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middle of the ponds and the kids got a kick out of that. Kitchen·Klatter "The next day we boarded that nar­ crash down right over his head, that road had even steel-nerve Jed behold when he saw the amount of bolted out of bed at the very first right on the edge of his seat. I was wood I'd hauled back! (I think he was drops of rain. There's nothing like driving and I'm glad that I was as I calculating instantly if we'd have having your children on your mind, is would have died a thousand deaths if I enough cash left to make it home!) there! weren't the one at the wheel. (Several Anyway, we had a beautiful fire that When they left; Albuquerque they times James and Katharine said: 'Oh, night and watched the stars, and the headed west to Gallup and then turned wouldn't Granny Wheels be simply ter­ people who drove in and camped next north to Canyon De Chelly (this is pro­ rified on this road!')" to us came over to enjoy the fire too nounced as if it were spelled Canyon (Granny Wheels has only one com­ with their darling little three-year-old Dushay) where they spent two days. It ment to make about the whole thing. boy. This man turned out to be a pro­ happens to be the one place of their Since I'd never again go over the NEW fessor at some college in the East and trip that I'm familiar with since Marge Million Dollar Highway you can be his wife is a writer - it was their first and I went there on the only expedition dead sure that I'll never go over the trip West and they were dumbfounded we ever managed together to New Old Lime Creek Road.) at all they had seen. Mexico. "Once we got down to the river val­ "We pulled into Albuquerque on Sun­ They found it absolutely magnificent ley it was no problem. We saw quite a day afternoon around 5:00 and I'll con­ and far beyond their greatest expecta- few beaver dams with the lodges in the fess we were all mighty tired and beat- KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 3

up. Our house looked strange to us We've had a major change in our when we entered it and our beds felt household this last month - we are peculiar. I guess that after a week of now a family of three rather than of camping it takes a little while to ad­ only two women. Betty's daughter, just to home. Hanna Tilsen, who turned thirteen the "Then the very next morning Jed day before she arrived to live with us, phoned from the office and said that he is now in the 8th grade here in our had to drive up to Tierra Amarilla at local junior high and is occupying the once and asked us to go with him be­ quarters upstairs where Juliana grew cause he was so tired he was afraid he up. might fall asleep at the wheel if he It was thirteen years ago this Sep­ were all by himself. It was over a 300- tember when Juliana left home to go to mile round trip, so I drove part of the the University of New Mexico in Albu­ way. But it was very interesting for all querque (what a fateful decision that of us to see how Jed does these final turned out to be!), and it took Russell school inspections where his firm has and me over a year to adjust to the had the contract. Nothing ever thrilled Katharine fact that no young people were coming "But one really funny thing happened and Jomes more than the family's and going. Well, we're back to the rurchase of a tent! The children in that little town where we were - 'got used to it" in the backyard coming and the going and I'm mighty Canjilon - for it didn't have a res­ before it was taken camping. glad of it. Betty and I were both appre­ t au rant. In fact, it didn't have any­ hensive that Hanna would be pretty thing. We hadn't eaten any lunch and We had a far, far too short visit with much alone for a spell, but the young we were all hungry, so Jed went back David Driftmier recently - Betty's and people have been wonderfully friendly to the school and asked the janitor Frederick's son. I told him how much and made her feel right at home. It's where we could get some food. we regretted that we had never really all worked out fine. "He told us that the service station had an opportunity to know him and The three of us had such a happy down the road a piece sold sand­ Mary Lea since they were born and visit with Dorothy and Frank at the wiches, so I took the kids and went reared in the East, and we saw them farm. I don't know when I've laughed down and the station was closed. A for only fleeting glimpses when they as much and just plain relaxed and en­ kid came up on his bike and told me were with their parents headed for joyed myself. I put business problems that the owner had gone into Santa Fe some far place. out of my head when I got in the car for the day. I asked him if there was This time it had to be another short and didn't put them back in my head any other place to get food and he visit because he was headed for New until I climbed out of the car here at said the only place was at the pool Mexico to visit Mary Lea and Juliana home. They've been firmly in my head hall across the street. before he went on to Vancouver, Brit­ ever since! "I looked across the street and ish Columbia, where he lives. Last Our little boy on the cover picture couldn't see anything that would pass year he took some classes at the Uni­ this month is Dale Lewis, the only for a pool hall. All I saw was an old versity and also worked at the library, child of Helen and Ed Lewis. He didn't tumbled down adobe with a padlock on a plan I believe that he intends to want this picture taken because he'd the door. Right. That was the pool pursue this year. His eventual goal (at just lost a front tooth and felt very hall. I asked the boy on the bike where least at this time - you know how self-conscious about it, but we talked the owner lived, so I went there and young people are!) is to teach English him into it by reassuring him that all WiOke him up and asked if he could at college level. kids six years old begin to lose their gl.ve us anything to eat. My! Such a One thing my nieces and nephews front teeth. place as that was - an old dirt floor, have said to me i.n recent years has Dale is a special child to me be­ one antique pool table, and a refrigera­ made a great impression on me. They cause his mother came to work for us tor out in back. say that our family, our whole big when she graduated from St. Patrick's "He had ham and cheese sandwiches family, always knows where everyone High School in Imogene in 1946 - just in the refrigerator and I was nervous is and what they are up to. It seems a girl 18. In all of the years since about them, but by this time we were they've run into many, many young then she's been with us and is now all so hungry and so far from the near­ people who just plain don't know where our head bookkeeper - my genuine est possible place to buy anything their parents are one-tenth of the time, right arm and hand. that we just bought the sandwiches what and where their brothers and sis­ I asked her permission to tell you and ate them. We suffered no ill ef­ ters are doing or are living and as for these following things because I think fects, but if we have to go on one of cousins - just count that out. This is they contain so much human interest. these treks again into isolated country in such shocking contrast to our whole One night the phone rang and it was I'm going to be on the safe side and big family (Juliana used this phrase Helen asking if it would be convenient pack a hearty basket. when she was about five years old) for her to come over and see me. I told "On the road back to Albuquerque we that I never quite get over it. her I was alone and to come right over. ran into heavy rain, huge hail stones As I write this letter Frederick is up NOW, in all of the many, many years and two road blocks, so we were a in the sky someplace between Spring­ that Helen has been with us she had tired crew when we finally pulled in field, Mass., and Omaha, where Howard never, never before called me at home our driveway once again." and Mae will meet him. His visit must at night and the instant I hung up I necessarily be very brief, but at least thought wildly and frantically of a This is the conclusion of her account he'll get a chance to talk with Mother thousand desperate things that could of their camping trip and since I and to show all of us the slides that have happened, things she could only thought you folks would enjoy it I just he took on this last trip to Iceland, discuss with me at home and not down decided to share it with you in print etc. I'm glad he's an excellent photog­ at the office. rather than simply reading it for our rapher and has fine equipment, be­ When the door opened and she came radio friends within range of our cause his slides constitute the only in she said: "Do you know why I'm voices. way I'm going to see those places. (Continued on page 22) PAGE 4 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

A UNITED NATIONS PROGRAM by Mabel Nair Brown

Setting: Make an arrangement which For the law is fulfilled in one word. my mind immediately recalls the chil­ has a UNICEF container at the center "You shall love your neighbor as your­ dren calling at our door to collect for front, and around it place some of the s elf." UNICEF each year. I discovered that items which represent what UNICEF BUT THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS children can teach us much about funds might buy. Such items might in­ LOVE, JOY, PEACE, PATIENCE, brotherhood and giving. clude a milk carton, medicines, bottles KINDNESS, GOODNESS, FAITHFUL­ How eager children are to learn about of vitamins, cans of food, clothing, NESS, GENTLENESS, SELF-CON­ other people who have a skin color school books, a doctor's stethoscope, TROL ••.•. different from their own, or who live in and a pair of eyeglasses. Bear one another's burdens, and so a different country! They are fascin­ Presentation af the Colors: The U.S. fulfill the law of Christ. (Excerpts from ated in school, or when they read flag and the United Nations flag and Gal. 5 and 6.) books from the library, to discover the Pledge of Allegiance. Sang: "In Christ There Is No East or different ways other peoples live - Leader: West", or use the more contemporary their homes, their work, their games Lift a little, lift a little! "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing". and crafts, their religions and beliefs Neighbor, lend a helping hand Prayer: As we give these minutes to - not with the idea of changing them To that heavy-laden brother the observance of the birthday of the or their way of life, but simply because Who for weakness scarce can stand. United Nations, we thank Thee, 0 God, they are interested. They want to know What to thee with thy strong muscles, for the privilege of being a part of this them better. Often we see children skills, full purse, and heavily United Nations, for the privilege of trying to copy something they have laden table, caring for and sharing with our fellow­ learned about these other people, or Seems a light and easy load, man. Give us the wisdom, the courage, hear them saying, "Oh I wish we had Is to him a ponderous burden and strength to do what we know that custom here" or "Wouldn't it be As he travels life's rugged road. should be done, Lord, and grant us the neat if we could have that kind of willingness and enthusiasm of the house here?" Are we adults as eager Lift a little, lift a little! children who collect for UNICEF for to learn about other peoples, to see Effort gives one added strength. our task. Amen. their talents, their contributions to That which staggers him when rising, Leader: mankind, to want to know them better? Thou can hold at arm's length. "Come ye, yourselves, apart and rest It is when we come to know people Not his fault that he is feeble, awhile. better, to understand them, that we en­ Not thy praise that thou art strong; Weary, I know it, of the press and joy working with them, helping them, It is God makes lives to differ, throng, being friends with them, sharing ex­ Some from wailing, some from song. Wipe from your brow the sweat and dust periences with them. Lift a little, lift a little! of toil How enthusiastic the UNICEF chil­ They are many who need thine aid; And in my quiet strength," says Christ, dren are as they make the rounds of the Many living by the roadside, "Again be strong ... neighborhood! They do not put on a 'Neath misfortune of poverty's dreary The brief hours are not lost in which long face and carry an attitude of shade. you learn "Well, I must do my duty." Indeed not! Pass not by, like priest or Levite, More of your Master and His love for Their faces shine with the joy of serv­ Heedless of thy fellowman, men.,, -Unknown ice, of caring. Somehow children have But with heart and arms extended, First Speaker: Today many of us a way of knowing that the size of your As a brother, a good Samaritan. think that surely the world must stand world depends upon their hearts, and (Paraphrased from old clipping, author at the threshold of a new era. What that there is a joy in loving service unknown.) with all of the unrest, the famines, the that can be found in no other way. Scriptures: (Read responsively by two political intrigues, animosity in so They are enthusiastic because they readers.) many parts of the world, our own gov­ are doing something they care about, FOR I WAS HUNGRY AND YE GAVE ernmental problems, we think we must something they know is worthwhile. ME TO EAT: head toward something better, because Someone once remarked to me, ''Sure I was thirsty and ye gave me drink; we think it surely must not be allowed the kids want to collect for UNICEF - I WAS A STRANGER AND YE TOOK to get worse! It is a time beset with they want to get in on the party after­ ME IN: decisions that weigh heavily upon the wards!" Many communities do have Naked, and ye clothed me; minds of all who are concerned with groups which sponsor the children and I WAS SICK AND YE VISITED ME: the welfare of mankind, truly a time serve refreshments following the col­ I was in prison and ye came unto that "tries men's souls". lections. And what better place to me ... One of the contemporary songs our practice fellowship than right at home? (In unison) VERILY I SAY UNTO young people like to sing has the But I know of several groups of chil­ YOU, INASMUCH AS YE DID IT UNTO plaintive refrain, "When will we ever dren who, of their own accord, re­ THE LEAST OF THESE MY BRETH­ learn, when will we ever learn?" God quested that the money which would REN, EVEN THESE LEAST, YE DID is constantly challenging us to learn. I have gone into refreshments be added, IT UNTO ME. (Mat. 25 in part) think nowhere is He challenging us instead, to the collections. Children (Again reading responsively) more than in the area of true brother­ can be so generous! Time and again THROUGH LOVE BE SERVANTS OF hood. I've seen their instant response to ONE ANOTHER. In thinking about the United Nations (Continued on page 21) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 5

for any sign of intruder. Or almost out of sight, it tucked between her legs at the sound of a harsh word. In frisky Ca lity -- Funny Little Word play or in a welcome-home greeting, it became a snowy vibrating banner of hy exuberance. She developed into a Cal­ Leta Fulmer ity of many facets. Leaving her giddy adolescence be­ hind, she found a dignity and poise un­ usual in a fox terrier. Long before she became a mother herself, her maternal instincts rushed to the fore. She at­ tended her self-appointed rounds with all the dedication of a doctor making his rounds. Very quietly, she'd enter the lambing shed. Even the most tem­ peramental ewe accepted her visits October wrapped its arms about me as mie and the kids were conveniently without complaint, baaing a welcome I perched upon the rocky ledge. Far missing and my screams and repeated as the small dog nosed among the new­ below me a chugging combine sailed swats with the broom accomplished born, touching their kinky-curled bodies across a sea of billowing wheat. Above nothing. From somewhere I remembered with a soft pin~ tongue. And Tiki my head scarlet leaves rattled in the hearing "Throw water on fighting dogs moved among the squealing belted pigs autumn breeze. But here in my pro­ and they'll stop." Well, don't you be­ as though she were one of them. Brac­ tected sanctuary, only the sun streaked lieve it! In desperation I sloshed water ing her small feet, she'd fight for a through to touch my cheek with warmth over them and they didn't miss a blow. solid stand while rubber noses rooted and peace. I sat quietly, having parked They merely slid, scooted and slith­ at her collar and sharp little tusks all my problems, as usual, at the foot ered even more wildly, their claws gnawed at the frayed leather. With of the hill. Suddenly I was startled to clicking like castanets on the wet lino­ playful gentleness she joined in their feel a cold nose nuzzling at my neck. leum, while I frantically tried to stay games of tug-of-war, helping them rip I'd almost forgotten my four-footed out of the way of flailing feet and discarded feed sacks to shreds. companion. snapping jaws. As a mother, Tiki was superb. That ''Pickles-Cality-Fulmer,'' I exclaim­ When Jimmie suddenly appeared, he she adored her children was evident in ed, "You scared me!" collared one in each hand and threw every loving glance and gurgling mur­ Fox terrier ears perked sharply at the them angrily into a pile of dirt in the mur. But she was a strict mother, de­ odd syllables I'd added to her name, backyard. What a sorry sight they were, manding obedience - first with a low­ and I smiled at my instinctive use of the their coats a mass of mud, sand and throated growl, then with sharp, nipping funny little word that I used involun­ blood. Taking one look at each other, teeth. Even when her children grew to tarily. Cality was the tack-on we they declared a truce. They spent the tower over her, she was the boss - a added to the names of those singular rest of the evening tenderly cleaning black and white matriarch who ruled pets who somehow twisted themselves each other's wounds, licking off and the roost with love and an iron paw! into our heartstrings to become an un­ spitting out the mess encrusted in Though Tequila guarded the homefront forgettable part of the family. The their fur. But this was the beginning with a determined loyalty, a magic strange word evolved from childish jab­ of a running battle that ceased only world beckoned beyond the hills that berings as the kids (and Jimmie and I, when we put Robert out for adoption. silhouetted our pastureland. And the too!) lived through an ever-changing Theodore we kept - he was the Cal­ click of the little shotgun in Johnnie's conglomeration of pets. No hard and ity. He immediately took over his posi­ hand was the signal for adventure. fast rules applied as to the qualifica­ tion as head watchdog with stiff-legged Tiki's estatic bark brought all avail­ tion of a Cality. Like Topsy, I guess, arrogance, sizing up each meter reader able canines to her side in a rush - they just growed ! There have been or delivery man as a possible threat to her triplets, Ovid, Hercules and Diana, C alities in every category. But as security. He chose his friends sparing­ named after Greek mythology. And Re­ Pickles arranged her spotted body ly, sorting and discarding by his own p eat, poor addlebrained old hound across my lap for a snooze, my thought strange canine standards. Theodore­ who'd come off second best in an en­ turned to the canine collection. Cality - at times my arms ached from counter with a truck. Some loose cog Robert and Theodore came to live the strain of yanking on his collar to in his confused mind forced him to per­ with us at the time we were building a subdue his bursts of belligerence. But forr.i a dozen whirling dervish circles new kitchen - white pups with my heart ached more when he was before he could manage to take off in a splotches of topaz. They tagged our gone. straight line. Her bright eyes soft with heels while we grunted under the Spanish textbooks were the order of pity, Tiki demanded that they all wait weight of cement block and wobbling the day - hence the name for our effer­ for him to complete the required number two-by-fours. And how they grew! By vescent little fox terrier. By engaging of revolutions so they could all start the time the room was finished, they leaps and bounds she worked her way out even. Rabbits, field mice, coons - were blockily built dogs who vied for toward Calityhood. Tequila, usually all were fair game. Even chasing the our attention with jealous fanaticism. known as Tiki, was beautifully marked. pop-eyed bullfrogs into the mossy pond To pet one and not the other was an Her black and white face was accen­ was a reveling delight. Tiki had only invitation for trouble. Once, scraping tuated by bright gold dots over her ex­ one enemy - snakes. She hated them the plates from the kitchen table, I pressive eyes. And streaks of sunny with an inborn passion. Blacksnakes, thoughtlessly threw Robert a tidbit. tan blended into the satin darkness of or garter snakes she ripped apart with Immediate chaos erupted. All over the her throat. Her natural bob tail, three whip-cracking tosses and flashing kitchen those big dogs fought - claw­ quarter length, was an accurate barom­ teeth. Rattlesnakes, copperheads and ing, growling, tumbling - like gladia­ eter of her feelings. It stood stiffly such she stalked with fearful respect, tors in mortal combat. Of course, Jim- erect as she scanned the countryside (Continued on page 20) PAGE 6 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

DOROTHY start and wouldn't have to hurry. High­ way 65 from Lucas to Sedalia was new WRITES FROM territory for Marge, and we wanted to THE take our time, turning off the highway and driving around the towns we went through to familiarize ourselves with them. We had a leisurely lunch in Chil­ licothe, spent some time in Marshall, and arrived at the radio station KSIS around 3:00 o'clock. We had a good visit with the owner, Carl Yates, and Dear Friends: the rest of the personnel at the station. "The best laid plans of mice and Bettie, who has a daily morning pro­ men gang aft agley'', and this is one gram at the station, did a taped inter­ old adage that certainly proved true at view with us, to be played the next our house this summer. I thought this morning, and then she was kind enough month my letter would be telling you Andy Brose's first question upon to guide us to the home where we were all about the much looked-forward-to arriving home from school is "Did to stay while we were in Sedalia. I get a letter from Grandmother and Since the hotels and motels were all visit from our daughter Kristin and her Grandfather?" He's very interested family at the end of August, but at the in what is going on at the farm, so reserved far in advance for fair week, last minute their plans had to be can­ Dorothy keeps him informed. we thought it very gracious of the Rev. celled. Art's vacation was two weeks and Mrs. Ed Neimeyer to offer us a long, and they had planned to drive happen a little oftener now if they are room in their lovely home. Rev. Nei­ back because there were some things to have any peace in the family. meyer is probably well known to many at our house they wanted to take back Hanna had quite a time with Little of our Missouri readers, since he is a to Livingston with them - encyclo­ Buck. He hadn't been ridden since District Superintendent of the Metho­ pedias we had gotten for the boys, for Andy and Aaron rode him last summer, dist Church, and has served as pastor one thing, and some things of Kristin's so he was far from enthusiastic about of several churches in Missouri for we had been storing for her. Just when having her get on his back. Buck and many years. they were to leave, Art became ill and Sid, Frank's riding horse, had been in The station owner and his wife, Mr. had a high fever for a week, so this the pasture together for a year, and S'_d and Mrs. Yates, invited us to have din­ left them only one week for the trip, was furious at having a fence between ner with them at the "Old Missouri and they would have had to spend all them, so he put on quite a show, tear­ Homestead", and we found this a fas­ their time on the road. Needless to ing around in the meadow. Lucile had cinating place to eat. The food was de­ say, everyone was disappointed, but never seen anything like the way s;_d licious. Mrs. Iva Rice, the owner, was we will just wait until next summer and acted, so she got quite a kick out uf also the creator of this unique restau­ try again. With both boys in school watching him. When it became perfect­ rant, which is in the basement of the now, there is no Ghance of their coming ly apparent that Little Buck was de­ three-story building which used to any other time. termined he wasn't going to give Hanna house the Y.M.C.A. In fact, the main I had prepared lots of food ahead of a decent ride, Frank saddled up Sid, dining area is located where a swim­ time in anticipation of their arrival so and the four of them went off together ming pool once was. It took her four I would be free to spend more time with for a good long ride. The next day years just to gather up the rocks and them, so Frank and I have been living Buck didn't cause Hanna a bit of petrified wood she wanted to use in the "out of the freezer" for days now, trouble. creation of her homestead. When you getting it all used up. Kristin and Andy Another thing Hanna enjoyed was the enter the rear door into the dining had stressed the point that they wanted kayak. She is an old pro at canoeing, room, you get the effect of a rural plenty of homemade ice cream, so I had so she handled the kayak well on the scene in Missouri at night. There are made and frozen six quarts of fresh bayou. This didn't give her the chal­ vine-covered picket fences and trel­ peach, six quarts of lemon, and six lenge that Little Buck did, though, so lises, oak, maple and hickory trees, quarts of maple-nut, and would you be­ most of her time was spent with him. and the floors are all flagstone. At one lieve it is practically gone already? Everyone had a relaxed and happy time end is a rustic waterfall, with water This, along with several cakes I had for a few days, and I don't know when running down over the sandstone rocks. made and frozen, has been a very any of us has had so many laughs, Vines and plants are growing there, handy dessert to serve when friends which was good for all of us. We ate and were specially selected for their dropped in. Besides several casse­ every meal on the porch, and managed ability to flourish without sunshine. roles and cookies, I had also made and to get rid of a lot of ice cream and Mrs. Rice, herself, built this, and frozen 36 individual cups of frozen cake. every rock, board and brick was laid salad, and we have eaten over half of A little later in the month Marge and under her personal supervision and these. So we will soon be back to fix­ I made a trip to Sedalia, Missouri, watchful eye. I could go on and on de­ ing meals from "scratch" again. where we appeared on the program scribing this place, which now fills When Lucile found out that Kristin "It's a Woman's World", located in the two floors of the building, but I just wasn't coming, she and her companion, Home Economics Building. Marge drove suggest that you stop and see it for Betty, and Betty's daughter Hanna, de­ to our house the afternoon before we yourself if you are ever in Sedalia. cided to come to the farm for a few were to leave, so we could get an early We discovered that practically all the days before school started. This visit helP at the restaurant are Kitchen­ came just at the right time to lift our The nicest thing one can say about Klatter friends, and we were happy to gloomy spirits. It was the first trip to facing the future is that it comes but meet so many of them. Mrs. Rice's the farm for Betty and Hanna, and Lu­ one day at a time. daughter took us on a tour of both cile hadn't been here for almost a At best, life is but a brief parade. floors, and when we were through eat­ year. Hanna had such a good time I March, then, to a destination worthy ing, Mrs. Rice invited us to come to imagine the trips in our direction will of your stride. (Continued on page 22) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 7 FREDERICK WRITES FROM THE PARSONAGE Dear Friends: Have you ever noticed how some persons of a particular national back­ ground seem much more solemn and dour than persons of some other na­ tional background? I have noticed that many times even though I always have appreciated the fact that there can be many exceptions to the rule. For ex­ ample, it has been the observation of many people that citizens of countries behind the Iron Curtain are much more apt to look sad than they are to look happy. This summer when we were in Iceland we spent a part of an afternoon with a travel tour group from Jugoslavia, and we all noticed how solemn they looked. Lost month Frederick described some of the experiences on a boot trip In another place we saw a large group on the Thomes River in England, His son David snapped this picture of his parents, his cousin Clark Driftmier (left) and friend Allen Appleton of Polish people visiting Scotland, and (right) as they were waiting in one of the river's many locks. there again we could not help but no­ tice how serious they looked and how not a laughing matter, but I have to and certainly it should not be heard in seldom they smiled. I have traveled all laugh when I think how frightened I places where others than the immedi­ over the world, and I have visited was by my watery eyes, and how cer­ ate company are present. It always em­ European countries many times ..These tain I was the some dreadful disease barrasses me to hear loud laughter in observations about the more solemn was striking me blind, only to discover nice restaurants, and I have a friend appearance of certain nationality that a nice rain shower which cleaned that I never invite to dine with me for groups are not what I call one-shot up the air also corrected my eye prob­ that very reason. When he laughs, it conclusions casually and hastily lem. A rain .shower can be such a pur­ sounds more like a shout and causes drawn. ifying thing in so many ways. others to turn and stare. You know the The ancient Greek. Casca, once said: One of America's most successful kind of laughter I mean - the shrieking "I dare not laugh, for fear of opening educators for many years was Dr. John kind. Such laughter has no place in my lips and receiving the bad air." Fox. He had been the distinguished polite society, but I suppose it is all Had he been willing to laugh at least and honored Superintendent of Schools right for "fun nights" when all the a little bit, he might have helped to of East Hartford, Connecticut, and then people are in a hilarious mood. Just tip the scales a little toward the side he became the president of the Puna­ save me from it. of sanity. Had we Americans not been hou School in Honolulu, America's Have you ever heard of dog ration­ able to laugh at some of the ridiculous largest non-parochial private school. ing? Plans are now being made to things thought, and done, and said by Dr. Fox once told me that the one ration the number of dogs any family the men involved in The Watergate thing which did more to help him may own in the city limits of Spring­ Scandal, life in our country would have achieve success as a school adminis­ field. The other day two city officials been much less pleasant. The honest trator than all else he ever had learned visited our yard with a tape measure, truth is that we all need to laugh more, was his ability to laugh. He said: and after making some measurements for laughter is the best defense against "When I get angry, I just laugh, When I said to me: "Dr. Driftmier, you have self-pity. When we can laugh at our feel sorry for myself, I laugh it off. the largest lawn in this part of the losses and smile at our defeats, even When other people get angry and blow city. Your lawn is large enough to en­ the most unbearable tensions become up at me, I laugh at them. The tension title you to four dogs!" They then told manageable. of my work would have given me a me that one of my neighbors could Casca the Greek would not like it heart attack long ago had I not cul­ have only one dog, and the other neigh­ around Springfield these days, for we tivated my ability to laugh." bor could have three. The number of have been having some of the worst air What he said of himself, I know to be dogs any family can own depends upon pollution. There have been days when true. My school office used to be right the size of their house lot. It is hoped had I opened my mouth, I would have next to his, and time and time again I that this dog-rationing scheme will re­ received the bad air. There was one would hear him laughing about some­ duce our present dog population from day early this past month when I thing that would have upset me terri· 18,000 to only 8,000. How about that? thought there was something wrong bly. Of course it was his laughter that The rationing scheme is going to hurt · with my eyes. They smarted and burn­ kept him from becoming too upset. His a family living in a duplex house not ed and watered, and I was just about best use of laughter was in the way he too far from here. It has twelve dogs to make an appointment with my doctor laughed at some of the unjust and un­ with a small house lot, and the dog when I heard a news flash over one of necessary criticism which came his officers told me that the family would the local radio stations: "Dozens of way. How I wish that I could have have to get rid of eleven of its dogs! Springfield citizens afflicted by smog­ some of that same ability to laugh at While in Ireland, we were guests in a gy eyes." That's right! The air pollu­ the hurts of life. home where there was an enormous St. tion had caused my eye trouble, and Laughter can be polite and socially Bernard dog. Just after we sat down to here I am living in one of the most acceptable most of the time. As the lunch, the dog came charging into the beautiful valleys in the world with Bible says: "There is a time to weep dining room (all 280 pounds of him) trees and mountains on all sides. and a time to laugh." Loud, raucous and in a moment his tail had knocked Certainly the problem of pollution is laughter is almost always out of place, (Continued on page 19) PAGE 8 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

for-apples game, each "cat" paying for a chance at an apple. Sideshow Cuties: Each guest at this booth receives a sealed envelope which THE CAT CARNIVAL is not to be opened until later. When all of the guests have envelopes, the A HALLOWEEN PARTY hostess announces a "grand opening". Each envelope contains a slip of paper by on which is written some crazy stunt Mabel Nair Brown which the guest must perform for the entertainment of the rest of the group. Stunts might include: 1. Circumnavigate the room, walking behind every guest, no guest being permitted to move. 2. Going to the fourth boy on your Invitations: Make a pattern for a cat's Midway Entertainment: As the guests right, comb his hair, giving him a new head from an old newspaper. To make arrive to stroll down the midway, each hair style. (Provide player with comb.) the invitation (with front and back is given a handful of cat money. (These 3. Circle the room, walking in and joined at the tip of the cat's ears) are outlines of small cat faces cut from out among the guests while balancing a place the pattPrn on a folded paper so heavy black paper. With marking pe_ns peanut or an orange on your head. that ear tips are on the fold line. Cut write small money denominations on the 4. Go to the basement (dimly lighted) around the pattern except at each ear cat money - 1¢, 5¢, 10¢, :?5¢.) The and bring up the mousetrap to be found tip. On the front face paste large eyes cats (guests) use this money for par­ on lower shelf of fruit shelves. (A toy cut from orange paper. Mark the outline ticipation at the various booths along mouse might be fastened in the trap.) of the nose and mouth with white ink. the midway. The amount given each 5. Go to the fifth cat on your left and Using white string and a darning nee­ guest should be enough for him to in 25 words or less tell him how beau­ dle, draw the string through the paper patronize all of the booths. If pre­ tiful he is. to make three long whiskers on each ferred, put each guest's cat money in a 6. Place five broomstraws on a side of the nose. Cut a large bow tie small plastic ''money bag" and tie table. Take four away and leave two. from the orange paper. Paste it at the with an orange yarn. Booths, conces­ (The trick here is that the player is to tip of the chin, pasting it to the inside sions, and stunts might include the "leave, too".) of the front face. Outline the tie with a following: 7. Make up a Halloween limerick black marking pen. Catcalls: In this booth have various rhyming "owl, fowl and towel" and re­ Using white ink, write the invitation whistles, squawkers, paper horns, etc. cite it to the group. on the inside: Join all us cats for a Decorate a small bottle to resemble a 8. Impersonate one of your fellow Cat Carnival on (date) at (time). Wear cat. Guests pay a penny in cat money, guests until someone can guess who your best cat bib 'n' tucker - you which entitles them to five chances to it is. might win a prize! (Sign name.) ring the cat for their choice of a noise 9. (for a boy) Take the piece of cloth Decorations: These should aim for a maker - one to a guest. and needle and thread provided and carnival effect, but with a big accent Hit the Cat's Eye: On a wall hang a sew up a witch's hat. on the Halloween cat. large cat's head, the cat having but 10. Choose a partner and go around At the front entrance place a huge one eye. Provide a soft rubber or a to all the other guests saying, "Meow, stuffed cat, made by filling a very ping-pong ball, and award a cat balloon partner", to each without smiling, bow­ large paper bag with crumpled news­ to any player who hits the cat'5 eye ing deeply to your partner each time. papers for the body, tying it firmly at from a given distance in two tries, pay­ 11. Say five times as rapidly as pos­ the top. For the head stuff a smaller ing for the chance in cat money, of sible, "Which witch wishes a whirl on bag and tie. Fasten the head to the course. Willie Wiles' wheel, while Willie whit­ body. Spray paint the stuffed cat black. Hitting Jack Over the Head: A large tles witches' whips?" Fasten on large ears of black construc­ pumpkin jack-o'-lantern is placed on a 12. Tell a three-minute ghost story tion paper. Use white poster paint or stand. The top is left off the pumpkin. in a most dramatic manner. (Let the shoe polish to mark in face features The guest pays 5¢ for five pumpkin lights suddenly go out for this one.) and whiskers. If you want your cat to seeds. For each seed he can toss into Cat Luck: Have fortunes written on have a long curled tail, braid folds of Jack's head he gets a piece of candy, slips of paper which are folded and black crepe to the desired length. and if he can get one through Jack's placed in a large fish bowl and sold Thread a small wire through the braid mouth, he gets two pieces. for 10¢ in cat money - provided the to make it hold a curled shape. Cute Catnip: (a stunt) A costumed customer also speaks a nursery rhyme Use balloons (sticking to orange and cat with a masked face sits behind a for the crowd. black ones if you wish) to add to the Halloween-decorated screen. Each Feline Follies: This is a grand pa­ carnival atmosphere. Perhaps a record guest pays in cat money and then is rade of all the "cats" attending the player can be hidden somewhere to allowed to go behind the screen where party while costumes are judged for provide carnival-type background music the cat gives the customer a pinch (nip) "best dressed cat", "most scary cat", throughout the evening. on the arm. "cutest cat", "most playful kitten". Decorate the party room to look as Pinning the Witch on Her Broomstick: Want Partners for Refreshments? Cut much like a carnival midway as possi­ (a dart game) Player pays for use of a out black paper cats. Cut each cat in ble, with booths and concessions dart. A black paper witch astride a half, trying for many different cuts. Put around the sides of the room, even broom is fastened to the wall. The the cat halves in different boxes. For down the center if you are using a player tries to throw the dart and hit Pa"tners, let half of the guests draw large hall for the party. Decorate the the witch's pointed hat right at the froPJ one box and the others from the booths with orange and black stream­ point. other box, and then match the pieces ers, balloons, signs and posters. Dunk a Cat: This is the old bobbing- for partners. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 9

FEELING "Build a better world," he thought. A PUNKIN DUNKIN' "Why not? I shall!" So he wrote and he argued "I'm right!" he thought. AUCTION The world then gave him facts to see: "What if I'm wrong?" So he studied and thought, TO FILL THE TREASURY "I'd best begin a better me." by Virginia Thomas AUTUMN I just marvel at the poems That we read in magazines and books Are you tired of the old run-of-the­ effort in order to hold your crowd When the writers try to picture mill pre-Christmas bazaar to raise longer. Autumn, with its beautiful nooks. money for your treasury? Then why not It might be nice to have a break in But it seems to me there is nothing try an October or early November Pun­ the auction, especially if it turns out Can compare with the beautiful view kin, Dunkin' Auction for loads of fun to be a long one, and have everyone From the steps of my front doorway and funds? join in some "punkin" carols (see As I gaze on the wondrous hue. The "punkin" is used lavishly in Kitchen-Klatter, October, 1970). The grass is such a luscious green decorations, and in the pie that is For the auction, solicit members, and As the golden leaves come falling served at the coffee hour along with friends, too, if you like, for white ele­ down, doughnuts. (That's where the dunkin' phant items (good items which are not And the walnuts seem to tumble comes in, of course!) And the auction in use) in the line of dishes, pans, In their shell of deep dark brown. should really give the treasury a boost decorative items, room accessories, The soybeans that are being harvested - and perhaps clear a few closets and fancy glassware, even furniture, and of As the combine travels down the row, attics of so'!le white elephants. course any antique items anyone would And the many acres of cornfields Pumpkins can be used as jack-o'-lan­ care to donate, such as old lamps, With golden ears hanging high and low­ terns for decorations, used with small picture frames, coal scuttles, etc. Be­ Ah yes, this is autumn shocks of corn, and used for table gin to plan this long enough in advance With the sky so bright and blue, centerpieces as containers to hold fall so you can really work up enthusiasm, And everything seems to be saying flowers or dried weed arrangements. Is and so members will really dig into This, my friend, is just for you. there a short walk leading to entrance those attics and closets. Advertise -Elsie Topp where the auction is to be held? If so, that it's a good time to get the fall line each side of the walk with a row housecleaning done and help a worthy of pumpkins, placing a very large one cause at the same time. Stress that the on either side of the doorway. articles must be in good condition - Those on the main committees, those you don't want to end up with a lot of who serve the food for the coffee, and broken toys, chipped and cracked others who work, will lend color to the dishes or ceramic pieces. We've always HAUNTED HOUSE affair if they wear "punkin" costumes. found that good used toys, children's • When thunder crashes These might be crepe paper aprons books, and games sell well at such an which have round orange pumpkin In the middle of the night auction. Lightning lights up the room skirts sewed to leaf-shaped bib tops. If you end up with items which don't With a ghoulish green light. A large green paper leaf might be sell at auction, just ask people to make Rain like a river pinned in the hair. Each one might be an offer - and sell it. After all, it's Pours down the rain spout, told to come up with her own version clear profit whatever you get! Some of "punkin" garb, which would add to items sell for so much more than you That is the night the fun. expect that it usually averages out in The ghosts come out. If you decide on a morning auction, the end. We hear the rattling of doors the refreshments to be sold can be set If you have an auction of any size, And the scurrying footfall up in one corner of the main auction we feel it is well worthwhile to get a Amid eerie whispers room, or an adjoining room, so that professional auctioneer, unless you As they float down the hall those who like can eat it there, or have an exceptionally fine amateur in Clutching white robes to their throats carry the coffee and a doughnut to the your group. Many times these auction­ Straight to our room they flee auction area and eat as they take part eers will donate their services if funds With chattering teeth jump in bed in the auction. If you decide on an eve­ are to be used for charitable purposes, With Daddy and me! -Mildred Grenier ning auction when it is easier for the or at least will do it at a greatly re­ men to attend, the refreshments might duced rate. on the side. They can join the auction­ be sold following the auction; but you Do consider having some "punkin" eer occasionally in giving exaggerated might have a "coming and going" clowns spaced among the crowd to pro­ descriptions or "claims" for the item crowd, so in order to "catch" them all, vide some fun as the bidding goes being auctioned. Persons with a good you would need to serve during the along, being sure that the auctioneer is sense of humor will think of many ways auction. tipped off in advance. He will no doubt to add to the fun. Since many of your patrons will be go right along with the fun. These Along with this type of an event, you older persons - and younger ones soon clowns can make fantastic bids, then might consider selling votes to elect a tire of standing if the auction is a immediately recall them. They can urge Punkin Queen or King, and have an lengthy affair - do try to have plenty various people to bid and have good elaborate crowning ceremony at the of chairs or plank benches available friends bidding against each other as close of the auction when the winner is for seating. It will be worth the extra they do a lot of good-natured ribbing crowned "Some Punkin". PAGE 10 KITCHEN·KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

is very easy to forget such dates. This old, agreed that when someone says prevents repeating news that has tran· they don't want you hurrying and fuss­ spired. ing beforehand so they just don't let "We save the children's letters in you know they are coming, are doing sacks so they can have a record of you no kindness. You just have to their lives. They are too busy to keep hurry and fuss while they are there, diaries. which is so much harder. "When my parents died, I found a box "2. Almost every job has its busiest of my letters. When r began to reread season. If you have not been invited them, I was so happy to know I had for any specific time, do not suggest told them how much I loved them and coming during harvest on the farm, or had appreciated their kindnesses, etc. Christmas at the postman's house! We forget so much in this busy life and "3. Homes where the husband must I felt a glow of thankfulness as I read be off to work at 7:45, or the children those forgotten letters. off to school at 8:00 are very busy in "There is another blessing that the morning. At best, they can be de­ The Letter Basket comes from letters: the child really ex· scribed as wild! Usually you are doing presses thoughts on paper that he your hostess a favor if you stay in This month we would like to share wouldn't be apt to say to you. We find your room and out of the kitchen until excerpts from some letters that have we know our adult children much better everyone has gone. You can breakfast come to us. They were of great interest in letters than when actually convers­ while she cleans up the family dishes, to us, and we feel you will find them ing. Usually when we are together there and likely she could even join you for so too. are others around - grandchildren being a second cup of coffee at that time. "On one of your radio visits you read tended, etc. - that we are often disap­ "4. If you are staying more than one a letter from a friend who wrote elo· pointed that there is so little time to night, give your hostess a chance to quently on the subject of 'family let­ be together alone. Letters are written be home alone for a couple of hours ters'. Her thoughts on that subject when the house quiets down and there while you go to visit friends, or go echoed my ideas about family members is time to think!" shopping. You might even suggest keeping in touch and learning to know We have received many letters in the taking her children with you. She may one another through letters. That writer past with excellent thoughts on being need this time to start dinner, attend expressed herself so well; her thoughts a good house guest. We've selected the to something she doesn't want to be are indeed worthy of publication. Per­ following as it sums up the subject so running about doing when you are haps you would consider putting the well. there, or she might choose just to go main portions of the letter in the maga­ "I belong to a group where instead of to bed for a half hour. zine. just visiting during the coffee hour, we "5. If you are visiting more than "The thought has just occurred to me frequently discuss some problem or three days, be sure to take your host that a club program could be built situation by going around the circle of family out for dinner one evening. This around such a nucleus. friends and having each contribute just is expensive, we know, but give up "In our community we have a club one thought about the subject. We usu~ something else on the trip to allow group of 'older' women and I think a ally can make the rounds of the room money for this if necessary. Stop to program on this subject would be of four or five times this way because no think what it would cost if you were interest to them. It could include 'The one has the chanr:e to go into an in­ staying in a motel and eating all your Art of Letter Writing', 'Preserving volved discussion when they can give meals out! Family History in Letters', 'Putting only one idea or thought at a time. "6. Keep your clothing and personal Your Personality in Letters', etc. Then we surmise our thoughts. things confined to the room in which Reading some very old letters and "On one occasion, since almost all you are sleeping. It is amazing how studying the style would also be inter­ of the members had house guests dur­ many people scatter their things all e sting." ing the summer, our discussion was on over the house. Keep your toothbrush, The following is the letter to which the subject of how to be the kind of combs and so forth out of their bath­ the above writer referred; guest people are glad to have over and room and in your own room instead. Be "You are so right when you say how over again. I thought you might enjoy very careful if you carry any kind of important letter writing is in a family. our summary about this subject. Inci­ medicine in your purse or suitcase to My husband and I have four married dentally, the women range from those see that they are out of reach of chil­ children who are very faithful in writ­ with babies to grandmothers. dren. If you don't have small children, ing and telling us all about their lives, "1. Never surprise your hostess! this might not occur to you. "Many of our friends have children This was best expressed by a mother "7. Stick to the family rules of the whom they call occasionally or whose who said, 'I had waited eight years to house. This concerns children more children call them and letter writing is be able to entertain my college room­ than adults, but even they are guilty of neglected. They regret this but point mate and her family in my home. They this at times. If they never eat any out that it takes less time to call. were finally passing through this part food except at the table, don't let your "We think it is time well spent and of the country and stopped for a day children take a cooky into the living make a real effort to keep the letters and a half. By the time I rounded up room. If the hostess' children are not interesting and humorous. another crib, changed bedding, cooked allowed to go to the library or else­ "We keep a file on each child and and did up the dishes, we had only where without an adult accompanying put clippings, thoughts, and family snatches of conversation and she left them, obey these rules, even though news in the file each week with their with me feeling let down and disap­ your children might be a little older last letter. When we write to them we pointed. Had I known she was coming, and you feel they could manage the lay it on the desk and have all mate­ I could have cooked and planned ar­ situation. rial close. On a calendar in the kitchen rangements ahead of time so we could "8. Remember, your hostess is not I jot down the day we receive their have visited almost every minute she your maid! Make your bed, do your letter and the day we answer it for it was there.' Everyone from, young to (Continued on page 19) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 11

WHAT DO YOU DO WITH AN OLD months!" The water pipes in the base­ SCHOOLHOUSE? ment froze on New Year's morning when guests were expected for dinner, and water gushed into the basement by and the front hall. Evelyn Birk/Jy With hard work and the arrival of An old schoolhouse is an old school­ spring, the heating and water problems house is an old schoolhouse - that is, were brought under control. Bill, the until it is no longer needed for educa­ oldest of the Graves' four sons, arrived tional purposes and becomes something to help, and the first floor began to else. And what on earth would you do take shape. if you suddenly became the owner of a The large, first-floor vacant class­ large, two-story school building com­ rooms have since been transformed into plete with a gymnasium and 51/2 acres an efficient industrial kitchen, rest­ of land? rooms, a small multi-purpose room, and This story takes place in the small a large dining room. The spacious res­ Dot Graves pours a cup of tea for taurant keeps the classroom atmosphere village of Anderson, Iowa, situated her good friend, Mary Estes, in the two miles north and four miles east of kitchen of the living quarters at alive with blackboards on the walls Sidney. The town, with a current popu­ the Anderson schoolhouse. (with the menu printed on them with lation of 49, was born in 1870 along­ chalk), a built-in storage cupboard, side a railroad and developed into a They were visiting in Anderson when ceiling light globes covered with child­ thriving rural community. At its height the announcement was made that the like paintings, and, standing on the it included a garage, a restaurant and schoolhouse was to be sold. Almost in eraser trays, framed drawings from pool hall, a large hardware store, a jest Virginia said to them, "Why don't Dot's first grade classes. lumberyard, a blacksmith shop with a you put in a bid? The old schoolhouse A dark-red carpet, red linens, and dance hall upstairs, a barber shop, a would make a fine place for your re­ white and blue china and crystal com­ meat market and grocery, stockyards, tirement years." plete the restaurant decor. It is open two large elevators, a bank, a post A bid was submitted and, much to to the public on Friday and Saturday office, a resident doctor, and a minis­ Ted and Dot's surprise, their amount evenings and Sunday noon, and special ter for the white frame Presbyterian was the highest and they owned a groups are accommodated on other days church. schoolhouse. by arrangement. The success of the The yellow brick schoolhouse was Moving into their new Iowa home last restaurant has made reservations a built in 1916, and four country schools autumn did not turn out to be a typical must any time, for the dining room is (Shady Glenn, Idle Slope, Science Hall, change of residence. With a camping­ always filled with guests enjoying the and the Green Bush School) were style, make-do home set up in the cav­ unique eating experience. closed as the students transferred to ernous rooms of the basement, they On October 1st an interesting event the new Anderson facility. A rein­ began to prepare a plan for the future will take place in the renovated school­ forced poured concrete gymnasium con­ of the two large first-floor classrooms house. A church circle from the United taining a stage was added to the ini­ and the equally spacious classrooms Methodist Church of nearby Randolph tial structure in 1941 by the W.P.A. and principal's office on the second will sponsor a Fun Day. It will include With the coming of automotive mobil­ floor. Dot loves to cook and is excep­ a tour of the building, a luncheon in ity and the destruction by fire of the tionally talented in preparing fine the dining room, and a show and ba­ thriving hardware store, the energy of meals, so the first floor was reserved zaar-type craft sale by various groups Anderson began to diminish, and it for the creation of a restaurant. and individuals in the gymnasium. The gradually became primarily a residen­ The second floor was gradually re­ Graves have donated the entire build­ tial town with the school at its center. modeled into living quarters. The prin­ ing, including the use of the kitchen Time and progress bring changes, cipal's office became a bathroom and a and restaurant, for the use of the and the school was finally absorbed by utility area. The large south classroom church for the day. Reservations are consolidation with the Sidney school was developed into a living room, din­ necessary for the luncheon. district. The last high school class ing room, kitchen combination. A The gymnasium is rapidly becoming a graduated in 1943, and the grade school bright red, modern fireplace was hung community center for many activities. was closed in 1966. The building was in front of the white wall, and the orig­ Our Sidney Square Dance Club is using used as a county school for exception­ inal storage cupboard was refinished it each week for our fall series of les­ al students until 1971 when those stu­ to hold the books of the Graves' exten­ sons. Children of the community are dents were provided with their own tive library. The tall windows filling welcome to use it for basketball and classrooms in their community schools, t'.!c east and south walls combined with games, and the fine stage, with Bill and the doors of the Anderson school, a deep blue carPet seem to pull the Graves' talented experience in theater like those of so many emptied build­ open Iowa sky into the room and en­ arts, may someday develop into a cre­ ings, shut for the last time and the hance the feeling of being high above ative little theater. structure was put up for auction. the bro ad green countryside. There are many structurally sound Enter the heroes of our story. Ted Across the hall, the north classroom school buildings around the country Graves was raised in eastern Nebraska was divided into two bedrooms, several begging for renovation, and with a bit and his wife Dot, a sister of my good closets, and a stairway to the attic of of courage, determination, imagination friend Virginia Miller, grew up near the building. and hard work, perhaps others will find Anderson. They met at Peru State Last winter, Ted and Dot's first in joy in a venture similar to the Ander­ Teachers' College in southeastern their new home, was bitterly cold for son schoolhouse. With modern pioneers Nebraska, were married, and for 30 days on end. With an inadequate heat­ like Ted and Dot Graves and their years lived in the eastern United States ing system, the Graves faced many sons, the proud monuments of a bygone where Ted worked for the Defense De­ difficult situations. The onions froze era can not only be preserved, but can partment and Dot taught first grade under the newly installed kitchen sink. also become a useful and enjoyable near Washington, D.C. Dot said her feet were cold, "For part of contemporary America. PAGE 12 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

SPICY HAM LOAF HONEY HILL FRUIT GINGERBREAD 1 lb. lean ground ham 1 cup sugar 1/2 lb. lean ground pork 1 cup molasses 1 10%-oz. can condensed tomato 1/2 cup butter or margarine soup 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 1/3 cup chopped onion flavoring 1/3 cup diced celery 2 eggs, beaten 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs 2 1/2 cups flour Tested 1 Tbls. parsley flakes 1 tsp. ginger 1 egg, slightly beaten 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon by the 1/2 tsp. dry mustard 1/2 tsp. cloves Dash of pepper 1/2 tsp. salt Kitchen - Klatter 2 tsp. horseradish 1 tsp. soda Combine the meats, 1/2 cup of the 1/2 cup boiling water soup, onion, celery, crumbs, parsley 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar Family flakes, egg, mustard and pepper. Mix flavoring well and shape into a loaf. Place in a 4 cups apples, peeled and sliced FRUITY APPLE PIE shallow casserole and bake in a 350- 3/4 cup sugar 3 Tbls. cornstarch degree oven about one hour and 15 Combine 1 cup sugar, molasses, but­ 1 1/2 cups pineapple or orange juice minutes. Drain off all the fat. In a ter or margarine and butter flavoring. 1/2 cup sugar small saucepan heat the remaining Mix well. Add beaten eggs. Sift dry in­ 6 cups apples, peeled and sliced soup and the horseradish. Pour over gredients together, blend into batter. 1/4 tsp. salt the loaf and bake a few minutes longer. When smooth, add water and burnt 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter pineapple -Dorothy sugar flavoring. Place apples in well­ or orange flavoring greased 9- by 13-inch pan. Sprinkle SPECIAL GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter 3/4 cup sugar over top. Spoon batter flavoring 2 1-lb. cans cut green beans, drained over top of apples. Bake in 350-degree Baked pie shell 1 3%-oz. can French-fried onions oven for 30 minutes or until ginger­ Moisten cornstarch with a little of 1 10%-oz. can cream of mushroom bread is done. the juice. Combine remammg Jmce, soup Canned pie fillings may be used for sugar, apples and salt in saucepan. 1 4-oz. can mushrooms, sliced the fruit part of this delicious dessert Simmer until apples are tender. (A little 2 Tbls. slivered toasted almonds if desired. Any fruit pie filling mix will more sugar may be needed if apples 1/2 cup (or more) shredded Cheddar go well with the spicy gingerbread. Al­ are particularly tart.) When apples are cheese ways add a little Kitchen-Klatter fruit tender, gently stir in dissolved corn­ Alternate layers of drained beans and flavoring. starch mixture. When thick and clear, onions in a casserole. Mix the soup, PLAZA Ill STEAK SOUP remove from heat and stir in flavor­ mushrooms with liquid and almonds. ings. Spoon into baked pastry shell. Pour this over the beans and onions. 1 lb. ground round steak Chill well. Top with whipped cream. Spread the cheese over the top and 1/2 cup butter or margarine A delightful fruity pie which may be bake at 350 degrees for 30 or 40 min­ 1 cup flour varied with different juices and utes or until bubbly and cheese is 8 cups water Kitchen-Klatter flavorings into as many melted. This will make 6 to 8 generous 1 10-oz. pkg. frozen mixed vege- kinds as you desire. -Evelyn servings. -Mae Driftmier tables LEMON BREAD 1 #303 can tomatoes MOIST APPLE COOKIES 1 medium onion, diced 1/ 2 cup shortening 1 cup raisins 1 stalk celery, diced 1 cup sugar 1/2 cup butter 2 carrots, diced 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1 cup sugar 3 Tbls. beef bouillon granules 1 2/3 cups flour 1/3 cup brown sugar, firmly packed Pepper and salt as needed 1 tsp. baking powder 1 egg Brown beef in 1 Tbls. of the butter or 1/2 tsp. salt 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla margarine, draining off grease as it 1/2 cup milk flavoring cooks out. Melt remaining butter and 1/2 cup nuts, finely chopped 2 cups flour (unsifted) stir in flour. Slowly add 2 cups of the Grated peel of 1 lemon 1 tsp. soda water to butter-flour mixture. Add vege­ Cream shortening with sugar; add 1 tsp. cinnamon tables, bouillon granules, browned beef slightly beaten eggs. Sift flour, meas­ 1/2 tsp. nutmeg and remaining water. Simmer slowly ure, and sift again with baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt until vegetables are tender and flavor and salt. Alternately add the flour mix­ 1/4 cup milk is mellow. This may take about lV2 ture with the milk to the shortening 2 apples, cored, peeled and finely hours. If the vegetables are preferred mixture, stirring constantly. Mix in nuts chopped less soft, cook a shorter length of and lemon peel. Bake in a greased 5- Pour some boiling water over the time. Add salt and pepper to taste by 9-inch loaf pan at 350 degrees for raisins and let these plump up while about halfway through the cooking one hour. you are mixing the batter. Cream the time. Topping butter and sugars. Add the egg and fla­ This is an excellent recipe to make voring and beat well. Sift the rest of in a slow-cooking pot. Follow direc­ Combine 1/4 cup sugar with the juice the dry ingredients together and add tions for any ground beef-vegetable of 1 lemon and pour over the top of the along with the milk. Stir in the apple recipe in your slow-cooking cookbook. loaf when it comes from the oven. Cool and well-drained raisins. Drop by tea­ Plaza III is a restaurant in Kansas in pan. spoon onto greased cooky sheets. Bake City and this is reported to be the rec­ This makes a nice tea sandwich with in a 400-degree oven for 10 minutes. ipe which they use for their very fam­ a cream che.ese filling. -Mae Driftmier -Dorothy ous steak soup. -Evelyn KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 13

FRUIT DROPS SEA FOAM SALAD MARINATED CARROTS 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly 2 #21/z cans pears (pieces are o.k.) 2 lbs. carrots, sliced packed 2 3-oz. pkgs. lime gelatin 1 101/z-oz. can tomato soup 1 cup lard 1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, room 1/2 cup salad oil 3 eggs temperature 1 cup sugar 2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla 4 Tbls. milk 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce flavoring 1 12-oz. carton Cool Whip 1/2 onion, sliced 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter Drain pears. Heat juice to boiling 1 green pepper, sliced in rings flavoring and pour over gelatin to dissolve. Cool Cook carrots in salted water. Drain 1 tsp. soda until partially set. Combine cheese and while still hot add to remaining 1 tsp. cinnamon and milk, beating until smooth. Stir ingredients which have been combined. 2 cups flour (unsifted) into gelatin, fold in mashed pears and Let set in refrigerator for at least 24 1/2 cup raisins (plumped in hot Cool Whip. Pour into a 9- by 13-inch hours. -Margery water) pan and chill till set. -Margery 1/2 cup chopped dates CANNED WHOLE WHEAT BREAD BUSY-DAY POTATOES 1/2 cup chopped nuts 1 pkg. yeast Cream together the brown sugar and 1/3 cup milk 1 cup lukewarm water lard. Beat in the eggs and flavorings. 1 10¥2-oz. can Cheddar cheese soup 1 tsp. sugar Sift the dry ingredients together and 4 or 5 medium-sized cooked pota- 1 cup milk, scalded and cooled add to the first mixture, beating well. to es, sliced 2 Tbls. brown sugar Sti.r in the raisins, dates and nuts. 1 tsp. crumbled rosemary leaves 1 Tbls. salt Drop from teaspoon onto a greased Grated Parmesan cheese 1 Tbls. shortening, melted cooky sheet and bake 10 to 12 minutes Paprika 3 cups whole wheat flour in a 350-degree oven. -Dorothy Stir the milk slowly into the cheese 2 to 3 cups white flour soup. Add the sliced potatoes and Combine yeast, water and 1 tsp. APPLE CRUMB DESSERT rosemary and mix thoroughly. Pour into sugar. Stir and let set about five min­ 2 cups flour baking dish then cover generously with utes to dissolve. In mixing bowl com­ 1 cup brown sugar Parmesan cheese then sprinkle top bine milk, brown sugar, salt and short­ 1/2 cup quick-cooking rolled oats with paprika. Bake in moderate oven ening. Add 2 cups wheat flour. Beat 3/4 cup butter, melted until bubbly and nicely browned. Serves well. Add yeast mixture. Slowly blend 1 cup sugar four. -Mae Driftmier in remaining wheat flour and enough 3 Tbls. cornstarch white flour to make a ball that leaves MIRACLE CHEESE DESSERT 1/2 tsp. salt the sides of the bowl. Turn out onto 1 cup water 1 cup flour floured breadboard. Knead about 10 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla 1/2 cup butter or margarine minutes, or until smooth and elastic. flavoring 1/4 cup brown sugar Cover with waxed paper and towel and 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter lemon 1/2 cup chopped nuts let rest 20 minutes. Punch down. Di­ flavoring 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar vide dough into three parts. Grease 4 apples, thinly sliced flavoring three cans well. (The good-sized #21/z Combine flour, brown sugar, oats, and 1 3-oz. pkg. strawberry gelatin peach cans are just right for this. melted butter. Pat half of mixture into 1 cup hot water Shortening cans may be used or coffee an 8-inch square pan. In a saucepan 3 Tbls. lemon juice cans.) Fill the cans almost half full. combine 1 cup sugar, cornstarch, salt 1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese Let rise until double in bulk. Bake at and water. Cook, stirring constantly 1 cup sugar 370 degrees about 40 minutes, or until until thickened. Add flavorings. Place 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter strawberry golden brown and a hollow sound is apples in cooked mixture. Spread over flavoring made when thumped with a finger. Turn crumbs. Pat remaining crumbs over 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla out on cooling rack. Brush with short­ apples. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 flavoring ening. Freezes well. minutes. -Margery 1 13-oz. can evaporated milk This recipe may be made into three Tn a greased 9- by 13-inch pan com­ loaves if desired. ZINGY-CHEESY MEAT LOAF bine flour, butter or margarine, brown BACON-CORN PUDDING 1/2 cup chopped onion sugar, nuts and burnt sugar flavoring. 1 8-oz. can tomato sauce Spread. Toast in 375-degree oven for 2 10-oz. pkgs. frozen corn, cooked 2 eggs, beaten 10 minutes, stirring several times to 3 eggs, well beaten 1 cup diced Monterey Jack cheese brown evenly and keep from burning. 1/4 cup light cream 1 4-oz. can chopped green chilies, Remove from oven and cool. 1 tsp. salt well drained Dissolve gelatin in hot water. Add 2 Tbls. minced onion 1 cup soft bread crumbs lemon juice. Cool. Soften cream cheese 2 Tbls. green pepper, fine!y chopped 1 tsp. salt to room temperature. Combine sugar and 1/4 tsp. baking powder Pepper to taste remaining flavorings with cream cheese 6 slices bacon 1 1/2 lbs. ground beef and cream until smooth. Beat into gela­ 3 or 4 slices sharp Cheddar cheese 1/2 lb. sausage with regular season­ tin mixture. Chill evaporated milk. Beat Mix the cooked corn, eggs, cream, ing (not the hot kind) until light and fluffy, (the texture of seasonings, onion, green pepper, and Cook onion in boiling water until whipped cream) and fold into gelatin baking powder together. Cut the bacon tender; drain. Stir into the tomato mixture. · Pour over crumb mixture in in small pieces and fry until crisp. sauce, eggs, cheese, chilies, bread pan. Refrigerate until time to serve. Drain well on paper towel and add to crumbs, salt and pepper. Add the Cut into squares. Top with a dollop of the corn mixture. Pour into a greased ground meats, mixing thoroughly. Place whipped cream and a bright whole casserole, cover with cheese slices in baking pan and shape into a loaf. strawberry for company fare. cut to fit the casserole, and bake Bake in 350-degree oven for l1/z hours. Lemon gelatin may be used instead of about 40 minutes in a 350-degree oven. Serves 8 to 10 people. -Mae Driftmier the strawberry if desired. -Evelyn -Dorothy PAGE 14 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

DELICIOUS DIP OR SANDWICH EASIEST-OF-ALL LEMON PIE REFRESHING SAGE JELLY SPREAD 1 6-oz. can frozen lemonade concen- 3 cups apple cider 1/2 lb. braunschweiger (smoked liver­ trate, thawed 1 1/2 Tbls. dried sage or 1/2 cup wurst), room temperature 1 can sweetened condensed milk fresh sage leaves 1/2 cup butter or margarine, room 1 13-oz. carton Cool Whip 1 pkg. ( 1% oz.) powdered pectin temperature 1 10-inch graham cracker pie shell 4 cups sugar 2 tsp. finely chopped onion Combine lemonade, condensed milk Combine cider and sage. Heat to 2 Tbls. finely chopped chives and Cool Whip. Pour into pie shell and scalding. Remove from heat. Let stand 2 Tbls. finely chopped parsley chill. Serve with a dab of whipped· 15 minutes to steep. Strain through fine 2 Tbls. Kitchen-Klatter Country cream. This is very rich. -Margery cloth. Return liquid to kettle. Add pec­ Style dressing tin. Stir over heat until it comes to full Combine all ingredients well. Use as SURPRISE BROWNIES rolling boil. Add sugar. When it returns dip or spread. - Lucile to a full boil, boil, stirring for 1 min­ 1/2 cup cocoa ute. Skim off foam. Pour into sterilized 1/2 cup boiling water jelly glasses. Seal with paraffin. 1/2 cup butter or margarine This is a wonderful jelly to serve 1/2 cup shortening with meats, just as mint jelly goes 2 cups sugar well with meat. It is also very good on 3 eggs lb@~@@ breakfast toast or combined with cinna­ 2 cups flour mon for a toast or bread spread. 1/2 cup milk 1 cup chopped nuts APPLES FOR THE FREEZER FOOD 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter black walnut flavoring Put 2 Tbls. salt in 1 gallon water. 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla Peel and slice apples directly into BILLS flavoring salted water. Let stand, covered, about Combine cocoa and boiling water. 15 or 20 minutes. (Longer will not hurt Cream shortenings and sugar together. if necessary, but not longer than 1 Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in hour in the salt water is best.) Drain flour alternately with milk. Add cocoa apples and blanch in boiling water for mixture, nuts and flavorings. (Note: no 1 minute. Cool in ice water. Drain. baking powder or soda is in this rec­ Package and freeze. (Some cooks Hi! I'm your market check-out ipe.) Pour into greased 10- by 15-inch spread the apple slices on cooky girl, and here are some tips we cooky or jelly roll pan. Bake at 350 sheets to freeze, then slip them into should pass on to you about low­ degrees for about 30 minutes, or until plastic bags. This makes it easy to ering your food bill: it tests done. take out a few cups at a time.) Always make a shopping list. Use for desserts, pies and sauce. Marshmallow Filling Plan menus in advance and stick to them. Read the ads, buying 1/2 cups sugar ASP ARAGUS CASSEROLE seasonal specials. Peel and cook 6 Tbls. cold water 3 or 4 cups cooked asparagus (or 2 your food yourself . . . avoiding 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar 14Vz-oz. cans asparagus) "convenience" foods and pre­ 12 marshmallows, cut up (or about 3 Tbls. butter or margarine cooked meals. (This isn't always 90 miniature ones) 3 Tbls. flour true; big packers can buy econ­ 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla 3/4 tsp. salt omically and prepare foods at the flavoring 3/4 cup milk height of the season. Check!) Save 1 egg white, stiffly beaten 1/2 cup asparagus liquid the coupons from magazines, Combine sugar, water and cream of 1/ 4 cup Kitchen-Klatt er Country newspapers, your mail, boxtops, tartar. Cook until syrup spins a fine Style dressing etc. They're worth money! thread. Add marshmallows and flavor­ 1/ 4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatt er butter And cook with Kitchen-Klatter ing. Pour this mixture over stiffly flavoring Flavorings. To begin with, they beaten egg white. Beat until spread­ 1 cup American cheese, grated cost less. They're concentrated, ing consistency and then spread over 5 hard-cooked eggs, sliced so a little goes a long way. And brownies. When set, make the follow­ 1 4Vz-oz. jar mushrooms, drained they never steam or bake out, but ing frosting: 1 Tbls. parsley flakes add rich flavor and aroma to any­ Chocolate Frosting 2 Tbls. pimiento (optional) thing you make. And there are 16 1/3 cup milk Buttered bread crumbs to choose from: 1 cup sugar Melt butter or margarine. Stir in flour. Maple, Butter, Almond, Vanilla, 1 1-oz. square chocolate Add salt, milk, asparagus liquid, dress­ Raspberry, Mint, Burnt Sugar, 1/4 cup shortening ing and butter flavoring. Stir over low Lemon, Blueberry, Orange, Black Dash of salt heat until mixture begins to thicken. Walnut, Banana, Cherry, Coconut, 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar Stir in cheese. Stir until melted. Butter Pineapple and Strawberry. flavoring a 2-quart casserole. Make a layer of Combine all ingredients. Bring to drained asparagus, a layer of sliced Kitchen-Klatter boil. Boil one minute. Remove from eggs and mushrooms. Spoon on half of fire and beat until spreading consist­ white sauce. Sprinkle a layer of butter­ Flavorings ency. Spread over top of marshmallow ed bread crumbs. Repeat the layers. If you can't yet buy them at your filling. Top with parsley and pimiento. (The store, send us $1.50 for any three 3-oz. bbttles. Vanilla comes in a This is a very versatile recipe. The parsley and pimiento may also be jumbo 8-oz. bottle, too, at $1.00. We brownies are good alone. The marsh­ mixed in with the white sauce if pre­ pay the postage. Kitchen-Klatter, Shenandoah, Iowa 51601. mallow filling makes an excellent ferred.) Bake at 350 degrees for 30 frosting for other cakes. -Evelyn minutes. Makes 8 to 10 servings. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 15

WHAT TO DO WITH VACATION durable, if it is given several coats. not set up purposely for rabbits, crows, Hobby shops carry such sprays as well SOUVENIRS and rodents of the field. Sometimes, as glues. way late in winter, the boys would dig by There are any number of ways in a big frosted pumpkin from the shack's Laverna Hassler which to use souvenirs. With a bit of warm, dry "innards". Vacation days are gone, with only the flair and imagination, vacation land Because of a "hen-egg" shortage in souvenirs that were collected along with its lazy days and happy memories cold weather, we did not make our the way to remind one of his travels. can become a part of your everyday pumpkins into pie. More often, Ma fried The majority of these have perhaps al­ living. The joy of collecting them is or buttered them. There were usually ready found their way into the attic, still hidden in each piece waiting to fresh pork drippings for this, and hard­ where they remain packed in boxes. be exhibited in your home - not in grated nutmeg heightened the flavor. Yet there are endless possibilities some drawer or out-of-the-way corner. I recall, quite comical now, that more for exhibiting these in interesting ways By living with them vacation days may likely than not someone woke up in other than placing them on end tables be gone but not forgotten. one of them big black nights with a or whatnot shelves. sour stomach after one such supper, Fortunate indeed is the family who and called for a "spoon-handle" of dry purchased an oil painting. Perhaps the soda. artist captured a huge incoming wave Fodder One time I went along with my mother against a backdrop of rocky ledges, or to pick the very last cornfield beans. a mighty ship against the horizon. The So11 Rain had come in the night and in picture will take on an added interest clearing, the wind had turned. There if it is put into a seashell frame. was some chill in the air and a sing­ Now is the time to use some of the by ing. Ma said to me, "Stand listenin', seashells that were collected. Select Annie P. honey, winter's in the offin' ", and the prettiest ones with uniform shapes. Slankard from far, far off there was the littlest Use any good wood or china glue and whispering, seemingly a promise of anchor them to a simple wood frame. cold rain and whitening fields. Coating the frame first with glue and *************** sprinkling with fine sand will add a Topping and stripping fodder was a . nice texture to the frame before apply­ "plum" aggravating time of year on . ing the shells. For an added luster the the farm. We never could understand HEIZE shells may be given a light coating of how the "dratted" thing always came shellac when dry. right along with September heat, new .' Attractive stone and rock fragments shoes, a.nd the first week of school. IT could likewise be used to frame a Either one of these suffering boogers ·. mountain or wood scene. With such at­ was purely torment to us. Our tall boys tractive pictures on the wall it will be topped and we shorties stripped the "vacation time" throughout the year corn. It was easy for them to whack off for the whole family. the tasseled tops and I'll admit just as If a teen-age daughter collected trin­ easy for us, because of our "have-to" kets, charms, and silver buttons, they frame of mind, to yank off the lower can be tacked to a simple lamp shade leaves. The tassels fell where cut and and used in her room. It certainly adds then were forked into piles, but we a conversation piece when girls gather carried armloads of strippings until we for a slumber party. After all, who sees had enough to bundle them. Then, these interesting items when they are taking a greener or more pliant leaf, tucked into a drawer? we tied them securely. Later, all were Perhaps Mother purchased hand­ hauled to barn or feed lots. This half­ woven straw place mats but does not cured crop was considered milk and ... Autumn, that is. With crisp prefer their continued use. They are butter "roughnen". It was very im­ days, cool nights, northbound ideal as a background for flower ar­ portant, so they said. We cut it at ex­ geese, football games. And fall rangements. They could also be used actly the right time. I loved growing housecleaning. in a grouping of wall hangings with corn, especially, in the bleach stage. And isn't it nice that we have all sprigs of dried weeds, bittersweet and Our low bottoms at laying-by time re­ the modern conveniences to help wheat arranged on them - a winter bou­ sembled a quivering patch of night­ us houseclean fast! Like Kitchen­ quet on the wall, so to speak. blue cloud. Klatter Kleaner, for instance. Zips Gay pieces of Mexican prints can be Our best corn was always hand- and into so 1 u ti on the moment it used for recovering hatboxes as well wagon-picked, horse and seed. Why touches the water. And into action as shelf boxes for storing items of horse, I wonder! Let me go back a the moment it touches the dirt! No clothing. Heavier prints can be hung piece here - sure - I recall now how hard scrubbing necessary, even as wall hangings by hemming the top our "big-ables" loved horses. on greasy dirt, and no foam to and bottom and then putting a wood Come spring and planting our men­ rinse. dowel through the top. Tie a heavy folks "done" quite a seed corn busi­ Add a nice, economical price, loop of cord or twine to each end of ness. This brought company and some and what have you got? The per­ the dowel, and it is ready for hanging. ready money to the lonely farm. We fect household cleaner - for fall Likewise wastebaskets can be cov­ stood eager for, and in need of, both. housecleaning, spring houseclean­ vered with maps collected along the There was always a field of shock ing, and every cleaning job in way. Picture post cards set in inter­ fodder still ear-laden, and you would between! esting angles around the wastebasket not believe that we were at the awk­ can also be used. A colorless plastic ward gangling age before we came to Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner spray paint will make the item more realize these big wigwam shocks were PAGE 16 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 KITCHEN CHATTER HOWIOWA COOKS by Mildred Grenier Price $3,50, plus 30¢ mailing, 11¢ SCRAMBLED BIBLE VERSE: The tax in Iowa. 260 words, and the letters of each word, of pages filled with this Bible verse are scrambled. The tested recipes punctuation is also left out. See if you from Iowa home­ can decipher and read the verse. makers. ROWEP ROF NI HET UBT MNKODIG Make checks FO DOWR SI TON NI GDO payable to: *************** Tipton Woman's Club Cookbook If you are considering buying a dilap­ Tipton, Iowa 52772 idated car, remember that it is hard to drive a bargain. *************** Here are some ideas for "ghostly favors" for that upcoming Halloween Alison Driftmier Walstad visited party. Place candied apples on a serv­ relatives in Shenandoah last May ing plate. Over each apple's stick, when tulips were in full bloom. place the center of a white paper nap­ What a sight they were - so huge and so bright-colored! kin. Pull the center of the napkin up to form the ghost's head; twist a pipe cleaner around the top of the stick to PLANT MORE TULIPS THIS FALL secure the head. Smooth the folds of the napkin down over the stick to make by the ghost's robe. Make ghost's features Gladys Niece Templeton TOOL MAGNET with felt-tipped marking pen or glue on This Tool Magnet is not a toy. It is a Entire beds of tulips are beautiful, black construction paper eyes, nose very strong, permanent magnet device de­ signed for heavy duty holding of large or and many prefer them planted that way. and mouth. small tools. Never loses its powerful mag­ netic strength. Has instant grasp and in• They combine well with other peren­ To make Broomstick Favors, use the stant release. It is TWO FEET LONG with mounting holes drilled 16" apart. ·Trouble nials, however, and are most effective long black sticks of licorice. Around free - no moving parts. in a border of mixed bloom. One must one end of each stick, tie yellow-tinted The Tool Magnet has a wide range of uses in gas stations, garages, workshops, tool remember that tall plants should be at coconut "straw" with thread. rooms, industrial work areas, commercial kitchens and many other places. It can be the back, and short plants at the front Fashion softened cream cheese into mounted on the wall over work benches, in of the border, regardless of its width. small pumpkins; with blunt knife, make tire changing areas, near machines or even attached to the inttide of car hoists. Tulips can be planted as late as fall, grooves down each side. Make a green The Tool Magnet keeps tools in one place where they are readily visible and close at before the ground freezes. In the Mid­ tip on the pumpkin with a small piece hand. Can also be used to hold parts during west, this may be as late as November. of celery leaf. You may use cloves to painting operations. Fast and easy installa­ tion, convenient, modern, practical and a The ideal soil for most garden plants make features if you wish to make a space saver. PRICE: $10,00 each plus $,50 postage & handling. WEIGHT: 4 lbs. each. is fertile, crumbly loam, humus, as it jack-o'-lantem. Individually boxed (12 per shipping carton). is called. Tulips do particularly well *************** ACRO·MAGNETICS, INC., Oept.K, in a more sandy, well-drained soil. Sign seen at reducing salon: "Tired 24005 W, Rte 173, Harvard, Illinois 60033. Fertilizer should be well worked into of living HIPhazardly?" the soil before setting out the bulbs. *************** Dig a trench six or eight inches deep, For a Jack-o'-Lantern Salad, prepare OLD FASHION and scatter sand and small pebbles in lemon-flavored gelatin according to di­ the bottom. Place the bulbs in the rections on the box and pour in shallow CHINA DOLL trench, about six inches apart, and pan to chill. Cut in six squares and KIT: Hand cover. The ground should be kept moist place each on shredded lettuce on painted china until frost. salad plates. On each square place a head; arms, legs; basic Since tulips are early bloomers, little jack-o'-lantern made of a whole spiced pattern for peach or two drained peach halves to­ body and spring irrigation or cultivation is nec­ clothes, 16" essary. Those who are physically un­ gether (to make a whole peach) with a tall $7.95 p,p, Assembled. able to garden can still have tulips, filling of drained cottage cheese. Cut Undressed: with patterns because they do well when planted in slits in the sides of the peach and for clothes clay pots. place raisins in the slits to make eyes, 16" $14.95 p,p, Perennials are relatively easy to care nose and mouth. Make a ring around the Dressed: in small for, coming up and blooming year after bottom of the jack-o'-lantern with cot­ print year. Aside from weeding and watering tage cheese. cotton, old fash­ when necessary, little extra care is re­ *************** ioned quired. When it appears that they are ANSWER TO SCRAMBLED BIBLE $\>if.e9sl6" not doing as well as formerly, they VERSE: Corinthians 4:20. For the P.P. should be dug up and divided. These kingdom of God is not in word, but in Cata­ logue 35¢ flowers multiply, and overcrowding re­ power. Doll Co., Box 331K duces the size and beauty of the bloom. EVA MAE San Pablo, Calif. 94806 The tulip has a fascinating history. Holland, where it is easily grown. Originating in Persia (tulip is the Per­ With other durable favorites such as Failure can mean a last defeat. sian word for turban) it was brought to phlox, iris, and lilies, tulips provide Or it can signal the beginning of a Europe about 300 years ago. It sold for one of the gayest and most satisfactory new start. high prices, and fortunes were made in of spring thrills. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 17

:o~~~ 01f1~~~P't~S u~~es~d:~s:~~::' f'.}18 oz., sPill proof bottl'ef gift boxed.._.$4.50 to $7.50 value Simi ar to the worlds Greatest Perfumes. E like Estee Lauder J like Joy S like Shalimar A like ~ege W like White Shoulders C like Chanel $1.00 or 6 for $5.00. Send check or money order & 25¢ for Qosta_ge. Royal Perfumes, P.O. Box 233, Dept. K7 THE JOY OF GARDENING Des Plaines, Ill. 60017, ' by Eva M. Schroeder Our compost pile yields the strangest plants. Of course, with the conglomer­ ation of wastes that go on it, one shouldn't be surprised at whatever turned up. There are two terms that can be applied to the strange things: those that "come up", and those that "turn up". We never fail to have a squash hill or two, a pumpkin vine, a few po­ tatoes, several tomatoes, a hill of corn and, occasionally, an iris seedling. The "turn up" things are amazing - Martin Strom has hod such o busy paring knives, greenhouse shears, a year as o hospital chaplin, only glove or two, garden markers, and even dashing in and out of Shenandoah on rare occasions, that it hasn't a long-missed trowel. been easy to catch him for a pic­ You'd think cutworms would take the ture. This shot of him admiring a volunteer plants, but no, they prefer floral arrangement from Honolulu, the ones I set out in the garden. No was taken at Lucile's after a fam­ ;iy dinner on the Sunday Martin one has the heart to pull up these vol­ preached at his home church. unteers as we are almost through This dinner is mining compost by the time they appear HALLOWEEN GAMES on the pile. off to a GOOD How those vines grow! We harvested Halloween Cat: The group forms a a whole wheelbarrow full of fine squash circle with the leader starting the start! from one vine last fall. The potatoes game by turning to the player on his do not amount to much but usually the right and saying, "I have a black cat Most of us start off our meals tomatoes ripen nicely. One of my cus­ and he eats buttercups. What does your with a salad . . . so it's natural tomers followed me out to empty a cat like?" Suppose the next in line re­ that the salad sets the tone of the wastebasket of green waste material plies, "My cat likes lettuce." The meal. If it's just wet lettuce, with from the floral shop one day, and she leader will declare, "Your cat is not a a dressing so tasteless it's prac­ became ecstatic over the compost har- Halloween cat", and then asks his tically not there, we may expect . vest. "Are you going to use those to­ question of the next player. The secret the meal to be "nothing" too. Un­ matoes?" she questioned me. And is that the Halloween cat likes only fairly, perhaps. when I told her we had plenty in the objects or food that are yellow or or­ But if the dressing's harsh and garden, she asked if she could have ange. It is fUn to see how long the tart, we still won't be looking for­ them. "My goodness," she gushed, game is played before the guests all ward to a tasty meal. "genuine organically grown tomatoes. catch on to the clue. Rely on Kitchen-Klatter Salad Think of all the extra vitamins I'm Cattail Auction: (stunt) A cat auc­ Dressings to get every meal off to getting!" tioneer at this concession auctions off a good start. Whether you choose Fall is a fine time to start a compost to the highest bidder the chance to pull Kitchen-Klatter French, Italian or pile or to add on to any you already the cat's tail. This particular cat is a Country Style, you'll be adding have. Clean off your vegetable and large black paper cat perched on top a great flavor to any salad. Not too flower beds and stack it on the heap. large box or screen, with a black yarn bland, not too tart. Just a great Add all the leaves you can get as they tail hanging over the screen. The win­ combination of oils, vinegars and make fine compost. ner may pull the cat's tail. After the herbs. They're at your grocer's. Question: We made a compost heap winner pulls, and pulls, and pulls (a for the first time this fall by piling ball of yarn is behind the screen) he leaves, garden wastes and lawn clip­ finds a cat coupon on the end of the Kitchen-Klatter pings in a heap back of the garage. string. Presenting the coupon he finds The pile comes almost to the eaves he wins another tail - a long piece of though it doesn't touch the garage. licorice. Salad Dressings How do we get it to settle down? It's "Cat-a-graphies":Pencils and papers Buy them at your grocery store, rather an eyesore now if one comes in are passed out and each guest is to or send us $1. 25 for an 8-oz. bot­ by the back alley. write out a fortune and biography of a tle of either Country Style, French Answer: Soak it thoroughly and cover cat, answering these questions: What or Italian. We pay postage. Kitchen­ it with black plastic (obtainable from kind of an owner will you have? Where Klatter, Shenandoah, Iowa 51601. garden centers and at lumber yards). will you live? How will you be treated? The material will "heat" under the What is your greatest delight? What The end of each day means one less cover and soon start decomposing. By causes you the most trouble? What do day to live. spring it will be quite settled and you like best to eat? What tricks can It also means one more day to remem­ ready to use. you do? ber. PAGE 18 KITCHEN·KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

As Tall as My Heart (EPM Publica­ tions, Inc., McLean, Virginia, $4.95) is another fine book to credit to success­ ful author Marjorie Holmes. You'll want to add it to your library. Her essays involve parenthood in its various stages and are helpful and true to life. COME READ WITH ME Continuing the volumes in Anne Mor­ row Lindbergh's autobiography. her by latest is Locked Rooms and Open Armada Swanson Doors Diaries and Letters 1933-1935 No woman writing today has touched (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publish­ the lives of more people than Marjorie ers, $7.95). It is said these particular Holmes. The phenomenal success of years might be called "A Steep her book of conversational prayers, Ascent". After the kidnapping of their I've Got to Talk to Somebody, God, was first child and the birth of Jon, their quickly followed by Who Am I, God? Even on a camping trip o little second, they moved to the Morrow fam­ and a book of prayers for teen-age girl hos to have her face washed, ily estate in Englewood. She found a Katharine learned when her mother, girls, Nobody Else Will Listen. She is Juliana Lowey, came running with return to childhood pressures, but also also the author of eight novels, in­ the washcloth. it was a time of achievement for the cluding the best seller, Two From Lindberghs. In a single-engine sea­ Galilee. and significance few terms have. plane, they explored possible air Of the thousands of moving prayers Mama is a dear term, too, connoting routes across the Atlantic. She reveals and essays Marjorie Holmes has writ­ very little folks new to language. in her diaries what it was like during ten, none has ever evoked more re­ "Mama" is easy to say, and its call these flights, including various dis­ sponse from her readers than "How from the crib usually brings instant comforts of cold, heat, fatigue and ex­ Tall Am I, Mother?" The answer, As attention ... I personally find it some­ posure to public curiosity. There were Tall as My Heart, became the title of how touching to hear a strong respon­ the rewards of adventure, equal partner­ her new book not only because of the sible man still referring to his mother ship and living up to the standards of popularity of the piece but because it as "Mama." her husband. sets the theme for all of the selec­ Ma is very old-fashioned. It is locked Mrs. Lindbergh asks herself why she tions. She reminds us that no matter curiously into the hardships of the pio­ is having her diaries published, after how tall and strong your child be­ neers. This word too stirs up tender­ writing her other famous books. She comes, or what heights he may attain - ness in me, for my grandmother was writes: no child ever grows beyond the reach one of those brave women who lost ,;Because, after sixty, I think, one of his mother's heart. babies in a sod hut on an Iowa prairie. knows the ups and downs that life Another interesting piece is called Mom has been modern now for years. holds for everyone, and would like - a "No Matter What You Call Her". It is casual, comradely. Yet it too sig­ last chance - to see and present, Mother. "The sweetest name in the nifies an affection, a tie, a depth that truthfully and not glamorized, what English language," my own mother is totally at odds with its seeming happened." used to say. True, she was a senti­ casualness. To show you her joy and companion­ mentalist - but surely we have a right No matter how big they grow or how ship with her flying husband, she wrote to be sentimental when it comes to far from you they wander, they will al­ during their stay at Stockholm, Sweden: mothers. ways be just one size: As tall as your "We flew up over Skane, where C. Motherhood has an emotional depth heart. said there was an old family home­ stead. It is the southern part of Sweden and very rich farmland, green and yel­ low squares, like a modern blocked cloth. There were little lakes and towns with red roofs. C. wrote back to me, 'Very much like some parts of Minnesota!' and later, 'I wonder why my folks ever left that place!' When we flew over the coast, islands and fjords only are those words printed every month in the maga­ and inlets all flowing the same way, I zine, but they are written to us in many, many letters wrote, 'Just like Maine!' every month. "And driving through the country C. If your subscription expires during the holiday season teases me - and I him - whenever I why not send in your renewal now? exclaim over some beautiful pine for­ Do your shopping early! Don't disappoint the friend or ests or fields and lakes. He says, neighbor who received it from you lost year. We will 'Just like Minnesota. You have nothing send a gift card te II ing them the gift is from you, like this in Maine!' " The book Locked Rooms and Open 12 issues - ONLY $2.50 Foreign - $3.00 Doors ends with a sea voyage that will (Iowa residents, please add Sales Tax.) change their lives once more - from America to England. Mrs. Lindbergh KITCHEN-KLATTER, Shenandoah, la. 51601 has once again communicated to her readers what her life was like. She has written with expression of the ups and downs of the period from 1933 to 1935. + + + KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 19

FREDERICK'S LETTER - Concluded made, but is very likely the most im­ from a small serving table a tray with portant. You know the old expression, a beautiful coffee pot and ten cups and 'Don't outstay your visit!' It's still saucers. The crash frightened the dog, good advice.'' and as he turned and fled from the room he knocked over a highchair with PREPARED FOR FUTURE? a baby in it. Fortunately the baby was not hurt, but it might have been. The past is over. Hopefully it pre­ Whales are such majestic creatures. pared you for the present. They are the largest animals living on The present is now. Take advantage the face of the earth. It hurts me to of its opportunities for the future. learn that whale meat is often the The future is a promise. Let your chief ingredient of canned dog food. dreams and hopes be guided to it. Somehow it doesn't seem right to kill whales to feed dogs. I dearly love dogs, and I have had some nice ones At last we have a picture of Mary in my day, but no more. Dogs soon own Leanna's little Isabel to share their so-called masters. How many, with you. She is such a good baby, many people have had to confine all of mostly eating and sleeping, it has their travel to areas near the usual been hard to catch a shot so you haunts of their dogs because they could really see what an adorable little girl she is. Juliana is hold­ dared not leave them alone. Only yes­ ing her. terday a lady called to ask me if I knew of anyone who could take care of THE LETTER BASKET - Concluded her dog while she was hospitalized. laundry, wash dishes, etc. Help her at Now comes the favorite month of the all times possible. year. I just love the month of October "9. If you or any of your family must with its beautiful foliage and the smell follow a special diet, let your hostess of burning leaves. With my neighbors' know ahead of time, or bring your own dog at the heel, I shall be tramping food if it is necessary. A friend told of through the woods on the mountains to preparing baked ham, candied sweet Pictured above is Historian the north of town. I call the October potatoes, sweet corn, gelatin salad and Robert Powell, Branson, Missouri. scenery our $100,000,000 view, be­ dessert, and then learned one of her You can tell from that look on his cause that is what the people of this guests was diabetic and could have face he is Patriotically proud of his state will have to pay over and above none of this food. She was embar­ newly published book, OUR what they would have to pay if they rassed, needless to say. UNITED STATES HERITAGE ...... commemorative lived in Florida. I hope it's beautiful "10. Be certain that there is an publication of our Nation's 200th where you are, too. Sincerely, understanding as to how long you will BIRTH-YEAR. Frederick stay. This is the last suggestion to be This unique assembly of our priceless Historical Documents includes the DECLARATION OF T•e llTCHEN-ILATTER INDEPENDENCE, the BILL OF RIGHTS and THE CON­ STITUTION .. COO I BOO I Young and old alike appreciate the pictorial and written stories of •akes a perfect gift. THE STARS AND STRIPES, the $5.00, per copy STATUE OF LIBERTY and the LIBERTY BELL. . (Iowa residents, please add Carol Wilhite gives you an artist's Sales Tax.) interpretation of all 36 of our past KITCHEN-KLATTER, beloved and, on occasion, un-loved PRESIDENTS. Shenandoah, Iowa 51601 The back cover story, FROM THE MAYFLOWER TO THE MOON, gives you a glimpse of our Nation's true greatness .. i\ Printed on RICHLY INKED .J HEIRLOOM PARCHMENT and sure to become a Bicentennial Collectors Item, OUR UNITED STATES HERITAGE has proven to be a desirable gift for the humble as well as the most discriminating .. You can own a first edition copy if you order today. Publisher pays postage on payment with orders. Your money is promptly refunded if dissatisfied. One book for $3.00, 2 for $5.00 or 3for$7.00. Order from U.S. Bicentennial Publications, Branch Office 565, Dept. KK, Hollister, Missouri 65672. PAGE 20 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

CALITY - Concluded yipping barks of welcome. Sometimes calling excitedly to Johnnie for help Jimmie would wander in to exchange a with her "snake" bark. few sleepy words. Stubby's stiffened Tiki-Cality was truly a lady, shelving body and rolling eyes showed his deep any sign of boisterous behavior before resentment of this small intrusion - she entered the house. She joined our these moments were his! Ah, Stubby, you were a great ego builder! Together we shared the corny late show. And he'd wait with cocked ears and his funny toothy smile for the "last bite" of whatever I was eating. Together we'd climb the winding stair to the dor­ mer bedroom. There, he'd snuggle against me for a few gratifying mo­ ments of deep affection. 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Tiny, inconspicuous All· herself in complete entirety. cial indefinable something had set her in-the-Ear; Behind-the-Ear; Eye Glass Aids. One Tequila was dead. Three tiny pups apart? I'd wondered through this futile of the largest selections ot fine quality aids. moved blindly through the straw, speculation again and again and never Very low battery prices. Write for FREE litera· searching for the mother they would come up with a logical explanation. ture. No salesman will ever call. Good hearing never see. From that litter came Stub­ Calities just were! is a wonderful gift. *LLOYD CORP. * by, the only Cality that Tiki produced. "Pickles-Cality." Gently I spoke the Dept. KT, 128 Kish. St., Rockford, Ill. 61104 The runt of the litter, he quickly made words and the name was sweet upon up for that deficiency by his oddball my tongue. She flicked open one sleepy personality. His curiously undershot eye, then bounded suddenly from my jaw, protuding black eyes and almost lap to pursue a dragonfly which hov­ nothing screwtail indicated that his ered enticingly near. I followed her father most certainly had been an itin­ giddy gallopings as we angled down erant bulldog. By the time he was the hill. Halfway down she put on sud­ grown he was our only permanent dog, den brakes to touch a friendly nose to though we had a running series of another Cality of long standing- Ditto, strays who used our hospitality much the big tortoise shell cat who'd made as any traveler uses a motel. his mark long ago. With dignified for­ Our children had homes of their own bearance, he endured her wet caresses, PutsPainTo and Stubby concentrated his attention mumbling under his breath with dis­ on my husband and me. He was devoted gruntled words of feline protest. I to Jimmie, steadfastly picking his way laughed as he reached my side, golden through muddy barnlots to help with eyes blazing, striped tail twitching an­ chores or frisking ahead of him into grily. He launched into his usual gut­ the hills in search of mushrooms or teral complaint about something or Now for the first time, overnight temporary bouncing cottontails. But he was def­ other that had triggered his always SLEE'relief from the pain of arthritis, bursitis, rheumatism, soreness, stiffness. Just rub initely my dog, loving me with an al­ erratic temper. Icy Hot's creamy balm over the affected most fanatical devotion. He was indeed a Cality, one of our joints or muscles. and you can actually feel the pain start lessening. Begin to sleep I took a job in town, working the many cats who'd made the grade. There peacefully again. If you don't have relief swing shift. And the crazy hours almost had been several - Skunky, Hobo, in 24 hours we'll refund your money. 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OCTOBER DEVOTIONS - Concluded WHY? someone's need. Yes, children can A wise old owl sat on an oak, teach us much about enthusiasm and The more he saw, the less he spoke; joy in brotherhood and sharing. The less he spoke, the more he heard; No wonder that the Bible says and Why aren't we like that wise old bird? a little child shall le ad them. Recall -Edward H. Richards how often Jes us mentioned children, and how we should be like them in our willingness to learn (from our heavenly Father) what is expected and then do it, in our acceptance and giving of love and joy. God let me be a giver, and not one Who only takes and takes unceasingly; God, let me give, so that not just my own, uale Lewis, our "c~ver boy", en­ But others' lives as well, may richer joys the little electric argon his be. parents purchased for him recently.

L..Jt me give out whatever I may hold Song: "World Anthem" is a beautiful Of what material things life may be song on world brotherhood set to the heaping; familiar tune of "Joyful, Joyful, We Let me giv8 raiment, shelter, food, or Adore Thee". (It is in a little song gold booklet called ''World Fellowship If these are, through Thy bounty, in my Through Song", which many church keeping. youth groups and other youth groups But greater than such fleeting treas­ have used. If you cannot find this ures, may lovely song, choose some other hymn I give my faith and hope and cheerful­ on that theme, or use a patriotic song.) ness, Closing Prayer: (By all. Have copies The 1-thought-1- Belief and dreams and joy and laughter of this ready so each may have one.) gay God be in my head, and in my under­ Some lonely soul to bless. (Unknown) standing; cou Id-wash-it­ Second Speaker: It seems to me that God be in mine eyes, and in my look­ children spread their sunshine right ing; and-bleach-it where they are as they go about their God be in my mouth, and in my speak­ play or some task they undertake, such ing; Blues as the UNICEF we have mentioned. God be in my life, and my departing. Nothing quite equals that sink­ How about you? How do you use your Amen. ing feeling you get when you dis­ time and talents, your leisure hours? cover you've ruined some clothing Can it be said of you that you "have SIGNS OF AUTUMN because you didn't wash, bleach earned one more tomorrow by what you or dry it correctly. did today"? Like children, we have to Remember the smell of autumn fires Good clothes are too hard to begin on our own level, and right where And what we thought was a quick solu­ come by, these days, to take we are, to practice the brotherhood tion chances with. Read the washing upon which United Nations is founded. To getting rid of trash and leaves instructions on every tag or label My daily wish is that we may Before we heard of air pollution? ... and the follow them word for See good in those who pass our way: -Gladise Kelly word. Find in each a worthy trait And for goodness' sake, wash That we should gladly cultivate; MY AUTUMN DAY with Kitchen-Klatter Blue Drops See in each one passing by People and houses and sounds are fun Laundiy Detergent and bleach The better things that beautify - But today I must be alone with Kitchen-Klatt er Safety A softly spoken word of cheer, Down where the laughing waters run Bleach! If a garment is washable, A kindly face, a smile sincere. And the breeze-tossed trees are blown. Blue Drops will gently lift out I pray that each day we may view dirt and carry it away, leaving A woodpecker drums on a hollow limb The things that warm one's heart anew: the clothes clean, soft and sweet­ A hawk floats high and free The kindly deeds that can't be bought­ ly fragrant. And Kitchen-Klatter The white birches stand, proud and That only from the good are wrought, Safecy Bleach takes over right trim A burden lightened here and there, there: safely brightening and The forest waits with me. A brother lifted from despair, bleaching (even new synthetics The aged ones freed from distress; An ant crawls by carrying its load and wash-and-wears). The lame, the sick, brought happiness. A squirrel stops briefly to scold Each creature knows its own set road Grant that before each sun has set Destined, sure, through heat or cold. We'll witness deeds we can't forget: Kitchen-Klatter A soothing hand to one in pain, It's a muted day of brown and gold A sacrifice for love - not gain; This day Autumn sets apart A word to ease the troubled mind I'll take it out when the winter blows BLUE DROPS and Of one whose fate has seemed unkind. cold So, friend, my wish is that we may And its flame shall warm my heart. See good in all who pass our way. -Harverna Woodling SAFETY BLEACH PAGE 22 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974

DOROTHY'S LETTER - Concluded Afraid you're the kitchen and see where our food was prepared. The Old Missouri Homestead going deaf? was the realization of a dream she had Chicago, Ill. - Has your as a girl, and has been open for busi­ family urged you to get a hear­ ness 27 years now. ing aid-and have you hesi­ We had breakfast the next morning tated because you are afraid with the Neimeyers before going to the it might be noticeable? Then fairgrounds, where we met Mrs. Ruth let us send you a non-operat­ McCune, the woman who had invited us ing model of the smallest Bel­ to come to the fair. She is a sister of tone aid ever made. Mrs. Neimeyer. They had lovely women This non-operating model working in the Home Economics Build­ will show you how tiny hearing ing, and we enjoyed meeting all of help can be. It's yours to keep, them. In the center part of the building free. The actual aid weighs less was a small stage with chairs out in than a third of an ounce, and front of it. We talked to our friends it's all at ear level, in one unit. from this stage, and answered any No wires lead from body to head. questions they had to ask. From then "When you're on o picnic and eat until noon we just visited with them These models are free, so watermelon will the seeds you when they signed our guest book. We write for yours now. Thou­ spit out grow into plants here?" discovered when we got home that sands have already been Katharine and James were listen­ people had registered from 106 differ­ mailed, so write today to Dept. ing intently for the answer to ent towns. 4835, Beltone Electronics their question. Corp., 4201 W. Victoria St., We had lunch with the helpers in the Chicago, Ill. 60646. LUCILE'S LETTER - Concluded building, then were on the program here?" I took one look and said in­ again in the afternoon. Later in the day stantly: "You're going to have a Bettie from KSIS came out and went baby!!!!" knew how desperately with us to visit some of the other she'd wanted a baby and never have I buildings. Mrs. McCune went with us to seen such a radiant face as she had the Neimeyers, and after we rested a that night. while, Rev. Neimeyer took us four Well, Helen is the kind who is al­ women out to eat at Flat Creek Inn ways at the switch, so she was right Smorgasbord. Ruth and Henrietta grew on the job until she called one morning up in large families, too, so we had and said that she'd just been to the fun telling each other about some of doctor and he'd advised her to work our experiences over dinner, and laugh­ just half-days from that point on. ed until we cried. After dinner they Would it be all right with me? OF took us for a drive around town to see Directions to Make COURSE! the churches, schools, parks, Jr. Col­ Ribbon Fish (and owl) That went on for exactly ten days lege, and other interesting buildings. FREE with a subscription to and then one day during the noon hour We were plenty ready for bed that Pack-D-Fun night. The next morning we had part of Imagine turning leftover ribbon into.-----. Helen called me at home and said: shimmering fish or wise old owls. It's SAYE "Lucile, I don't feel very frisky today. our breakfast with the Neimeyers, then easy with step-by-step help from over Would it be all right if I don't come to drove over to Bettie's house and had Pack-0-Fun. And this is just a hint of $1.00 the creative fun ahead. work this afternoon?" Naturally . more. We met three of her children and 10 Big Issues naturally - no problem. a little granddaughter, who had spent 10 Big issues a year help you convert $4 95 ordinary household odds and ends CR••· ••.ooi That was at 12:30 and at 3:50 the the night with her. One more stop at like egg cartons, plastic bottles and _____. phone rang and it was Ed, a happy, the station; then we were headed back spools into exciting jewelry, gifts, centerpieces, fa­ vors and such. Directions are so clear, you'll be an happy sounding man who said that north on 65 again. instant success - even if you feel all thumbs. Dale had been born at 3:44 and every­ When we got to Marshall we took a At less than lOc a week, Pack-0-Fun is great for one was fine. I just never quite got little side trip on Highway 41 east to mothers, leaders, teachers and craft enthusiasts. And the kids love Pack-0-Fun - especially the over this whole sequence of events Arrow Rock State Park, a Missouri His­ games and toys. and I believe you'll agree it's not a torical Site. We visited some of the FREE Bonus Book run-of-the-mill story. shops and ate lunch in The Old Tav­ "Fun with Egg Cartons" Incidentally, there is exactly three ern, which is now over 150 years old. with a subscription to Pack-0-Fun weeks' difference in age between Dale It was built by Joseph Huston, a promi­ Try Pack·O·Fun - if you don't find and James so I've always been able to nent businessman, in 1833. It is a instant fun and profit, we'll refund your money. And you may keep the sort of keep tabs on how things are brick Federal-style building which he Free directions and Bonus Book. going at different stages. used as a combination home, hotel, I've written so much this month that I and grocery store. This interesting ------·Pack·O·Fun, Oept. 2184, Park Ridge, Ill. 60068 probably shouldn't write a word next building has been restored as nearly as Plea~ enter my subscription to Pack-0-Fun and send my FREE directions and Book under separate cover. month, but I probably will! possible to its original condition and D 3 years only $11.95 D 1 year only $4.95 Anyway, I'm always faithfully yours .. is worth seeing. (a $18.00 value) (reg. $6.00) Frank was happy to see us come 0 ~e~I~=~~ ei"~!~~:f (for which 0 ~~l!;ne driving into the yard. Marge stayed all \~\, night and went on home in the morning. Name Next month I'll catch up on some of Most people do what is expected of our activities at home, but until then ... Address them. The successful do just a bit Sincerely, City, State, Zip 51 more. Dorothy KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, OCTOBER, 1974 PAGE 23

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gather nectar from. I hear the raucous cawing of blackbirds flying high over Cornfield Contemplation the field, their calling diminishing to a by lonely stillness. Grace V. Schillinger I'll walk back to our son's farmhouse now, back to the warmth and friendli­ ness of their kitchen. With their two little boys, Mike and Steve, near me, I '11 forget I was sad about summer being gone.

AUTUMN GOLD It hangs upon the highest branch As a bit of golden lea there; One solitary, glowing spot, Sitting here in the cornfield in mid­ about my problems and can pray about Despite the varied weather. October, with the big mechanical corn­ the things worrying me. picker to my left and the tall corn rus­ The trampled cornstalks on which I Three seasons it has flourished there, tling around me, what a perfect place sit cover the black soil, along with Since that first leafy stem, to write about the inspirations of some dried weeds, and there are sev­ Preparing for this burst of gold, autumn. eral honey bees buzzing around, trying The last leaf ... Autumn's gem. Sometimes the flaming trees and the to find some late weed flowers to -Gladys Niece Templeton bright sumac along the road banks give me a feeling of sadness. I know their cheer will soon pass; the leaves will fall, and cold weather will come. But there's something sturdy and comforting about a cornfield. The sun shines down on me from a cloudless blue sky, a bright blue sky that only October can produce. It seems like only a few days since these corn rows were tiny light green lines across the field. How swiftly they grew into hardy dark green plants, then sent out more and more long leaves, till at last they reached maturity. Now they're waiting, their life cycle almost complete. Each brown leaf is crisp and crackly. The moisture that was drawn from the soil grew into these yellow ears of corn. When the breeze whiStles through the stalks, they quiver and shake like old men in a winter storm. All that's left now is for the farmer - our youngest son - to harvest these The KITCHEN-KLATTER radio program 1s like yellow ears. Foods of many kinds will be made, and of course, some will feed having a friend drop in for a chat. the livestock on the farm. Soon October will be gone. Its bright Tune in each weekday for one of the following stations: blue days will change to somber gray tones. The stalks here will be cut to KVSH Valentine, Nebr., 940 on your dial - 10: 15 A.M. make winter bedding and feed for the farm animals. Today it's cozy warm WJAG Norfolk, Nebr., 780 on your dial - 10:05 A.M. here in the cornfield; in November the KHAS Hastings, Nebr., 1230 on your dial - 11:00 A.M. winds will sweep and howl across this KOAM Pittsburg, Kans., 860 on your dial - 9:00 A.M. place. KWOA Worthington, Minn., 730 on your dial - 1:30 P.M. As the Bible tells us in Ecclesiastes KSIS Sedalia, Mo., 1050 on your dial - 10:00 A.M. 3: verses 1 and 2: To everything there is a season, and a time for every pur­ KLIK Jefferson City, Mo., 950 on your dial - 9:30 A.M. pose under the heaven: A time to be KWBG Boone, Iowa, 1590 on your dial - 9:00 A.M. born; and a time to die; and a time to KWPC Muscatine, Iowa, 860 on your dial - 9:00 A.M. plant, and a time to pluck up that KCOB Newton, Iowa, 1280 on your dial - 9:30 A.M. which is planted. KTAV-FM Knoxville, la., 92. l me. on your dial - 11. lSA.M. With summer gone it's good to find a quiet place like this, a place of ser­ KSMN Mason City, Iowa, 1010 on your dial - 9:30 A.M. enity - even if it's just a cornfield and KMA Shenandoah, Iowa, 960 on your dial - 9:00 A.M. I sit on the ground - where I can muse