·r \/" '.' .,..,..,. . '- Kitchen-Klatter MAGAZINE: JULY VOLUME V NUMBER 7 1940 f'opyrl11:ht 1940 by J..t>anna Field Drlftmler SHENANDOAH, IOWA Prlee 10 eent•
Photo by Burdick JULY IN IOWA • Jr IS HARVEST TIME on the farm. Stretching to the blue horizon in every direction lie acres of hay and golden grain ready to be cut, and the tranquil 'evening is full of its ever remembered fragrance and the sudden sweet music of meadow larks. Our land has fulfilled its promise again. Our labor has given us security against the coming winter, and will feed not only our own but thousands of those who have not been blessed with the opportunity of living on our beautiful Middlewestern farms. -Leanna Driftmier PAGE 2 KIT 0 HEN - KLATT ,ER M A G A Z I NE, J U L V, 1 9 4 O REAL WEAI,TH
Kitchen - Klatter You may have your riches Magazine Of shining coins of gold; LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER, Editor But pour into my greedy hands LUCILE VERNESS, Associate Editor A different wealth to hold. DOROTHY D. JOHNSON, Associate Editor M. H. DRIFTMIER, Business Manager Subscription Price, $1.00 per year (12 A penny's worth of laughter, issues) In U. S. A. A garden in the sun, 6 Months 50c (6 Issues) Foreign Countries, $1.50 per year. A wild bird's hidden calling Advertising rates made known on appli- When summer's day is done. cation. Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia .. The rush of clouds all silver-tinged under the Act of March 3, 1879. Across a brilliant sky, Published Monthly by The sound of wind in lofty trees, A LETTER FROM LEANNA I.EANNA FJELD DRIFTMIER Shenandoah, Iowa A rainbow spangled high.
Dear Friends: from all of the things that take the The peace of twilight stealing heart .out of living. Across a rain-wet field- Many times on this page I have Please write to me this summer as For these "coins" .are a treasure said th.at it is within the power of all often .as you can. I w,ant to hear what No mint can ever yield. of us to be happy, .and I have said too you're doing, how many threshers you -In.a M. Durnil that happiness lies so close we can have to cook for and what you're go ing to feed them, if you're going to be only miss it by making a real effort FOOD SUGGESTIONS to miss it. These last few weeks I able to get away for even a one or two have felt more keenly than ever be day vacation, and the discoveries you make that lighten your work. I'll visit - fore that we must find happiness and Look back over the menus you have tranquility if we .are to hold up our with you every day and .at Spirit Lake prepared during the past few months end during these distressing times. I hope to meet many of you for .a g,ood and see how much of a sameness there There isn't a one ,o.f us w;ho doesn't visit. I can't write to all of y,ou be has been. F,o•r the most part it has feel dismayed at the things th.at are cause my hand wouldn't hold out for not been because certain foods cost happening all .about us, but no purpose that many letters, but my daily visit more than others, are more difficult to is served by giving way to anxiety and is really a letter for each and every prepare, or that our f.amily might not despair. This came to me with gre.at one of you. care for .a more varied menu. No, I'm force the other day when one of my afraid that these are not often the friends said to me, "Why Leann.a, it's Knowing you real reasons, gotten to the point where I hate to see Makes the world a little brighter. The real reasons are that we have meal time come at our house. We al been too lazy to plan new menus or to ways listen to the news as we eat, and Knowing you Somehow seems to set things righter. look up new ways to prepare the everyone gets terribly upset. 'Dhen humble potato or the low~y hamburger. Knowing you the arguments start thick and fast We have little interest in food except And my days I find completer. with as many different viewpoints as that it must be something that will there are people, .and I tell you, by Life itself is surely sweeter, satiate our family's appetites. the time we are through with the meal Since you happened 'cross my path Radio has done much to stimulate I f.eel ready for bed. I'm not good for way, anything." our interest in preparing new and de And I started licious foods. One cannot hear a I was startled when I heard this be Knowing you. tempting dish described without wish cause I had always thought of my -Author Unknown. friend as ,a very happy person, and her ing to try it in our own kitchens. home has .alw.ays been one of the most Start this very hour to spend more tranquil that I know. I sympathized KITCHEN-KLATTER PICNIC time and thought on your daily menus. with her and I made a resolution when Had you planned to have fried pota she left that I'd never have to say this toes for supper tonight? Instead of about our mealtimes. We decided .as Unless I announce over the air dif frying them, why not cream them and a family that we'd leave the discus ferently I will spend the last week in slice some hard-boiled eggs for use as June at Spirit Lake, Iowa where we sion of the news until we had left the ,a tempting garnish? Your f.amily will table, and we have all made an honest go for our vacation every year. For really appreciate an attractive bowl of effort to express our various opinions the last several years we have had a this rather than the same old hum without getting all worked up. Kitchen Klatter Picnic at Gilbert drum fried potatoes. There isn't a one of us who wouldn't Park in Spirit Lake sometime during Instead of the peaches you had plan do anything we could to straighten out my vacation. This year the day will ned to serve just as they came from the world, but these are problems that be June 27th and the dinner about one the can, make .a minute tapioca pud we cannot decide. Everywhere we o'clock. All of you within driving dis ding, add the peaches and serve with turn we hear dark news, and our tance are invited to come .and bring whipped cream. Or make an upside homes are the only places left where your families. Let's make it the big down-cake. Y,ou can stir one up in we can have hopefulness and cheer. A gest Kitchen Klatter picnic yet. I four minutes by the clock, and what a doctor told my husband the other day shall enjoy having .a chance to meet thrill your family will get when this that epidemics start and gain great you and have a real visit. I want to comes .on the table rather than the old headway at times like this, partly be meet .all of my old friends, .and it will saucedishes of "the same old peaches." cause the morale of people is lowered be very nice to make new friends. I could go on and on offering such and they have lost some of their re Remember: the date, June 27th; the suggestions for getting variety into sistance by worrying and brooding. place, Gilbert Park in Spirit Lake; the your meals without spending more When I heard this I determined to time, one o'clock; admission, a cheerful money and time, but only let me make do my part towards carrying on cheer smile and a picnic b.asket. I'll be ex this proposal to you: keep a notebook fully and keeping my home a happy pecting to see you. handy and every meal list exactly what one. We owe it to ourselves, our fami you had. Be sure that each page is lies .and our country to keep life flow When you come to see me this sum dated. Then make a solemn resolution ing as smoothly as possible. Of course mer I want you to feel free to walk not to repeat yourself more than twice there are anxieties~all ,of us mothers around my garden even though I can't or three times a month on this menu know them only too well-but let's n.ot be out there with you. A great deal of question. cross these. perilous bridges a thou it is just getting started, but rm hap s.and times in anticipation. Let's keep py to have you see how my flowers Listen to Kitchen-Klatter our homes free now as never before are doing. KMA at 2 p. m. H J TC H E N - K LA TT E R M A G A Z I N E, .J (l J, V, 1 9 4 0 PAGE S spring flowers, or else to the devasta tion w h i c h grasshoppers or dry weather can make. We give our garden sprays for ln Rects and grasshoppers. I have noticed also that if a garden joins .a meadow, more 'hoppers are present. There are some flowers which grasshoppers do not Jikp,-Harmony Marigolds, for In stance. It is always best to plant. some such varieties, just in case. When spraying, USP a spmy which does not discolor leavPs; a good dust ing powder is fine. Put it on when the lp,aves are dewy so that it will stick. Hnd don't forget th!' undp,rsideg of th!' leaves. Birds in the garden so.on makP short work of insects, so keep plenty of drinking w.atPr on hand for them. Mulching is another good way to conserve moisture. A dust mulch iR good for rows of flowers or where there is ample room to work around individual plants. A good mulch made of peat, dried grass cuttings, or any material not containing weed seed may be placed around the plant. A good time to do this is just after a soaking rain. If the ground has been kept well stirred up, the moisture will be more quickly absorbed and then kept in by the mulch which acts as a porouio< blanket. This may be put on rows of gladioli and thus enable them to en dure a great deal of dry weather. Frequent and thorough watering is often very necessary during ,a hot and dry July such as we have had in re cent years. This is not an easy job when the water has to be pumped and This picture of my sister Helen Field Fischp;r and her daughter, Gretchen Fischer Harshbarger, carried .a pail at a time, but we often was taken in HelPn's garden this May whf'JJl there was a riot of bloom. Gretchen's home ls In Iowa City. make great sacrifices to keep our flowers going on from season to sea son. It is not beneficial to the plant This month I told my sister Helen Keep your ever-blooming roses well to water it with icy cold water during Fischer who generally writes such cultivated and spray with bug dust the hot part of the day. If possible, good flower advice for this column, often. Pick them as fast as they fill up a tub near the border in the that I wouldn't ask her to prepare bloom and they will need no other sun and water in the cool of the eve copy for our July number. Her yard summer pruning. ning. Early morning watering is best was full of you friends who made the Pick flowers for the house early in when possible, for then the plant may trip to Shenandoah to see our nurser the morning before the sun has dried absorb m,ost of It before the sun gets ies and gardens at the height of their the moisture from them. hot. Quite a few plants scald badly beauty. Not only was she enjoying Start geranium cuttings in .Tuly for when watered in strong sun. Of course the privilege of visiting with many of winter blooming. Make slips from in .a hot, muggy season, watering in you, but her daughter Gretchen and best bloomers only. the evening might cause plants to mil family were here from Iowa City, and The proper thing to do with a tulip dew, but this has not been a source of her daughter Mary came from Gali bed if you want to enjoy that spot worry during our past dry summers. fornia for a short stay with her family. in your garden all summer, is to plant No matter how discouraging condi You can see how full her days have annuals of many kinds or sow poppies. tions may be, keep the weeds pulled. been. Petunias. salvia, snap dragons and Don't let the garden go .after the The orders for her "Flower Fam verbena plants can be used in a place spring bloom is over, or because the ily Album" that she and Gretcl).en of this kind too. Cut off thc;i tops of season has been disappointing. Re wrote together are just pouring in. the tulips, hyacinths and jonquils as member that a fall garden is .also RhP told me that many 4-H clubs are soon as they start to turn the least bit be,autiful, sometimes more so than any ordering it for their flower study pro brown. other season; but work must be done ject. Mr. Fischer mails out all of thP One of the flowers in my garden that in July to make it so. Prune back the books and it keeps him very busy I enjoy the most is the row of large blo,omed-out plants, keep dead flowers these days. Shasta daisies. The plants can be div picked off, and when the rains do In the years' that Helen and I have ided every spring and in .a few years come everything will quicken into new lived only a few short blocks apart they will make a beautiful bed. Dasies life. shP has taught me many things about make lovely bouquets for the house July is a very good month for the summer gardens, and so I thought and will .~tay fresh for several days. annuals to make their showing. These that I would pass on some of these may be freely picked for bouquets, hints to you. ,JULY IN THE GARDEN quite a number of which should go to It's better to give your garden a those who for various reasons may good soaking once a week and culti July may be one of the pleasantest not be fortunate enough to enjoy gar vate it a few times between waterings of garden months or it may be one of dens of their own. Midsummer bloom rather than to sprinkle it every day the most disappointing, depending up is often the best of all. The most in hot weather. on what protection has been given the tedious work of the garden is over for Keep all the seed pods picked off garden against drought and insects. a time, and now we may enjoy the if you want strong plants. This is often the month when bloom fruits of our long weeks .of labor. So It does not pay to save seeds for Is scarce, owing perhaps to the mis let us not neglect our gardens in July. they very seldom come true to form. take of giving the spotlight only to -Mrs. R. J. Duncomb. PA-OE 4 KITCHEN - K J, AT T ;ER Ill A G A Z I N E, J lT J, Y, 1 9 4 0 first spread, made it difficult for me she received word that one ,of her dear The Story of My Life to speak. After the broadcast was school friends had been in a serious through the family brought in sever.al accident near Lincoln, an .accident that (At the request of my friends I am big boxes of Christmas cards and let claimed four lives including the sister writing this brief story.) ters that you had sent me. They of Elizabeth, Lucile's friend. She went wanted to save these for me to see to Lincoln at once to see Elizabeth CHAPTER 23 when I could go through them one by who had been very critically injured one and enjoy each and every word. and who had to spend most of that It took me the rest of the afternoon summer in the Bryan Mem,o.rial hos In the June issue of Kitchen-Kl.alter to read these cards, we had supper, pital. In August she was ready to re magazine I reprinted Lucile's story and then Christmas day was done ,and turn to her home out in Lander, Wyo. "The Welcome" which first appeared my first wonderful day at home was and her parents .asked Lucile to make in the Woman's Home Companion and over too. the trip with her. which was all about my return from In the weeks that followed I con Dorothy was planning to go to the the Kansas City hospital on Christmas centrated all of my efforts on trying Nebraska State Teachers' College in Eve. This was the beginning of a new to regain my strength. Every morn Chadron, Nebraska, so with both of life for me. I had been spared to live ing I had massages to strengthen the my girls leaving at just about the for my f.amily .and the work that w.as muscles in my limbs, and eve1-y night same time I had a great deal to do mine to do in this world, and I had to I tried to go to sleep knowing that I helping them get ready. Lucile was readjust myself in every w.ay from the had gained something over the pre planning to stay in \Vyoming for old days when I had been physically vious day. Every little thing that I awhile and work on a newspaper, so free and on the move from morning did took great effort, for the long as soon as I got her off I started to until night. months in the hospital - p,articularly help Dorothy. She left one morning My doctor in Shenando.ah had the six weeks on the spinal fracture in early September, and I told her recommended a local nurse and she bed-had left me with so little when she went away that I'd be walk went to Kansas City with Mr. Drift strength. ing around o.n crutches when she re mier to accompany me home. She turned for the Christmas holidays. It The doctor who came to do the mas stayed with us for four or five months, was up to me now to show her that sages suggested that I ride a bicycle and of course was here on Christmas my word was good! Eve. and you can imagine how I felt when (To be continued.) this was first mentioned! I was still I shall never forget how thrilled I in bed a good share of the time and I was to be at home again. The chil Dear Lord, I'm just an ordinary just couldn't imagine how the bicycle dren had decomted a beautiful tree, woman with a mean spirit today. would be managed. But I soon saw and underneath it they had put the Things haven't gone right from the how it was to be done, for the bicycle countless boxes that my Kitchen Klat was put into a frame that my husband time I got up. ter friends had sent. When I s.aw those You know dear Lord, how the child brought into the kitchen about ten boxes I had to crv again because the o'clock every morning. The doctor ren fussed at me because their school cards and letters from yo~ friends had lunches weren't the kind they wanted. and the nurse helped me get from my done so much towards making the wheel chair on to the bicycle, and then But dear Lord, what else could I give hard months in the hospital easier, my feet were strapped to the pedals. them? It was all I had. and then to get home and find all of And then my husband complained Go,odness, what an effort it was to those Christmas presents fr,om you about the coffee, and the chickens got revolve those bicycle wheels even once well, that touched me more than I will into my flower beds, and the Women's at the beginning of this treatment' At ever be able to say. Missionary Society is going to meet first I thought that I couldn't, but After we had had dinner that night here this afternoon and I haven't time every day I found that I had more I went right to bed because I didn't to get ready for them when I should strength, and then the day finally have mueh strength and the trip home be doing the ironing and mending for came when I could sit and spin the had been hard for me. The family had wheels indefinitely. It did more to the children. decided to have our tree and presents Dea.r Lord, what am I to do? help me than anything else, and the in the morning-the only time I can And the Lord said to me-"Be still effort it took was worthwhile a mil remember that we have done this, for -hush thy fretting. Knowest thou lion times over when I found that I about nine o'clock on Christmas Eve not that it is through trial and tribula could stand on my feet with crutches has generally been the hour that we tion that thou growest in Grace? to support me. have for our tree. And I knelt in quiet meditation~ The next morning we had a lovely All of the time I was working so and peace and happiness soon filled breakfast and then opened our pres hard to regain my powers of locomo my soul. -Selected cn ts. It was Christmas day, and the tion I had many things to do for my telephone rang constantly with people family that kept me busy and content Mayme Laughlin of Imogene, Ia. wishing us a merry Christmas and ed. We were a full house during that says "to try something unusual in the telling me "Hello" once again. After time, for besides the nurse we had a way of toast, remove the crust from dinner the seedhouse called and asked housekeeper too. It was Dorothy's the bread, butter it on both sides and me if I would be able to say just a senior year in hig,h school .and she had toast it in the waffle iron. It comes few words on the Kitchen Klatter pro class activities that I could help her out crisp, with a waffle pattern and is gram. Gertrude Hayzlett, a faithful with. I can remember singing over her excellent served with creamed dishes friend of mine over many years, had part in the operetta and helping her as chicken, salmon, or peas." broadcast for me while I was in the with lines from the play. I had hoped hospital and so Kitchen Klatter had to be up and around by the time she beE'n going right on. graduated, but try .as I c,ould it was About twelve-thirty the engineer impossible for me to get up to the third came up from the nadio department floor of the high school for commence and brought a microphone for me to ment exercises. Dorothy was my only use. This was the first time that I child whose graduation I missed. PVC'r broadcast from my home, and I When summer came I was well didn't know then that in the years to enough to be without my nurse. I come I would broadcast daily from my was broadcasting again by this time, office. The office had been turned and the letters from you friends made int0 a bedroom, incidentally, for it was up the high spot of my day. I found on the ground floor where I could keep plenty of time to write letters in re an eye and an car on my family. turn, and it was a great pleasure to When the signal came for me to me during those summer months to S.'lY a few words to my friends I found meet many of you who had come to that I was able to say "Merry Christ Shenandoah to visit. mas" and not much more, for the A group of good Kitchen Klatter friends sur In the latter part of May Lucile roundPd me last summer at our annual picnic realization of how good you had been came home from Cottey College. She in Spirit Lake. I hope to see these friends to me ever since word of the accident had been home only a day or iio when again this summer, and many others too. KIT UH E N - K J, A TT ,ER lll A ll A Z I N E, J U L Y, 1 9 4 0 A LETTER FROM FREDERICK NATURE LOVERS Return from the Red Sea "They were a typical group of na tur~ lovers. When Sunday morning We were up bright and early, and arrived, they packed a fine lunch and after a good breakfast of bacon and went for a day in the out-of-do~rs. eggs-the first bacon I'd tasted since I Finding a beautiful little grove over left the States-- we broke C•amp and looking an attractive lake, they soon started home. Just as we were leav established their picnic headquarters. ing- ou1· c.amp site we saw a very pic They hacked and cut the beautiful tl!resque sight. Rilling along the shore, trees for no understandable reason. single file, came a comp.any of the One of the boys shot several song famous Egyptian Camel Corps. The birds to try out his new rifle, and they white camels against the blue of the built their fire close to a majestic old se.a and the red fezes of the riders tree, scorching the 1 e a v e s an d made a very colorful picture. The Prime Minister was well escorted by these branches. On the way back we had several fLat efficient looking motorcycle police. After they were gone, their beauti tires and lost track of one of the cars. ful little camp ground looked like a Finally we turned around and went had his own room of worehip. On small city dump. Rubbish was scat back .over our route and found the the walls of a long hall there was en tered everywhere. Dead birds and a fourth car fixing a fLat tire. I would graved a famous list of kings which squirrel were lying on the ground, one never want to cross that strip of helped to determine the correct order little robin being still alive, with a desert with just one car. If anything o~ the Egyptian Pharaohs. broken wing. should happen there would be no way Just at the rear of the temple is the So long as people take this attitude, to get help, and the Arabian desert ruin of the first known Nile-Meter for just that long may they expect peop1e would be .a terrifying thing if one were measuring the rise and fall of the Nile. to post their farms with "no trespass alone and stranded. It consisted of two large pools of ing" signs." - sent by Mrs. Percy Every so often we passed a lone water that raised and lowered with the Joines, Peterson, Ia. nomad with two ,or three goats, and river. The guide told us that the gov invariably someone would exclaim, ernment had attempted to pump the MRS. FIXIT PLANS A KITCHEN "My! what on earth do those people pools dry, but that it could not be Dear Leanna: I want a modern live on?" And it was the truth-what done. We had lunch in the shade of kitchen. How can I have one? - A do they live on? These goats seemed a colonnade and then left at once for Renter's Wife. just to be nosing about in the sand and home. Begin.-Begin talking about it to rocks, and one wonders where they Just as we reached the college everyone that will listen, husband, got water to drink. grounds at 6:30 I began to feel very children and friends. You will be sur We passed several camel caravans. ill, and a pain developed in my stom prised where the help may come from. The drivers always walked on the hot ach that kept me awake all night. Plan. - Plan exactly the kind of sand and pointed rocks, and you won The first thing in the morning I went movable cupboards, tables, etc. that dered h,ow they stood it for the five or to the hospital for treatment 13.nd soon your present kitchen needs. A scrap six da,ys it takes to cover that stretch felt better. While I was there I de book of kitchen ideas is a help. From .of desert with a camel. The nomads cided I might as well have my tonsils the plan you can decide which im of the desert are blacker than the out and so that was done on Saturday provement is most needed and work Egyptians, and this is because they are morning. Dr. McClanahan did a fine on that .one thing. It is easier to do of pure Arabic stock, while the valley job and I wasn't sick at all. My room one single thing than it is to start on Egyptians are a mixed race with the was just banked with sweet peas and an entire room at one time. Another exception of the Copts who are almost roses, and I felt as if I were sleeping thing, it costs less too. pure Egyptian. in a green house. Go see a kitchen that is modern Returning home, we went off our ail!d remember: all the things that you route a few miles to the ruins of I got back to my classes on Thurs can duplicate. Abydas. Abydas was one of the most day following my operation on Satur There is a new strong plywood that ancient cities in Egypt and played an day, but I had to give my students ,any handyman can make into cup impurtant r.ole under the first dynasty all written work because my throat b.o.ards and cabinets that are easily as the burial place of the kings. The was so sore. I've known for a long, movable. It is lightweight, does not chief place of interest there is the long time that my tonsils had to come split and will not warp. Temple of Sethos I, one of the finest out someday, and I'm glad that it is Investigate linoleum. It will simpli preserved ruins in all Egypt. The re all over. fy the cleaning problem in so many liefs on the walls are particularly well My work with the Christian En ways. A new floor may be out of the preserved, and it seems almost un deavor has shown results. The at question, but sever:al layers .of papers believable to think that the paint has tendance is the largest they have had and a three dollar linoleum will cover remained on the reliefs for almost six in three years and I am happy about it for two Long ye.ars. A strip behind thousand year:s. it. the sink or washstand catches all the This temple was erected not for one Yesterday the Prime Minister came sp'lashes. It is the surface for work god but for seven gods, and every god on a special train to visit our city. We tables. Keep it w;axed and it is safe had to march our students down town from heat, soap and spills of all kinds. to line them up along the street so See that all the working surfiaces are that they could cheer the Minister. the right height for you. They are The name of the current cinema here 0.K. if you can stand by them and is "Five Came Back" or in Arabic "The touch them with the flat of your palms Journey of De.ath." All of the cinema -standing at ease. The low ones can posters and advertisements all over have casters put under them for seven town had the Arabic title covered over cents p.er leg, 1and the high ones can be with heavy paper. This had to be sawed off for even less. done to keep the superstitious p.opu Keep as many of the things you use lace from accepting the signs ae an every day in the cooking center as you evil omen against the Prime Minister. possibly can. If yours is a kitchen The Muslim Christmas is now being cabinet, as most of them ,are, see that celebrated. (I mean that it comp.ares you use every bit .of the space that with our Christmas.) All of our ser is available. Put in narrow shelves vants were given a <.I.ay off to go to for small cans, divide the drawers into the cemetery to worship their ances parts that fit the utensils which are tors. stored there. Vertical files make Do write to me often and please cookie sheets and large cake pans get send lots of pictures. at-able.-Mrs. Maxine Sickles, Mt. Ayr, A street scene In EIJ'llt. -Frederick. Iowa. PAGE 8 K I T () H E N - K J, A T T .E R l\f A 0 A Z I N E, ,J U J, l', 1 9 4 0 PRACTICAL POULTRY POINTERS '1-H CLUB LETTER BEAUTY HINTS
Many poultry rais·ers set their goal We had quite an exciting time last July brings the hot sticky months for fried chicken on July Fourth, but Monday. The washing was just half when we all have trouble with our I u s u a 11 y set done when the engine began to sput complexions, espec mine two days ter, and since I am no mechanic, I ial~y if w.e perspire earlier so that I turned it off and hung out the clean freely. Then too, we can have fried clothes. Just as I hung up the last usually try to .ac quire a coat of tan chicken on my piece, here came Phyllis and Grandpa to take me to 4-H! (Phyllis is helping -sometimes in one birthday. Ho W day!--and sunburn ever, as a gen her grandmother while she isn't very well.) results w i t h ter eral rule it is rible toll. Remem time for fried Yes, I went. Phyllis and I dressed ber that sunburn is chicken in July, children frantically and went into the same as a fire and many people town. Then we broke several records burn and should be have found getting dinner. The car 'Stopped for treated as such. ready market us at 12:30, and we went about five This is vacation for early fries. miles to the home of our hostess. time for some of I hav.e never In just a short time the rest arri us, but for others tried the method ved. There were ten girls, the lead it means working Hn. Olbula Wlleti of selling dress- er, and two Shenandoah women who Eva Bopklna long hours in the ed poultry - were asked to judge the girls for the garden. Our grand mostly because I have plenty of nouse better grooming contest. From the mothers wore a sun-bonnet to keep hold duties without this extra work moment the last girl arrived things the hot, burning rays of the sun from but I have a friend who inserts an happened! making her "as black as coal" as she advertisement in the local paper and They are getting ready for Rally ::io ably put it. She knew that fairs is able to dispose of all her early Day and the music recognition con and dances would be coming along, cockerels as "dressed fryers." test, so they played over the ten re and how would her white organdie Jily disposing of your cockerels cordings twice to see how many they look then if she had a dark brown early y0u have more room and more could recognize. Then they sang sev complexion? feed for your pullets, and after all this eral songs, and while they were sing Nowadays we don't use a sun-bon ill the main issue for which you are ing they went one at a time into the net as constantly as our grandmothers working. Then too, July is not too dining room to be inspected by the did, but we do take care of our com early to begin culling the flock of ma judges. After the singing was over plexions by using a good cleansing ture stock. It should be done at thi 0 the judges announced their decision. cream at night to help soften and oil time for it is easy to distinguish the I liked the way they explained the skin, and to remove the soil of good from the poor ~ers. their method of choosing too. They the day. It is quite necessary that Hens that molt in July and slow said, "We judged neatness, cleanliness, you remove your makeup every night growing pullets should be put on the the press of your uniform, your hair, so that the pores of the skin are market. Early molters are usually your nails, the straightness of seams opened and cleansed. slow molters. Some of the adult stock in your hose. We forgot you had As soon as you get up in the morn will not be valuable enough to carry faces!" No one was wearing too much ing give your face a good scrubbing over for another season and they make-up anyway. The girl who won with facial soap and water. Follow usually bring less money later in the would have been first choice of all of this with a dash of the coldest water summer becaus·e of the increasing us, I believe. She was exquisitel'Y you can get to help close the pores, groomed. supply of young poultry. Early mark and then smooth on a covering of eting of nonproducers should bring After the contest the hostess play creme powder. This treatment wm better returns and also reduce the ed the music for the folk dances and pay you big complexion dividends. feed cgst. the girls practiced them on the lawn. I like a good sea salt soap for oily In order to select good producers it It was pretty to watch, and the girls skin as it seems· to keep down the is neces'Sary to be able to distinguish all s·eemed to enjoy it. oil to a minimum, and also help!! the laying birds. The appearance and I almost forgot to tell you about counteract excess perspiration. This size of the comb, wattles, vent, pubic roll call. Each girl responded by tell type of soap is· ver~ good too in com bones, and wbdomen are all good in ing what she intended to make for batting the effects of poison oak or dications as to laying conditions. her sewing project, and they discussed ivy. When I was a little girl I could When a hen stops laying the c·omb and the parts of a garment that should 1·ub poison ivy all over my face with wattles become dull colored, dry and be hand-finished. The leader has out bad results, but my brother look shriveled. The vent undergoes the pinking shears and wants the girls to ed as if he had the mea'Sles in a very same change and is really a better in do all their cutting-out with these so short time. In the good old summer .tication as to laying conditions than the seams will have a neat finish. time watch out for poison oak and the comb. ivy. Then we had delicious refreshments Almost any hen will lay during and all too soon the afternoon was If you have any complexion trouble April and May, but If she is not lwy~ over and it was time to go home. We will you please write to me'! I shall ing in July or August of the year after rode back to town with the leader and be glad lo give you any information she is hatched it is likely that she is a the women who judged the contest, that I have without charge to you. poor layer. I collected the rest of my children (we Sincere~ -Olinda Carolyn Wiles had the two babies with us), Daddy 1£va Hopkins, Cosmetologist, Clarinda, Iowa. collected us, and we went home. And rBox 13, Tuesday was also washday at the Shenandoah, Iowa. Dear Lord, I thank thee for this day Loudon home. and hour, The next time someone comes along EA8Y IRONING FOR SUMMER And all the blessings that they and tells you that the young folks are TROUSERS bring, headed straight for ruin, that none The trees, the flowers, the glad sun of them will ever amount to a row of "Procure an 8-inch board about. 1 shine, pins, take him to a 4-H meeting. No inch thick and the length of the And that my heart can sing. one could po'Ss'ibl:y, watch them with trousers you will have to iron. The But more than all, I thank thee out being impressed by their enthu sides of the .board are sloped gradually Lord, ::iiasm, their ability to work together, from 8 inches at one end to 4 inches l<'or love that can forgive and their intense concentration on at the other. It should be padded on The sinful selfishness of man whatever they are doing. Isn't this a both sides so that it can be turned And give him breath to live. wonderful start in life for anyone'! over. This takes less time than turn -Julia D. Owen Navasot,a, Texas. -Helen Loudon ing the trousers around on the board." KITCHEN - K J, AT T ;F: R M A 0 A Z I N E, ,J U J, Y, 1 9 4 0 PAGE HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR letter from Nebraska that carries such You cannot set the whole world right, a comradely spirit: Nor all the people in it; "It seems that everyone here is too You cannot do the work of years busy to call on his neighbor and I In just .a single minute. guess I got in th.at rut too, f.or I realiz But keep one little corner straight, ed I had people living beside me who'd By humble, patient labor, been there near~y a year .and still I And do the work that each hour brings hadn't called. Well, one day when I And help your next door neighbor. did go and call on a young woman she Selected. complained bitterly that people were ------Those of us who have lived in one so distant and that it was hard to get house for a long time feel as though acquainted. we kn.o·W our neighbors pretty well, "When I got home I couldn't get rid .and if we live in .a small town it of the thought of how little time we do doesn't make much difference if we spend with our neighbors, so I started move from one end to the other-we inviting in three women just for a know people ,and pretty much of the social time on Friday afternoon. I entire town is home. It's hard for us find that this is a good way to become to imagine how strange it would seem acquainted with one another, and now to anyone coming in .a complete other women .are doing the same thing. stranger, and even if we ride down I only invited three because I am not town and look at things with what we well enough to get ready for .a larger think are fresh eyes, we can never group, and then I think people are Charles and Bobby IJneweber, Mooresville, Mo. feel the same as those who hav.e mov friendlier in small groups. I do not ed into our midst .and don't know one find the lunch a hardship either, for PICNIC FOOD QUANTITIES soul from 1another. I plan to serve inexpensive things that It's .a mighty lonely business moving I can combine with my family's dinner 10 quarts of baked beans will serve into .a new town. I know because I've in the evening. It's been very little 50 persons. done it. When radio friends come to work and it has paid great dividends 6 quarts of cabbage saLad, or 8 visit me from some of the larger cities in friendship." pounds of cabbage will serve 50 per and tell me how lonely they are even If it isn't possible for you to do sons. though they may have been there six what this woman did to observ.e the 10 pounds of hot ham will serve 20 months or a year, I know how they persons, or 10 pounds of cold ham will feel. Small towns are getting almost Golden Rule, at least take time to stop in and call on your new neighbor. serve 40 persons. as bad, if I .am not mistaken. I Take her a plate of your fresh cookies 8 pounds .of ground beef, 2 quarts of wish you could read some of my or rolls. If she has a baby and is try tomatoes, and 8 ounces of salt pork letters that E;ay, "I don't know what ing to take care of it and get settled will serve 48 persons. I'd do without the mdio and the too, off.er to mind the baby for a 10 pounds of pressed meat will serve chance to hear you, Leanna, for you're couple of hours. But whatever you do, 50 persons. the only friend I have now that we've do something. Make her feel that 2 quarts of sweet pickles will serve moved. It seems hard to get acquainted folks in this new town or new neigh 50 persons. here." borhood, if you live in a city, are no 1 loaf of bread will serve 8 persons. Now this very minute I want yi>u different than the good friends she 8 pounds of flour, 2 p.ounds of short to stop .and ask yourself a question. left behind. Make her wonder why she ening and 2'-h quarts of milk will Has someone moved into the corner ever feared moving and trying to make 20 dozen biscuits. house on your street whom you've not make her way in a big group of 7 quarts of fruit salad will serve 50 yet met? Did you see a str,ange face strangers! Be the kind of a neighbor persons. at church last Sunday and leave it to you'd like to have if you were moving 1 quart of brick ice cream will serve the minister to make that person feel tomorr,ow. 8 persons, or 1 'h g;al1ons of ice cream welcome and at home? Did your chil will serve 25 persons. dren say to you last week, "Mother, My country OWES me nothing. It 3 medium sized cakes will serve 50 there are two of the nicest little girls gave me, as it does every boy and girl, persons. in the house that was empty for so a chance. It gave me schooling, inde 10 quarts of lemonade will serve 50 long," and did you vow then and there pendence of action, opp,ortunity for persons. to go ,and call on the mother? And service and honor. In no other land For coffee: 1 pound of coffee made have you gone? could a boy from a country village, in an open pot will serve 30 persons I wish you would think this over, without inheritance or influential (1 Tbls. to the cup); 1 quart of cream and then I wish you would read this friends, look forward with unbounded unwhipped will be sufficient for 24 hope.-Hevbert Hoover. cups of coffee.
BUY Your Rew 1940 SAVE! • The fireplace in the back yard at the home of ID)' nleee, Hope Field Pawek, ID Oaklawl, OtlUI. Her three 10D8 ID the picture. i' A O_E 8 Kl ·r ()HE N - I!. J, A 'I' TE K M A G A Z I N E, J U f, Y, 1 9 4 ti .add the sugar, salt, and spices. Bring this mixture to the boiling point and pour it over the beans in the jars or crocks, filling them completely ,or cov "Recipes Tested ering the beans well. Close tight and store.
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4 qt. red beets Kitchen Klatter 2 c. brown sugar 2 qt. vinegar 1 tsp. salt Kitchen" 'h tsp. pepper 1 tsp. cinnamon By LEANNA DRIFTMIER 1 tsp. cloves 1 tsp. allspice Cut the tops from the beets leaving KITCHEN MAGIC SWEE'r CORN CANN 1£D 1 inch of the stems and the roots at tached. Scrub well with a vegetable Use only corn that is young and brush and put to cook in boiling wate1·. [ believe there's something witchin' milky. Husk it and remove the silk, Cook until the beets are tender enough Tantalizing in a kitchen; blanch it five minutes in boiling water to be pierced with .a fork. P.orn· off the Something just beyond the fingers and cold dip quickly. Cut the kernels hot water and run cold water over :Strange and mystical that lingers; halfway down on the cob and scrape them. Remove the roots and stems Treasure hoarded down the ages, out what remains. Pack clean, steri and cut into slices of any desired Secrets from old housewives' pages. lized jars with corn, leaving 1h inch thickness, or dice them if preferred. for expansion. Press down until milk Pack into jars or crocks.Then bring I have glimpsed it in the glasses, of corn fills all spaces. One may add the vinegar to a boil, add sugar, salt Soapy bright, and then it passes a little boiling water. Put 1 tsp. of and spices. Pour this hot mixture over To the shadow on the walls, salt in each quart of corn, adjust lids, the beets. Seal the beets while hot, Flickers, dances, swiftLy calls boil 3 hours in water bath, or leave in cool and store. From the oven and my baking .a pressu!'e cooker one hour at 10 lbs. To that satisfying waking pressure. Greens Of delight at cake, well rising, Have greens fresh and tender. Pick Or that moment quite surprising PEAS CANNED over careful~y, throwing out all wilted When the frosting spreads so well. .and spoiled leaves. Wash thoroughly. Pick peas early in the morning and Blanche :tior fifteen minutes in boiling I can never, never tell, remove from pod. Wash them, and then hot water, dip quickly in cold water. Pack the greens in jars, add 1 tsp. Never put my finger on It, cover with boiling water and cook for It's a lyric, It's a sonnet 7 or 8 minutes. Drain the hot water salt to each quart. Adjust lids 'and process 2 hours in hot water bath, 01· Tripping music, every dawn it off and then put cold water over them Waits to lure me in my kitchen, until the peas are very cold. Put in 40 minutes in a pressure cooke1· at ten pounds pressure. Ancient, lovely and bewitching. jars (do not fill to top) and add 1 tsp. -By Catherine Cate Coblentz. of salt to 1 quart. Fill j.ar with cold water. Put rubbers and seals on and J,EMON OR ORANGE MARSH screw tight. Put in a hot water bath MALLOW ICE CANNING RECIPES and boil 3 hours. Tighten each jar as you remove it from the water. (The 24 marshmallows 14 cup lemon or orange jui<'P STRING BEANS CANNED secret of canning ·peas is that they must be cooked twice in .order to keep Pinch of salt well.) -·- Miss Theodora Wortmann, % cup water 1h tsp. lemon or orange rind String beans should be canned as Hartington, Nebr., RFD 4. soon as they are gathered. Cut out 2 egg whites beaten stiff any rusted portion, remove strings if Melt marshmallows in water, add GREEN BEANS WITH VINEGAR there are any, and if preferred, cul juice ,and rind and salt. Freeze par tially. Fold in egg whites. Stir whi!P the beans into inch strips. Blanch 1 gallon "snappe·d" beans freezing. them 10 minutes, cold dip and pack 1 cup vinegar tightly in jars. Add 1 tsp. of salt to 3 Tblsp. sugar each quart, fill the jar with boiling 1 Tblsp. salt water, adjust the lid and boil 2 hours Just enough water to cook. New! Different Cleaner! in water bath, or 60 minutes at 5 lbs. Boil for 30 minutes, can and seal. pTessure, or 40 minutes at 10 lbs. pres When opened pour off any liquid that .iure in a pressure co,oker. is on the beans and cook for about 3 hours. Season as you like. CARROTS CANNED 'f\rf~1,, PICKLED BEANS e Guaranteed for '~~pi=o. ~ d re s s e s, suits, Young parsnips, turnips and carrots 4 qt. beans woodwork, rugs, are canned in the same way, so we 1 tsp. salt upholstery. Odor. less - non.explo will use c.anot5 as our eXiample. 1 tsp. cinnamon sive. Hurts on I y Cut off the tops and roots and scrub 1 tsp. allspice dirt. well. Blanch 10 or 15 minutes in boil 1;,, tsp. pepper ing water and cold dip. Remove the 1 'h qt. vinegar wkins and pack tha carrots in a jar. 1 tsp. cloves 25c Add 1 tsp. of salt to each jarful and 1 c. brown sugar fill the jars with boiling water. Ad Select large, firm, tender wax or MAKES 20 GAL. CLEANING FLUID just lids and cook 1 'h hours in water green beans. Cover them with water to bath, or 40 minutes at a pressure of 10 which has been added 1 level tsp. or Ask Your Grocer pounds in a pressure cooker. salt to each quart and put them over or write the fire to cook. Boil the beans until they c.an be pierced with a f.ork, re Buy Kitchen Klatter Cook Books. move from the fire, drain, and pack <"lite Pell/e~ e~ Set of 5 for $1.00. into jars or crocks. To the vinegar Box 34, Shenandoah, Iowa Kl TC HEN - KL A '.l' T ,ER M AG AZ 1 NE, JU L 'f', 1 9 4 0 PAGE !I COTTAGE CHEESE SALAD
CAKES, PIES, PUDDINGS 1 cup boiling water 1 Tblsp. lemon juice & FROZEN DESSERTS 1 pkg. lime gelatin 1 Tbls. sugar VOL. 4 KITCHEN KLATTER Make gelatin by adding boiling COOK BOOKS water to package. When it begins to thicken add a small can .of crushed You will not need to worry pineapple drained, 1 cup cottage about preparing desserts for cheese, 'h pt. cream whipped. Serves 8.-Mrs. George W. Jensen, Council your family if you have this use Bluffs, Iowa. ful cook book. Hundreds of recipes from the best cooks in ENGLISH COOKIES America. Send for your copy. 2 cups brown sugar Price 25¢ p.p. 1 c. shortening 1 t. nutmeg 1 t. cinnamon I.EANNA DRil<'TMH~R, 3 c. flour Shenandoah, Iowa 1 t. soda 1 c. hot coffee ------1 c. raisins 1h c. nut meats I.AYER JELLO SALAD. Drop by teaspoonfuls and bake in a moderate oven. This m,akes a large 1 pkg. cherry Jello batch. 1 bottle chopped ma1aschino cherries Asparagus I've never seen a better picture of Frank 1 pkg. lime Jello J<'leld than this one. Frank is associated with 1 c chopped English walnuts Select tender asparagus and can the Earl May Seed and Nursery Company, within four hours of time taken from and will he glad to hear from yon If you 1 pkg. orange Jello need help with your p~oblems. 'h lb. marshmallows melted in Jello. the garden. Remove hard portions at Arrange in layers in a pan about the ends of the stems and cut into 10x12 inches. Put the Lime Jello in pieces the length of the jars you are first and allow to set, tlrnn the orange going to use. If preferred it may be and when it is set, put in the cherry. cut into small pieces. Cover with boil Serve on lettuce leaf with mayonnaise ing water for five minutes, cold dip Do you make and whipped cream.-Mrs. Earl Col and pack neatly in jars. Add 1 tsp. of lins, Bennington, Kans. salt and fill the jar full of boiling water. Adjust Ji.ds and cold pack for 2 hours or in the pressure cooker 40 this mistake ? CHEESE MOLD minutes at 10 pounds pressure.
1 c. macaroni (befoi:e cooked) "Did you ever try this? Slice ban in baking • 1 c. cream anas in the bowl of cream and whip. 1 c. soft bread crumbs It's delicious. 1 t. onion chopped fine "When I fry hamburgers or sausages, When you bake do you make the 1,4. c. butter I sprinkle a little flour on my board mistake of thinking that the all im 1,4. green pepper or a plain paper and flatten the meat portant thing is the recipe? 3 eggs beaten separately out and cut with biscuit cutter. Lift 1 c. pimento cheese (grated) them with a spatu1a."-Mrs. Neva Gib Of course, the recipe is mighty im Cook macaroni in boiling water son, R 2, Bondurant, Iowa. portant. But, don't forget that the (salted) until tender. Heat cream. foundation of a.II your baking is the Add cheese and butter, then egg yolks, flour you use. macaroni, bread crumbs and season ing. Fold in egg whites. Bake in In the kitchen, where Mother's Best moderate oven. Flour is carefully tested, we have learned that even with the same recipe a batch of bread, a cake, a pie, or any thing else can be spoiled simply by PICKLE BOOK changing the quality of the flour. Vol. 6 Kitchen Klatter That's why it is so important to Cook Books carefully choose your flour. How often you have wished No flour leaves the Mother's Best mills until generous samples have been you had all of your favorite tested both in laboratory and kitchen. pickle recipes in a book. Well, It's always kept to uniform, high stan I have this book for you. There dards so you c.an depend .on it for all are many tried recipes for all your baking, at all times. types of pickles-sweet, sour, Every sack is guaranteed to please mixed, dill, beet, catsups, relishes, you or you get your money back. Ask kraut, fruit pickles, etc., and your grocer today for a sack of recipes for jams, jellies and .pre serves. Order your cOJlY tod•ay. Price 25¢ p.p. Mother• s Best
J,EANNA DRJFTMIER, Flour Shenandoah, Iowa Dennis Duane Lindeman put on his nicest five months old smile for his grandmother, Mrs. Albert TJebkes of Allison, Ia. l' A ll E 10 KITCHEN - KLATT ,ER l\[ A G A Z I N E, J U J, Y, 1 9 4 0 KMA PROGRAM SCHEDULE
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KMA'S DAU,¥ PROGRAM MORNING 5:00 a. m.-Haden's Hillbillies 6:00 a. m.-Weather and News OVER THE FENCE 6:15 a. m.-The Midlanders 6:30 a. m.-The Family Altar The big Shenandoah Flower Show 7 :00 a. m.-Mornlng Headlines has come and gone now and the many 7:15 a. m.--Crazy Radio Gang delightful visits I had with you 7:30 a. m.-Lem Hawkins and Hrs Gang (Monday through Friday) friends who could come to Shenan 7:30 a. m.-Family Altar (Sundays) doah are only a memory now. There 7 :45 a. m.-Coffee Pot Inn (Mon. thru .l )) << OUR CHILDREN OlJ n CHILDRli;N ments and spats that came up, made e.qch child share equally, and started Beverly on the right track (even if I In the April nurnbc1· I printed a let was late!) in getting along with people. ter from the mother in Abilene, Kan sas who didn't knuw what to do with Now she's seven years old and has he1· little four-year uld girl who would many friends, but I tremble to think n't play witl! otloe1 children. Among how mixed-up and twisted her person the Kitchen Klatter sisters who an ality might be by this time if I hadn't swered this problem I found a letter m'.l.de an effort to see what was wrong from Ames, Iowa particularly intel'est and then correct it. Every time I hear ing because I suspect that the mother a mother worry about her little boy or who wrote such an honest letter came girl who can't play with other children pretty close to finding the difficulty I find myself wanting to say: just that is responsible nine times out of eavesdrop to a half-hour of their play len. some morning and you'll know. Yet people resent such a remark if you say "Dear Leanna: When I read about the James Edward Erickson's mother says t'hat he it to their f.ace, so I thought that per c:m't be bothered to keep his boots laced little girl who wouldn't play with other haps in this roundabout way I could when there'.s a football around. James lives In children I thought to myself right pass it on." Storm Lake, Ia. away---that sounds ex;actly like the ex perience I had with Beverly. She was And so here is the thing that this four too when I first realized with a wise mother would like to say direct them into the .end of a suitcase if we shock that she wouldn't play with oth ly to all of us. Think over w~at she were traveling by train, or tossed them er children at all. She's an .only child, says and see if this could p,oss1bly be in the backseat of the car. Children but there are little children on both the answer to your pToblem. I'm afraid didn't have so many toys then and sides of us who should have made that most of us are pretty blind to the most of them were more or less bulky wonderful playmates for her. faults of our own children, and some because that w.as in the days before times we could do much towards At first I thought that the fault the Five and Dime came to almost straightening out their difficulties and every town. Now we can get some must lie with the others--you know making them happier if we'd only take small, brand-new toys (this means an ;ww we mothei'S feel until we make off our blinders .and l,ook at them as extra thrill) for little of nothing, and our heads work. I scraped up at least honestly as other people look at them. the novelty will wear for the entire twenty different explanations for the trip. I'd put these in a small box or situation, but what good did explana tions do when my little girl hung to THE BABIES GO TOO. bag and I'd let the children take out one thing at a time, play with it until my skirts all day long .and refused to they tired of it, and then put it back play with the others? This summer quite a good many again. Well, one morning I asked my ~ood little children have come to see me with In the old days we wore ourselves neighbor next door to let her two IIttle their mothers who are Kitchen Klatter boys two .and five, and her little girl to a foazzle getting fancy clothes ready sisters, and although some of them so that our children would look as aged four, come over to the fenced-in have had long trips they all look as fine as possible for the entire trip. yard that we had built. Then I simply fresh as can be and n.ot the least stopped my work and watched and (How well I remember the approving cross or worn-out. When I see them looks of the people in the coach of our listened from a convenient bedroom I realize how much travel has changed train when I got on once with Doro window. Was it the fault of the other so far as children are concerned. thy, Bo.ward and Lucile all in spotless children that we heard shrieks and The distances that would have ex wails within two minutes, that the white-nd how worn out I was from hausted us and our youngsters when trying to keep them clean from the smallest boy begged to go home? No, they were little, leaves these children Leanna, I have to confess that it :vas moment we started.) Now we let our as happy as when they started. Fifteen children wear sun suits that can be my own little girl who was the neigh or twenty years 'ago we didn't take borhood problem. washed in the twinkling of an eye and babies and two-year-olds away from don't need to. be ironed. We take Being an only child we'd indulged home unless it was really necessary, along one nice outfit for anything her far too much (I realized after the and most of us didn't have anyone to special that may come up, but this is harm was done) and we'd never made leave them with so we just all stayed the only real effort we make in the her share with others and give up her home together. I think of this when I direction of clothing. things for the pleasure of neighboring see these happy mothers with their youngstern. I couldn't believe my ~wn little children all getting so much In the old days it took so long to eyes when I saw her scramble for JUst pleasure out of their trip to Shenan drive even a short distance that we any toy that one of the other .children doah. plugged right along from the time we wanted, and hitting and kickmg-my, In the old days we carried .along started until we got there. Our but I was ashamed. Like so many oth every diaper we had in a waterproof youngsters might want to curl up with er mothers I simply put her out in her bag and hoped long and hard that fatigue but we had to keep going. Now vard to play and went on about my they'd hold out until we got where we we can stop many times along the :.Vork knowing that she couldn't get could wash. Now you can buy diapers road and let them run around for a out and get hurt. I'd never taken that are made particularly for travel few minutes. If we're traveling by time to watch and discover why it was ing and dispose of them at your con train we can let them run on the plat that I had one of these children "who venience. I think I'd buy enough of form whenever the train stops for will never play with other children." these for a trip if I had to give up more than three or four minutes. Even From th.at morning on we changed something else; you can get them at one good spell of exercise will some things at our house. I took time to any drugstore and they're within times save your trip. stay right then• in the play-yard for reason. When I see the comfortable new about three weeks. I saw that Beverly In the old days we picked up what cars I wish that I could have had one shared happily rather than grudgingly toys we could lay our hands on when when my children were little. What or not at all. I refereed the argu- we were ready to start and stuffed a difference it would have made! Kl T (J HEN - KLATTE R M A G A Z I N E, ,J U L Y, 1 9 4 0 FA GE 18 COOKING HELPS EMBARRASSING MOMENTS The mother of this family is dead (A gift of a Househo.Id Helps hook PEPPERMINT STICK ICE but the older girl of the home took to each one whose letter is used in CREAM.-Blend sweetened condensed over the job of home-making. On this this column.) milk with water. Chill. Whip cream particular day she was away and the to custard-like consistency and fo.td in father got the dinner. He couldn't find When cutting out .a dress, fold ma to the chilled mixture. Freeze to a lard in the pantcy so he went to terial inside out, lay th" pattern on stiff mush. Beat for two minutes and the basement for some to fry the po fold in crushed peppermint stick tatoes in. At the dinner table he re and mark .all perforations and notches with pencil or chalk. This is a big candy. Freeze again. marked those were the best fried po tatoes he had ever eaten, if he did help and time s.aver.-Mrs. Ray De Dip the ice cream out in round cook them himself. Well, when the Reus, Leighton, Iowa. dippers full. A ball of ice cream, two daughter came home that afternoon raisins for eyes, a currant for a nose, she said, "Dad, have you a cold, I I wonder how many have thought o.f red cherry for a mouth, a cooky f.or a see you brought up the skunk grease." turning the backs of mens shirts up hat, and presto! you have a f.ace that He looked stunned, but said, "Skunk side down, just with a plain seam on will delight the children. Serve on grease! Why, I thought that was lard, paper doily on a plate. and cooked potatoes in it." Well, you both sides and across the top and a hem .at the bottom. It's patched in a can imagine the rest, but he still says they were the best fried potatoes he hurry and lasts a long time.-Mrs . .Al bert 0. Hove, Rt. 5, Decorah, Iowa. DID YOU EVER HEAR OF had ever eaten.-Mrs. John Oppedol, NOODLE CUPS? After the noodle R 4, Webster City, Iowa. dough is rolled out very thin, fit For a firmer buttonhole mark thr around the outside of muffin tins. Let FROM MY LETTER BASKET place then stitch on each side of it dry 5 minutes. Place these in a drip with sewing machine, then work in ping pan and bake in a slow oven. As "Just a line to say I enjoy your pro usual manner. This is good for flan the shells bake, they curl from the gram .and Kitchen-Klatter is very wel nelette 01· goods that frays easily. edge. Serve the stew with meat and come every month. Just like a letter Mrs. Ernest Arp, Brunswick, Mo. v<>getables in these cups. These are fr.om home."-Mrs. H. Garrison, 2307 N. 65 Ave., Omaha, Nebr. nice to serve for a party or give the Keep a nut pick in your machine f.amily a tr.eat. "Please send me the Kitchen-KLatter drawer. The blunt end of it helps in for one year. I haven't had the turning .a narrow belt. The "pick" end Kitchen-Klatter for a long time. It is used in pulling out the corners after "I heard you tell about steaming sure is a g.ood little magazine. When the belt is turned.-Miss Arlene Endi brown bread in coffee or other nice we are going to have a p.arty, I always cott, Ridgeway, Mo. sized cans set in water, in a covered go to my Kitchen-Klatter for games r.oaster in the oven. Start in cold and help."-Mrs. Will Lutt, R-3, This is a way I use some of the water. I most generally steam two Wayne, Nebr. many little muslin sugar sacks we get. thirds of the time required and set I sew five together the long w.ay and out of roaster .and bake the other "I am returning the card with my feather stitch up each seam with color third."-Mrs. L. C. Corbin, Brooks, Ia. renewal for Kitchen-Klatter. I've al ed thread and sew up the ends to ways taken it, and think it's a won make slips for the ends of quilts and derful little magazine. I enjoy your comforters to keep them clean. 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Mc other like it."-Mrs. Martha Korth, 923 "Before shortening a coat with lin Naughton, Westfield, Iowa. Pawnee, Leavenworth, Kans. ing, first run a hasting thread about ten inches from the bottom all around. This will keep coat and lining all to KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE IS POPULAR gether. Then open the hem and cut off. No.w re-hem. This will keep the lining from sagging. If lengthening a More than 25,000 people read the Kitchen-Klatter Maga coat, this method is easier also.--Mrs. zine each month. Every issue contains practical recipes, Rny Dye, R 1, Sampsel, Mo. Ladies Aid helps, hobbies, besides many interesting articles, letters and pictures. Show this copy to your friends and ask When I make my house dresses to button down the front I use three them to send for the next issue. Better still, tell them to sub threads of six-strand floss for making scribe for a year (12 issues for $1.00) and g 0et 2 back numbers button holes as it makes a good stout free. button hole and thread can be match ed to color of dress material.-Mrs. LEANNA DRIFTMIER, Mark Southard, Buckner, Mo. Shenandoah, Iowa LISTEN TO KITCHEN-KLATTER 2 :00 P. M. OVER KMA PAOE H KT T (1 HEN - KLATTE R M A 0 A Z J N E, JU J, V, l 9 4 0 Our Hobby Club CLASSIFIED ADS WHAT HAVE YOU TO !'!ELL? (For Subscribers to the "Kltchen-Klatter Magazine") Make use of this ad column. Rate of 5¢ per word. Minimum charge 50¢. Payable in advance. CLEVER SEWINO BAGS. 50c. Pattern !" eluded. A fine gift item. A II money to go to Aid Society. Please 1nclur'le tor for postage and packing. Anna Herr, E11i•, Kans. SPECIAL--One of my 25c "King Com" recipe hooks for 10c PP. while they last. Many new ways to serve this healthful vegetabl•. Order soon. Mrs. M. Zeigler, George, IowR. SOMETIDNO NEW In hot pan holders! 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Settle of Rock Port, Mrs. Settle says that she doesn't (Sea Salt) $ .30 Missouri that were exhibited at the know of any better way to add zest BEAUTY SOAP (Carotene Oil) .50 Methodist church. Mrs. Settle's col and interest to daily living than by lection comprises 350 dolls and this developing a hobby. She especially re EVA HOPKINS CREME POWDER with sponge 1.00 certainly makes a big family. commends hobbies to middle-aged people who begin to feel that the zest MULTI-PURPOSE It would take a great deal of space in living is over, .and that they are on CLEANSING CREME .60 to tell you all about the different the last lap of life. She ·says that her All prices p.p. members of Mrs. Settle's doll family. dolls have brought her something One group is made up of coronation much better than themselves and the EVA HOPKINS dolls that commemorated the corona fun they represent, and that is the de Box 13 tion of King Geol'ge VI and Queen lightful contacts she is making Shenandoah, Iowa Elizabeth. There were dolls fr o m through them. France, Italy, Peru, Poland, Japan, China, the Riff, Guatemala and Peru. Everyone in Shenandoah enjoyed The Japanese group attracted a this wonderful display so much that gore.at deal of attention. Included in I thought perhaps other groups might this was a court lady playing with a like the opportunity of seeing it. Mrs·. poodle dog, and a lady riding in a Settle can be contacted at Rock Port, jinrikisha pulled by a coolie. There M'issouri, and if you are looking for a was a doll made from redwood trees, way to raise money for your club or one made entirely of corn shucks, and church organization you might get in several made by Mrs. Settle herself touch with her. Buttons - R. C. Brown, 409 E. Pros Crocheting - Mrs. Edith Moran, pect, Cameron, Mo. Woodburn, Ia. "Wbtr maps and etamps-Mrs. J. C. Evans, Deep River, Ia. Paper napkins-Eula Kenney, Kear Prints for quilts and handkerchiefs ney, Nebr. RFD 3. --~Mrs. Ollie Sebaugh, Marble Rock, Ia. Quilt patterns, souvenirs from var Scrapbook of people's pictures tak ious places", postcard views, pictures en with their hobbies. - Mrs. Ralph FAMILIAR CHARACTERS FOR of radio entertainers-Mrs. Geo. Lind Pae, Ames, Kansas. A CUTE SPREAD stedt, Marquette, Kans., RFD 1, Box Poems, flowers, cross-etitch em 179. broidery and crocheting-Mrs. Harry Heigh-a, the derry-oh-if it isn't The Vases of all kinds-Mrs. E. C. Todd, Berrier, Norborne, Mo. RFD 1. Farmer in the Dell. This beloved child East Leavenworth, Mo. hood character, his wife, their child, F1ower eeeds, bulbs, houseplants, Print quilt scraps and quilt patterns. the nurse, the farm produce and a crochet patterns, poems and recipes- Will exchange.-Josephine Smetanna, cunning horse and cart appear on a Mrs. Gust Berglund, Stratford, Ia. Hanover, Kansas. crib spread that is delightfully dif Buttons-Miss Signe Johnson, Lynn Flower vases-Miss Alma Miller, ferent. Applique these gay figures hurst Farm, Paton, Ia. Lake Benson, Minn., RFD 1. from the scrap bag, or if you wish, Novelty dogs, cats·, rabbits, dolls "I have a hobby of refinishing old embroider them. C9172, 10¢, brings Cordelia B. Rodgers, Paradise, Ks. furniture and collecting old clocks the NUMO hot iron transfer for Indian head pennies-Mrs. Ray Lin and chinaware. If some of the sisters stamping this crib quilt; C9172M, 35¢, coln, Malvern, Ia. Box 168. who have a hobby similar to mine will is fine white material in 36x42-inch Match covers and cook books-Mrs. teJI me where I can obtain articles of size, stamped ready to work. Send Velma Acton, 2320 S. 4th St., Saint this kind I should be very grateful." orders to Leanna Priftmier, Shenan Joseph, Mo. -Anna ·v. Willert, Eagle Grove, Ia. doah, Iowa.. KI TC RE N - KLATTE R M A G A Z I N E, J U J, Y, 1 9 f O PAGE lli THF. STORY OF THE PENCIT, Did you ever stop to wonder how we • THE KIDDIES' CORNER • happened to have pencils to write with? Or did you know that school childnm in past times ha.ve used many MR. BLACK RAVEN the beautiful snow white princesses. things with which to write their les From that day to this, the raven has sons because they didn't have pencil:; in those days? Let's go back many Long ye.ars ago when the world was had a black coat instead of the lov<'ly years and see what they did use. Some ll<'W, there lived high up in the moun white one he had when the world was tains of Switzerland, white ravens, for new. of them wrote on clay with sharp in those days all ravens were white And what became of the little lamb? sticks others carved on stone. In· inste!td of black .as they are now. The good Fairy God-Mother of all ani dians painted on skins. I am :rnrc if mals freed his wounded foot so that you stop to think a, minute you will In a nest high on •a rocky cliff over he could once more play in the i·pmemhcr hearing theee things beforr. looking a gra:;;sy meadow, lived a meadow among the yellow huttercups. Hut did you know that Japanese father and mother raven and their two children still write their letters with snow-white children. They were king a paint brush and ink? And not so and queen of all ravens, and so their STATE CONTEST long ago in this country school child two little ravens were princesses. i·en wrote on slates with slate pencils. Each morning the father, who was Some of these ways of writing were a large and be!Lutiful bird with sleek What state is the cleanest? Wash. very hard and slow. white feathers that shone like silver Is the most religious?-M.ass. When you know these things, it Never forgets itself?-Me. in the sun, flew down into the valley makes you feel very lucky, doesn't it, Saved Noah .and family?- Ark. in search o,f food for his family. Toads that you have such nice pencils Is a physician?-Md. and mice, bugs and snakes were his to write with in school. The long Is a grain? R. I. easy prey and considered delicate lead that runs through the pencil is morsels by the wife and children at Seems to be in poor health? Ill. Is an excJ,amation ?·-- 0. made of graphite. Now this graphite home in the nest high up on the rocky is ground into a deep iron pan which cliff. Is a parent?-Pa. Is to cut long grass?·---Mo. has holes the size of pencil lead all One morning father Raven left the Is a form of metal?-Ore. over the bottom of it. The dough is nest when the first rays of the morn Is .a number?-Tenn. pre;,sed down through these holes, ing sun spread a golden, misty blanket straightened out, and cut into pencil over the valley. Father Raiven was lengths. Then it is dried. The leads hungry and so was the Mother Raven PAPER CONTEST are glued between pieces of wood cut and so were the two little Princess the right shape for pencils, a1nd last of Ravens. a.II, these a.re painted, and erasers are As he soared over a green field he 1. What kind of p.aper is the most put on them. And this is the story saw a little white lamb struggling to religious ?-Sunday school paper. of the pencil you use in school every free itself from a trap which had been 2. Makes the best impression ?--Car day. set to catch a wolf that had been kill bon. ing a farmer's chickens. Instead of 3. Is the most progressive?-Build- LAZY DAYS helping this little lamb as he could ing. easily have done, King Raven sat down on a rock waiting for the lamb 4. A sign of mourning?-Crepe. In lots of ways to die, so that he might carry juicy 5. The most infirm?-Weekly. I sort of like them. bits of its fleS'h home. 6. Name of a famous street in New Thoughts I never knew I had How much easier, he thought, would York ?-Wall. Come poking out; and folks seem glad To say "hello". I gem this be. than hunting all morning in 7. The most extr.avagant?--Waste. the fields for toads and mice, and The hours with memories to keep. 8. Black and white and red .all over? It's good to lie .alone, to sleep snakes and bugs. He was indeed a -Newspaper. lucky bird. And w.ake again to talk with God. As he sat on the rock he oiled his 9. The most inspecting and inquir Lazy days ... beautiful white coat until It shone, ing?-Examination. I like them in just lots of ways and although the sun rose higher and 10. Soars in the air?-Fly. -Author Unknown. higher in the sky, and beat down hot 11. The most plucky or gritty?- ter upon the valley, not once did he Sand. leave the side of the poor little lamb 12. A reminder of bees?-Wax. who lay oulet and still upon the ground. looking at King Raven with 13. The most weblike?-Tissue. pleadin~ eyes·. If King Raven would 14. The most absorbing?-Blotting. heln him escape from this trap, he 15. The most neglected? -- Writing. would ask the good Fairy God-Mother of all animals to give him a long life and hanpiness. But even this promise IF I WERE MY MOTHER did not change the purpose of the wicked ra.ven. Suddenly, who should be standing If I were my mother I rarely would beside the little white lamb, but the make good Fairy God-Mother of all animals. Omelet, or parS'nips, or spinach, or "Look!" she S"aid to the raven. steak, "Your lovely white feafhers are turn Or carrots, or onions-for I'd rather ing black! You will now have not onlv bake "'' black heart but a black coat as well. Doughnuts and pudding and dump From this day on you shall be despis lings and cake. ed by all creatures. No matter where I'd not take the trouble to cut up a you may make your home, your life lot shall be in danger for men will hunt Of turnips-instead I'd make jam in you-to kill you." a pot, The frightened raven flew away to And fritters, and cookies, and pies his nest on the rocky cliff. He wept piping hot ••• bitterly for not only had hiS' coat of If I were my mother. Too bad that Richard J..owell Huff of Marysville, Kansas white feathers been changed to black, I'm not! will be three on July 15th. __ He looks all but also the feathers of his wife and -Aileen Fisher ready for hot weather. PAGE 16 K ITC RF, N - K J, AT T F, R M A G A Z I N .F;, ,J U J, Y, L 9 4 0 sertPd to stiffen up her back bone. At the conclusion of the operation the patient is carried from the table grnaning heavily, but with the chances f01· a good recovery as expressed by the surgeons to each other. This is an idPal stunt for . A stunt that never fails to creatP hi larious merriment is .an operation pe1· A CONTEST form.ed upon one member of the club Articles of Clothing· with nurses and doctors officiating in the m.ock surgical work. A large Iibrnry table is placed in 1. VVhRt a dog dOPS Rfter a h•OJrd r11n. pl.ain view of the entire audienc:<'. 2. vVhat Joe Louis gav.c Galcnto. Preferably it should be p!.