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see each other so often in the winter­ time because of ice and snow, but we Kitchen·Klatte1~ visit over the phone frequently. This (Rec. u. s. Pat. Off.) morning she called and told me about MAGAZINE a quilt she is making. It is the familiar "Colonial Lady" in applique. It is "More Than Just Paper And Ink" double-bed size, but she is making EDITORIAL STAFF Leanna Field Driftmier, additional blocks so that she will have Lucile Driftmier Verness, enough for a single bed, too. I imagine Margery D1·iftmie1· Strom she will use the smaller one on the Subscription Price $1.50 1>el' year (12 issues) in the U.S.A. bed where Lettie's daughter, Jean Ann Fol'eign Countries S2.00 per year. Advertising rah_•s made known on a1)plication. Bianco, sleeps when she comes to E_ntered as second class matter May 21, 1937, at the Post visit her grandmother. Bertha promised 01f1ce at Shenandoah, Ia., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Monthly by to come spend an afternoon soon so we THE DRIFTMIER COMPANY can sew and visit together. LETTER FROM LEANNA Shenandoah, Iowa Speaking of sewing, I wish you could Copyright 1963 by The Driftmier Company. see the big package of embroidery patterns Dorothy has chosen to offer Dear Friends: have children living in the neighbor­ to you. (She has an ad for them in this Every winter I think I was never hood. issue.) Now I'm all enthused to make happier to see Spring drawing near. Our son, Wayne, who lives in Denver, some sets of tea towels and pillow Oh, yes! I know we will probably have Colorado, spent a day with us since I cases. Just as soon as I finish the more snow storms, but at least we can wrote last. He had been attending a round tablecloth I'm embroidering for cheer ourselves by thinking that Spring nursery convention in Chicago. Howard Mae, I'm going to start on them. is not too far away. and Mae drove to Red Oak to meet him, This tablecloth that I'm making is We expect cold weather during the and Margery and Oliver returned him to one of the packaged ones that I bought winter season, although none of us catch the same train the following at Brandeis Department Store in Omaha. really enjoy temperatures 20 degrees night. It has always been difficult for me to below zero. Our sympathy goes out to When any of the children come home, go to the city because of my wheel those living in the usually warm states I enjoy fixing foods that they particu­ chair and the parking problem, but that who lost valuable fruit and vegetable larly like. For Wayne, I made date bars was solved when Brandeis built a crops. and graham cracker pudding-two things parking building that connects with the A few years ago we experienced such high on his list of favorite foods. Mar­ store. Margery wanted to get there a winter in California. I will never gery and Oliver invited all of us to early and it is fortunate that we did, forget the beautiful green orchards their home for a wonderful turkey din­ for we found a parking place on the 4th stripped of leaves, the ground beneath ner just before he left. We were so level near the door AND there were no them covered with o rang e s ! The glad that Dorothy was here that week, steps at all. This made it very simple spoiled fruit was trucked out into the for she misses out on many of our to get into the store. ·with elevators at desert and thousands and thousands of family dinners. hand, I could go from the top floor to dollars were lost in that catastrophe. My sister, Jessie Shambaugh, is the basement, and I'm sure we took in Surprisingly enough, nature made her spending the winter in San Mateo, Cal­ every floor. rt was such fun; I don't comeback and the trees leafed out ifornia, where her daughter Ruth and think anyone in the store was having a again-some even wore a few brave her 'family live. Ruth has four little better time than I was. blossoms in the Spring. Friends from girls and a little boy, so Jessie, who Any of my friends who use wheel California write that many of these enjoys being near her grandchildren so chairs and who haven't been in big same orange groves have been taken much, will have a happy winter. Just stores for a long time-or in any stores, over for housing developments. The before she left for California, she for that matter-do let someone in your area around Redlands would look very spent some time with her son, Bill, family arrange such a trip for you. different to us if we were to go back who lives in Des Moines, and his fam­ They really want to, you know. even there now, they write. ily. They have two girls and two boys. though you may have argued that it is Martin, our grandson, kept the walks In Jessie's last letter, she said that too much trouble for them. free of snow and took care of the bird she was enjoying being outside in the This reminds me of an article that I feeder every day. Margery stopped by sunshine working around Ruth's flower read recently which said that often it with our mail on her way home from the garden. We miss having her near, but is harder for us to accept gifts or help office on days that Mart couldn't go it won't be long until Spring comes to than it is to give them. We should out to brave the elements. We could Iowa and she'll head back for the think of the pleasure people receive have the mail delivered to the house, Midwest. from doing for us, just as we gain but Mart enjoys so much going down to This letter is being written in in­ satisfaction from doing things for them. the plant after it when the weather is stallments. I stopped this morning Sometimes this is a hard lesson to pleasant. Although he is no longer when cousins, whom I hadn't seen for learn. active in the business, he takes great years, arrived for a visit. I asked them I see that my space is gone, so I'll pleasure in watching its growth-one of to stay for dinner-if they wouldn't have to close for this month. his dreams fulfilled. mind eating in the kitchen-so I scur­ Sincerely, When the front door opens around ried around to get dinner on the table. 12:30 during the noon hour, we know Thanks to my "emergency shelf" in that it is Howard and Mae, stopping for the pantry, I had the makings for an a little chat on their way back to work. easy meal. P .S. Just as this issue is going to They always spend Sunday evenings Most of you know that Bertha Field, press we've received word that Mart's with us too, arriving with the rest of my brother Henry's wife, still lives in brother, A. F. (Bert) Driftmier of Clar­ the local families in time for coffee Shenandoah. We have many common inda, Iowa, has passed away following and a snack. We are so fortunate to interests, one being sewing. We don't a long illness. 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LETTER FROM LUCILE would be delivered. (All I could think of as I heard this ominous statement was the water I had carelessly and Hello, Good Friends: foolishly wasted in days gone by!) I've just finished packing up a shoe But before we could really pin our box of bar cookies to mail to Juliana, attention to getting along "indefi­ and as I fussed around with wax paper, nitely" without water we had another wrapping paper and all the rest, I won­ furnace collapse, and that did it-we dered how many of you friends were could see clearly enough that this was doing the same thing? It would be my no situation for someone whose goal guess that quite a few of us were tack­ was to regain his health! ling the food-from-home project on a As a rule we don't make spur-of-the­ wintry afternoon, young people being moment plans; our responsibilities what they are-and mothers being what don't allow for impetuous, split­ they are! Common sense tells us there second decisions. But this was once must be perfectly delicious things we moved fast without weighing end­ available within a stone's throw of less pros-and-cons. Russell decided wherever our child may be and, every­ We were all delighted that Wayne to go south where he could actually thing considered, it's silly to stew (Driftmier) could stop over for a find the sun (Hermosillo, Mexico­ around with shoe boxes of "stuff"; but brief visit enroute back to Denver about 175 miles more or less from the oh! what a pleasure it is to do this following his attendance at a border) and I decided to come back nursery convention in Chicago. kind of stewing! Wayne is manager of the Wilmore home to Iowa and get caught up on a I've had a curious way of life these Nurseries of Denver. lot of things that needed doing. For­ last few weeks. Never before has there tunately I could get on the train with been a pattern quite like this and it Anyway, we banked on the sun! And practically no advance notice, and has given rise to what might be called this year it failed us! Of course, the almost before I knew it the old Santa long, long thoughts. cold wave that swept over the country Fe wheels were grinding away back to In the early part of January, Russell broke all records and even the oldest the Midwest. and I drove out to our place in New of the old-timers could never recall When I referred earlier to a "curious Mexico with only one thought in mind­ anything like it, but the end result way of life" I had in mind the fact a chance for Russell to soak up the was that we had no sun. Furthermore, that it seems very strange to me to sun and to regain his health. It may we had very little heat. There were be completely alone in the house from sound strange to you to hear about such unprecedented demands on the early morning until night. (Even little soaking up the sun in New Mexico, but gas lines that things just sort of col­ Jake is with Russell.) This is the the valley in which our place is situ­ lapsed and the word''emergency" didn't first time that both Russell and Juli­ ated is one of these charmed areas mean emergency at all. It just meant ana have been far away and until now where the sun almost always shines, the usual state of affairs. I had not truly realized how utterly no matter what is going on only ten or Until everything is out of kilter you still a house can be in broad daylight! fifteen miles away; and where it has don't really put your mind to machin­ Every time the phone rings I all but what might be ca 11 e d "peculiar" ery that has always plugged along shoot through the ceiling. powers. faithfully, so faithfully you don't even When night begins to fall I am glad Do you remember too the pictures know it's there! Take the heater in the to lock the door and go up to have you've seen in years gone by of pa­ pump house, for instance. Now I knew supper with the folks and to spend the ients in sanitoriums in Switzerland? we had artesian wells and I knew we night at their home. They are very There these people were on cots or had a pump house, but I never brooded much shut-in these winter days and beds with only a sheet over them and about these facts because we always it's a break in their routine to have towering drifts of snow on every side; had plenty of water, summer and "one of the children" coming in when they were about the coldest looking winter, and were assured that we the street lights go on and a long pictures I've ever seen, and I used to would ALWAYS have plenty of water, afternoon has drawn to its close. wonder why those poor people didn't no matter what. Almost thirty years have passed just freeze to death. So what happens? Well, it seems since I trudged up that staircase Well, I know now why those patients there is a heater in that pump house every night and turned into my old were put right out in the snow, for all and when the mercury plunged far, far room, and I am acutely mindful of the practical purposes, and didn't suffer in below zero for the first time ever, that fact that circumstances do not permit the least: the sun has the strength of heater balked and laid down on the many people of my age to do this. Of 100,000 demons at a high elevation job. This meant no water. And since all the people whom I know I have when there is snow to reflect it. Last we are 'way out in the country and only one friend who still has both of winter in New Mexico we actually got no one wants to make such calls at her parents, still in the family home sun-burned from only a short time in any time, least of all when they're and in reasonably good health. I think the sun when there were six-foot drifts swamped with work right in town, we about this at night when I close my all around the area where we were couldn't stir up a soul to come and book and turn off the light. The past sitting. I just simply wouldn't believe take action. MY, that was quite a gay and the present seem one and the this if I hadn't been the one who had a siege without heat and water! same before I drift off to sleep. blistered nose! It seemed incredible to When we finally roused up someone We've had some very happy evenings me that it could be so cold outdoors to come out (and I had to cry on the at the folks' house during this spell. with such heavv snow everywhere, and phone to get this done!) we discove.i:ed Dorothy was here for Kitchen-Klatter still one could sit in the sun and get that the necessary parts for the heater week and we started a big monopoly uncomfortably hot. For the first time I were no longer readily available and tournament, six of us around the kit­ understood those old pictures that were although an order would be telephoned chen table every night. I h.. ln't played taken so many years ago in Switzer­ in at once, no one drawing the breath monopoly for years and had forgotten .land. They had the same kind of a sun. of life could guarantee just u·hen they (Continued on page 22) PAGE 4 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

board and spray it with gold paint. Sew Paddy-boy favors. For each Paddy-boy the "strings" on the harp using a large favor use a 1o11 i pop for the head, darning needle threaded with gold or marking the features with a black cray­ white yarn. Small green paper sham­ on. Make hats from black paper and rocks, with green pipe cleaners used glue onto each lollipop head. Green as stems, may be placed here and there ribbon paper would make nice bow ties. upon the strings as "notes". Add a Insert the stick end into a small potato, bow of white ribbon and a cluster of slicing a bit off the bottom of the po­ shamrocks to the top of the harp. tato so the favors won't roll over. A shamrock mobile ring makes an un­ Entertainment usual and pretty decoration. It is espe­ Talking Malarky: Into a large paper cially lovely hung above a refreshment sack put several articles appropriate to table. You will need to make either st. Patrick's Day, such as potato, toy three or five graduated spheres or pig, shamrock, pipe, hat, policeman's globes. Each sphere will be made of badge. can of beef stew, etc. Fasten three rings, formed by crushing tightly the sack with a green ribbon. Each IT'S SHENANIGAN TIME AGAIN! strips of aluminum foil and then fas­ guest, in turn, must untie the sack, tening it into a ring. For each sphere, reach in and take out one article, and by fasten the rings together at the top and then make a one-minute spe~ch about Mabel Nair Brown bottom, spacing them equally and se­ it. He keeps the object, reties the curing them with wire or masking tape. sack, and passes it on to the next in A rollicking Irish party is a wonderful The rings in the top sphere should be way to banish the "end-of-the-winter" line. A prize might be given to the one about 1 O inches in diameter with each with the best "line of malarky". doldrums. Everyone is ready to forget sphere below it decreasing an inch blocked roads, howling winds, grey Get It Down Pat: This is a pencil­ from the one above it. Fasten the and-paper game. The answers start with days and thermometers that hover near globes together, one above the other, the word "pat". zero. The St. Patrick's Day theme is a by wiring in place. Decorate the bottom 1. A candy mint (Patty) dandy way to put a little fun into your of each sphere with shamrocks and 2. A plot of ground (Patch) lives, and that of your friends, too, so loops of white ribbon to conceal the 3. Sole right granted (Patent) let these ideas spur you on to plan a wiring, and also on the top of the 4. Fatherly (Paternal) party to brighten one of these March highest one, adding a hook or loop so 5. An explorer (Pathfinder) days. that the mobile may be suspended from 6. A model (Pattern) the ceiling or lighting fixture. Invitations 7. On guard (Patrol) Of course you can telephone the word 8. A protector or benefactor around, but it's more fun to set the (Patron) mood for a gay party with an amusing 9. Chit-chat (Patter) It invitation. could read something like 10. The head (Patriarch) this: Potato Carving: Give each guest a Wither ye name be Finnegan, potato and a knife and see who can Or Jones, or Smith, or Flannigan, carve the best pig. You're invited to come and join right Shamrock Sing: Before the party, in choose several familiar Irish songs and With all our Shamrock Shenanigans. write the words, a phrase at a time, on March is the date; green paper shamrocks. Mix them up in Faith and begorra, now don't be late! a small box and have each guest draw Shure 'tis true, 8 o'clock's the time out a shamrock. Then the fun begins For the Irish to meet in this home of when they try to get all the lines of the mine. song together. When all groups are (Signed: ---- assembled, they must sing their song Carry out the "pig-in-a-poke" idea by in turn. writing the invitations on brown con­ Pin the Shamrock on the Pig: The struction p11-per pigs and placing them game is played like pinning the tail on ' in a poke (sack) made from brown paper A shamrock "flower" centerpiece is the donkey, but a cut-out of a pig is grocery bags. Decorate the side of used and the blindfolded players must each poke with a green paper shamrock. easily made by cutting small hearts from green paper. Three hearts, plus a pin the shamrock over the pig's ear. Decorations stem, will form a shamrock if the points Searching for the Blarney Stone: The of the hearts are placed to the center. leader will say that there is a blarney Cut circles from lace paper doilies. stone hidden in the room. Everyone is to sing, hum, or whistle "The Wearin' place a heart shamrock upon each one of the Green" as he w a 1 ks about and glue it in place. Use a green pipe hunting for the stone. The stone has cleaner for the stem. Insert the stems been placed in plain sight, so nothing into a large potato to form a "floral" need be moved or touched to locate it. centerpiece. Irish pipes, made using a As soon as a p 1 ayer finds it, he cork for the bowl and a pipe cleaner for changes his tune to "Casey Jones". the stem, along with a piggy bank or Continue until everyone is singing toy pigs, miniature Paddy hats, and "Casey Jones". (These are only sug­ more shamrocks could encircle the gested tunes; others could be sub­ Place a large harp on the front door base to complete the arrangement. stituted.) to catch the eye of the guests as they Favors may be miniature harps fash­ .:..t..:..:..t..:..:..t..:..:..t..:..:..t..:. arrive. Cut the harp from white poster ioned like the front door piece, or "!"f"'r~~~~ KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 5

AN ALL-WEATHER ROAD FOR The county straightened the channel THE JOHNSONS and put in a new bridge when they built the farm-to-market road which borders Dear Friends: our land on the north. The creek now Since I didn't write a letter to you runs parallel to the road from our house last month, so many things have hap­ to the bridge. This helped the flooding pened between letters that I hardly situation a great deal, but another know where to begin. Although many problem developed; high water was weeks have passed since the Holidays, gradually cutting away the land be­ I realize you have heard nothing about tween the creek and the road until now our activities while Kristin was home. the channel meets it in two places. I think I'll just start there. Our county supervisor has been very Kristin decided to take the plane understanding about our problem, and from Cheyenne to Omaha for several when the county bought a large shale reasons. First, she hadn't been on a pile of good quality, as well as ma­ plane since she was two years old, too chinery for crushing it, he told us that young to remember anything about it, they could now fix the road and shale and since the airline was offering For our many new subscribers who it for us much more economically. With­ special rates for college students, she have asked for a picture of Dor­ out hesitation, we told them to go thought it would be a nice experience. othy, we're sharing this latest one ahead. It was a happy day when, at which was taken at the Strom's Second, she .wanted to take the bus to following the dinner for Wayne. long last, the first truckload of shale Maryville to spend one day with her was dumped on our road. Now it is all friends there before coming on home. visibility was practically zero. When finished and I suppose it will take us Frank's sister, Edna, and I drove to we arrived at the airport we learned a while this Spring to get used to the Maryville and brought her home. that no planes were landing, so Kristin fact that we don't have to dash out We had ten wonderful days together. continued on to Laramie by train. with the car at the first clap of thun­ Kristin was so glad to be home that Those of you who have taken the der! The first thing Frank said was, she didn't care to do much running Kitchen-Klatter Magazine for years are ''Now your mother and dad can come around, so we really had a good chance familiar with the fact that our farm is to see us whether it rains or not." to visit. She had been taking rifle located on a dirt road one-half mile off Frank is very happy with a new ham­ marksmanship as a physical activity at an all-weather road. For the seventeen mermill he bought recently. It has school and was anxious to go rabbit years we've lived on the farm, we've simplified his feeding problems con­ hunting with Frank at least once. had to put up with this half mile of siderably this winter. He set it up so Rabbits were scarce this year, but mud, which is especially bad in the the ground feed would blow directly they went out one morning to try their Spring and Fall. During this long into one of his cement-floored steel luck and came home with three. They period of time, which saw Kristin grainbins. Whenever we've had nice were the first we had had this season, through grade school and high school, winter days i that weren't too 'bitterly and tasted awfully good for supper it would be hard to estimate the hun­ cold to stay outside for several hours that evening. dreds of times we've had to plow at a time, he's ground enough feed to One of Kristin's first loves is good through the mud to get the car out. If last for a number of days of "bliz­ music and for several years she has you've ever experienced the same zardy" conditions. It was mighty nice­ been collecting some fine records. A problem, you can understand how happy especially during sub-zero temper­ small portable record player we had we are that at long last we have an atures-to have this feed in a good dry given her years ago finally wore out, all-weather road right to our gate! place, and all ready to carry out to the so we gave her a portable stereo for There are probably some who have feed bunks. Christmas. I don't know when anything wondered why .this wasn't done years The cold weather almost made a has thrilled her so much; it was ago (especially those who aren't fa­ nervous wreck out of our little dog, playing practically every minute she miliar with our section of Iowa). There Tinker. He is used to being right at was in the house. She wanted very are many reasons. Since we are the Frank's heels all the time, but he much to take it back to school, but only family living on this road, and couldn't take the bitter cold for more finally decided against it since her beyond our house the road is very than five or ten minutes. When he saw room in the dormitory is very small. narrow, winding, and with two blind Frank putting on his wraps, he would Returning Kristin to Omaha to catch railroad crossings, there was no pos­ get as excited as ever, dash out the her plane for Cheyenne was quite a sible chance for us to ever have a door ahead of him, but change his mind trip! Since it was an early-morning de­ farm-to-market road. If we had the road at the yard gate. Back he would run to parture, we planned to drive as far as gravelled, we would have to pay for it. find his warm bed by the stove. I ap­ Shenandoah the day before and spend Gravel is a scarce item in our county, preciated having him keep me company the night with Mother and Dad. This which means it has to be trucked in while I was at the sewing machine or would give Kristin a chance to have a from a considerable distance, making making peanut pixies. little visit with them. The highways it an expensive proposition. The creek On this cold and snowy night, I think were excellent when we left the farm, which runs through our farm "went some popcorn made in my new electric but by the time we had driven forty wild" at times, and it didn't take corn popper (a Christmas present) miles we ran into freezing mist and icy much of a rain to put it out of its would taste mighty good, so I'll put roads. When we reached Shenandoah banks. Before the ch an n e 1 was the typewriter away, go to the kitchen, the ice had broken up and the roads straightened, it wasn't unusual for our and see what I can do about it! were only wet, but the forecasts called road to be under water several tim~s a Sincerely, for fog and ice by morning. We stopped year, especially if we had a very wet only long enough to say "Hello", and year. We couldn't see our going to the continued on to Omaha to spend the expense of gravelling if it was going night. It was fortunate that we did for to be washed away with the first hard by morning there was a heavy fog and rain. PAGE 6 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

FREDERICK DISCUSSES WELFARE The amount of money any one family is given depends on the number of Dear Friends: children in the family. A t y p i c a 1 This was another one of those beau­ monthly budget for each child would tiful winter days with lots of snow on run like this: Food, $19: Clothing, the ground and a bright sun in the sky. $7 .00; Pers on al care, $1.05; and I don't know why it is that I never Household supplies $1.25. Now add cease to be surprised at the way win­ that up and multiply it by the number ter seems to hang on! I am forty-five of people in the family and then add years old, and in these forty-five win­ the cost of rent, heat and utilities, ters of observation that have been and you have the family budget. mine, I ought to know by now that the I am sure that you realize the source worst weather usually comes when of most welfare funds; they ~ome from winter ought to be coming to a close! the federal and state governments. So many times our heaviest snowfalls Here in Massachusetts the average come this time of the year. city or town only has to put up about You good people who live out in the one-fourth of the actual amount spent Middle West would be surprised to see on welfare; the rest of it comes from how much slower our spring is here in the federal and state governments. New England. By March you will have This situation will vary some from had at least a hint 'of spring, but not state to state, but, generally speaking, we. When on occasion I have made it is old Uncle Sam who pays most of trips out to Iowa in March, I have been A new picture of Mary Leanna, fif­ it. And where does he get it? Around amazed to see green grass beginning teen-year-o Id daughter of Frederick April 15th most of us have a good to show, and then when I have come and Betty Driftmier. idea! One way or another, the little back through Pennsylvania I have seen old taxpayer pays the whole bill. even more signs of spring. It isn't that This is a very difficult task, for it There was a time when the churches we are so much further north than means I must give hours of my time and the Salvation Army did all the Iowa, but there is something about the each week to the problem of spending relief that was done in a town, but my! air currents that makes the difference. about eight million dollars a year to how things have changed. The other Had you been with me this afternoon help the aged, the infirm, and the des­ day I was talking to a member of the you would have seen some indignation titute. Many people do not realize that Salvation Army who referred to some in my speech and conduct. I was at­ in the United States today there are of our fa mi 1 i e s on welfare as the tending a meeting of a Pulpit Supply thousands and thousands of families "Luxurious Poor". What he meant was Committee in another church, where receiving more than $400 a month from that some of the people on welfare are my advice was sought on the best way public welfare funds. We do not have a far better off than those who are trying for that particular church to find a new great many in that high category here to support their families on small minister who would meet their needs. in our city, but we do have some. earned incomes. Of course that is I became a bit indignant at the fre­ I am willing to guess that there are true. Last Christmas our church gave quently expressed opinion of the need many of you reading this letter who most of its special Christmas gift help for a young man. "We need a young are rearing families on less than $400 to poor families that are not on wel­ man to work with the young people of a month income! One lady said to me fare, and there are many such. the church," was on the lips of most the other day: "Dr. Driftmier, I am a While there are some aspects of this of those present. "If young people are widow with four children. I work at the welfare problem that are most dis­ going to be attracted to this church, hospital as a secretary and my take­ couraging and distressing, one only then the minister has to be young," home pay is just $50.00 a week. I has to visit our welfare office and see seemed to be the consensus of the know that I could go on welfare and the thin, poorly clothed, hungry moth­ group. get $62 a week without working. What ers and children to be made aware of Actually, this is one of the most do you think I should do?" What would the fact that we should give thanks to common errors that church people your answer be? If her children are too God for the existence of such insti­ make. Just because the minister is a young to be left alone, the government tutions as public welfare. There are young man does not mean that he will believes that she should stop work people who want work but who cannot appeal to young people. The best man and accept the welfare payments. work for one reason or another, and to work with young people is a man One of the biggest problems we have certainly their children should not be who has had many years of experience to face in the giving out of welfare made to suffer on account of it. The working with them. A man of senior funds is the fact that many people can big job is to make those work who can years who is very young at heart is get more from welfare by not working, work; and often this is much easier often much more attractive to young than they ever got in all their lives said than done. I know that I give people than one closer to their own from working. For example, there is hours and hours to thinking and plan­ age. Again and again it has been the poor farmer who moves to town ning on this very task, but since it is proved that the most popular youth when he loses his farm. He is the just a volunteer work on top of all else leaders in summer camps have been father of eight children. He takes an I have to do, there is a limit to how the senior men who love young people unskilled job working in the Park De­ much I can do about it. and who have had years of experience partment taking care of flow er s, Yesterday I had lunch with one of with them. Of course, many young mowing park lawns, etc., and is paid our librarians who is employed at the ministers are superb youth leaders, $60 a week. When he loses his job and big public library just down the street but their youthfulness is no guarantee his family goes on welfare, he is given from our church. She was telling me of their leadership ability. $110 a week. Now with that kind of how everyone feared the advent of As many of you know, I am the Chair­ income when he is not working, there television would keep people from man of the Board of Public Welfare for is little incentive for him to keep reading, but actually, it has been just the city of Springfield, Massachusetts .. looking for a new job. (Continued on page 19) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 7

THE BIRKBYS ARE BUILDING most of the requirements we felt were Bob pointed out his room proudly to A HOME necessary. Again we dashed out for an visitors. "And this," Jeff and Craig by estimate, and, glory be! with a few would say, not to be outdone by their Evelyn Birkby changes here and there we found it older brother, "Is going to be our room." was within reach! Soon such words as bridginf, stringers,, It was dusk as we stood near the tall Now, a family in modest circumstances subflooring, studding and sheeting were mulberry tree and looked around. Across just does not go out and start building familiar to my vocabulary. It was eerie the gently sloping ground and on to the the next day after plans are chosen--at to watch the house come into actual west was the slow lift of a hill which least none I know. It takes financing, being after pouring over blueprints for dissolved into the deep purples and planning, and budgeting to reach the so long and trying to visualize its ap­ pale pinks of an Iowa sunset. To the point where that first spade of dirt can pearance. By the end of the first week north was a white farmhouse nestled be turned. This proved to be the most the structure was enclosed and safe just over the town boundary. To the difficult wait of all for me ... I was ready from any winter weather which might south of the land where we stood were for that house. I had been ready for arrive. trees and bushes which hid the houses sixteen years! The craftsmen, miraculously, came and the streets of the town of Sidney. At last all of the details were worked and went as they were needed in spite To the east were the scenical rolling out and the contract let. The middle of of the fact that everyone had warned us bluffs which rose and dipped until they October an oblong hole was scooped this would be the real bottleneck. The fell off into the distance, we knew, to out in the ground right on the spot by day the fireplace bricks were laid the the Nishnabotna River valley. the spreading mulberry tree where furnace was installed tokeep the mortar Robert turned to me and said, "This Robert and I had stood and dreamed our from freezing. When the walls were four acres belongs to me. My dream is first dream. We looked with pride at that ready for the wiring the electrician was to build a home here someday." hole. Our home was finally under way! there. One evening the last of the dry­ What bride wouldn't have been thrilled As it turned out, we had many days in wall was nailed into place; the next with such a pronouncement? I was no which to admire that hole. Eventually, morning the plasterers moved in! exception. The thought of a home of our the footings were dug and poured. We "That room is larger than it seemed own in the most wonderful location I waited. Days passed. The masons ar­ to be on the blueprint. What a pleasant could imagine, with enough room to rived and laid the cement blocks for the surprise. It's even better than we stretch and breathe and, who knew, basement. We waited again for days dreamed," Robert and I said frequently. maybe raise a family, brought a glow and days and days! Each Sunday afternoon we would all to my eyes. Suddenly, on November 26th, every­ go over and build a fire in the fireplace. How little we knew, that beautiful thing came to life. Trucks drove up, Now we could feel that the house, bereft day-dreaming moment, that it would be men hopped out, lumber was unloaded of the noise and personnel of building, sixteen years before the house would and the work of building began. Setting was truly ours. Seeing the smoke coming become a reality. The years passed a good steady pace, the workers settled from the chimney, friends would drop with work, college courses, farming down to working on just this one job! in to visit and it became the high point through drought and flood, several emer­ Each evening (after the carpenters of the week. gencies, and yet we held fast to the left) the entire Birkby family would So, it seems, we made up for our years idea that someday we would make our traipse over to see how much had been of waiting by having nearly perfect co­ dream come true. accomplished. As the house began to ordination from the builders. No, not When we moved to the Sidney vicinity shape up, our excitement and enthu­ everything went like clockwork: we've a number of years ago, it seemed that siasm grew. The boys were wild with had decisions to make, we've made surely we could begin. We rented a joy. They ran through the house mistakes, we've struggled with problems house two miles out of town to ac­ unhampered by walls and furniture. far outside our realm of experience. comodate our now expanding family "Look," they shouted, "We're ghosts! Our hope is that the big choices are and began pouring over house plans. We can walk right through the walls." correct and the mistakes will all be We found plans we liked only to dis­ small! cover the size or some details made ON BEING HAPPY Being home owners will be a new them far beyond our reach. Several times experience, no doubt one fraught with we felt we had found one reasonable Joy is more than fluff. adjustment and some concern. But, in enough to warrant getting an estimate, Practice joy enough spite of a few jitters, we are looking only to discover we could not touch it! And it will reinforce forward with anticipation to the task of The years passed. Some days I grew The heart that had recourse finishing the painting (which we are close to despair. Sometimes, when I To sorrow and to sadness. doing ourselves), packing up the old gave up completely, I would go out and Cultivate true gladness familiar furniture, various belongings, buy a pair of new bedroom curtains or Thoroughly, and it the children and the pets and trans­ a bright-colored throw rug to salve my Will skillfully commit porting them by the traditional moving frazzled nerves. Sinew to toughness, bone day, March first, to our own home be­ Finally, one remarkable day, we found To strength it has not known. side the mulberry tree. a house plan which seemed to include -Elaine V. Em ans * * * * * * * * * PAGE 8 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

"FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS My attention is caught again. CAREFULLY" "The stripper-foot presses firmly on the fabric before each plunge of the by needle." Irma Banks Bennett Stripper foot? Where did this joker get Are you one of those people who are his training? At Minsky's? simply not geared to this technical I glance briefly at other pages. age? "Raise the fibble." This sad fact is brought home to me "Lower the pinion gear." every time a new gadget is brought into "Tighten the trunkle." my life. Anyone want to buy a sewing ma­ The one with which I have been most chine? Good as new. (Comes knocked intimately involved in recent months is down.) a sewing machine. Now that sounds harmless enough, and it really isn't the sewing machine itself although it does On afternoons when Margery isn't look pretty confusing. at the Kitchen-Klatter office, she No, it's not the sewing machine it­ can usually be found in her office self. at home where work is always It's the instruction book! waiting for her attention. In the first place, it looks so helpful: nice and clean and unused, printed in about lowering it falls on receptive black-black on pristine white, expen­ ears. I set it on the floor. sive paper. That should give you confi­ I look at the clock. It's lunch time. I dence right there. But it's a false can try again after noon. My mind will confidence. be fresh. You read, "Follow Instructions Care­ After noon there are dishes to be fully," in bold letters and you think, washed, the kitchen to be tidied. I ab­ now, this time, they will be clear. They solutely must write Cousin Abigail a won't be like the instructions with that letter today. Yes, that's all it takes to turn last dress pattern. Finally I decide it's either go back on the radio, and ~hen maybe (They were so confusing that I mis­ and try again or the thing will be you'll take 30 minutes to listen ' took the bodice back for the bodice sitting in the middle of the dining room while we visit with you about ·front and put a pocket on it. It's aw- floor all night. cooking, cleaning, or just catch •fully unhandy to reach around and pull Where was I? Oh, yes. "INSTALLING up on daily happenings and fam­ a hanky out of that pocket_, especially MACHINE HEAD". I read this part ily news. ·with a coat on. It makes people look at again. It's no clearer than before. May­ We enjoy your lE:itters and this •you a little peculiarly, too, but it's be if I had a cup of coffee .. , . is one way you can visit back when your back is turned so you can I read it again. The coffee didn't with us. ignore that.) help. I turn the page. If you aren't in the habit of But we were talking about the sewing "CONNECTING THE MACHINE. Push listening, Take a Minute and find machine instruction book, this lovely plug onto three-prong connectori over us on one of these radio stations little book which was going to explain the machine motor. Plug machine into where we can be heard each everything. any 110-120V. wall outlet." week day from Monday through Of course, as is the custom, the I figure the floor outlet will do. This Saturday: sewing machine came "knocked down". part looks easy. (I find that term most appropriate. I can "When installed in cabinet, insert KWOA Worthington, Minn., 730 on visualize some Atlas marching down grommet with cord in hole in bedpiate." your dial - 9:80 A.M. the production line in the sewing ma­ Grommet? KFEQ St. Joseph, Mo., 680 on chine factory and, with one well-placed Bedplate? your dial - 9:00 A.M. punch each, flattening a whole row of I idly turn another page. Then another. KLIK Jefferson City, Mo., 950 on sewing machines and thus rendering "Loosen thumb screw and move it to your dial - 9 :30 A.M. them shippable.) the bottom of the slot provided." The instructions take this state of Thumb screw? Just as I suspected. KHAS Hastings, Nebr., 1230 on repose into account. This is a medieval instrument of tor­ your dial - 10.:30 A.M. "First," they admonish, "Loosen the ture. :rhumb screw, indeed. So they are KVSH Valentine, Nebr., 940 on two hinge-screws under holes in rear coming back in style! your dial - 9:00 A.M. edge of machine bed." I skip lightly over "STARTING TO WJAG Norfolk, .Nebr., 780 on your I read it again. Wonder what a "hinge­ SEW" since I am not quite ready for dial - 10:00 A.M. screw" is? that. KSMN Mason City, Ia., 1010 on "Raise hinge-pins (Oh, now it's "DROP FEED CONTROL". your dial - 9 :00 A.M. hinge-pins.) in the cutout." Now I'm sure. MY order was mixed up. Cutout? KCFI Cedar Falls, ·la., 1250 on This was supposed to be an automatic your dial - 9 :00 A.M. Oh, well. I'll read on. Maybe it will hog-feeder or some such thing. explain itself. "When knob is in DOWN position, KWPC Muscatine, Ia., 860 on your "Slip machine head onto pins and feed dog does not move material. dial - 10:30 A.M. tighten screws securely." Oh, that's it. It's a dog-feeder. I KWBG Boone, Ia., 1590 on your Oh, my! didn't know they made them. dial - 9 :00 A.M. "Lower machine head to front flap." I flip idly through the book. Why do KOAM Pittsburg, Kans., 860 on Now they're talking! This thing must they have pictures of sewing machines your dial - 9:00 A.M. weigh fifty pounds. Any suggestions if it is really a dog-feeder? KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGF 9

PRELUDE TO SPRING The woodland-valley stirs with muted sounds; I sense a theme of flower-burgeoning As eager seeds push ba ~k their icy ARC bounds by , To start their seasonal adventuring. Harverna Woodling An imperceptible but happy song Is surging through bush, clinging vine, and tree; . March is coming around the corner in recall that several years ago in early Winds tell new fascinating tales along its usual unpredictable fashion, this March, Leon and I left for a nearby Their unmapped wanderlust-itineracy. year with the cold weather we hoped town to pick up 400 baby chicks in an The fragile fern unfolds with muffled was left behind with January and unexpected (?) five or six inches of note; February. snow. We chugged off to town in our Aspiring to salute each joyous bird Well, we refuse to be discouraged. current mud-wadin' Model A Ford. Which will sing arias the Father wrote We still say it is Spring according to The sun shone brightly and the snow Before a mortal's sentence had been our own calendar, whether the weather melted. Our errands performed, we chug­ heard. admits it or not. The days are much ged home again, stopping at The Bridge God's welcome promise lingers far and longer, the clouds are puffy and white, so Leon could put chains on the car. wide- and the sky is high and blue. The Bridge deserves the capitals for That winter's silence will be pushed We admit that the cold wind zipping all the times Leon has put on chains aside! around the corners of the house does there in relative comfort before leaving -Thelma Allinder not know it is Spring. Its sound may the gravel road for mud--or removed be interpreted in many ways. To the them after their mud bath. winter-weary it is a grieving wail. To The chicks ? We put them in a warm the reckless, the discontented, the brooder house after dipping 400 (plus frustrated, it is a restless challenge. the customary few extra) little beaks To the snugly complacent - or the into sour milk, and hoped for the best. smugly complacent - it merely empha­ Actually, most of the 400 survived to sizes the comfort and warmth within. grow up and be sold for a disappoint­ Continuing cold weather offers the ingly low price. But we can hardly homemaker many chances to be useful. blame March for that--or can we? Whether or not you are contented de­ It is wonderful to work out-of-doors pends upon your individual character. again when the warm days come. We This is a grand time to fill the freezer can hardly wait for the appearance of with goodies, such as apple pies, tulips and daffodils, the budding of browned-butter cookies, or date pud­ forsythia and flowering quince. dings. These are foods to be quickly Little Sis says she will grow gladioli thawed and eaten in later, busier days. and zinnias for cut flowers, as she did If you are orderly, this is the time last summer. Older Sister is planning to straighten drawers and clean cabi­ her garden, too. We almost wrote nets. If you are not orderly, you had "Planting." After all, only one letter better do it anyway. One of these days differs in the two words, although there you will be unable to stay indoors. The are several aching muscles' difference sun and the wind will insist that you in their execution. She says she will come out. have lettuce, carrots, and flowers; a The farmer finds cold weather very fine choice, we think. little encouragement in his work. It is It is a lovely moment when we realize difficult to care for stock, especially that the help our children offer has baby stock. become good help, very actual help, When an infrequent thaw comes, the instead of just a means of amusement ground is too muddy, or too slick, for for them. Their help and interest will SUCCESS him to do the hauling and cleaning surely contribute to a happy Spring chores that need doing. When the cold and Summer. Success is in the way you walk the clamps down again, machinery hates to * * * * * * * * * * paths of life each day. run, and snow and ice under wheel do MID-MARCH It's in the little things you do and in not help. A filigree in black and white the things you say. The past weeks have been an ideal Wind-tossed outside my window pane Success is not in getting rich or rising time to read poetry. We frequently run With swaying limbs etched on gray sky high to fame; into "Miniver Cheevy". And do you While swirling snows pile window sills. It's not alone in winning goals which remember the romance of Noyes' "The all men hope to claim. Highwayman"? And the solemn roll of Below the big plows hurl the snow Success is being big in heart and clean Henley's "Invictus"? One of our all­ In swathes like waves on a stormy sea; and broad in mind; time favorites is "Stopping by Woods But high above, on wind-blown wings, It's being faithful to your friends and on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost. A small drab birdie hikes his rides. to the stranger, kind. There is so much beautiful poetry to Although the wintry storms persist It's in the children whom you love and be read. And northern winds blow free and wild, all they learn from you; Still we must work as well as read The small drab bird high in a tree Success depends on character and poetry. Both March and April can be Inspires the faith that Spring is nigh. everything you do. very temperamental. For instance, I -Eugenie G. O'Brien -Author Unknown PAGE 10 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

"A MOVING EXPERIENCE'' Twenty-two ye a rs, in which some by mighty important things had happened Esther Grace Sigsbee to our family, had suddenly become a memory, and for the next several This is the story of my most moving weeks we were to be without a home. experience. The term is to be taken Then came the good-byes. Surely, literally for, after more than thirty "good-bye" is one of the most poignant years in the same town (twenty-two of words in the dictionary. Good-bye to them in the same house), move is the school where both my husband and exactly what we have done. I received our high school education From Algona, Iowa, population, 6 ,000, and where our children were currently where we knew everyone and everyone enrolled. Good-bye to parents who knew us, to Sarasota, Florida, popula­ could always be called within a few tion 40,000, where only a handful of minutes, even though we sometimes people have ever heard of us, may not didn't see them for a couple of weeks be an earth-shaking experience for at a time. Good-bye to the church we some people, but it was for me, Why, had attended since our teen-age days. I hadn't even rearranged the furniture Good-bye to relatives, friends and in the living room for mare than twenty acquaintance. Good-bye to our son and years! Mrs. Harlan Sigsbee two daughters, since they couldn't be The first process l.n moving, I found, with us for a while. was to start disposing of the excess I had no idea of what to ask for them. The economy of our new home town, junk. This should be done every ten I was afraid I would set the price too we found, is based mainly on vaca­ years or so anyway, unless you have high and thus squelch the sale; I was tioners and retired people. Since we an all-out fire, but I had always been even more afraid I would ask too little are working people and starting all a coward about throwing things away. and thus not get every bit I could out over again rather than retiring, house­ You can never tell when two odd shoes, of them. hunting was a problem. To complicate both for the left foot, a table lamp with We finally called in a lady who makes matters even more, we arrived at the the shade missing, or a tea cup with her living conducting sales. I had very peak of the rental period for "the a broken handle might come in handy. never attended a household sale, let Season" which is, of course, the Besides, if you save clothing long alone have one. In my naive imagi­ winter months. enough it just might come back into nation, I thought that on the day of the The first house we saw was the style, or at least turn out to be a col­ sale we would sit there for hours while worst house we saw. It was unheated, lectors• item! people came in, a few at a time, to practically unfurnished, and practically The start was in what we called make purchases. I thought it would be falling apart. It was also expensive. "That Closet". It had long been my a good time to have chats with friends Next came some that were too small, Achilles' Heel, my Black Hole of and maybe have a few cups of coffee. too luxurious, or in a poor location. Calcutta and the secret shame I kept Doors were kept hooked the day of Then came the "possibles"--old and hidden from the rest of the world. About the sale until exactly 10 A.M. Then drab but in a good location, new but the only good thing I could say about people fairly swarmed in and within small and expensive, and medium in "That Closet" was that through the an hour or so, the greater portion of most respects but located a hundred years I had made quite a bit of money our lifetime equipment was gone. I miles from nowhere. writing about how awful it was! hardly looked up from my job as cashier Then we found our dream house. It I went up to the closet early in the to say "Hello", let alone have little was fairly new, nicely furnished, had morning and sorted all day. When I chats. Some of the stuff I hadn't a beautiful yard, washing facilities, finished late in the evening, the closet thought worth anything brought from and was near to the children's schools. was empty, but I was exhausted emo- 5¢ to a couple of dollars; other things Plus this, there was a pair of "built­ tionally and physically. I thought most valuable went for a frac­ in grandparents"--the couple who I sighed over old love letters, laughed tion of my estimation of their worth. owned the property and lived on the at old pictures, shed a tear over tiny It was a hard lesson I attempted to other side of the duplex. It was only a baby dresses, and admired children's learn--that of letting go. I knew that little more than we could possibly afford. school art work. There was a huge wh.:m things are sold, they become the Then came the big question, "Do you pile of items for the city dump, a big new owners' property and that it is have a pet?" We had to admit to our box for the Goodwill Industries, quite none of my business what they do with dog, Gidgit, who was waiting for us a few clothes to be given away, and an them. Still, I derived a great deal of back at the motel. Sadly, we decided even bigger box of things I couldn't pleasure out of knowing where my we would have to fall back on one of bear to part with so we stored them at familiar things went. the "possibles". Mother's against the day some poor My prized, antique, walnut chest is We were trying to adjust to the idea unsuspecting vacationer will come to right back in the house in which my when the "grandparents" phoned with Florida and bring them down to us. husband and I said our wedding vows. the news that they had reconsidered; There was also a considerable amount A mother of ten children is cooking on they liked us and would allow the dog of things to be taken along on the trip the six burners and two ovens of my if we still wanted the place. So, we so that they could be the nucleus for electric stove. On ironing day I think are nicely settled in our dream home the pile of junk I expect to accumulate of the lady who bought my automatic and trying to adjust to a new life in here in the next twenty years. ironer, my ironing board and my double Florida. Next came the job of disposing of dictionary. Does she look up words in our household goods. At first, we didn't between white shirts as I once did? think we had enough things to warrant The next day was moving day. The either moving them or conducting a house had previously been sold to sale, but we soon changed our minds. close relatives and they moved in the When it came to pricing items I found front door as we moved out the back. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 11

WINTER NEWS FROM THE siderable controversy about the Sabin DENVER DRIFTMIERS oral polio vaccine. Our family has always taken the rel.ommended series of Salk polio shots. However, we joined Dear Friends: thousands of others who took all three This morning "Lucky", our poodle, types of the Sabin vaccine at the public and I joined the rush of commuters clinics held throughout the Denver driving toward the main business dis­ metropolitan area. So did almost every trict of Denver. We were on our way to other familywe know in this area.None Union Station to meet the train that of us had any reaction of any kind to was returning Wayne home. He had been the Sabin vaccine. Our personal experi­ away on a business trip to Cedar ence is that it is not the least bit Rapids, Chicago and Shenandoah. And fearsome. now that I've had a first-hand report on Frequently I've mentioned to visitors the general state of affairs in the the great numbers of new homes, apart­ Midwest, I'm in the proper mood to sit ments, schools and shoppi:lg centers down and write to you. that have been built since we moved Wayne was especially happy to find to this area. Now we are beginning to "The Folks" so well and the other see the great numbers of huge new members of the family happy and busy church buildings. Naturally, when so with their many activities. Margery and many new families moved to this part Oliver served a wonderful dinner for of the country, it was necessary to the family the night he was in Shenan­ organize new congregations to accom­ doah. The one unpleasant thing about Isn't Emily growing up fost? She looks Ii ke o reo I young lody in modate them. When we moved here 5~ a trip there for him is that Margery and the apricot-colored toffeto dress years ago, most of the new churches Oliver and Howard and Mae have had to thot her mother mode for her to had only chapels and church school make trips over winter highways either weor to parties. Emily's parents rooms. But during the past year many to Red Oak or Omaha to connect with ore Mr. ond Mrs. Wayne Driftmier. of these congregations have reached A younger Jister, Alison, o broth· public transportation. My, how we wish er, Clark, and a poodle named the size and financial status whereby Shenandoah were a mainline stop for "Lucky" moke up their household they can now construct their main either air or rail travel. Then it would in Denver, Colorado. houses of worship. not be necessary to impose such A short time ago we attended the difficult taxi chores. Inevitably a About a week later the orthodontist open house at Holy Cross Lutheran severe storm is fresh here in Denver started putting on the braces which Church and what a magnificent new when he starts out, and he is sure the will move the remaining teeth into church they have! We have a special highways in southwest Iowa will be proper alignment. This process will interest in this particular congregation hazardous while he is there. probably take about two years. Of for two reasons. We have very close Wayne's five-day trip seemed to be course, the first few days after the friends who are devoted members there. the appropriate occasion for me to braces were applied, Alison and Clark Also, we were told that this particular cease procrastinating and get the simply could not resist calling her group started their meetings at the kitchen shelves painted. They have "tin grin" and "metal mouth". But Wheat Ridge Grange Hall at the same been a dull, drab gray. Since the tem­ they quit the teasing soon enough when time that the group which was organiz­ perature was 25 below zero when I we pointed out that it was obvious ing our own St. James Episcopal picked out the paint, you might guess already that Alison would be going Church met. that I chose a bright cheerful yellow. through the same thing. The proba­ If you are at all interested in the I told Wayne when he finished relating bilities are that Clark will be also. latest trends in church architecture, the news of his trip, that the walls and Orthodontic treatment of children is you can certainly find all types in ceilings were scrubbed and eager for terribly expensive for parents. But suburbia. Holy Cross Lutheran Church some expertly-applied paint. I am those of us who did not have it as has a large free-standing altar of white probably one of the country's worst children have found our dental costs marble so that communion can be served when it comes to painting and I hate to as adults very greatly increased be­ at the circular railings that surround have my messy efforts placed where cause of improperly aligned teeth. it. Suspended above the altar is a cross they are obvious. Incidentally, the Emily has also recently completed of most unusual design made of ex­ walls are to be painted green and the a series of smallpox vaccinations. She truded aluminum. But the children of ceiling white. I told my neighbor that has always been extremely susceptable our friends were most impressed by I just couidn't seem to get away from to "cold sores" or "fever blisters" on having pews and kneelers. These the color of corn. Iowa has just been her mouth. Since a virus closely related children have never attended a church too large a part of my life even though to the one which causes smallpox is that was not equipped with folding I dearly love Colorado. responsible for this unpleasant lip chairs! Recent weeks have found me making ailment, our doctor recommended the I must close now in something of many trips chauffering Emily to the smallpox vaccine. So far she has had a rush. Otherwise I'll ':le late to pick dentist and orthodontist. When her only one recurrance which is certainly up a load of ninth- graders who just permanent teeth finally grew in, they an improvement over previous years. have to watch this afternoon's very were twisted and turned. The ortho­ This happened just after the ortho­ important game with North Arvada dontist decided that four of them would dontist started his initial work and the Junior High. have to be removed in order to leave tissues of her mouth were unaccustomed Until next month .... room so that the remaining teeth could to being so disturbed. Abigail be moved to a proper straight line. All Along the same general lines, I have four teeth were extracted under local intended for some months to mention anaesthetic at the same time and she another personal experience of our The best thing parents can spend on got along just beautifully. family. In late 1962 there was con- children is time, not money. PAGE 12 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

IWH///h7/H///llllllll/lll.Ul/H'.DYIB'll/H'1 TUNA-RICE CASSEROLE 6 1/2-oz. can chunk style tuna, I drained Recipes Tested I 2 cups cooked rice 1 Tb ls. minced onion by the 1 Tb ls. lemon juice 1 /2 tsp. salt Kitchen - Klatter 1/8 tsp. pepper 2 eggs 3/4 cup milk Family 1 cup fine cornflake crumbs 2 Tb ls. butter Put the tuna into a bowl and flake it with a fork. Add the rice, onion, lemon juice, s e as on in gs, eggs (beaten slightly), milk and three-fourths cup of DATE-FIU,ED PINWHEEl, COOIHES SOUTHWESTERN CASSERCIU<: the cornflake crumbs. Put the mixture into a greased 10- by 6-inch pan. Melt 1 cup butter 1 lb. ground beef the butter and mix with the remaining 1 cup white sugar 1/2 cup diced Bermuda onion crumbs. Sprinkle this over the tuna 1 cup brown sugar 1/2 tsp. salt mixture. Bake 20 minutes in a 350 3 eggs, beaten 1/8 tsp. garlic powder degree oven. 4 cups flour, sifted 1/8 tsp. thyme 1 tsp. soda 1/8 tsp. oregano NINA'S LEMON UARS 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 #2 can tomatoes 1/4 tsp. salt 1 can cream of mushroom soup 1 /2 cup butter or margarine (If mar­ 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar 1 cup Minute rice garine is used, add a few drops flavoring 8 stuffed olives, sliced Kitchen-Klatter butter flavoring) 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla 3 or 4 slices of cheese, cut in strips 1 cup flour flavoring Brown meat in a little fat, add on- 1/4 cup powdered sugar Cream the butter, sugars and fla­ ions, and cook until tender. Stir in Blend and pat into an 8-inch square vorings together. Add the beaten eggs remaining in gr e die n ts, except for pan. Bake for 15 minutes at 350 and continue beating until well mixed. cheese and olives. Cook about 5 min­ degrees. Sift the dry ingredients together and utes. Pour mixture into a casserole, 2 eggs add all at once. Chill while you pre­ sprinkle with sliced olives and place 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter lemon pare the date filling. cheese strips over top. Bake just long flavoring Filling enough to melt the cheese in a 35" 2 Tbls. water 1 lb. dates, cut degree oven. 3/4 cup powdered sugar 1/2 cup white sugar 2 Tbls. flour 1/2 cup water SUPERIOR BAKED CABBAGE 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1 cup nuts, chopped 1 small head of cabbage Beat eggs; add flavoring and water. Stir the dates, sugar and water to­ 3 Tb ls. butter or bacon drippings Sift together the powdered sugar, flour gether in a saucepan. Cook over low 1/2 tsp. salt and baking powder. Stir into the egg heat, stirring constantly, until very 1/4 tsp. paprika mixture. Pour over the crust and bake thick. Add the nut meats. Cool thor­ 1 Tbls. onion, minced for 25 additional minutes. When cool oughly. 1 cup top milk or thin cream frost with a rich powdered sugar icing Remove the cookie dough from the re­ Shred the c a b b a g e and brown it which has been flavored with Kitchen­ frigerator. Roll out to 1/2 inch thick­ lightly in the bacon drippings. Add the Klatter lemon flavoring. Cut. into bars. ness. Spread with the date filling. Roll rest of the ingredients. Turn into a APPLE DESSERT up in jelly roll fashion. Store in the re­ lightly greased casserole. Top with frigerator until quite firm. Slice in thin buttered bread crumbs and bake in a 3/4 cup sugar slices, place on greased baking sheet 375 degree oven for 20 minutes. 1 egg, unbeaten and bake at 375 degrees for 15 minutes. The more cream used the richer and 1 tsp. soda tastier this dish will be. A cheese 1 cup flour PEANUT BUTTER BREAD sauce could be used instead of the 1/4 cup butter or margarine 2 cups flour milk or cream. Sour cream may be sub­ 3 drops Kitchen-Klatter butter 3 tsp. baking powder stituted for variation. Add coin-sized flavoring 1 1/2 tsp. salt slices of weiners to make it a fine 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar 1/2 tsp. cinnamon supper casserole dish. flavoring 3/4 cup School Day peanut butter 1/4 tsp. salt THREE-WAY ICE CREAM 2/3 cup sugar 2 cups apples, peeled and diced 4 Tbls. melted butter Juice of three oranges 1/4 to 1/2 cup nutmeats 1 egg, unbeaten Juice of three lemons Combine all of the ingredients except 1 cup milk Three crushed bananas the apples and nuts in a bowl. Beat 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar Three cups of sugar well. Stir in the apples and nuts and flavoring Three cups milk and cream mixed, or pour into a greased and floured 9 by 5 Sift the dry ingredients together into half and half baking dish. Bake at 350 degrees for a large bowl. Add all the rest of the Mix all together and freeze. 25 minutes. Serve warm with whipped ingredients and blend until smooth. This is a quickie dessert to serve to cream or ice cream for a delicious but Pour into a greased bread pan. Bake the family as a special treat. simple dessert. (Note: no liquid is at 350 degrees for 1 hour. -Mary Beth used in the recipe.) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 13

CARROT SALAD COMPANY CHICKEN SOUP DOROTHY'S MAR[;HMALLOW CAKE 1 stewing chicken 2 cups sifted flour Clean and grind 8 or 9 raw carrots. 1 medium onion, chopped 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder Plump 2/3 cup raisins in hot water. 1 carrot, diced 1/2 tsp. salt Salted peanuts would also be a nice 1 bay leaf 1/2 cup vegetable shortening addition for variation. Toss these 1 tsp. salt 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter ingredients with the following dressing: Water to cover flavoring Dressing 1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, beaten 1 /2 tsp. salt 1 egg 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla 1 tsp. salt 1 egg flavoring 1/4 cup vinegar 1 tsp. parsley, chopped 3/4 cup sour milk 2/3 cup sour cream 2 carrots, cut in strips 12 marshmallows, chopped Combine all in a small saucepan and 1/2 cup diced celery 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate bits cook over low heat until thick. Cool 4 Tb ls. chicken fat 1 /4 cup brown sugar before adding to the carrots andraisins. 4 Tb ls. flour 2 Tbls. butter This dressing is also very delicious 1 cup milk 1/2 cup chopped almonds for a shredded cabbage salad. Simmer the chicken, onion, carrot, Cream the shortening, butter fla­ bay leaf, salt and water in a heavy BUTTERSCOTCH PIE voring and sugar until light and fluffy. kettle until tender (2 to 3 hours). Re­ Add egg and beat well. Sift the flour, 1 1/4 cups brown sugar move chicken, strain stock and chill. baking powder and salt together and 2 cups scalded milk Remove the chicken from the bone and add alternately with the sour milk and 2 tsp. butter grind up enough to make 1 cup. (The vanilla flavoring. Fold in the marsh­ 4 drops Kitchen-Klatter butter remainder of the chicken may be used mallows and chocolate bits. Pour the flavoring in another dish.) Combine the ground batter into a gr e as e d and lightly 3 eggs, separated chicken, bread crumbs, salt, poultry floured large loaf cake pan. Combine 6 Tbls. flour seasoning, egg and parsley. Form into the brown sugar, butter and almonds 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla small balls about the size of a walnut. and sprinkle over the batter. Bake flavoring Remove the fat from the chicken about 40 minutes in a 350 degree oven. 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter burnt sugar stock. Add the carrot sticks and diced This cake made a big hit with my flavoring celery to the stock and cook about 10 family and I'm sure it will rate with Sift the flour, add the sugar, butter minutes, until tender. Melt the chicken yours. and slightly beaten egg yolks. Cool fat in a saucepan, blend in the flour, the milk down to lukewarm and stir and add milk, stirring constantly. into the first mixture. Put in a double Blend this into the stock and simmer, GOLDEN SUNSHINE SALAD boiler and cook over hot water, stirring stirring frequently, until it begins to 1 pkg. lemon gelatin until the mixture thickens. Remove thicken. Drop the chicken balls into 1 pkg. orange gelatin from the fire, stir in the flavorings, the soup and continue cooking slowly 2 cups boiling water cool, and pour into a baked pie crust. for 5 to 10 minutes, or until the meat 1 1/2 cups cold water Top with a meringue made with the 3 balls are well heated through. 1 #2 can crushed pineapple, drained egg whites. Brown at 375 degrees for This makes a rich and delicious one 2 bananas, diced about 15 minutes. dish meal. It freezes well, so could be 40 miniature marshmallows made in a larger quantity if desired. Dissolve both packages of gelatin in DATE BREAD PUDDING boiling water, then stir in the cold 2 1/4 cups milk LIMA BEAN SPECIAL water and chill until syrupy. Stir in the fruit and marshmallows and pour into a 2 eggs 1-lb. pkg. dried lima beans 9- by 13-inch pan. Chill. 2 cups bread cubes 1 small onion, sliced 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 /2 green pepper, diced Topping 1 tsp. cinnamon Sausage patties or link sausage 1 egg, beaten 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla (enough for your family) 2 Tb ls. flour flavoring 1 cup milk 2 Tbls. margarine 1/4 tsp. salt 1 can condensed tomato soup 4 drops Kitchen-Klatter butter 1/2 cup chopped dates Soak the lima beans for several flavoring Beat the eggs slightly; add the milk hours. Salt the water and add more 1/2 cup sugar and then the rest of the ingredients, liquid if needed to cover. Simmer 1 cup pineapple juice except the bread. Mix well, then lightly until tender. Drain well and place half 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter pineapple toss in the bread. Bake in a greased the beans in a large greased casserole. flavoring 8-inch square baking dish in a 350 Slice the onion and green pepper and 1 cup heavy cream, whipped degree oven about 40 minutes. make a layer of these on the beans. 1/2 cup shredded cheese Fry the sausage patties or the link Combine the egg, margarine, flour, LEFT-OVER HAM CASSEROLE sausage until done. Drain and put on sugar and pineapple juice in a heavy 3 cups cooked rice top of the onion and green pepper saucepan. Cook, stirring constantly, 2 cups white sauce layer. Season. Spoon the remainder of over low heat until thick. Remove from 1 cup diced cheese the beans over the top. fire, stir in flavorings and cool. Whip 1 cup diced ham Combine the milk, the can of tomato the cream and fold into cooled custard 1/2 tsp. celery salt soup and 2 Tbls. of the sausage drip­ mixture. Spread this over the gelatin 2 Tbls. chopped onion pings. Place over low heat and, stir­ layer. Grate or shred cheese over the Mix all ingredients together and pour ring constantly, bring to a boil. Pour top. Chill until time to serve. into a greased casserole. Bake in a over the beans. Bake at 350 degreeE, This makes an excellent club or moderate oven for about 20 minutes. for 40 minutes. company dessert. Serves 12 to 15. PAGE 14 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

THERE IS A MAN iN THE KITCHEN of the fruit. Let this mixture stand delightful caramel pudding. The wait­ by overnight. resses there are so used to serving Frederick The next morning boil it slowly for 1 that pudding to me they do not even One thing my many months with hour. Then let stand overnight again. bother to ask me if that is what I want! On the next morning add 3/4ths as Here is a recipe for it. the British army taught me was the much sugar as the total bulk of the love of really good marmalade. The Caramel Pudding fruit and water mixture. Boil until it average orange marmalade that you buy 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed gets sticky and doesn't run all over. in the shops is not in the same class 4 slices buttered bread This will take at least 3 or 4 hours. with a good homemade marmalade. If 2 eggs You can test the consistency by taking you could have tasted the out-of-this­ 2 cups milk a small amount out into a saucer and world marmalade that we had on our 1/2 tsp. salt cooling it. If it is not thick enough, table this morning, you would have 1/2 tsp. vanilla (use Kitchen-Klatter, cook until it is. offered me every trading stamp you of course!) While still hot pour into glasses and ever possessed for the recipe. Well, cover with wax. Place brown sugar in a double boiler. here it is, just the way it is made by Add 4 slices of bread, generously but­ Quite often I join a group of doctors the good cooks of New Brunswick. tered and then diced. DO NOT STIR. for lunch. There is a small tea room Beat 2 eggs with a fork, and to them Orange Marmalade next to our church parking lot, and add 2 cups of milk, 1/2 tsp. vanilla, 6 large California oranges there the doctors from the nearby med­ and 1/2 tsp. salt. Pour this mixture 3 lemons ical buildings often come for a quick Sugar and water lunch and a slow bit of conversation. into the double boiler with the sugar and bread. DO NOT STIR. Cover and Slice the oranges and lemons very, This little tea room always has the cook for 1 hour. very thin, and then cut the slices into most exquisite choice of desserts, and To remove pudding, run a knife around pieces. Put in a mixing bowl and add yet those doctors so often chq~se to the edge and then turn out onto a 3 times as much water as the total bulk have a very simple and completely serving dish. For a topping, use plain cream, or whipped cream, or ice cream, or just serve it plain. You will note that after it is turned out, the brown sugar is on the top, and oh! how good this is!

A GOOD IDEA An easily cleaned bread board can be made from a slab of formica-covered plywood. A lumber yard will sell you a scrap and cut it to size for less than a dollar. If you have the type of bread board that pulls out from a counter top you can paint the end to match your cabinet and put in a handle to match the handles on your cupboards. The formica top is easy to clean, resists being cut with a knife and doesn't burn when you set a hot pot on it. The ply­ wood side becomes the bread-rolling side. -Betty Rooker

YOUR TAPE-MEASURE'S BEST FRIEND! TAKE TIME Take time to THINK: it is the source There's no mystery to slimming that waistline: it's simply a of power. matter of cutting down on calorie intake. But that doesn't mean Take time to PLAY: it is the secret of starvation. perpetual youth. Not when you sweeten with Kitchen-Klatter No-Calorie Take time to READ: it is the fountain Sweetener. You can still keep desserts, pastries, sweetened of wisdom. cereals and drinks in your diet when you sweeten without cal­ Take time to PRAY: it is the greatest ories this proven, easy way. And, since there's never an artifi­ power on earth. cial taste to Kitchen-Klatter Sweetener, your taste-buds won't Take time to LOVE and to be LOVED: know the difference-but your tape-measure will! it is a God-given privilege. Your whole family will benefit from this switch to calorie­ Take time to be FRIENDLY: it is the less sweetening. Why not put Kitchen-Klatter No-Calorie road to happiness. Sweetener on your grocery list right now? Take time to LAUGH: it is the music of the soul. Take time to GIVE: it is too short a Kitchen-Klatter No-Calorie Sweetener day to be selfish. Take time to WORK: it is the price of success. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 15

GET THE MOST OUT OF YOUR Most users neglect to utilize their FREEZER DOLLAR home freezer to the fullest possible extent. Candy, nuts, raisins, dates, by marshmallows, fruit rinds (for grating), Ellen Rebecca Fenn cider, cranberries, coconut, and even The new 1963 home freezers show candles, are best kept frozen. We must ~y ~OTHER marked improvement over earlier mo­ not forget to mention that cakes, pies, dels. Whether you own a spankin' new rolls, breads, doughnuts, cookies, and 1963 with automatic defrost, quick­ tart shells, will all keep extremely \S T~E freeze shelves, magnetic seal door, well if baked before freezing. Some and a signal light to indicate power users prefer to freeze unbaked pies, failure, or a ten-year-old style in need but one should allow fifteen minutes of refinishing, you should squeeze the more baking time. WORLD'S most out of your dollars invested. Trappers and hunters have grown to First, let's assume that you put into depend on Mom's unit for storing hides your freezer only the recommended (doubly wrapped) and for various types varieties of fruits and vegetables. of fish bait. (When they can get away ae~T coo~ Contact your local county or state with it!) extension service for this information. At what temperature shouldyou adjust The next step is to use a suitable the controls? Never above zero! It is method in preparing the food to be very unwise to believe that a higher frozen. Your type of container, the temperature will save you pennies, for method of wrapping, and the preserv­ it most certainly will cut the palata­ ative used, all have bearing on the bility of the products involved. finished product. When should one defrost older mo­ Fish and small poultry freeze best in dels? At least once a year a complete a block of ice. Fill a quart milk carton defrosting is necessary. Between times with water; press cut-up fish or fowl one can scrape off the looser particles into the container. Seal and freeze. of frost with a wooden or p 1 as tic Roasting birds are best kept, without scraper and remove them from the box. stuffing, in a heavy foil wrap, or dou­ One of the most important lessons to ble-duty plastic bags. learn is: Label! Label ! Label! It is a For fruits, jars that taper to a wide simple matter at defrosting time to pull mouth make for easier removal of partly last year's foods to the front for use thawed fruit. Color is retained longer, FIRST. No food increases in usability vitamin content is assured, and the by leaving it on the shelf. frozen period can be extended when Learn to treat your food saver with glass containers are used. respect, and you can expect full re­ By far the best method for preserving turns on your food dollar. raw peaches, apricots, apple slices, or other fruits which tend to color, is the ,iectin way. By dissolving two cups of NEVER RETURN AN EMPTY PLATE by sugar in four cups of water, adding Betty Rooker one-half bottle of pectin, bringing to a boil, then cooling before pouring over Revive an old-fashioned custom of the fruit, the darkening process is borrowing and returning. When you entirely eliminated. For berries, either borrow a cup of sugar, return it with a a syrup or dry sugar performs the task cup of cookies, pudding, or a slice of very well. This depends on the use for cake or pie. When someone brings you Praise from the top! How satis­ which the fruit is intended. Straw­ a plate with a sample of pie or cake fying it is to know your family ap­ berries may, or may not, be sliced. on it, return it in kind, maybe with a preciates the loving care that goes Some varieties will keep excellently new treat you've discovered. If some­ into your meals. for a two-year period. one brings you a plant and wants the Tempting, tasty desserts and sal­ All vegetables must be blanched in container back, return it with fresh ads are so much easier, too, when order to preserve flavor, appearance, flowers, home-made candy or cookies. you use Kitchen-Klatter Flavorings. and food value. Blanching also stops My grandmother had a superstition There are sixteen to choose from: enzyme action. After blanching, plunge that if she received anything from true fruit flavors like orange, cherry, the vegetables into ice water, drain, anyone on a plate, in a dish or cup, or banana and lemon; spicy strawberry, pack, and freeze. Glass jars or clear any kind of container, she had to return raspberry and blueberry. The glamor plastic containers, which can be it filled with some of her home-made of the tropics in pineapple, coconut sealed with tape, are ideal for vege­ goodies. She felt that not to do so and almond, as well as all-American tables. The booklet of instructions would bring her bad luck! maple, black walnut, burnt sugar, which comes With your unit should be Nowadays, everyone is busy, but you butter, mint and vanilla. followed to the letter. can always return a plate with some­ You can help your good-cook repu­ tation by insisting on Kitchen-Klat­ It is wise to remember that meat must thing on it. It is a cozy, friend 1 y be carefully and tightly wrapped, in custom. ter Flavorings. No matter what you whatever type wrapper used, in order make or bake, these flavorings never cook out. to exclude all possible air. This pre­ Reflect upon your present blessings, of vents freezer burn. The wise user en­ which every man has many; not on your KITCHEN-KLATTER cases each package in a heavy plastic past mistakes, of which all men have FLAVORINGS bag for extra precaution. some. - Charles Dickens. PAGF 16 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

MARY BETH WILL REMEMBER narrow satin ribbon, were all that were in Anderson, Indiana, and apparently 1963 AS "THE MUMPS YEAR,. required to produce a fragrant, arromatic was convincing because under the tree clothes sachet. We tied a long ribbon on Christmas morning was a beautiful Dear Friends: from a bow on top of the orange so it oval track with a shining black engine, Between trips to the back door to could be used in a clothes closet. coal car, and three other train pieces. give Eloise a run outside, and special First, the orange is quartered by tying I wish I could paiilt a picture with words trips down to the sick room that I've the ribbon around it. Then stick the to describe the look of sheer content­ set up for the children in the family clove into the orange until the clove ment on that boy's face when he saw room, I've had trouble finding time to bud touches the orange skin. Now, his train! write this letter to you! proceed in this manner, placing the He has taken excellent care of this Two years ago we started out 1961 cloves as close together as possible, most-prized possession, much to the with a round of chicken pox. This year until the orange is completely covered chagrin of his parents. The track is will be remembered as "the mumps except for the ribbons. Next, mix two mounted on plyboard so it can. be put year". Katharine, being a schoolgirl, tablespoons of cinnamon and allspice up against a wall when not in use--but is the first to come down with things with one tablespoon powdered orrisroot, this isn't often. He has learned to put and, naturally, exposes Adrienne and using enough in these proportions to the wheels on the track and drags Paul. Adrienne went the full twenty-one completely cover the orange, and press everyone to the toy room to give a days before she blossomed forth, but it in between the clove buds. This will demonstration when he can round up only on one side. Then 'at her own act as a preservative and lend it a an audience. leisure, she swelled up on the opposite wonderful fragrance. The orange will One of my resolutions for the New jaw. At this writing' we're still waiting slowly shrivel and dry without rotting. Year was to locate a piano teacher for for Paul to come down with them, and The children can be kept busy for many Katharine. I was fortunate to find a do hope that it is soon, for at this age hours because their fingers will give young woman in our near vicinity who he shouldn't have them very hard. out before their enthusiasm. had an opening. Katharine has been The only complication we've had is For those of us who live in a climate taking weekly lessons since early that we've had to practically sit on that can, if it chooses, close us in for January and enjoys them very much. Adrienne to get her to maintain even a days at a time with frost-biting tem­ I do have to remind her to practice, but reasonable degree of quiet. Katharine peratures, the arrival of Christmas is I guess this is normal for I can remem­ had such a light case that she didn't surely well timed. Paul is spending ber being told to practice when I was stay quiet enough and half way through a definite period of time each day a piano student. her week of confinement she began to playing with his Christmas train. Last The youngsters have been nagging run a medium-high fever accompanied year he asked Santa for an electric at me every few minutes to play games by nausea, so we're being especially train but Santa delivered a battery­ with them, so I must put the typewriter cautious with Adrienne. As a result, driven locomotive with a note explaining away and see what I can do to help the housework has simply stopped! that this was all he had left after the them pass away an hour or sc before I've managed to clean out dresser older boys had been given theirs. And it is time to start our evening meal. drawers in the room where Adrienne is he told Paul that he really thought a Sincerely, supposedly resting, but the balance of three-year-old was too yoting for a big Mary Beth the house looks like a cyclone had just train-and-track set. This locomotive passed through ! was quite acceptable, as was Santa's Our new dog, Eloise, contributes to explanation, BUT this year Paul knew the general disorderly condition of the that now he was old enough for the one floors. She is still such a pup with the he wanted! He told all his little friends COVER PICTURE normal gnawing tendencies, that she that Santa was going to bring an electric Just before the Christmas holidays, can shred and pretty evenly distribute train to him, and the reports came back Juliana (Vemess) stopped in front of anything that we happen to leave within to us. As only a four-year-old mind her dormitory for a classmate to snap leaping distance. As soon as the chil­ could reason out, Paul reasoned that this picture. It seems that the class­ dren are photogenic again, I'll send this year was IT! mate had just one shot left and was you a picture of them with this new His daddy and I tried to discourage anxious to take the film to be devel­ addition to the family. him gently, because we felt that re­ oped-a mighty familiar story where I've been racking my brain for quiet gardless of how old he considered cameras are concerned. things for the children to do the.se himself to be, we didn't think he was Hokona Hall is the women's dormitory weeks while they've been sick, and I capable of taking care of such a delicate at the University of New Mexico, and thought you might enjoy being reminded toy. And many of you who have ever it is a very handsome building. There of one thing that my Brownie troop did priced electric trains know that even is a central courtyard (you can glimpse recently. It's proved successful during the simplest one isn't cheap. Don just it through the entrance behind Juliana) this period of illness, and it can be wouldn't consider such an investment and this means that all of the wings managed by little tykes as young as while Paul was so young. I was torn have an unusual amount of sun and air. Paul. (I say "reminded" because I'll between the two of them, for being with Some of the rooms (and Juliana is for­ bet most of you heard of this years ago.) Paul all day every day, I was the one tunate enough to have one of them) When my mother entertained a group who heard the constant talk about the have exceptionally large windows that of my little friends at one of my early wonderful train Santa would deliver on look out on the magnificent Sandia birthday parties we made Pomander Christmas morning. mountains. Balls. Remembering what fun it Fortunately for our son, Grandma If you are traveling west on U.S. 66, was, I had the Brownies make them Schneider pleaded his case with Santa be sure to keep an eye out for the for Christmas gifts for their parents. University of New Mexico as you enter My youngsters have been making them Albuquerque. Most of the buildings on "like crazy" ever since. the campus are fine examples of South­ I bought medium small oranges, pow­ western architecture and are well worth dered orrisroot, cloves, cinnamon and turning off to see. allspice. These items, plus some -Lucile KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 17

IF I WERE GRANDMA cursion or an airplane ride add to their experiences and almost certainly to by Grandma's, too. Mothers with toddlers Myrtle E. Felkner in the home just can't drop everything Undoubtedly there are a lot of busy to see that the older children enjoy Grandmas these days. Many are holding some of these thrills. interesting or demanding jobs outside Many children are curious about the home; others are caring for grand­ hotels and motels. They'd like to see· children while their d au g ht e rs or a bellboy carry their very own suit­ daughters-in-law hold such jobs; and case! Our own fou,r-year-old, who has still others are on the merry-go-round made three long trips with us, sighed of club, church and charity work. the other day when his Grandma left for For those who can squeeze out a California, "It's been a long time little time, I would like to make some Margery took this picture of Aunt since I've been in a motel!" For the Jessie Shambaugh before she left child who has never been in a hotel or suggestions which I know many, many for California to visit her daugh­ other mothers would soundly endorse. ter, Ruth, and her family. Aunt motel, a week-end downtown with Mothers are on a merry-go-round, too. Jessie, who founded 4-H, has al­ Grandma could be the thrill of a life­ By the time We see to our family's ways en joyed being around young time! people, so we know how happy she One young mother complains about physical growth, follow closely the is to be able to spend these weeks school work arid activities of children with her California grandchildren. library hours. "I can't leave the babies whose ages may vary widely, supervise to go to the library during the day, and the church activities and the spiritual a chance for Grandma to help with a it closes in the evening before my education of the youngsters .... well, child's cultural growth. If she can husband gets home. I know the older we're bushed! We are obliged to "let afford it, let Grandma treat to lunch in children need books ... " Grandma! slide" some aspects of child training some very nice restaurant. Children No one wants to run Grandma ragged, which we may feel are truly important, grow in poise and self-confidence with .and children certainly do demand a lot but which we lack either time, energy every successful new experience. of energy, but if you 're a Grandma and '.)r financial means to adopt. You'll be surprised how nice Johnny's feel up to it, why not plan a special We're not being critical in making manners will be in such a place. too! outing for your grandchild's next birth­ these suggestions. Don't I know how Transportation is a vastly interesting day-one that includes a few of the busy Grandmas are! Many of these subject for the youngsters. Short after­ things that the parents just haven't suggestions are things which are done noon trips on a train, a river boat ex- been able to do? by the doting Grandmas of my own children. Hats off to the Grandma who offers ·loving, friendly companionship when things aren •t going well at home for KlTCHEN- KLATTER SAFET't' BLEACH ~ one of the small fry! Although our children have never run away, we do WAS OESl6NEO ij~ TO DO T~q,, MP Jd'rs: sometimes hear the indignant an­ TMINGS SUNSHINE BRluMT, nouncement, "Well, if it's all the same To BLEAC~ :q.:: to you, I'M going to Grandma's for a AND TO DO IT SAFELV NO while." The hike down the road, Grand­ l/J! ma's love and gentle good humor soon MATIER W"ETMER You ARE BLEACH INo restore the equilibrium, and our girl returns in good spirits. This, I think, OlAPERg /;J OR SHIRTS ~OR EVEN should be considered a duty by all Grandmas: to restore the good nature FlNt, DAlN""N UNDERTMINGS~ and self-esteem of the child at a time when parents must remain ·firm. KlTCHEN-KLA1TER BLEACH~ IS SAFE One family remembers an aunt with very special affection. Every summer, ANO SURE. Wl-\'1E Q OR COLORED. , certain Friday afternoons were as­ signed to the various nieces and neph­ IF THE:V'RE WASMASLE THE'/'RE BLEACHA8LE ews. On each one's special day, she IN KITCHEN- KLATTER SAFET'/ BLEACI-(, was taken to Black's Tearoom (not the balcony lunch counter, you understand, but the tea room) and treated to lunch. Afterwards, she was taken to an a­ YOUR &ROCERS HAS IT. musement park and long strips of tick­ ets were purchased by the aunt. I'm "T>..._"i.._c'l>- certain this aunt would have preferred a leisurely afternoon to herself. Yet she persisted with these outings until 1 the children outgrew them. They never WE KNOW lTs SAFE I outgrew their appreciation for the aunt who knew how to give a little extra. WE MAKE lT/ Many of the children I know have never seen an art gallery. How sad, when most of us are only an hour's drive or so from some gallery. Here's PAGE 18 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

COME, READ WITH ME

by Armada Swanson Today as I was poking around in the garden in search of budding branches and peeping tulips, I heard our neigh­ bor calling her husband and sons to lunch. "Matthew! Mark! Luke! John!" As I listened, I was reminded of this dear little prayer: "St. Matthew, St. Luke, St. John and St. Mark Please watch over me when it's dark." This little verse is one of 52 poems We mean your renewal for the of everyday happenings written espe­ Kitchen-Klatter Magazine, of cially for small children in Cherry Wayne and Abigai I stress reading course! Stones! Garden Swings! by Ivy O. East­ in their home, and good books are Splendid articles, good tested wick. Copyright © 1962 by Abingdon always at hand for their children. Clark is shown here. recipes, poems, gardening helps, Press ($2). and other worthwhile material Also for the 4-to-8 age group is Mimi tional Geographic Society add a s1>e­ that every member of the family by Lisle Weil (Houghton Mifflin, $3). cial elegance. will enjoy. Mimi, a little French girl, wanted to Helen Corbitt, director of restaurants We send out cards with gift become a policeman like her uncles. at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, has writ­ subscriptions, so for that birth­ Involved in the story are a package ten Helen Corbitt's Potluck (Houghton day coming up, or for a surprise snatcher who turned out to be a dutiful Mifflin, $3.75). The book is filled with for the friend who has just done chauffeur, a party at a French restau­ recipes using leftovers prepared with you a special favor, why not rant, and a sick chef. Mimi came versatility. subscribe for her today? through in fine style with her fish soup The Mayo Brothers by Helen Clape­ specialty, bouillabaisse. (That's pro­ sattle ($1. 95) is one in a series of Kitchen-Klatter Magazine is nounced boo-ya-bess !) North Star books published by the $1.50 per year. Foreign coun­ The letters Woodrow Wilson and his Houghton Mifflin Co. for children. Thi& tries, $2.00 per year. wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, wrote to book would be especially interesting Address your letters to: each other during their engagement and for children with a leaning toward the almost thirty years of marriage are now medical field. Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie, Kitchen-Klatter an American heritage. The Priceless both fascinating personalities in their Gift (McGraw-Hill, $6.95) - the gift of own right, teamed together to become Shenandoah, Iowa love - reveals a moving and eloquent inventors of the medical clinic at story of the Wilsons during that time. Rochester, Minnesota. Good books The correspondence was made public played an important part in the boyhood after long deliberation by their daugh­ training of these famou!' physicians Clf:lEl Labels 25( For young people int ere st e d in . DRESS ter, Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. 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THE JOY OF GARDENING by Eva M. Schroeder

March is a month of moods-some days are springlike and gay, others are dark, cold, and gloomy. Gardeners will find plenty to do, no matter what the weather Day-n-Night Mailbox Marker $1.95 has in store for them. Your name (or any wording up to l 7 letters) Most years it is advisable to remove gleams on both sides; permanent raised white letters reflect light. Epoxy enamel winter mulches from tulip beds and baked on aluminum; now guaranteed 10 yrs.·! places where spring flowering bulbs Perfect gift! We ship within 48 hrs. Sat• isfaction guaranteed or money back. Black have been planted. If they struggle background, $1.95 ppd. Red, Green or An­ through a layer of hay or leaves, they tique Copper background, $2.45 ppd. Spear are likely to be misshapen and de­ Engineering Co., 608-3 Spear Bldg., Colo­ Lucile and Russe 11 purchased this rado Springs, Colo. formed, and will flower poorly if at all. white horse at the Ne Ison Gallery It is best to remove the hay or other of Art in Kansas City, Mo. The FREDERICK'S LETTER - Concluded mulch gradually, but once uncovered, grasses came from their own gar­ hardy bulbs are not usually harmed by den and the rock was found in a the reverse. With all of the television, river bed. recurring cold spells. people are reading more toda.v than ever before. The people of Springfield It is more likely that they will be snapdragon, ageratum and verbena, read more books per capita than just damaged by rabbits. Last spring the should be started indoors by the 15th about any other city or town in this pesky bunnies ate every green spear of this month. Plant them in one of the country. We have several very beauti­ that appeared in my tulip beds. In des­ sterile mediums - vermiculite, sphag­ ful and very efficient libraries staffed peration St. Alfred helped me unroll num moss, perlite, or a combination of by devoted public servants. I think some wire chicken netting over the the three - and for extra insurance that librarians, by and large, are a choice beds. I'm sure the rabbits against damping-off disease, treat the thought we had built them a trampoline, seed with an anti-damp-off fungicide wonderful group of people, and I am afraid that too often the public does because they hopped around over the first. wire and nibbled every bud that poked After germination, water the tiny not appreciate them enough. through the openings. Later I read that plants with liquid plant food, and re­ No matter what else you do in the spraying with nicotine sulphate would peat every ten days until the seedlings course of a day, try to find some time repel rabbits-use two tablespoons of are transplanted to soil. Give these for reading. Without reading, a person BLACK LEAF 40 to each gallon of early seedling plants all the available may live a good life, but for a full life water, and spray the areas to be pro­ sunlight possible, so that they will one needs to learn soinething about tected every 3 to 4 weeks. develop sturdy stems and a strong root the faith, the hope, the charity, and Whether or not to uncover roses this system. Don't be afraid to pinch out the the aspirations of other men as well as something of the beauty, the dig­ month depends on the temperature. If tops on tho!>e that shoot upward too fa.o;t. mulch is left on the canes during a nity, and the nobility of other lives. prolonged warm spell, mold may form, IT'S NOT SO HARD Whenever I see a little child reading, or the canes may sprout. It is best to I always say a quick little prayer of remove the mulch, but keep it handy to Life is really easier than it seems: gratitude for the wonder of sight and recover if the weather turns unusually All we have to do is accept the im­ for the marvelous gift of the printed cold again. After the soil mounds have possible, do without the indispen­ word. remained unfrozen for a week or so, sable, and bear the intolerable. Sincerely, they. too, should be removed from Frederick around the canes. Now is a good time (before new leaves appear) to use dormant sprays for the ------""FOR YOUR GARDEN, "a new color'' • • control of scale insects, and eggs and FOR CUT PLOWUS, "so111etlilng different" "Blue Haze" bas !' base color of deep larvae of other pests. You can purchase smoky red interlaced with blue veining. this material from garden stores or from Over this is a veil of misty blue. The result is a color.such as you see when looking at a seed and nursery firms. Be sure to fol­ sunset through a misty blue haze. It is entirely different. low the directions for use on the "Blue Haze" bas flower spikes three feet container. tall, and opens 6 to 8 flowers at a time, each one 4 to 5 inches across. It is a vigorous, Start tuberous begonias in shallow easy·to-grow plant. containers filled with damp sphagnum We send you big, sure·to·bloom size bulbs, each measuring IV..• to H1" in diameter. moss, or in a porous mixture of sand, This is a low price. 0 get·acquainted,. special so we must limit orders to S1.00 per person. moss, and vermiculite. Press the tubers Offer will not be repeated this season, so (round part is the bottom) into the sur­ order today. face with a twiSting motion, leaving HENRY FIELD S11d & Nursery Co. the indented, or top, part of the tuber 7919 O.k St., S...... 1... exposed. I enclose...... for ...... bulbs of "Blue Haze," Hoots should form, and new growth the Smoky Glad, each bulb to measure l\.~ • to l~" across, sent postpajd. should appear. in about a month or six 0 Check here for big, free catalog. weeks. After two or more leaves have formed, pot the plants up in a rich, Nam~~~~~~-· humusy soil, and keep them growing at Address~~~------~ a good rate until they can be placed P.0------outdoors for the summer. "For Over H l'Hrs''·------~=>-~r::>__ J.. Seeds of petunias, lobelia, salvia, PAGE 20 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

WINDOW GAZING may not really be there. I may Ile on by that far hill where the wild crab apple DON'T Lula Lamme trees are blooming like wisps of fra­ grant pink clouds. Or I may be wan­ I have a consuming curiosity to see DOUBLE-SCRUB! what other people see from their win­ dering down the little lane that loops dows. When I visit in a home, I like to out of sight at the far left of my win­ take time and look out of those win­ dow range. Hands that are busy mending or peeling potatoes are no dows "most looked out from"- the determent when one has learned well living room windows, and the window the art of window gazing. over the kitchen sink. Then I come away with what I think is the true During our mar r i e d life ""e have "feel" of the place. moved several times and wherever I confess to being a confirmed "win­ we've lived I've always had a favorite dow-looker-outer". When I sit, I sit window scene. Sometimes at night beside a window if possible. I seldom when I have trouble falling asleep, I call up these window-framed views, look about the room-I look out. I see arrange them like an art gallery, and birds, trees, flowers, hills, sky, snow, browse myself directly into slumber­ and although the view may be similar land. each day, it is never the same. The Have you taken a good look out of views from my favorite windows are as much a part of my life as the wallpaper your windows lately? If the view is lovely, then enjoy your living picture. and the furnishings of the rooms. If not, perhaps there is something you Years ago a newspaper we received can do to enhance the scene. had a column entitled "I See From My Just now, a pair of thrushes, lovely, Window." Readers wrote in describing lovely things, are looking over the the views from their own windows. It wisteria vine outside my living room was then I first became conscious of window. I do hope they choose to live of my affinity for window gazing. Some­ there. times when I'm apparently in a room, I ••••• Why put all that effort into getting the dirt out, then double the work by wiping and rinsing to get rid of froth, suds and scum? Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner halves the work by leaving no suds (and no dirt, either!). Kitchen­ Klatter Kleaner m a k e s hard water behave like rain water, and whether it's dishes, stains, spots or marks, it makes every­ thing sparkle with just one wipe. Use Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner ALL the vitamins you normally need to from front porch to cellar steps: toke, plus the important minerals: CALCIUM, wherever a fast, hard-working IRON, PHOSPHORUS, IODINE, and more. . _ cleaning solution is needed. No need to worry about your hands, EXCLUSIVE! either: Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner ~THIS is as easy on them as it is hard Each Super Spark tablet contains the valuable NATURAL fac­ on dirt. tors from the dried juices of young cereal sprouts - exclusive I Your grocer has Kitchen-Klat­ ter IS-leaner. Try it once ... you'll I Everything that con truthfully be said about agree with the thousands of· TH INK • o good multiple vitamin-mineral fol'mulo con other homemakers who say, ----- be said with conviction about Super Spark. . You go through the motions ... THE BIG DIFFERENCE IS .•• Super Spark costs you LESS! Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner NO FANCY GIMMICK ... NO THEATRICAL MUGGING. YOU JUST PAY LESS! DOES THE WORK! ON THIS BONUS OFFER: 258 Tablets for $5.95 Vitamin Division, Dwarfies Corporation, The fellow who is always telling you Council Bluffs, Iowa Date ______what a wonder he is, must fear that Send me $5.95 bottles Super Spark. I am to get a $2.95 bottle Free you'd never discover it yourself. with each $5.95 bottle I purchase.

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member details, but couldn't? Even if Saturday in a happy, old-time farm­ there is no message, it is time-saving house. The children, joyful over their to make a note of who called, when he school holiday, have brought in the called, and his telephone number. kindling and the wood, have polished Sixth, good telephone technique in­ their Sunday shoes, and straightened cludes how and when to hang up! Don't up their toys and games to a degree. hang up until you're sure the conversa­ The kitchen is scrubbed, the windows tion is over. It's rude to do otherwise. are shining, the curtains are fresh and On the other hand, do not talk on and crisp, the big reservoir on the range is on and on, thus tying up the phone with full of hot water, the kettle is singing, idle chatter when others might need it. and the air is fragrant with the smell When you're through talking, replace of home-baked bread. Sister is icing a the receiver gently. Ear-cracking bangs big layer cake, and there is apple pie are most unpleasant! for supper! TELEPHONE TIPS And finally, good teleph,~me manners It is nearing the end of a full, busy by should still apply in cases of annoying week, an orderly week: wash on Mon­ Evelyn Witter errors, such as wrong numbers. A harsh day, iron on Tuesday, bake and mop on reply solves no problems. How much Wednesday, sew and perhaps visit on Are you sure that you know how to better it is to say, "You must have the Thursday, clean on Friday, and apple use the telephone? You are? Maybe wrong number. There is no Mrs. Brown pie on Saturday. After supper there you'd better check these tips to make here. This number is --- -" In this will be the Saturday night baths, in a sure that you 're an expert in the use of way you will help the caller to recheck warm, fragrant kitchen; then off to a one of our most important means of his number, thus avoiding the same night's deep, sound sleep. Up early to communication. mistake again. And who knows--you get Sunday dinner under way, and First of all, a good "telephoner" might call a wrong number yourself get the family all dressed up and off to answers the phone promptly. Just as some time. church. Church is the climax of the one would not keep a friend waiting If you find a list of telephone rules week-a place to give thanks to God under other circumstances, it is poor hard to remember, there is one easy who is kind enough to give us six etiquette to keep him waiting when he rule which governs all that have been busy, happy days, each filled with its calls. If one is necessarily delayed, it mentioned. This rule is: With kindli­ homely tasks, and Sunday besides! is proper to explain the delay, and ness and consideration, treat the Time savers are fine; labor savers apologize for it. person at the other end of the line as are fine; efficiency is fine. But best of Second, a thoughtful person does not you trust he will treat you. all is that good old hustle and bustle keep his whereabouts a secret if he is that puts a shine to windows and to be away from home very long. He cheeks and eyes through sheer exuber­ might receive an important call which APPLE PIE ORDER ance and love! "God's in his heaven, only he could take care of. It takes so by all's right with the worid", and the little effort to leave word as to where Mary T. Rauth house is in "apple pie" order! one is, and when he plans to return! There are two kinds of order: the In the third place, when a person '"pizen neat" variety, and "apple pie" talks on the phone, he should be natu­ order. The first is cheerless; it exists WHAT'S IN A NAME? ral. Some use a stage whisper; some in homes where there are no children, shout; some try out "sophisticated" or where the children are painfully I don't care for nicknames, pronunciations. Phonies on the phone subdued. Everything has to be in its I truly must declare; sound ridiculous! place before the housewife can even And when my son was born, The fourth telephone tip is that the consider relaxing. Husbands give up I chose his name with care. person who answers the phone should smoking rather than risk ashes landing identify himself immediately. "Hello. out of the proper ash tray, and the gro­ But now he goes to school, This is Nan Jones speaking" saves cery boy is eyed askance if there is And pals he does not lack. time and confusion. Just answering snow or rain to be tracked in. They call hello to him, "Yes?" or "Hello!" delays the con­ But "apple pie" order is a lively, Not Johnathan, but Jack. versation w hi 1 e the caller tries to singing, shining condition. It suggests --Laquita Deatherage guess the identity of the answerer. It is equally important that the caller identify himself at once. How many of you have been embarrassed when an unrecognized voice burbles, "Guess who this is ?" A fifth smart bit of "telephoneering" is the technique of taking messages. Should you answer the phone, and the YOUR CHOICE OFTOPS­ call is for a member of the family who MASONITE OR BLOND-D OR MllAMINE PLASTIC is not available, it is considerate to ask, "Who is calling, please?" This knowledge alone may enable you to FREE-1963 CATALOG AND DIRECT FACTORY PRICES provide the information the caller To Churches, Schools, Lodges and all organizations. MONROE Folding Banquet Tables are unmatched for quality and durability. New automatic locking, 20-year guaranteed leg wants, or at least to channel his mes­ assembly. WRITE FOR YOUR 1963 MONROE CATALOG. 40 pages in full color. Shows full sage to the right person. line. 94 models and sizes of folding tables. Also chairs, choral and platform risers, table Also, it is smart to jot down messages. and chair trucks, portable partitions. Our 55th year. How many messages have gone awry because someone thought he could re- 51 Church St. COLFAX, IOWA PAGE 22 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963

LUCILE'S LETTER - Concluded

how much fun it is. (When I wrote to Juliana today I asked her if she remem­ bered coming home from a friend's house and asking us if we'd ever heard of a wonderful game called molly-pally. We called it molly-pally for so long that I always have to stop and remem­ ber that it's really monopoly.) Cer­ tainly it's a splendid family game and if your children EVER get their heads out of homework it's something you can all do together and really enjoy. I want to thank all of you good friends from the bottom of my heart for expressing your awareness of what the new postal increase means to us by getting in your renewals to Kitchen­ Klatter before we must send a card. I can remember when a postcard cost 1¢ and the mailman made two deliveries every day, morning and afternoon. NoW we pay 4¢ for a postcard and the mail­ man comes once a day. (I'm sure that rural routes never had more than one delivery a day, but we grew up in town and I was just remembering how it used to be in town.) An increase of 1¢ may not amount to much if you only use a handful of cards every month, but when God must have loved the Common The JI1an who says lie will do it rn­ you buy them by the thousands it People. He made so many of them. morrow was probably saying the same makes a tremendous difference. -\. T,incoln thing yesterday .-Anonymous. All in all, it means a lot to us when you send in your renewal before we We malle this NOW! YOU CAN START TO PICK must notify you that your time has run spectacular out. We're genuinely grateful for your 1h price sale HUNDREDS OF thoughtfulness and cooperation. in order · STRAV.JBERRIES I just now glanced out the window ~o gain and noticed that it's staring to spit new friends. V.Jithin 60 Days I snow, and that dusk is hovering just UNIQUE CLIMBER ••• TRAIN TO GROW around the edge of the horizon. I had better get up to the folks' house while UP-UP ATRELLIS, WALLS, POLES, etc. there is still light enough to see any THIS YEAR'S PRICE SALE menacing patches of ice on the side­ V2 walk, so I'll put the cover on my type­ writer now, turn off the lights, lack the NAT.LAST ADV. YEAR & SOLDAT NOW 6 $1 door and call it a day here at my own ONLY f home. or Faithfully yours .... rif's ••• l111t )'on ,.ill !llarl 10 hlr\"l"SI ynnr hr!ll rrop GROW ALL YOU CAN EAT FOR AS LITTLE wilhin only 60 D-\YS. Berrie• so delicious you'll AS PENNIES PER BASKET 111\r llrf"m rrJtularly for bn•ak(a!lt, for :o.lrawlorrry From th.- l' .S. 0l'pl. of A,:ri~·uhure nme nirws of jam11, frf"'f'Z<' lhrm an1oms. [vf'n a rank amalrur .TESTED BY. THE WEST VA. & MISSOURI , •11 """ 1111.r•·f'-t tlw must mai:nificrnt rrop of AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION SERVICE mu111li·\\a1i·rin::- Stra"'l"'rrir" you haw r-vrr 1a)l1r1!. SKY TRAILS RANKS AMONG THE TOP IN BOTH STATES TJ,.... ,. plant" mnl11pl) rapi•lly, ra<""li ~!uthrr pl11111 .It. r1•1·1•11t r1•1•urt from th1• l'niH·r~ily o[ Mi>1>1011ri 1..-arini: m.111v 1la1q.:htrr p\1111t)I. Ont·f' 1•lanlr1! )i1I llf'ini: di~ll'l'"into·•I. Orrlrr>1 h .. allhy . virn~ frre nn• vur old tired• of berrif'I • • • SO:\IE .\S LAHGE .\S !11hlp1 1c1! acn1t1li11i: In lm·alily in timr for rar\y i;,.J.1 ~rown ··sl:Pf.R.S"fo"F.t:r· Sur•· That lies somewhere ahead, 511..VER DOLl. ..S.RS. pl1mtini:. \\"rillf'n i::uarantrr an.I !limplr pkturf'd nop Strawbrrrr Plants whirh will plantiril! in~trnrtion!I ~rnt ,.·i1h f'arl1 nriln. 1;Ro•·. Rl.00~ A:\"D Rt:AR RIG. For when earth time is over, BEST OF ALL YOU CAN PICK YOUR FIRST •------, RUlnR~STRA1rnt:aRn:swi1h. 1 0 And my soul has learned to fly, ~!~P 1 ~ 1~!-N F.~i~l~~y~.~~~~~h~L~~;~~r~~.~ I 1~ ~t:=~~::: =~~gg ::~: ~== ~=::: I !:1:rn !~i~int~~~r;:~~;,"::;~~~d~ Tf'xas nry; rf'enrd" ha\·r lorrn ,rt "'ith "Sl"l'EH- I 40 PLANTS ••• $5.00 plus 50c hdl&. I ..______I hope to find the trail that leads SWEET'' S1ra11ohcrry plants, ~nt only will )"nU IJ"t J_.:._ __~~.,!!!..!:;.'!:!!:.:!., ____. © 1967, Pre-Seeded Prod. Co. Inc. i»ulr.1•1• of brrrk~ •••firm. rriJ, larj!f', lu!!rinns hf'r• Charg;t·~ arrf'fll"d on Dinf'1'• or Aml!'ri<""an E1.prraa for 15.00 or .more. To that "Land Beyond the Sky." SUPER-SWEET NURSERY SALES, Dept. B-509, Box 222, Cooper Station, Hew York 3, N. Y. -Lula Lamme KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 23

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