosted the top layer and covered substantial meal. Almost without ex­ Angel Flake coconut. the sides with my favorite boiled icing. ception we have meat or fish, two Everyone seems to have his own fa­ vegetables, very frequently hot rolls Coconut Cake vorite icing, so my only suggestion with preserves and a real dessert. If 1 cup shortening (I used half butter, here is simply to keep it snow-white we have a salad, I prepare only one half margarine) and cover the entire cake lavishly. vegetable. If we have a big fruit salad 1 3/4 cups of sugar Believe me, this is a wonderful, it serves as dessert. (In this case, Rus­ 4 eggs, separated wonderful cake.-Luci!e. sell and Juliana light into the cake 3 1/4 cups cake flour or pie later in the evening.) 1/2 tsp. salt SPEAKING OF FRESH FRUIT It's a good thing I love to cook be­ 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder cause I have a lot of testing to do. 1 cup milk In our town we don't have access to And it's one of the ironies of life that 1 cup Angel Flake Coconut (packed wonderful fresh fruit except for a very I can gain weight only by LOOKING firmly in cup) brief season just about the time you'll at food-and thus can have only the 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla be reading this. tiniest taste of anything I test. flavoring I like to combine a couple of va­ But I've given you a quick glimpse Cream together the shortening and rieties of plums (skin removed), white of how this family of three eats sugar until it is like whipped cream­ grapes, big black cherries, fresh pine­ ninety- nine percent of the time. Does literally. Then add egg yolks and beat apple and fresh peaches. To this mix­ this in any way fit your pattern if vigorously. Sift cake flour, then meas­ ture of fruit I add plenty of sugar and the household consists of two-middle ure, and sift again with the salt and (this is very important) the juice of aged people who don't do strenuous baking powder. Add alternately to the one lime-we always have fresh limes physical work (such as farming) and creamed mixture with 1 cup of milk. when these other things are available. a daughter fifteen-or thereabouts? Then mix in the coconut. Lastly, add This should stand quite a spell in the I'd love to compare notes with you the 4 stiffly beaten egg whites to coldest part of your refrigerator. Just on this. P A G E 16 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 FROM MY DESK By Leanna

Question: "When my husband's fam­ ily home was sold two years ago fol­ lowing his mother's death, I wanted very badly to have a walnut love seat that is almost an identical match to one that I purchased and refinished .. not long after we were married. I mentioned to my mother-in-law how nicely hers would go with the one I had and she said a number of times that I could have it. When the day came to take out pieces before the sale, my sister-in-law grabbed on to that love seat and took it to her home before we could even get there to claim it. She has never done a thing with it-just has it standing out in the wash house. My husband refuses to speak to his brother about it, but I want it and can't see why she is such a dog-in-the-manger and has it stuck out in the wash house. Don't you think I'd be justified in standing up for my We think this is a wonderfully fine looking group of young people, and my! what memories rights about this?"-Mo. it calls up of summer recita]g and everyone doing his very best before -proud parents and friends. These teenagers are the advanced piano pupils of Mrs. Agnes Ahlman, Stanton, Nebr. Answer: You might be justified, but Back row, left to right: Margaret Ludington, David Thor, Sally Vaught, Bobby Pohlman, you'd live to regret it. It's perfectly Lois Svenson. On bench: Verna Troutman, Mrs. Ahlman, Harriet Groth. Front row: Rae clear that your sister-in-law intends Stevenson, Mary Denney, Sharon Sweetland. Lois Svenson (whose home is in Norfolk) is now a college student in. Minneapolis, Minn., and Harriet Groth is a college student at to hang on to the love seat. If your New Ulm, Minn. husband felt as strongly as you do about it, at least there wouldn't be they wouldn't give to be able to do all wrote and told them our plans and trouble in your own home about it. these things today! I am seventy-two asked if it would be convenient, but But he doesn't. If I were you I would and on this subject I know how it is. we haven't heard one word in reply. close my mind on this and refuse to Someday you and your friends will As far as we know, no one from our think about it any further. No piece look at the young members and feel town has seen them since they moved of furniture is worth hard feelings exactly the way your elderly members away. Would you write again-or just between you and your husband, and feel when they look at you. forget it?"-Minn. that's what you'd have if you stirred Question: "Don't you feel that chil­ Answer: Letters can go astray. Let­ up a fuss about this. dren should have some kind of limits ters can accidentally get buried in a Question: "What can we young mar­ laid down as to how many blood­ house-many, many times I've heard ried women do with our elderly women thirsty TV shows and movies they can about letters that somehow got pushed in a church Circle who propose all see? My husband and I seem to be under something and were only dis­ kinds of ambitious projects, band to­ the only ones who feel strongly about covered later. Every now and then we gether as a group to push them this and our three children are mad read in the paper about a piece of through, and then leave it up to us to at us, of course, because we lay down mail that is delivered years later. If do all the work? We're all busy with the law and refuse to let them do you enjoy these people and want to children, Jots of housework, etc., and what all their friends are doing. Some­ see them again, send another letter it's getting mighty aggravating to have times it gets so hard that we're almost and tell them that now the time has all these activities pushed through tempted to give up and just let them come when you must make final plans. when we're the ones who have to do go along with the others. I think the If there is no reply to this, then forget the work. Some of us have just about other parents feel we're old fashioned it. But knowing how many things can decided to stop participating in Circle and silly-they say these blood-thirsty happen to a letter, I'd make another meetings because the whole thing has things don't make any difference to attempt. (I'd appreciate knowing later become such an irritating burden. the children. I'd appreciate your just what did happen here.) Have you any suggestions?"-Kans. opinion."-·-Ill. Question: "This may seem very silly Answer: I don't have any sugges­ Answer: My opinion is this: blood­ to you, Leanna, because I'm sure you tions that will be helpful, but I want thirsty TV shows and movies and have all kinds of photographs of your you to stop and realize something be­ comic books make a terrible impres­ grandchildren, but my husband and I fore you and your friends pull out. sion on children. A steady diet of it feel hurt and embarrassed because we The elderly women in your Circle had leads them to feel very little respect just can't seem to get any pictures of an uphill struggle to get your church for human life-they get the idea that our son's two children. We have two on a sound footing-when you tell me anything can be solved with a revol­ boys and two girls-they all live in in detail what your church has accom­ ver or violence of some kind. It's not other parts of the country, and both plished in only fifty years I am im­ easy to have your children mad at the girls and one boy have sent us pressed. This could have been done you and tell you they are persecuted nice photographs from time to time only by all of them pitching in and by not going along with the gang, but of their children. Our friends are al­ working very hard. They feel a natural believe me, in years to come they will ways interested in these pictures but sense of great pride in what has been stand a much better chance of being they always say: "Where are Carl's achieved. It is of tremendous impor­ the kind of citizens you are trying to children?" I have to make some kind tance to them that the church con­ raise. Stand by your convictions on of an excuse because these pictures tinue to make such strides and in their this. And I hope other parents will are kept in a group on the wall in the own minds it is a sorrow to them that have gumption enough to stand by living room and it is conspicuous that they can no longer carry the burdens their convictions. we haven't a single thing of Carl's involved. They look at you young Question: "My husband's vacation children. I've asked them again and women, remember when they were falls in early September and we had again-but nothing happens. Would young with exactly the problems you planned to drive to Idaho to visit rela­ you know what to do about this?"­ have today, and figure that if they tives. On the road we wanted to stop Nebr. could do it, you can too. Don't pull and visit a couple who lived here until Answer: Well, it's true that I cer­ out. Pick up the load that they are three years ago-we were good friends tainly don't have this problem, but if unwillingly turning over to you-what and would love to see them again. I (Continued on next page) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE AUGUST, 1958 P A G E 17 FROM MY DESK-Concluded THE KITCHEN Less Than I did have it I believe I'd do one of Sometimes I like a kitchen best two things: I'd send a check in a let­ When all the work is done, ter and say that it's intended to be lARGE And it is orderly and sweet 5 used for photographs of the children With fragrance and with sun. NEW c and explain exactly the way you ex­ The floor waxed and the curtains 24 plained to me how much you want crisp, TOWELS EA their pictures up with the others. My apron on its hook- Maybe money to cover the expense That's right! Two dozen large soft fluffy A kitchen then has such a neat, will stir Carl and his wife into action. white towels for only $1.00 (plus 10¢ for Precise, and pleasant look. extra postage and handling). Think of it­ If it doesn't, then I believe I'd take LARGE-SIZE unwoven cotton and rayon down all the pictures, place them in But often it seems pleasanter towels for less than a nickel apiece! Ter­ your own bedroom, and find some­ rific value you've got to see to believe. We At five o'clock, I think, had to buy more than a hundred thousand thing else to hang on the living room to get this special low price. Now we're wall. Then you'd be relieved from em­ When suddenly it is time to fill The kettle at the sink, passing this savings on to you, our cus­ barrassment and attempted explana­ tomers. All orders on a FIRST COME, To start the fire, and lay the cloth tions. FIRST SERVED basis, so be sure and T'he old familiar way- order all you'll need-you'll sure use all you'll buy-and you'll never get a buy like Question: "I've been through some Oh, a kitchen is a lovely place this again. Thank you. ORDER NOW! hard times in our church group be­ Any time of day! MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE. cause we have visiting lecturers, mis­ -Unknown MURRAY HILL HOUSE sionaries, pastors, etc., and our minis­ Dept. T-154B, Box 251, ter has such a large family of small THE STAFF OF LIFE Bethpage, L. I., New York children that he really cannot put them up overnight. I have a big house Be gentle when you touch bread. and only my husband and I are in it, Let it not lie uncared for-unwanted. so everyone expects me to offer to So often bread is taken for granted. take care of these visitors. Now I'd T'here is so much beauty in bread, ~1Wfll. be glad to do this, but what the other Beauty of sun and soil, members don't know is that my hus­ Beauty of patient toil- : WORK CLOTHES! I Terrific values you've got to band is extremely nervous, is up and Winds and rains have caressed it, I see to believe! down all night, and it would be a real Christ often blessed it. hardship to have a stranger in the Be gentle when you touch bread. I ,, ' SHIRTS 79 house. Not only would it upset him i ' 4 for $2.99 C badly, but I'm sure his prowling mMade to sell for 2.99. Now, around all night would disturb anyone • 4 for the price of one ! Tho __., used, sterilized and ready for else even though it is a big house. long, tough wear! In blue, I cannot discuss this frankly with any­ tan or green. Send neck size, hf and 2nd one, so I've just had to sit quietly 12 Exposure Rolls, 89¢, Jumbo color choice. when the others looked at me ac­ prints. Guaranteed work, one PANTS to match cusingly because I seemed so selfish day service. Sold for 3.85, now only .....•.... 99c and uncooperative. Before the winter Send waist measure and 4 f $3 75 ·Dept. 79 inside leg length. or • months when the whole problem will STUDIOS '" 1i ~;,;;.,,,".LINCOLN Lincoln, Nebr. COVERALLS . • • wear 'em $ be on me again, I'd like to have your used and save plentyl Were 2.29 ideas on this."-Ia. 6.95, now ...... Send chest measurement. 3 for $6.75 PEANUT PIXIES Answer: If I had this situation I MONEY BACK GUARANTEE •.• if not satis­ think I'd take a new course of action Clever little fellows in colorful caps and shoes. fied. Order TODAY I Send $1.00 deposit on (Red or Green only.) May be used in table dec­ C.O.D. orders. Add 25c for postage on pre­ the next time the problem comes up. orations or as party fa\·ors anytime. Price. 12 paid orders. Rather than sitting absolutely silent I for $1.00. (No orders accepted for less than 1 doz.) Order from Dorothy Driftmier Johnson, GALCO SALES CO. Dept. D-8 would say cheerfully: "I wish I could Lucas, Iowa. offer to take care of our visitor, but 7120 Harvard Ave. • Cleveland 5, Ohio I since my husband's health must be considered I would like to be respon­ ... ------· sible for his hotel bill if he stays Do YOU WAN'T A HEAVENLY FIGURE? there, or I would like to prepare the Satin .J.astex front and back panels combine with nylon power-net sides important part of any dinner where to mold your figure into fashion's version of the perfect womanly form. he is entertained and take it there." Carry right through on this by fixing The HEAVENLY FIGURE ALL-IN-ONE, eliminates pinching or the meat; salad, dessert, rolls, etc., and rolling. Has long front zipper for ease in slipping in and out. Criss-cross wa.lk-a.-way design gives freedom of movement when if the visitor is to be a breakfast guest bending, sitting, stretching or walking. The HEAVENLY FIGURE also, take along bacon, coffee, etc. ha.s wonderful. 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L _ ~v.:..:'.:o:_ ~ _'.'.'.: :"~~~:_Mo...:.•:..:•:'.:> _ _J ~~~~~~~~~~~~ P A G E 18 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, AUGUST, 1958 MARY BETH'S LETTER-Concluded ing, "hide and seek" and playing all sorts of pretend games. Emily is our park that Delco Remy and Guide bird enthusiast and was delighted to Lamp has provided for its employees. find several new species of birds, par­ We fix a morning breakfast and then ticularly two varieties of humming­ let the children play on the playground bird. equipment that is there for them. We The last day was very rainy. We took Paul in the buggy and one bottle tried a little scenic driving, but the which I warmed over the fire, and as clouds were so low that the scenery I said, it was so successful that we couldn't be seen. It was a good time. can't wait for another nice weekend to stop at the Park Museum and have to repeat the fun. This park is several a leisurely look at the exhibits. We miles out in the country and covers window-shopped in Estes park and 214 acres and the company has put up the children selected picture post the latest in playground equipment cards for mementoes of the trip to for kiddies of all ages. There are send along to friends and relatives. many, many ovens and picnic tables, We arrived back in Denver to find pony rides, a miniature golf course, a everything just as we had left it­ snack bar that has uncooked food, except the grass! Yes, it had grown horseshoe pitching grounds, badmin­ two inches in the three days we were Monroe TS (trans­ ton, volleyball, ping-pong, basketball, gone and needed mowing again! port • storage) softball, archery, casting pond and a Trucks make hand­ fishing stream. We feel very fortunate Cordially, ling and storing of FoldingTableseasy to have such a nice park. Abigail and quick. see It's time to go to the kitchen and , catalog pp. 20-22. gather bath towels and soap for Paul's bath. I had originally intended to bor­ IT COULD BE YOUR TURN EEL FOLDING CHAIRS row my sister's bathinette but after Monroe Steel Folding Chairs jn at­ we had it set up in our afready crowd­ (Concluded tractive range of styles, sizes and twenty minute intervals during the prices. Excel in comfort, easy ~and­ ed bedroom we decided that there ling and durability. Also full line of simply wasn't room for it. Consequent­ day. non-folding chairs, desks and combi. ly I bathe the baby on the cabinet top Outgoing mail is picked up from a nations for classroom, cafeteria and connected to the kitchen sink; this is regular postal box in the main lobby church school use. padded with a soft towel and then I several times daily. (Think of the UCKS FOR FOLDING CHAIRS just rinse him in the sink. Actually, messages that must be written to it is much more convenient than fill­ home folks!) Patients receive mail all Monroe Folding Chair ing and emptying a bathinette. Paul seven days of the week. Trucks for moving, The main thing to bear in mind handling and storing thoroughly enjoys his bath and we talk chairs. Also table-and. about most interesting things. Katha­ when you are dealing with such a chair trucks. rine is always on hand to help, too. huge hospital is that there mJUst be She pulls up the high red kitchen stool rules and regulations to keep it going and stands there ready to assist. Paul at maximum efficiency. They number PARTITIONS finds this shower of attention much to their patients daily in the hundreds! Monroe's new movable his liking. It takes enough personnel to populate partitions change idle I've got a stack of woolens that have a small town just to keep things space into useful areas. going! Smooth Masonite pan­ little bits of mending needing atten­ els, tubular steel tion before I can pack them away in You'll find that rules as to visiting frames. Swivel pedes­ moth crystals. I worked all last week hours, etc., vary in the different wards, tals, casters or glides. washing our sweaters and packing and there is also great variance in the them in sturdy boxes. After I get this rules laid down as to what must or done I have outgrown clothes of must not be done. But remember that Katharine's to put away and even all of these rules and regulations are more little bitty garments to get out laid down for the patient's best m­ and put in Paul's bureau. I have a feel­ terest, not for what the parents might ing this process of put-away and get­ think is best! The goal of everyone SHEER NYLONS out will go on for years and years. who works in the hospital is to get the Guaranteed to Last One Full Year patient well and back home again. On & purohase of six pa.irs, all six p&!rs will be Until next month ... Mary Beth That's what you want too! So respect replaced free if they run or snag within six the fact that they know more than months. After six months and within one year you do about a given illness and abide all six pair will be replaced a.t ha.If price. These ABIGAIL'S LETTER-Concluded st.ockings a.re very sheer-yet we send you a faithfully by all the rules and regu­ written guarantee for replacements. You ca.n al.so my legs were so sore that I could lations. wear one va.ir for 30 da.ys and it not completely As I write this, Sharon has been in satisfied, keep the pair as a gift and return the hardly walk. the University Hospitals for almost other pairs. They a,re not sold in stores. Size A One word of advice if you are un­ small (8 to 9¥,,); Size B medium (8¥,, to 10¥,,); fourteen weeks. I spent almost every familiar with mountain weather. Be Size C large (91h to 11% ). Colors: Dusty (rose waking moment of the first month tinted mauve): Visa (neutral, beige) ; and Mom sure to carry a jacket whenever you beside her bed. After that period I (light sunny beige). Ask for Style No. 266. Six start out, even though the sun may be pairs are $7.98. Send only $1.35 deposit (cash or have gone as frequently as possible shining brightly. Chances are that at money order only). Pay postman balance of $6.63 from Ogden to Iowa City (quite a dis­ plus C.0.D. charges. Send to Helen Strayhan, least one brief shower will come along tance) to be with her. So you see, in 1412 Great Northern Illdg., Chicago 4, Ill. while you're out. These showers never this length of time you can't help but last long, but the weather can change get a pretty clear idea of what these from hot to cold in the space of a very big hospitals are all about. TO MY CHILD few minutes. I hope you never need to enter one The wild flowers in the park were on any basis, emergency or otherwise. profuse. The wild yellow snapdragons You are the trip But If you do, remember that in only I did not take; were everywhere as well as gentian You are the pearls a few hours your first sense of con­ I cannot buy; and wild roses. The children loved You are my blue fusion and bewilderment will dis­ Italian lake; feeding the chipmunks and "camp You are my piece appear-and before you know it, you'll of foreign sky. robber" birds. There were several You are my have the ropes mastered like an old Honolulu moon; chipmunks living in a large rock for­ You are the book veteran. I did not write; mation near our cottage, and this par­ You are my heart's unuttered tune; ticular formation kept the children Thrift is a praiseworthy attribute In You are the candle in my night. entertained whenever we were at the anyone but particularly In our an· -Anonymous cottage. It was marvelous for climb- cestors. HIPS-THIGHS REDUCE LEGS -TUMMY Just use it a few minutes daily. A soothing massage with the Niresk magic-massager breaks down fatty tissues, tones the muscles, firms sagging skin. AND RELIEVE RELAX MUSCULAR ACHES AND PAINS Gives 7200 vibrations per minute with 110 square inches of vibrating surface on each side. 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Fit Tight! Gertrude Hayzlett I think most of us have an old stand-by recipe for Perfection salad, but when this came in from a K-K Take a few minutes right now to friend and she said that everytime she send a word of cheer to some of these took it anyplace she was asked for the shutins. You will have a much happier recipe, I decided to try it. We liked it .. day for having done so. very much. Mrs. Daisy Guthrie, Box 723, River­ 2 envelopes plain gelatine just place ton, Wyo. is 78. She has been sick all 1/2 cup cold water year, is not able to get out and looks 2 cups boiling water this pad forward to mail time. 1 1/2 cups sugar Mrs. F. H. Kessler, 605 Broadway, 1/2 cup white vinegar on plate- Yankton, S. Dak. had polio and rheu­ 4 Tbls. lemon juice matic fever and is now able to get out 1 tsp. salt only when someone takes her in a car. CHEW IN COMFORT! Soak gelatine in cold water. Then She collects stamps, view cards and Chew all kinds of food! Komfo Dental postmarks. add boiling water and stir well. When almost cool add the sugar, vinegar, Pads bring you blessed relief from pain Mrs. Daisy Payton, Rt. 2, St. Elmo, lemon juice and salt. Be sure all sugar and soreness caused by ill-fitting false Ill. has been shutin for many years. is completely dissolved before you put teeth-or your money back. Plates hold She manages to get about the house TIGHTER-won't slip or click. on crutches. Quilt pieces would be ap­ it in the refrigerator. When it starts to thicken, add to it: Easy to use. Write today. preciated. 1 cup finely chopped cabbage Send $1.25 for 20 Lowers Mrs. Anna Perkins, 1708 Lyon St., Send $1.25 for 16 Uppers Des Moines 16, Iowa is sl:futin and al­ 2 cups finely chopped celery or send $2.50 for both most helpless. She needs cheery let­ 1 dozen small pickles cut fine KOMFO DENTAL PAD CO., ters. Please enclose a stamp. 1 large carrot finely grated Department 774 Miss Odelia Roderigues, 208 Davis 1/4 cup chopped pimiento Box 6311, Phila. 39, Pa. St., New Bedford, Mass. has been shut­ Turn into a large mold, individual in for many years and had a long spell molds, or into an 8 x 15 glass dish. in the hospital this spring. Lots of old When ready to serve, cut into squares, white cloths are needed to make dress­ (if big glass dish is used), top with a ings. Can you help? spoonful of dressing and place on a 500 Gummed Labels printed with Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCallam, Box lettuce leaf. Will serve twelve nicely. ANY name and address, 25c per 152, Blue Mound, Kansas need cheer. ~I~er!nt)t$1.~imPaJ'J~d~iT~o~~o~~ He has multiple sclerosis and requires jewel·type plastic gift boxes only DRESSING lOc extra, 4 for 25c. Order as many constant care. Mrs. McCallam cares or as few sets and boxes as you want. Only 25c per set. Money.. for him, and also has a gift shop in back guarantee! their home. My own personal preference for WESTERN STATIONERY, Dept • .!!!_ Topeka, Kan. Elna Addison, 506 N. Michigan St., dressing used on this type of salad is Prairie du Chien, Wisc. is shutin and mayonnaise (not salad dressing) thin­ 5" Square--4" High unable to do anything for herself. She ned down with a small amount of ROACHES c::riv POLIO heavy sweet cream. Commercial sour States a leading University. Why will enjoy mail but cannot answer. take chances! Catch and destroy Miss Ora Warren, Center, Colo. is cream combined with the mayonnaise these disease earning vests by shutin and sits in a wheelchair all the is equally good and gives a slightly the hundreds, with Armstrongs "different" taste that most people New Sanitary Cockroach and time. She makes shell jewelry and Waterbug Trap. No Dangerous stampcraft things to sell. seem to enjoy. Poisons to harm children and ONLY $1.98 Ea. Mrs. Helen Fendrick, Box 299, Dodge, pets, no dirty mess to clean up. 2 for $3.75 No rost for bait. All metal. 4 for $7.00 Nebr. is a complete shutin. Mail is FANCY PEAR SALAD will la.st for years. Used by very welcome but she is not able to Hospitals, Private Homes, Busi­ Worth their weight ness Places, etc. Order today, in gold. Will pay answer. 1 large pear half for each person ARMSTRONG MFG. CO, Dept. 4 for themselves in Mrs. Kathryn R. Mills, Rt. 3, Robin­ Cream cheese 1305 Armour, Kansas City 9, Mo. one night. son, Ill. has a bad heart and other White grapes complications. She is alone all day and A few finely slivered almonds (if on gets so lonely. She would like to hear hand) 1 from you and may be able to answer. Honey Fruit Dressing '.tV" Mrs. Emma E. Rath, Rt. 4, St. Fran­ Lettuce or grape leaves DIJSOBB cis, Kans. has been sick a long time, MAKES ANY CLOTH is weak and nervous and needs some Canned pears can be used for this, of course, but fresh pears taste won­ ABSORB DUST cheerful mail. Please send her a card or letter. derful. Fill the cavity with softened ASK YOUR Mrs. Bertha Martin, 618 W. 12 St., cream cheese and then spread a thin LOCAL GROCER Grand Island, Nebr. is a long-time layer of crea.in cheese over the entire invalid. She had a bad fall in the win­ surface. (If slivered almonds are used, ter and is still not over the effects of put these only in the cheese used in FRESH PECAN HALVES the cavity.) Year after year for over 28 years.-­ it. Mrs. Martin is alone a great deal Wash and dry white grapes-the Organizations make money selUng our Pound and would like to hear from you. Boxes Jumbo Pecan Halves. Season starts Nov. I want to thank those of you who seedless variety. Cut each one in half 10th. We prepay shipments. You pay us when have donated yarn for making afghans and press them into the thin cheeoe sold. Write for hospitalized veterans. 'Ve can use surface. When you are through it SULLIVAN PECAN CO., Crestview, Fla. all you have and if you will write me shoul\l look like a solid cluster of at 685 Thayer Ave., Los Angeles 24, white grapes. Calif., I will send you a copy of the Most of the year this fancy and WALLET SIZE Good Neighbor Guide which lists delicious pear must be served on a DELUXE PRINTS names of knitters. Some of them will lettuce leaf, but for a short spell you Original Picture be near you and you can send your can wash big grape leaves and use for Returned SEND ANY SIZE yarn direct to them. We have nearly the base. Don't put any dressing on PHOTO OR NEGATIVE a dozen afghans ready now to go to the salad-spoils the appearance. Pass the hospital and I hope we will get the honey fruit dressing in a separate FEDERAL WALLET SIZE PHOTO CO. yarn enough to make a dozen more bowl. 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