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Copyright 1940 by J,eanna Field Drlftmler SHENANDOAH, IOWA Price 10 cent1

Photo by Burdick THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL PA GE 2 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1940 begin to long to stay the hand of Time. Kitchen - Klatter "Perhaps that is why Mother clings so tightly to the last child and so often Ma2azine robs her or him of the liberty which LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER. Editor the others have enjoyed. And this LUCILE VERNESS. Associate Editor seems especially true in cases where DOROTHY D. JOHNSON, Associate Editor M. H. DRIFTMIER. Business Manager the husband has passed on. God gnant Subscription Price, $1.00 ppr yf":u (12 I may never be a woman of this cali­ isr-:nP.s) in U. S. A. ber, and that is why I am beginning 6 Months .50c (6 Issues) Foreign Countries, $1.50 per year now to fill my life full of the things Advertising rates made known on applt· which are worth while, and which per­ cation. haps-who knows?-may fill a very Entered as second clas!I matter May 21, 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandmth. Ia definite need in it some day." under the Act of March 3. 1879 I wanted to share this letter with you Puhllsh•ri Monthly by I.F.AN1'A FTELD DRTFTMIER because I feel that all of us mothers A Ll!lTTEB FROM LEANNA Shenandoah. Iowa have this very real and urgent situa­ tion to face sooner or later. If your Dear Friend: are zinnias. We have many rows of youngsters are little now you probably This is a letter to you , my good them in bloom, too. think that it will be yem:s and years friend and Kitchen-Kl.atter sister. I I surely apvreci:ated all the wonder­ and years before you have to see the hope this summer with all its heat and ful letters you girls wrote me this sum­ last one leave home, but oh! how fast storms has not been too hard on you. mer. You proved yourselves to be real those ye,ars go, faster than you young­ I'm always glad to see f.all come. Its friends. Come and see me if you are er mothers can ever believe. Yet I cool days are such a relief after the ever in Shenandoah. My latch string feel as Mrs. Duncomb does that we hot summer weather. is always out and I am generally at must give our children freedom to live This fall Donald goes away to school home. their own lives, for after all there for the first time. He has chosen Park This is a busy home. The Kitchen­ isn't a soul living who can see into the College, at Parkville, Mo., as his scho.ol, Klatter Magazine has grown to where future and how are we to know what and le.aves September 17th. For 25 I have to have four helpers on :part this trip or that chance at a job would years there has been a Driftmier in or full time. They are Helen Castle, mean to our son or daughter:? the Shenandoah schools, except for a Fern Schantz, Gertrude .Hayzlett and I know that when Frederick was try­ few years in Clarinda, Iow,a, and Cali­ Serena Ashenfelter. All but my part, ing to decide whether or not to go to fornia. Donald was the Last one to the editorial desk, is housed in an out­ Egypt I sometimes felt that I just finish. He graduated from the Shen­ side office which used to be a double couldn't keep silent when I thought andoah High School last spring. garage. My husband, who has had how far away it was, and what a Lucile and Russell have gone back years of office ,and executive exper­ great possibility there was of war. If to California. As much as we would ience, has taken over the responsibility I had said that I thought it wisest for have liked to have had them stay in o.f publication and mailing. This is a him not to g.o, he would have stayed, Shenandoah, they felt the "call of the big help to me, for the magazine circu­ but how can any mother Who really West" and left the last week in July. lation has grown so rapidly I could no loves her child say the few words that We hope the venture will prove suc­ longer look after this myself. With will make all the difference in the cessful. the children away so much, Mr. Drift­ world? We have not had a letter from miel' felt he should be at home as We simply have to know that God Frederick since his summer vacation much as possible, so the situation is never changes, and that all things began and he went to Alexiandria to ideal for both o.f us. We are both busy work out for the best regardless of do Y.M.C.A. work in the British army. and enj,oy our work, together. how ill~advised they may seem at the Because no mail can come to America Well, I've rambled on, longer than moment. by way of the Mediterranean Sea, it I intended to, but must say goodbye I know that we have all had the ex­ will take his letters twice as long or now. Write to me this month, will perience of claiming at least one friend almost two months to reach us. There you, please- I'll be looking for your who feels bitterly th:at his or her entire is very strict censorship and no doubt letter. life has been blighted by too much he has written so freely of military Sincerely your friend, selfish concern on the parents' part. affairs that his letters have been held -Leanna "If they had only let me go that time in Egypt. We will feel like putting I had the chance!" one says. And up the flag when we do get a letter When Mrs. Duncomb sent in her another says, "If mother only hadn't from him. article about house plants, she also stood in my way when Ernest and I Many of you mothers have sons who enclosed a poem that I think you will wanted to marry that summer he got are joining the army or the navy. I enjoy. And because her letter is so a job in Oregon and begged me to go 1'now how hard it is to give our chil­ full of good, common sense that all of with him." Lives twisted and happi­ dren up for a time but we must not us mothers should heed, I am copying ness ruined - that's what happens let them know our heartache. It is a part of it too. when we let our wishes for our chil­ our part to send them on their way "You held me helpless, warm against dren and our ideas of what they with a smile and a happy goodbye. your heart, should do, interfere with the things (The tears c:an come after they are And then, when old and grey, that they really want to do. too f.ar away to see them.) We know And when you needed me the most No, let us give our children every op­ the same God who watches over them You let me go my way portunity they need to try their own when they are near us, is watching Knowing that cords which bind wings. And furthermore, let's see them over them where ever they may be. Can hateful grow, g.o happily; we can let them go and I sigh sometimes to see thy face But love's sweet liberty does evermore still spoil their pleasure by looking But since this cannot be, Draw like a magnet's glow." desolate and bereft. This month marks I'll leave thee to the care of Him Mary Duncomb a time when many of us will see our Who cares for thee and me. "I know that you feel the same way youngest go away to school (you "I'll keep you both beneath My wings" about your children, Leanna, and I mothers who start your baby to kin­ This comforts, dear; admire you for your pluck and courage dergarten are getting a taste of this) One wing o'er thee and one o'er me, in not holding them tight to you. Some or to a job in a distant place. Let us Will keep us near. never can understand this, can they? remember every hour of the day that -Anon. As each child leaves us and we have often the strongest cords of love and I hope all of you had as nice gladio­ to grow used to setting one place less devotion are being built when to all lus as I did. We picked them as fast at the table, remember it was the ab­ outward purposes they are being as they blossomed and brought them in sent one wh<.J was so fond of the broken. This sounds like a paradox, the house. They made such lovely especial dish Y.'e will no longer have to but it is more true than we can bouquets, and bloom so long, in the make, a feeling of desolation creeps imagine. -Leanna house. My husband's favorite flowers into our very heart and SQl}.11 ~nd we K I T C H E N - K L A T T E R M A G A Z I N E, S E P T E M R E R, l 9 4 0 PAGE WINTERING HOUSE PLANTS By Mrs. R. J. Duncomb,

When the children go back to school our thoughts turn to the winter care of our house pl.ants, for plants are like children and also have to learn to adapt themselves to changed condi­ tions. They oan no longer spend most of their time freely out of doors, but must be subjected to a more limited mode of living. The first plant to come indoors will be the poinsettia which should have been growing fr:eely out of doors in its sunken pot of soil. Frost m.ay in­ jure its beautiful leaves, so we must take no chances in hurrying it inside. Geraniums are also easily damaged by a sudden frost, so they must be prun­ ed back and carefully lifted with a ball of moist soil around their roots. If we have been wise we have 1>tarted some young slips back In August for These two illustrations used by Mrs. Fischer were pictures taken by Miss Genevieve Eckberg, winter bloom also, but the chances are of Dana, Iowa, t-0 illustrate one of her 4-H projects. that we will want to keep the old plant to use for cuttings in spring, The pictures this month tell their in a flower pot by September 15 will even if it will not bloom as readily as the younger cuttings. story so well that I hardly need to bloom for you by Thanksgiving. write anything additional! Early September is a fine time to Foliage plants are often best carried over by taking cuttings of them and Maybe you think that there is no transplant young per en n i a 1 s into keeping them in a gLass of water un­ trash in your yard, but look again. It places where needed in your borders. is surprising how blind we become to Many of us are preparing "Planted til they have root. The more colorful ones will make a very cheerful window things which we are used to seeing. Pictures" for next spring by grouping display, especially the one called Blood You may not have broken toys and tin together plants that bloom at the same leaf which is not really a foliage plant cans in your yard, but are you sure time and look well together. but of a different f.amily. Its bright there are no dead tr~es, or dead limbs With our pink Oriental Poppies we red leaves never fade or look shabby, on your bushes, or ripened tops on are putting white lavender, Sweet and will add color to the green of the your perennials. A dead plant in a Rocket and rosy purple iris. yard is ,almost as unsightly as a dead With red Oriental Poppies use the ferns. cat would be. early Shasta Daisies and soft yellow The amaryllis which has been kept Lemon Lilies. growing in its pot, may now take a A yard that is in perfect order With yellow Allysum Saxatile use rest. Its leaves will gradually turn ceases to be an eye-sore, but to make the dwarf blue or yellow iris. yellow, and this is the signal that it it an eye-joy we must add flowers or Since it may be hard to get tulip needs a rest. Water is withheld gradu­ vines. I have seen tiny homes that bulbs this fall we are leaning more ally until the plant is bone dry. In fairly s.ang of happiness because of and more on dwarf iris for vivid color January it should be well soaked and carefully tended plantings, and I have in April and early May. They are brought back to live with the other seen large expensive houses that gave such sturdy, generous little things plants again. a feeling of depression because of their soon spreading into masses for our absence. Fall is a good time to repot the be­ own use or to share with others. They gonias, adding fresh, rich soil. Pe­ Flowers respond to loving hands and come now in all of the colors found tunias may be brought inside, and a where love is, joy is. When you ten­ in the tall bearded iris. few other annuals as well; however, derly care for your plants and study Fall is a fine time to plant all iris annuals have a tendency to become their needs you forget yourself and and especially the "beardless" ones. ridden with pests. The blue Ageratum your troubles and fears. Maybe that These slender aristocrats are getting is one that does well in the window. is why flowers were given to us. more and mor:e popular, coming as Choose a small, well-budded plant, One of the vines in this picture they do a little later than the bearded and discard it when its mission is over. seems to be Heavenly Blue morning ones and being more graceful. Dorothy When lifting plants in the autumn, glory. It will be in full bloom about K. Williamson ,and Blue Charm are my keep them in a cool, rather dimly the time the September Kitchen-Klat­ favorites among the newer ones but lighted basement until the shock of ter reaches you. No other flower Snow Queen will never be surpassed transplanting is over. Then bring to furnishes such a wide expanse of sky for a Memorial D.ay iris. the sunny window gradually. blue~and one seed will make enough In a troubled world the very least vine to cover an entire porch. Plan that you can do is to so care for your Choose clean tin cans or well-washed right now to have it on your porch or yard that it will assure the passer-by pots for containers. Either of these back fence next year, and do not for­ that in one more spot love and happi- may be painted some pleasing color. get that it will bloom beautifully in ness dwell. The pots should be well-soaked, if new. your window all winter. Seeds planted -Helen Fischer Mix a quantity of good garden soil, fine sand, and a little rich fertilizer together before beginning to pot up Dear Lord, I'm just an ordinary here this afternoon - and I haven't the plants and the work will be much woman with a mean spirit today. time to get ready for them when I easier. Be sure that the containers Things haven't gone right from the should be doing the ironing and mend­ have drainage in the soil. Try to time I got up. ing for the children. make the plant look symetrical and put You know dear Lord, how the chil­ Dear Lord, what am I to do it in the middle of the pot. dren fussed at me because their school And the Lord said to me- Be kind to your plants, and con­ lunches weren't the kind they wanted. "Be still-hush thy fretting. Know­ sider the changed conditions under But dear Lord what else could I give est thou not that it is through trial which they must pass the winter. Be­ them? It was all I had- and tribulations that thou growest in gin early to accustom them gradually And then my husband complained grace?" to the change they will have to make, about the coffee-and the chickens got And I knelt in quiet meditation­ and they will help you pass the loni;:­ into the flower beds-and the Woman's and peace and happineSs soon filled winter days until spring comes on Missionary Society is going to meet my souL-Selected, again. PAGE 4 K I T C H E N - K L A T T E R M A G A Z I N E, S E P T E M B E R, 1 9 ( O brilliantly written article called "Corn The Story of My Life Village" by a writer named Meridel LeSueur. I had never he9.rd that name (At the request of my friends I am before, but something about the article writing this brief story.) haunted me and I couldn't put it out of my mind. Several months later I CHAPTEH 25 did something that I had never done before and that I have done only once Well, Frederick returned from the or twice since: I sat down and wrote hospital once more without having had a letter to this person whom I didn't an ope1,ation, and Dorothy returned know, stating how very much I had en­ from Chadron a short time later. The joyed "Corn Village." Since I had no doctor h'.!!d said she must have fresh idea where this writer named Meridel air, rest and food, so we had started Lesueur lived, all I could do was send work on a sleeping porch that was to the letter to Scribners in New York be her bedroom. At the same time and ask that it be forwarded. this building was being done we had About two weeks 19.ter I received a some changes m'ade upstairs that wonderfully warm and friendly letter would make it easier to care for Doro­ from my unknown author, and thus thy, and since the work w.as rushed began a correspondence that led to through it was just no time before the many other things. When I finished porch w.as done and she had moved out the school year at Maryville I didn't on it. know what I wanted to do with my­ When she first went to bed the doc­ self exactly, but for the first time I tor said that he thought six months began to think that I might like to would do the trick, and of course that write. · seemed like the reEt of Dorothy's life Probably I said something to this to her when she thought of spending a effect in my correspondence, for I.hat whole half-year f1at on her back. But £Ummer came an invitation from Meri­ my, how quickly the time passed. Her del to live with her in Minneapolis. friends were all so good to her. One She was very well known in the Twin girl who is now one of the head nurses Cities, and taught some highly guc­ in a big Chicago hospital never missed cessful classes in the short story. If coming to see Dorothy every single I wanted to write, she said, why not day that she was in bed. Almost every This picture was taken July 23, 1931. Being come and live with her and attend in a. '\Vheel chair doe:s not seem to affect my these classes? In exchange for her afternoon you could find two or three appetitft for melon. girls sitting upstairs on the porch, and assistance with my writing, I could taking everything together, the time help her look after Rachel and De­ passed quickly and soon the summer from the program at the church and borah, her two little daughters .:i,ged was gone. were just ready to have our tree that four and five. I remembered those lamps in the During the winters they lived in I was broadcasting through ,all of Minneapolis, but throughout the sum­ these weeks, and perhaps some of you basement. "Hurry down and get them, Fred­ mer months they lived in a cabin on remember hearing me tell about these the St. Croix River in ·wisconsin. I things. I generally used to talk from erick," I said, "and if you slip up with them quietly you can get them under wasn't at all sure that I'd get along 1:30 to 2:00, and then I went upstairs with these little girls whom I'd never to visit with Dorothy until 5:00 or the tree While Lucile and Margery are in the kitchen fixing our plates of met, but when their mother sent me 5:30. She could hardly wait until she pictures of them and I saw how cun­ was able to get out in the car again, cookies and candy. They'll never know that I almost forgot their most im­ ning and winning they were, I wonder­ and one warm evening in October we ed why I had hesitated. let her get up long enough to go out portant present." Well, he ran to do as I said, and the Needless to s9.y it was quite an ex­ in the oar and take a short ride. At perience to get off the train in Minne­ first she was only up a short time next thing we knew there was one awful bump after another, a wild apolis and meet Meridel for the first every day, but gradually the doctor time. From the moment we laid eyes increased the time she could be up shrieking, and a crash! Everyone dash­ ed to the top of the basement steps on each other we became steadfast and by Christmas she was putting in a friends for life. She was exactly the full day downstairs. For the next and looked in horror at Frederick who was stretched out on Ute floor half­ person I thought she would be. And year she had to be very careful about Rachel and Deborah were the most under the steps with a lamp shad·~ on getting a great deal of sleep and not char.ming children imaginable. I used exercising too hard, but by the time his head. He had gotten a very bad bruising from falling headlong down to have a book full of the things they she was ready to fa.ke a newspaper said and did, and I only wish I could job here in Shenandoah she looked as the entire flight, and needless to say there wasn't enough of the lamps left write some extracts from it here. healthy as the day w;as long and had vVe stayed out on the river until made a complete recovery. to think of trying to mend. We didn't October, and then moved into the city. Lucile went to Maryville, Mo. that care about those lamps, but it was surely a shame that Frederick got All of the writers, artists, and musi­ fall to take her third year of college cians of Minneapolis and St. Paul were work at the Northwest Missouri Stat" such a fall on Christm.as Eve of all nights. guests in the LeSueur home, and in Teachers' Golle"ge where Margery i~ a short time I had made friends who now a student. She came home for When school was out in May I start­ are still deai: to me today eight years weekends occasionally, and all of us ed helping Lucile sew, for she had de­ later. I went to the classes in short were here for Christmas when the cided to go to Minneapolis. Since the story writing and absorbed every bit holidays rolled around again. circumstances that made her arrive at of it, although I didn't try to write One thing that happened on Christ­ this decision were so unusual, I have anything myself until the next sum­ mas Eve remains in my mind. In the asked her to tell you why it was tl:at mer. Both Rachel and Debor.ah were early p.art of December I had ordered she went to Minnesota to live. in a nursery school all day during the a pair of twin J,amps for the dressing winter months, and I had a great deal table in Lucile's and Margery's room. Mother thought that perhaps you'd of freedom and a chance to go to con­ I thought that the safest place for be interested in hearing how I hap­ certs, the Art Institute, etc. Although them was the basement, so I had pened to go to Minneapolis to live, so I made many trips away from Minne­ Howard take them down right after I am glad to write this part of the apolis during the next eight years, it they oame and put them J)ar back on story for her. has come to seem like home to me for the shelf. Then in all of the excite­ One .afternoon in the late summer of most of my friends were there, and I ment of Christmas activity I complete­ 1931 I had gone to the library to read, knew all of the city so well. ly forgot that they were down there, and while I was leafing through Scrib­ and it wasn't until we had returned ners Magazine I came across ,a very ah, Iowa mid• in Egypt. -Mary E. B. Rock PAGE 8 KITCHJllN-KJ,ATTER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1940 BEAUTY IDNTS By Eva Hopkins From Letter Basket Nobody has ever been able to figure My out why, but it does seem that invar­ iably a skin blemish I which has been We took the varnish off our Whole "I use home-made soap in my wash­ nothing at all for house, by using Gold Dust. We made ing machine, and I have found that a days, will just sud­ it into a thin paste with cold water, teaspoon of bath salts added to the denly pop into sight spread it on with an ordinary scrub suds leaves the clothes ever so nice about two hours be­ brush, being careful not to cover too smelling."-Mrs. J. F., Prescott, Ia. fore the best party much space at once or to let the sioap of the season. mixture run down, as it will streak. A very good idea for doing your own At times like this, When the varnish was loosened, we repair work came from Mrs. E. A. a cover-up prepara­ washed it off with a cloth. On some Mitchell of Friend, Nebraska. "About ti.on is a real neces­ stubborn spots, we used the steel end five years ago the drain pipe from the sity. By all means of a combination steel and bristle sink sprang a leak about two or three do not pinch or brush.-Topek.a, Kansas. inches above the floor. I took a piece otherwise irritate of inner tube and tied it around very the pimple and run Mrs. N. C. Loop, Cherokee, Iowa firm; then I wrapped the tube around the risk of making sends a hint for making at home a and around with an old typewriter an abrasion in the "frog" for flower vases. Melt paraf­ ribbon, and when this was on I paint­ Eva Hopkins skin. Simply take fin and mold to any shape or size to ed the entire thing with aluminum your favorite cover­ fit your vace. Punch full of holes while paint. This piece of repair work last­ all film-creme powder-use it accord­ it is still warm, or heat the tool (a nail ed for five years, and the other day ing to the directions, and there you or ice pick) to be used. The paraffin when it sprung a little leak it was the are. floats and this lets the stems go into first trouble it had given in all that If the bump still seems pretty con­ the water and the flowers stay fresh time. I put on some adhesive tape, spicuous to you, console yourself with longer. In changing water, the frogs painted ,again, and now it's all right." the thot that no blemish ever is as may be removed without disarranging (Editor's note: I think that Mrs. noticeable to others as to the person the flowers. Mitchell deserves an orchid for being on whose face it is. When you are in need of a cork, hold so ingenious.) a piece of paraffin under hot water Of course if the pimple shows a head, my favorite for these external blem­ until soft enough to roll into a ball. "Take a fruit jar and pour some Mold it to fit the neck of bottle, and furniture oil in it, then put in your ishes is a good medicated soap. It seems to just dry them up, when I turn the edges over the top to make it dust cloth. Keep rolling the jar, and air tight. the cloth will absorb the oil. Keep wash thoroughly with it and then leave some lather on over night to be re­ Here is a party idea: dip the feet your dust cloth in jar when you get of animal cookies in stiff frosting and through dusting." (Note: Use only moved in the morning. stand on fLat sweet wafers. These about a teaspoon of the oil.)-Mabel Improper elimination is the cause make an amusing procession around a Ne.adermiller, Yarrow, Mo. of some facial blemishes, so that too birthday cake or cunning place favors. must be considered. But there is al­ "Artgum will take fingermarks off ways this thot in the background, and To remove grease spots on wall of lampshades that cannot be washed." that is-Always remove your makeup paper, make a paste of cornstarch and -Mrs. Clara Fanders, Beatrice, Nebr. at night, no matter how tired you are, gasoline. Spread over the grease spot. so that the pores are opened and they Let remain until thor.oughly dry, then T.o brighten bronze light fixtures, can breathe, so to speak. Good old soap and water is best for this; then brush off. If the spot is very large use fine steel wool and soap suds. It and maybe has been there some time, will make them look like new. perhaps a good cleansing creme, if you may need to make the second "To fill the wide cracks in the floor, your skin is dry. Help supply the oils application. This works perfectly. - mix clean sawdust with any good that the weathering of the day has Mrs. Ruth M. Bain, Elk Creek, Nebr. quick drying varnish to make a paste. drawn from the skin. Fill the cracks. When perfectly dry, September and school days! If you sandpaper to level with floor, then "Slip a piece of waxed paper over want to make a hit with your friends, varnish or paint. - Mrs. Charles Greif, watch your personal appearance. Com­ the handle of the egg beater and down Dallas Center, Ia. around the bowl in which you are plexion, hair and cleanliness go much beating whipping cream. It pr.events farther than expensive clothes in mak­ To clean milk bottles, put one-half ing friends. spattering." teaspoon of salt and a little water in The money you make "When flouring chicken to fry, put the bottle, shake well and rinse. The in a paper sack and proceed as sugar­ bottle will be left clean and shining. And the money you spend ing doughnuts. It saves washing a pan. To clear the house of cooking odors, And the money you hoard When measuring shortening, f i 11 slowly burn a piece of orange skin on To the bitter end, measuring cup partly full of water, top of the stove. This purifies the as, for 1/3 cup shortening put 2/3 cup Can never pile high ai~ ' Or root so deep, water then add shortening until water Sprinkle a little borax in fruit jars r.eaches top of cup. before storing them, to keep them As the friends you make For greasing cake pan, mix in a cup sweet and fresh. And the friends you keep. some soft lard (or substitute) and Refrigerator trays will slide out flour until consistency of thick cream. much easier if a piece of waxed paper Then paint pan with this mixture. is slipped under them. This will keep quite ,awhile if not too Cut flowers will last much longer if much is mixed at once. It works you put them in a tall vase with water beautifully." - Mrs. Chas. Woodruff, reaching almost to the tops, before Ulysses, Nebr. you go to bed at night. A small quan­ tity of salt also aids in keeping them "Inclosed l':OU will find one dollar fresh. - Mrs. Reuben Kaestner, La­ for my renewal for another year of moni, Iowa. your Kitchen-Klatter Magazine. I do not want to miss a single copy if I "I read it (Kitchen-Klatter) from can help it. I enjoy every copy and cover to cover and then some of it read it from cover to cover, and over again. How we love to read Fred­ again."-Mary Eben, 614 Court St., erick's letters and your life story."­ 'fhe recently remodeled kitchen of Mrs. J. H. Adel, Iowa. Mrs. Fred Greiman. Jones, Richland, Iowa. K 1 '1' C H .I!: N - K L A T TE R M A G A Z I N E, S E P T E M B E R, 1 9 4 0 PAGE 4-H CLUB LETTER HEALTH HINTS By Helen Loudon By Mrs. Walt Pitzer

The Local Achievement Show is My Dear Kitchen-Klatter Friends: past. I couldn't go this year, but I surely do enjoy hearing fr.om you Phyllis and her father went, and had again. Thanks for the suggestions a fine time, too; and they told the rest and questions. I was surprised that so of us all about it. Probably these are many recalled our visits when I was much the same the country over; but broadcasting the Health and Diet to each of us our own is new and Helps. thrilling. It is surprising how many are hav·­ The Farm Bureau meeting and the ing trouble with that excess baggage Local Achievement Show wer.e held at around the waist. We will see what the same time, so there was a. large can be done about it. I will answer gathering. A "community sing" had sor.:rn of your questions today, but first been planned, but the pianist was un­ "J,et's Give the School Child a Break." able to attend, so the girls sang "God The child from the first six weeks Bless America", and "I'm Looking of kindergarten to high school needs Ov.er a Four Leaf Clover." The special c.are and consideration by par­ County Agent and the leader of the ents and teachers. boy's club each gave a talk; this was He is going through a strenuous and followed by a demonstration on exciting stage, trying to adjust him­ blouses. self to ·a new situation after the care­ free unsystematic vacation. Then came the Style Show. The There are so many adjustments to girls modeled the dresses they had make that life is a muddle to him, made. After this the judges looked with trying to concentrate on studies, over all the garments the girls had Rex, the cocker spamel at the o. H. Huyek being quiet for hours, and making new home at Newhall, Iowa. Ile looks llke a twin made, and decided which ones should friends. to my dog, Busty. be sent to the County Achie.vement There is often a subconscious re­ Show. sentment of the power the teacher Two girls conducted a "radio quiz", gage suggestions next month. holds over him. Flaxseed is not an active laxative and asked people funny questions. This On reaching home, if a sandwich, was lots of fun. but produces slow but lasting results gLass of milk, or lemon egg nog Is if taken regularly. Swallow whole­ The refreshment plan they use is so served to him with mother's smile, do not chew it. good that I am passing it on to the then life seems more normal.. rest of you. The Farm Bureau brings Children and often parents do not Mulberries contain the same vita­ the ice cream; each 4-H girl brings a realize the fist fight is often nature's mins found in raspberries, and fewer cake. Ten cents is charged each per­ way of releasing pent up energy. seeds that constipate and bloat us. son for a generous slice of cake and If parents can have unlimited pa­ As watermelon is such a wonderful three (count 'em) dips of ice cream. tience and common sense in dealing system cleanser try eating it on an This small charge not only pays for with the child until he is again adjust­ empty stomach with a little salt, then the cost of the ice cream but leaves ed to school life there may be physical I think you will avoid the trouble it a small sum in the treasury as well. troubles avoided later. The nerv.ous, gives you-bloating the abdomen. Our girls are very fortunate; the sensitive cAild often develops sore Club owns pinking shears. The cut­ throats and bilious attacks. Cucumber is a neglected vegetable. ting out is all done with these and Now for a little help with some It contains calcium and vitamins that there are no unfinished seams, no questions you have asked. our systems need. Use the green peel­ ing. If they are a little tough, grind :11ave!ing, no pulling out along seams. One good authority advises sleeping But here's a word of warning-if you on the back without a pillow as one of them. Use in salads. If the family ever use them, nothing else will ever his instructions for reducing the ab­ cringes, disguise them in meat loaf or satisfy you! domen. It's a great help if you have other foods. What they do not know the stick-to-it-iveness to do it. I about, they may enjoy. For other work, Phyllis uses her own haven't. shears which were made especially for Another suggestion is to eat nothing (Editor's Note: Questions to be an­ a left-handed person. I wish every swered in this column should be ad­ after 3 P. M. (I know that works.) left-handed girl could have a pair of I will answer some other questions dressed to Health Hints, Kitchen­ these. This rigflt-handed world needs now and we will have some more Bag- Klatter Magazine, Shenandoah, Ia.) to manufactu:re more tools for the one person in seven who is left.Jianded. Next year the girls will study foods. This should be interesting, but if it is half as much fun as the two years' sewing has been, I shall be very much gratified. I honestly believe that the "School Days Ahead" girls have learned as much in this work as our Home Economics class in college learned in a year. At first, mean Phyllis had to ask me what to do next, every few minutes. Now I scarcely know wh.at she is making. This after­ INCREASED DEMANDS noon she cut out a play suit from a checked gingham dress that was too large for me; she used a newspaper For PLENTY of GOOD LIGHT pattern that she had "cut off" from a pattern belonging to a girl friend. Check Your Lighting Needs I don't know what the play suit is supposed to look like when it is com­ Now - Order New Bulbs. pleted, but Phyllis does. Well, there's another milestone she has passed on her road to becoming a useful, well-balanced w,oman. I am Iowa .. Nebraska Light t1 Power Co. very grateful that she has had the BETTER LIGHT-BETTER SIGHT opportunity to learn so much in so pleasant a way. PA GE 8 K I T c H E N - K L A •r T E R M A a A z I N E, s E p T E M B E R, 1 9 " 0 SOUR CRF;AM DELICATE CAKE

3 egg Whites 1 cup· thick sour cream "Recipes Tested 1h cup cold water 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 ~ii cups sugar in the 2 cups cake flour 1,4 teaspoon soda 2 teaspoons baking powder Kitchen Klatter Sift flour· and measure. Mix all dry ingredients together and sift three times. Beat egg whites until they hold Kitchen'' a peak. Beat cream till thick. Add egg whites and mix well. Add water By LEANNA DRIFTMIER and vanilla. Mix again. Add dry in­ gredients all at once, beat until smooth. Bake in moderate oven in loaf GRAHAM ICE BOX ROLLS DESSERT about 25 to 30 minutes. -· Mrs. Will Ostmeyer, Dakota City, Nebr. 1 2 cups scalded milk h pound vanilla wafers, rolled 'h cup sugar 'h c. or more nut meats, cut up J,ADY BALTIMORI<: PINEAPPLE % cup shortening 'h pint whipped cream CAKE 1 tablespoon salt 1 sc,ant c. powdered sugar 2 cakes compressed yeast Y,, scant c. butter 'h cup butter 2 eggs, beaten 11h cups sugar ~i. cup lukewarm water 2 eggs 1 medium can crushed pineapple, 3 cups flour 5 cups white flour drained 1 cup· cold water 2 cups graham flour Butter pan ,and spread 'h or more 3 teaspoons baking powder crumbs over bottom. Cream butter 1 teaspoon vanilla Soften the yeast in the lukewarm and powdered sugar, add beaten eggs. 4 egg white beaten stiff water. Add milk, sugar, salt, part of Spread over crumbs in pan then Cream butter and sugar. Add flour the white flour. Beat well, then add spread pineapple, then whipped cream and water alternately, adding baking sho1:tening, beaten eggs, graham flour with nuts added. Cover with remain­ powder with last cup of flour. Add and the rest of white flour. Let rise ing crumbs. Keep cold over night or vanilla. Fold in egg whites. Pour in­ until double in bulk. You may make a few hours. Cut in squares. Serves to three 8-inch square pans and bake into rolls immediately or cover and set 9 or 10.-Mrs. Lloyd Harris, R2, At­ in moderate oven (350°) 30 minutes. in the refrigerator several days before lantic, Iowa. using.-Vera Noble, Austin, Minn. FILLING FOR CAKE LUNCHEON SANDWICHES WESTERN SPAGHETTI 2 egg yolks beaten Buy a loaf of fresh sliced sandwich 14 cup sugar 1 'h pounds round beef, cubed bread and one can of asparagus tips. 2 tablespoons cornstarch 5 c. tomato juice To make the sandwiches, take one 'h cup pineapple juice 2 c. water slice of bread, trim the edges off, then 1;,, cup crushed pineapple 1h c. thinly sliced onion spread thinly with butter. Roll one i;,, cup chopped nut meats 'h c. sliced stuffed olives asparagus tip in the slice of bread and Combine egg yolks, sugar, corn­ l'h c. uncooked spaghetti fasten with a toothpick. Roll in melt­ starch and pineapple juice in top of 1 tsp. salt ed butter. After you have made as double boiler and cook until thick, 1,8 tsp. pepper many as you need, put them on the stirring frequently. Cool and add pine­ 2 c. cubed American cheese broiler tray in your oven, and brown apple and nuts. Spread between layers Brown beef in Dutch oven. Add to­ delicately. Serve while hot. These are of cake. Spread top with 7-minute mato juice and water, simmer, covered, especially good to serve with a salad, frosting. (It's de!icious.)-Mrs. Albert for 15 minutes. Add all but cheese and or for luncheon sandwiches. -- Mrs. Bertelsen, Rl, Honey Creek, Iowa. cook over very low heat, covered, un­ Mack Patterson, Powell, Wyo. til spaghetti is done. Will take about The Kitchen-Klatter circle is growing 30 minutes. Add cheese ,and toss to CHINESE MEAT BALLS steadily. More than 30,000 read the blend.-Martha Wingert, Dallas Cen­ 1 pound hamburger magazine every month. ter, Iowa. 'h cup rice 1 can tomato soup GRAPE NUT COOKIES DeLUX 'h pound sausage New! Different Cleaner! 'h cup crumbs 21,! cups sifted cake flour 2 eggs 1 teaspoon soda 1 onion 'h teaspoon salt Mix meat, rice, crumbs, onion, 'h cup butter seasoning and beaten eggs. Roll in ~rfe~1,. 1 cup sugar balls and flour. Drop in the can of 1 well beaten egg tomato soup mixed with 2 cups water. e Guaranteed for 'f11£::~;.::::!'!==~ ';{: cup grape nuts Cook slowly 45 minutes.---Arlene Endi­ d re s s e s, suits, • ~ woodwork, rugs, -~ %, cup sour milk cott, Ridgeway, Mo. upholstery. Odor- • ·-·-- 1 teaspoon vanilla less - non-explo- -' aive. Hurts on I y 'h cup sugar BAKED CORN dirt. i'nu1li1I 1 tablespoon cinnamon 1 tblsp. butter blended with -..::-. =--- Sift flour once, measure, add soda 2 tblsp. flour - ·-L•• c~-~ and salt and sift ag,ain. Cream butter 1 c. milk 25c and sugar till fluffy. Add egg and 1 can corn grapenuts, then flour and milk. Chill 1 tblsp. sugar MAKES 20 GAL. CLEANING FLUID dough until firm. Roll on a well­ %tsp. salt Ask Your Grocer floured board to % inch thick. Cut 1/3 tsp. pepper with floured cutter. Mix the 1h cup 2 egg yolks · or write sugar and the cinnamon and sprinkle Last, fold in 2 egg whites. on top of cookies. Bake in hot oven Mix in order given and put in butter­ (4000) for 6 min. Very Good.-Elvira ed baking dish and bake about 45 <'/lie P~~ e~ Unverferth, B. 65, Meservey, Iowa. minutes.-Mrs. C. Bird. Box 34. Shenandoah, Iowa K I T C H E N - K LA T T E R M A G A Z I N E, S E P T E M B E R, 1 9 4 O PAO~ 9 SPICED COFFEE SQUARES COOKING HINTS COCOA BREAD

1;\, cup butter or margarine Here is a little help I have w.orked 1 cup sugar 14 cup cocoa out to get a more delicate flavored % cup· sugar 2 eggs, beaten white cake, also a fine grained one. 1,, cup molaeses 112 te.aspoon s.alt When making the white cake on the 1 cup milk 2 cups flour Swans Down cake box, I leave the 1 tablespoon cornstarch 3 tablespoons shortening eggs unbeaten and stir them in all at 1 yeast cake 2 te.aspoons baking powder once at last. I do not mix the baking 1 % teaspoons cinnamon 14 cup lukewarm water powder with the flour, for I always About 3% cups bread flour 14 teaspoon each salt, cloves and have a coarsei: oake then, but put the nutmeg baking powder on the unbe.aten eggs Mix cocoa, sugar and salt, Add the % teaspoon ginger and stir all just enough to mix. This milk which has been scalded and the % te.aspoon allspice saves work and dirty dishes, and I sho1'tening. Let stand until l~kewarm, 6 tablespoons strong coffee infusion have better success. Do all the hard then add the yeast which has been Cream butter and sugar, add eggs beating first.-Mrs. Frank J. Jones, softened in warm water. Add enough and molasses. Mix thoroughly the Tarkio, Mo. flour to make a dough which can be flour, cornstarch, spices and baking handled and knead until smooth and powder, and sift. Add alternately with elastic. Let rise until double in bulk. coffee to first mixture. Pour into well To keep tomato soup from curdling, Cut down and knead again. Shape oiled shallow pan. Bake in moderate mix the tomatoes and milk while cold. into a loaf, place in greased pan and oven about 25 minutes. Cool. Cut in Then heat till it is hot, but not boiling. let rise until doubled again. Bake in squares. Dates cut fine, or nuts m.ay -Mrs. Edward Hronik, Wilber, Nebr. moderate oven (3300) 1 hour. % cup be added for a change.-Mrs. Benj. C. nutmeats may be added at the second Offer, Sprague, Nebr. kneading.-Mrs. Geo. W. Jensen, Coun­ To prepare cocoanut for cookies, cil Bluffs, Iowa. CANNED SWEET RED PEPPERS mac.aroons, toppings and many other (PIMENTOES) uses, grind it through the small plates of food grinder. I always grind a Wash and dry. Cut out stem and pound at a time, then it is ready to remove seeds. Cut into thin strips or toast, color or use as it is. It keeps into long ribbons, working around and moist and fresh in a fruit jar.-Mrs. around the pepper. Cut with the Joseph T. Stanek, R 1, Ft. Dodge, la. scissors. Scald well and then drop in­ to ice water and cracked ice to make Lemon pies will never be bitter be­ crisp. D1'.ain well. Make a syrup of 2 cause of using the lemon rind, if you cups of sugar and 1 of vinegar. Put are careful not to get any of the white the peppers into jars, fill to overflow­ of the lemon in with the grated rind. ing with hot syrup. Seal and keep· in It is the white that makes it bitter. cool place. These are fine for slaw, I alw.ays use the juice and all the yel­ salads and in sandwich fillings.-Mrs. low rind of one lemon for each pie and E. M. Vaughn. it is a wonderful tasting pie. I always serve lemon pie for one of my thresh­ I would be glad to have your com­ ers' dinners. In hot weather a tart ments about the contributed articles tasting pie is so good. - Mrs. Fred a pp e a ring in the Kitchen-Klatter Lenz, Livermore, Io.wa. MagiS.Zine. Tell me which you like best.-Leanna. "When making cream puffs, add the flour before butter is melted in the boiling water and you will have good ere.am puffs. I use 3 eggs, each beaten AMAZING NEW PRODUCT in separately before the cooked mix­ "I Always Get Best Results ture is cold. Bake in muffin cup.­ with Mother's Best" NOW ON THE MARKET Mrs. Toni Falkoski, Des Moines, Ia. --says Loup City woman. A Chemical Marvel That Every Instead of soaking tapioca, Mrs. If you want to learn what good Peter Buller, R. 2, Mountain Lake, things can be made with Mother's Housewife, Restaurant, Food Minn. p.ours boiling water over it (she Best Flour, ask Mrs. Louise E. Nichols, Market Will Want. uses the coarse kind) and leaves it Box 435, Loup City, Nebraska. till cold. Then she washes it well, to Mrs. Nichols, who has raised seven -Keep cantaloupe, fish, onions, remove the starch, and cooks in double girls and three boys, says, "I don't believe any other br,and can equal fruits, butter and all other foods boiler with :rich milk until it is clear. Mother's Best. It even makes better uncovered in same refrigerator It takes about 30 minutes. Add salt, 'h cup sugar, 1 beaten egg and vanilla. cakes than expensive cake flour-they compartment. A tiny carton of are so light and tender." Sentinel on the top shelf of re­ In baking whole wheat bread, 2 or 3 Try Mother's Best Flour soon. Every frigerator will prevent odors and tablespoons of burnt sugar added when mixing the dough stiff gives the bread sack is sold with a money-back ~uar- tastes of one food from p·ermeat­ antee. · "' ing the other. a rich brown color and a delicate flavor. SENTINEL ORANGE-PEACH MARMALADE 2 qts. sliced peaches Mother's guards your :food against all odors. 3 oranges Guaranteed for a period of 3 years. 8 cups sugar 1 bottle Maraschino cherries, juice Price - $1.00 and all, cut. Best Postp!lld Juice of 2 lemons Cut oranges first in thin slices, rind and all, then in sections. Combine all FLOUR Order from ingredients except cherries. Boil un­ til thick and clear. Add cherries. DON DRIFTMIER Bring to a boil again. Pour into jars Shenandoah, la. or glasses. t'AG,I<: 10 K I 'l' C H E N - I{ J. A 'f 'r }~ R M A G A Z I N E, S E P T }~ l\l R E R, 1 9 4 0 KMA PROGRAM SCHEDULE 030 Kilocycles Shenandoah, Iowa NBC Blue Network lO\va Broadcasting System l\IOIDllNG 5 :00 a. m,--_Morning Roundup 5:15 a. m.-Mary, Frances & Chick 6:00 a. m.-Weather and News 6:15 a. m.-Mary Lou & Frances 6:30 a. m.-Family Altar (7:30 a. m.--Sun.) 7 :00 a. ni.-Morning Headlines 7:15 a. m.-Cr;:izy Radio Gang 7 :30 a .. m.-Stamp's Quartette 7: 15 a. m.-The Brealdast Club Each of us oan always list a number 8:00 a. m.-Josh Higgins (Mon. thru Fri.) of "pet peeves" that we have so f.ar as 8 :00 a. m.---Richard Kent, Traveling Cool.;: (Sat.) ou1· houses are concerned. A friend 8 :00 a. m.-Uncle Bill Reads the Funnies in Guthrie Center says that she can't (Sun.) stand to see table dishes used for 8 :15 a. m.-Etachelor Boy 8:30 a. m.-:Mid-Morning Devotions animals (I second this one!), cooking 8 :45 a. m.~-Ma Perkins (Mon. thru FrL) kettles used for scrub water, and tea 9:00 a. m.-Homemaker's Visit towels used to wipe perspiring faces 9 :45 a. m.---We3tern Valley Folks 9 :45 a. m.~-Frank Fleld (Sat.) in the summer! 10:00 a. m.--Earl May, News I've found out that a lot of you have 10:00 a .. m.--Church Services (Sull.) the same pet peeves that I have; for 10 :30 a. m.-Fa.vorites 10:30 a. m.-National .F'arm and Home Hour instance, calling the f.amily to a meal (Sat.) .and no one making a move to come to 10 :45 a. m.-Franl{_ F'ield (Mon. thru Fri.) the table; open cupboard doors; greasy 11 :00 a. m.-Chick Holstein (Mon. thru Fri.) 11 :15 a. m.-Between the Bookends butter dishes and a cluttered kitchen (Mon. thru Fri.) cabinet. Things that provoke some of 11:30 a. m.-KMA Country School us might not even be noticed by others 12:00 Noon-Midday Melodies Uuth Shambaugh, Clarinda, Iowa, n1y niece, 12:15 p. m.-Earl JVIay, News will attend Christian College at Columbia, 1\lo. and no doubt all of us do things that 12:45 p. m.-Market Time this year. would disgust someone else. AFTERNOON What is your "pet peeve?" Tell us 1:00 p. m.-Stamp' s Quartette SEWING HELPS about it and help save your family's 1 :00 p. m.-Semi-Solid Ramblers (Sun.) nerves. 1:20 p. m.-A. L. Stithem If you are stitching seams in any 1:30 p. m.-S. 0. S. Program heavy material such as c.anvas or sack­ 1 :30 p. m.-MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ing, rub the seams with any good hard Christmas in July! What fun! Ted's (Sun.) Christmas box from E g y p t was 1 :45 p. m.-Crazy Radio Gang soap and the needle will go through 2:00 p. m.-Kitchen Klatter the goods very e'asily. brought to us by Miss Ruth Currie, a 2 :30 p. m.-Club Matinee (Mon. thru Fri.) When mending lace curtains it is teacher in the city .of Assiut, who re­ 2:30 p. m.--MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL turned to this country this summer. 3:00 p. m.-MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL much easier to do a good job if em­ (Tues. thru Fri.) broidery hoops are used.-Mrs. Dick J. There were appropriate gifts for each of us, each truly Egyptian. EVE,.,,ING Lindeman, Dike, Iowa. 6:00 p. m.-Sports Revlew 6:15 p. m.-Chick Holstein When I'm making tea towels and My gifts were a lovely piece of 6:30 p. m.-Earl May, News don't want to put in a running stitch Egyptian print that I shall use as a 6:30 p. m. POT o· GOLD (Thurs.) by hand, I get little 5 cent spools of 7:00 p. m.-Green Hornet (Mon. & Wed.) wall hanging and a jewel box of ma­ 7 :00 p. m.-Singin & Swingin' (Thurs.) Turkey red floss No. 10 mercerized, hogany inlaid with ivory, brass and 7 :00 p. m.-This, Our America (Fri.) and use it on the bobbin of my sewing pieces of shells. I haven't any jewels 7:00 p. m.-Gordon Jenkins' Music (Sat.) machine. I leave the white sewing 7:30 p. m.-Paul Martin & His Music (Mon.) but can use it as a box for buttons. 7 :30 p. m.-Fun with the Revuers (Tues.) thread on top, then cre.ase the hem, 7:30 p. m.-Roy Shield's Encore Music 'and stitch as usual. It makes a nice (Wed.) The subscription list of the Kitchen­ 7 :30 p. m.-Concert in Miniature (Thurs.) finished hem and will launder and al­ Klatter Magazine is steadily growing. 7 :30 p. m.-Farm Blureau Program (Fri.) ways look nice. You can use a:ny color I hope to· increase the size of it this , 7 :30 p. m.-Grant Park Concert (Sat.) of thre,ad that you like.-Frankie winter. Help make this possible by 8 :00 p. m.-T. R. Ybarra, News Wheeler, Box 103, Jameson, Mo. (Mon. thru Sat.) showing your magazine to your friends. 8:00 p. m.-MADISON SQUARE GARDEN You may get a new subscription by BOXING BOUTS (To Be Announced) After cutting pajamas out of batiste 8:30 p. m.-Adventure in Reading (Mon.) I had seveDal straight pieces cut from doing this. 8:30 p. m.--Melody in the Night (Sat.) the leg. I cut them into pieces the 9 :00 p. m.-Newstime Frank Field has just moved into the 10 :OO p. m.-Associated Press News correct length for a baby dress, then 10:57 p. m.--Associated Press News slop.ed each piece about an inch on first house south of the Earl May resi­ 11:50 p. m.-Midnight News each side making ·a fan-shaped piece. dence. Frank has three children at 9 :15 to 12 :00 Midnight - Dance 'Bands: Tommy Dorsey, Cecil Golly, Cab Callo­ I joined these pieces together with ;m home Robert, John and Peggie Jane. way, Ray Kinney, Johnny Messner, insertion to make a little skirt, and Mrs. Field's mother makes her home Harry Owens, Ray Heatherton, Alvino with them most of the time. Rey, Jerry Shelton, Ted Lewis, Dick cut a little yolk and sleeves from some Cisne, Russ M o r g a n, Abe L y m a n, smaller pieces. When the neck and Rudolph F'riml, Bernie Cummins, Les bottom of the skirt were finished with I am sorry I missed seeing some of Brown, Hal Kemp, Raymond Scott, you who c.alled at my home this sum­ Johnny Long, Art Mooney, Eddi'e Duchin, an edging I had a pretty little baby Bobby Byrne, Gray Gordon, Vaughn dress for almost no outlay in money.­ mer. It seemed that every time I Munroe, Clyde Lucas, and others. Mrs. Edith Moran, Woodburn, 'Ia. went for a ride some one would call during my absence. You will have to When sewing a long seam you can try to come again some time. "Please find enclosed $1 for re­ save basting by fastening the edges of newal .of Kitchen-Klatter. It's the the cloth together with paper clips. Send in your ideas for home made best magazine I get, for it's just like You can also use clips to hold ple,ats Christmas gifts. We will want to start a big fat letter from a very dear when sewing or ironing. our hand work early. I will send one friend. It's the pictures of you, To make a safe and economical in­ of my "Dessert Books" to each one of especially, that makes it s.o interest­ strument for ripping seams, use a you who sends a Christmas gift sug­ ing. You can't put in too many. The large cork, make a slit in it and place gestion that I can use in the Kitchen­ Magazine as a whole is perfect, and I the r.azor blade in the slit. The cork K!atter Magazine. Let's have a whole hope it is possible in every way for you serves ,as .a handle and protects the page of them for the December num­ to continue to publish it ,also make your fingers. ber. Get busy early! daily visits by radio for a long, long Snap clothes pins come in handy to time. Radio w.ould not mean much fasten paper patterns to dress ma­ The Kitchen-Klatter circle is growing to me if I couldn't hear you."-Mrs. terial when cutting-Mrs. Lewis Pil­ steadily. More than 30,000 read the Leslie Pierce, Mexico, Mo. ling, Mediapolis, Iowa. magazine every month. K I •r () H E N -- K L A '1' T E lt M A G A Z I N E, 8 E P T E M B E R, 1 9 4 il 1'Atl.tli 11

:.:-···::~;::-:-:···· .. THE DISH RAG'S LAMENT

I am just a dish rag at this house­ Mrs. Don't Care calls me that. Across GI !!iii ~~ll '~\j \l~ !R:ts~>%,. the road at Mrs. Eatkins my sister is called Dish Cloth. Why can't I be treated with as much respect as she is? Here I am made from an old rag, I ., ;fft~t£l}i;~ ~ (~)~ ll )! • > a piece of a man's shirt or a gingham apron. I am never washed out from one day to another, and think of it! I am used to wash glasses, the baby's = G(!I-;;.r~9) \!ii1illt\11fji R e a, 4,c bottle, lids, burned p,ans, and every­ thing else that needs washing. I would pather be made from a five pound salt sack. It's of coarse weave J ~ : ~::, and particles of food wouldn' t get

c0aught in my meshes. Then I wish - - that there were about a dozen of me so that when I got the least bit grimy By I could go to the wash just like the MISS ANNA DRIFTMIER, Librarian rest of the clothes .and be washed and boiled and spread on the gPass to be Clarinda, Iowa, Public Library shot through and through by the rays BRIGHT HERITAGE, by Mary Vir­ This last year has been a great year of the sun. ginia Provines, is the story of Una for historical fiction. Can it be that One day's work is about all I am Gregory, "the newest and greenest of because the land is thre:i.tened by in­ good for anyway. There should be a the staff of the Calamento County security that thoughts revert to that new me every day, but no! I go day Free Library, of her romance, of her which has been fundamental in the after day until I am worn to shreds. experiences in learning her job." Girls making of our nation? Much of it Then I should certainly go into the like it. Vocational type. thrills the reader with the dramatic; stove and be cremated, but instead of heroism of characters portrayed. Zara - TIDS LAND IS OURS. that I'm just thrown out. Then the Eighty years of America in the mak­ flies come along and find me and SHOW ME A I.AND, by Clark Mc­ shout gleefully one to another. Many ing-1755-1835-the march across the Meekin, has its beginning in Virginia Apµalachians, the struggle to oust the times through the hot weather Mrs. and ends in Kentucky, the land of Don't Care has to be up nights with Indians from the Ohio country, .and fine horses. '.rHE TREE OF LIB­ the winning of the Northwest - are her kids, and she can't seem to tell ERTY, by Elizabeth Page, also starts what is the matter with them. The pictured in this fine story. It is the in Virginia and ends in Ohio. JULIA pioneer spirit that carries the reader chances .are that they wouldn't be sick ANN, by Rachel Varbie, opens in Ken­ if she had given me a good scalding. on through this tale of frontier life tucky after the period of Daniel filled with the usual tragedy and satis­ Boone and continues in Virginia and Big sister sweeps and dusts when faction in the end. Well recommend­ the Nation's young capital city, Wash­ her beaux co,mes to see her. If he ed. ington. wiped the dishes f.or her I'll bet they would have a falling out over my FORTY YE AR S A COUNTRY In the last book, the father of a complexion. PREACHER, by the Rev. George Gil­ growing family wants his children to bert, is in constant demand. A critic have advantages of eastern education. Mrs. Don't Oare can tell you all said, "What THE H 0 RS E AND How he buys a prominent hotel in about how to feed children - regular BUGGY DOCTOR did for the country W.ashington and keeps the best citi­ meals, school lunches, vitamins min­ doctor, and THE COUNTRY LAW­ zens of the city there where his chil­ erals and everything-but she doesn't YER for the rur.al lawyer, this book dren meet them, makes a very read­ give life's history a thought. does for the country preacher." It able story for youth and adults as well. Once I was so embarrassed when brings out the close relation of the the Ladies Aid came to our house. church man with his parishioners in Those who like the stories of Sara Some of the women started to wash spiritual and material ways, the nuc­ Ware Bassett will be delighted with the dishes, and they hunted and hunt­ leus around which community life de­ her newest one called AN OCEAN ed for the dish cloth but they couldn't velops. HE,RITAGE. Ellwood Baker returns find it anywhere. I was just sick. after many years of life in Californi·a Finally one of the committee said as Eben Adams was a painter. He had to his old New England home where she took ahold of me, "Can this be the painted many landscapes but found he finds so many obligations that keep DISH CLOTH?" You don't know how that portraits were more e a s i 1 y the reader interested from beginning ashamed I felt, and I couldn't tell her marketed. To find subjects that ap­ to end. where there were several clean ones pealed was not so easy, but one even­ with the dish towels, because there ing while he was walking in the park Mazo de l·a Roche, the author of never are any at this house. "\Vhiteoak Harvest", has a new one he saw a young girl playing hop-scotch Talk about being up-to-date and alone. He spoke to her, and she came called WHITEOAK HERITAGE, carrying the story of the family of everything, why oan't the dish cloth to, him, putting her hand in his. This come in for share of the family Jalna. It is the second book in the a casual meeting grew into friendship pride .as well .as the livestock? that became important to him in the series, telling the story of the year fol­ lowing Renny's return from the war in Yours in disgrace-Dish Rag years to come. Robert Nathan told (Reprinted from the Stockman's 1920. He finds the estate, which his the story in the same beautiful fashion Journal) he has of making that which does not father left, run down, and he is kept seem important in the beginning be­ busy carrying on. come something one cannot forget. CONSTITUTIONALS If you have read Elizabeth Goudge's Head his PORTRAIT OF JENNIE. books, CITY OF BELI,S and SISTER I w.alk with broom and mop two miles HE HEARD AMERICA SING, by OF THE ANGELS, you will want to or more, Claird Lee Purdy,_ is the story of read THE BIRD IN THE TREE. I stretch to reach the things on µanb·y Stephen Foster, the singer of the "Like her other successful novels, the shelf, South. Who does not know his songs, action centers around a charming old I stoop to pick up toys from play-room ·'Old Kentucky Home" and "Oh Susan­ house and three delightful youngsters floor, na'!" How his songs came to him, and who romp through its pages and bring That's how I stay stream-lined all by how he was moved by Negro spirituals color and life to Dameroshay. "You myself. is told in this book selected by the will like to follow the romance of -Esther Sutton Donecker, Junior Literary Guild. David and Nadine." McCracken, Kansas. PAGE 12 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1940 This will never happen if we are honest and fair. W.atch yourself con­ stantly, never, never discriminate be­ tween your children, and you will » << never have a home torn apart by jealousy.

LEARN TO REST

OUR CHILDREN Every mother should learn to rest. Motherhood is no eight hour a d,ay LITTLE JOHNNY STARTS Speak to Johnny and Mary of school job. Nights are apt to be interrupted TO SCHOOL a~ a grand place, a place where they By Maxine Sickels will learn to read and write as grown­ by restless children so learn to snatch ups do, where they will have the com­ some rest during the day. When the Yesterday the boys came home with panionship of other children. Make baby takes his nap, lie down and rest. joyous shouts of school sound jolly and good. Never let You will soon leai:n to fall asleep and yourself accent the fact that they are wake up refreshed, more cheerful, and "School's out, School's out! ready to start in working again. Teacher's let the mules out!" leaving Home and Mother. They have Dinner buckets, books, pencil boxes to go. Make it Mother's business to see that they go happily. You young mothers with your first and so on wete packed in a big box babies, whose homes have been a and put away in the upstairs closet. model of efficiency and neatness, are Tomorrow we will get them down THE JEALOUS CHILD going to have to learn that the baby is and repack the dinner buckets, put the I could write several pages in reply more important than housekeeping books back into the book sacks and to a letter full of distress that reached schedules. Le a r n to neglect that start another year of school. The cal­ me one day last week, for if there's schedule and spend more time with the endar shows three months have pass­ anything that all of us want to avoid baby. ed but to any busy mother it is yester­ it's having our children jealous of each day and tomorrow. other. This mother said that she was CHILDISH FEARS When school begins, mothers every­ getting more and mor.e unhappy about where hope that this year will be the the really bitter envy .and jealousy A mother wrote me th.at her six year happiest, the most interesting and the that her f.our children all felt towards old daughter worries too much. What most profitable school year that their each other, and I can certainly under­ can she do about it? If you have a children have ever had. stand why she would. There's noth­ little worrier in your family circle, ing like jealousy to leave scars that watch your own behavior and conver­ What can they do to help make it sation. I once heard of a father who, that kind of a year? last for a life-time. Who of us doesn't number among our acquaintances a when the monthly bills came, railed Wise mothers send thei'r children to about going to the Po.or House. He school as healthy as they can. A trip family of brothers and sisters who are mortal enemies, who boast that they was only letting off steam in this way to the dentist to take care of cavities but the little daughter spent hours that may cause tooth.ache. A visit to haven't spoken for this or that num­ ber of years, and who say cruel and worrying over the fact that she had the doctor if there is a chronic illness to have new shoes and the purchase such as headache, constipation, colds bitter things about each other to any­ one who will listen? only led her nearer to the "County or upset stomach. Watch out for ear­ Home." ache and sore throat~summer is the If you have more than one chi1d in your family you must determine from Many children worry over the end of time to get rid of bad tonsils. the world, over mother and father Take the child to an oculist if he the moment the next child is born that you will treat each child exactly as dying, and over not being able to pass complains of headache after reading their tests in school. Kidnappers, rob­ or if there is any suspicion that his you treat the other. Watch yourself constantly. Never stop asking your­ bers and the house burning down are eyes need attention. No thinking per­ also causes foi· childish worries. son would start on a nine months' self if you have acted towards one What can we mothers do about this? trip without having his car thoroughly child exactly as you've acted towards the other. Never take out your nat­ It seems to me the only answer is to checked. It is much more important be cheerful and happy. Show no signs that children have a checkup before ural impatience and annoyance by de­ of worry ourselves. Guard our con­ their nine month long grind. priving the disobedient child of some­ versation, knowing some little worrier Physical preparedness is only one thing he has yearned for and th.at may be hanging on every word we say. part of the program. Mentally, what y.ou've permitted the other children to Overcome childish fears by teaching can a mother do? have. One or two doses of this and him that God is taking care of him Children who go to school in a happy he'll never forget the envy and jeal­ and that he has nothing to fear. contented frame of mind with an ousy that he felt when he saw the eagerness to learn will have a distinct others eating their ice cream cones advantage. Children who are just or going down town when he stayed starting to school or who are going for home alone. the first time to a new school should The truth of the matter is that when have an opportunity to get acquainted children are jealous of each other, the with some of the children at that parents hav.e only themselves to blia.me. school. Somewhere along the road they did A familiarity with Mother Goose something thoughtlessly .and careless­ rhymes and children's stories will ly that sowed the seeds of future create an enthusiasm in the child as trouble. See to it that each child has he meets these in his studies. A child equal opportunities and never, never who has had the use of crayolas, sacrifice one child to another. Who .of pencil, scissors ,and paste will have a us doesn't know the pathetic woman working knowledge of his tools and or man in the Late middle years who can concentrate on his lessons. has given up what he wanted to do in Every child who must carry his this world to take the responsibility of lunch should have practice in unpack­ the family home, while the others have ing and eating from a bucket-sand­ been free to g.o as they pleased and wiches first, f'l·uit and dessert last. live their own lives? This beg.an in Try packing lunches that way for pic­ childhood when the parents imposed nics. upon the one child and allowed the All this presupposes a home training others to impose upon him also. It's that takes time. a tragic situation, and there isn't a RosP Marie Fricke, Marie Ann and Nellie Ellen Jacob of David City, Nebr. They have enjoyed You say, "But I have not done this. one of us who doesn't shudder at the their summer vacation and a.re ready for What can I do now?" thought of it happening in our homes. school a.gain. K I T 0 H E N - K L A T T E R M A G A Z I N E, S E P T E M B E R, 1 9 4 0 PAGE 13 FRANK FIELD'S ARTICLE PRACTICAL POULTRY POINTERS By Olinda Oarolyn Wiles L'lst month we talked about alfalfa and brome gnass, and brome and al- My, how the time does fly these busy falfa pasture. I days. It seems as if it were only J,ast hope that you men week that I folks went ahead wrote my poul­ and got your seed try column and in the ground ahead in it was a plea of t h e s e glorious to see that your soaking rains and poultry w.as not that you are the suffering f r o m proud possessors of lack of w a t e r a dandy stand by and shade. I will now. But in c,ase just c o n t i n u e you c o u 1 d n ' t get that pie.a to the around to it yet, 1\'I~· sister. Mrs. :\lartha l<'it>hl Eaton, of Des next chapter, for '.\1oincs, Iowa, in lUrs. Fischer's garden. keep in mind that shade and water early September is this year, you can do a lot of your prove (in the almost as good as Frank FieJd tr,anspl.anting before winter sets in. egg bucket) that August for both .al­ And just a word about Tulips. they play a very falfa and brome grass. It' s a long Naturally the Holland grown bulbs are important part time yet before hard freezing weather, non-existant, but fortunately there is Mrs. Olinda Wlleo in egg pr-oduc­ and there is still time to put in either avail.able, a limited supply of American tion. one or both together. tulip bulbs, in most of the standard Eggs are not to be neglected during But it's time now to give a little varieties. Not near enough to go the warm days if we wish to have a thought to next year's flowers. Sep­ .around though, so better order quick fresh product . tember, you know, is the ideal time to if you w,ant tulips. If you don't want It seems to me as if I have had an set, or reset, peonies. Then too, there the moles and field mice to eat them, is still time to plant the gorgeous unusual number of broody hens this better set them down at least ten year, in spite of the fact that I culled oriental poppies, which are now avail­ inches deep. They won't need digging able in every shade from the purest my flock in early July. I put eight and dividing nearly so soon either, or ten hens in "jail" and by the time white to darkest red; and some of the planted ten inches deep, as it seems newer varieties will actually cover .a they are ready to turn out, there are to discourage them from multiplying. always more w.aiting to serve their dinner plate. Don't set them too close Late September and all through sentence. together though. They will stand for October is a good time too, for plant­ years without dividing and in a few ing all kinds of shrubs and roses and Wi~h thi~ nuisance ever present, combmed with the high temperatures years time will make a clump as big fruit and shade trees. They won't of the past few weeks, it doesn't take as a wash tub. Give them full sun if make any new growth, planted this possible, in just ordinary garden soil, late, but they sure get a nice early long ~or an egg to deteriorate, and after it has once lost its freshness, no with possibly a little b:arn yard manure start when spring comes. I would well worked in, with good drainage, so save for spring planting, though, amount of cooling will bring it back. water doesn't stand around them when peaches, and all the cane fruits, such Eggs should be gathered often and it rains. When winter comes work as naspberries, blackberries, and boy­ immediately put in a cool place and some straw in under the leaves, and senberries. Anything else will be OKay. marketed .as soon as possible. then cover them six or eight inches See you next month. I received a letteI' sever.al days ago deep with more str,aw. Take the straw from a lady in Kiansas asking me what off when it war:ms up next spring. to do for her chickens that were losing That's all there is to it. control of their bodies, or the trouble The peonies can stand a lot more ~kLI seemed to b.e in their necks. They be­ shade than the poppies, but at that, came limber and the chickens were they would appreciate sun at least unable to hold up their heads and half the day if they can get it. Full soon died. sun is still better. Peonies like best, a tight, he,avy soil, with very little sand, Not stating what she was feeding, or any other detail, I had to make a if any. They will thrive in pure yellow pretty long guess. clay, but will bloom better in a black soH with more richness in it. But . These chickens had prob.ably eaten they can't stand a loose sandy soil, and something mouldy, or it may be they they object to being dug around or had found some dec.ayed flesh and having the soil loosened up around were poisoned from eating it. Or they them, because their feeding roots are may have had a disease called "limber very shallow. neck," which is a form of poisoning In planting peonies, set them so that caused by worms. Of course, if the there will only be about two, or three chicken is to the stage where it is un­ inches of soil over the I'Oots, and be able to eat or even sw1allow if food is sure it is packed very firmly around placed in its mouth, it will probably them. If planted in September they die, but if you would give it a worm should give you a few blooms next capsule as soon as you noticed it is June, and by the following year, yqu BUTTERFLY PICTURES TO ailing and follow up in a few hours will have plenty of flowers. EMBROIDER with a good drink of water containing If you failed to, sow your pansy seed The originals of these exquisite but­ Epsom salts, you may save the in August better get busy right away. terfly pictures are in your own g1arden. chicken. Put them at one side of the garden as brilliantly colored swallowtails and Sevenal years ago I began losing where they won't be disturbed next moths flit gaily over cosmos or among young chickens and found they had spring when you plow the garden spot. apple blossoms. Thus nature gives im­ eaten mulberries that had lain under Give the seedlings a fairly heavy petus to needle and floss in embroider­ the trees during a warm rainy period mulch of straw when winter comes, ing these faithful replicas of her and became mouldy. We have a long and next April when you remove the handiwork. Transfer C9203, 10¢, brings row of mulberry trees on the west and mulch you will find the pansies bloom­ both pictures in 9x12 size. north side of our orchard and of ing aw:ay to beat the band unde!' the And if you wish these already course it would be hard to keep the straw. Take a good clump of dirt on stamped in the same size on black chickens from eiating them, but by the roots when you move them to their rayon taffeta, order C9203M, 25¢. putting Epsom salts in the drinking regular home and they won't even wilt Send orders to Leanna Driftmier, water I was able to get by. Since. down. In fact, if we have a late fall Shenandoah, Iowa. then I have had no trouble. PAGE 1• K I T C H E N - K L A T T E R M A 0 A Z I N E, S E P T E M B E R, 1 9 4 0

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one else seemed to have any­ thing pleasant to say. But no sooner had she balanced he;·­ self on a big green leaf than the gardener shook his hoe BUSY BEE AND BUTTERFLY at her .and said, "Ah! Another bad WHlTE white butterfly in my cabbage patch. By Mrs. Fred Zappe Get out! You and your hundreds of brothers and sisters eat great holes in One day in late summer a busy bee my cabbage leaves when you are and a white butterfly were making a worms. I supp:ose you are looking for visit in a lovely flower garden. After a nice plaee to lay eggs so there will flying by each other a few times be more green worms. Now get out!" Ronald J~ee l\ilul\.'ihill of J ... uverne, Minn. Willi Butterfly White said to Busy Bee, "Oh two years old whr.n t:his J>icturc was ta.ken. Butterfly white wanted to argue Hi'!i dog is aln1ost as big as Ronald J ... ee. Ii- dear, you make so much noise when with him and persuade him to admire you fly. Your old buzzing sounds like her beauty, but she only fluttered her a bombing plane in this pretty g,arden. wings faster than ever to get out of A LITTLE BOY'S PRAYER i.t I do wish you'd go away." his way. Before she had gone very "Well, don't mind me because I'm far Busy Bee came buzzing along, and Dear God, I need You awful bad; going away just as soon as I collect a she heard the gardener say, "Why I don't know what to do. big load of pollen and nectar for my hello, Busy Bee, I'm gLad to see you. My papa's cross, my mamma's sick­ honey f,actory," hummed the bee. "Be­ You have the sweetest business on ! hain't no friend but You. sides I'm not trying to charm anyone earth making honey, and more than Them keerless angels went an' brung­ "" with graceful flying. It seems to me that you help my flowers to grow by 'Stid of the boy I ast- that you could do something more carrying pollen from one blossom to A weenchy, teenchy b:aby girl. '!> worth while than flitting dizzily from another in your little baskets. Good · I don't know how they dast. flower to flower. Why don't you fly luck to you, Busy Bee. You must be away if you don't like my noise? Can't happy, for most folks are when they An' God, I wish't You'd take her back. _, you see I'm here on business?" are busy doing good things." She's just as good as new- And with a few extra buzzes, Busy Butterfly White didn't want to pay Won't no one know she's secondhand Bee was ready to work on other any attention to what the gardener But 'ceptin' me an' You. t• flowers in another part of the garden, said to Busy Bee, but she couldn't help An' pick a boy, dear God, Yourself­ but he paused a moment on a big but think about it. In fact, she The nicest in Your fold. rose to see what Butterfly White thought and thought about it, and so But please don't pick him quite so ~ would do or say next. far as I know she never again said young- Of course Butterfly White was angry anything as rude and ugly as she had I'd like him five years old! by this time, so she flew in silly circles said to Busy Bee. It ar.ound Busy Bee. She hoped to show -S. M. Talbot him how beautifully she could sail amund and how delicately white she There's many pictures in our yard • really was. Soon she floated down to GRASSHOPPERS I wish I could remember a blossom very near the bumble bee In Memory's chest I'll tuck them Grasshoppers are interesting to To look at in December. ~ ~~~ s:~d~~,i~~l~o~rt~i~~ ia~~~~e~~r~~:~ watch. Did you ever watch one close­ you, but you are so homely you spoil ly? Catch one or two carefully some­ How can I catch the fragrance "' the looks of the garden when you are time, so as not to spoil their wings. From flowers a-riot there in it. Brown and yellow stripes on Put them in a box that has the top That fill summer's golden hours that awkward body of yours make and bottom off. Tack a screen or net With lovely perfume rare. ., you look like a ~orm with wings! I over the top of the box and put it on -Mrs. Myrtle Carter, Linden, Ia. always hated stripes, yellow stripes in the grass. Watch their eyes. Notice particular, and the thought of wmms how their jaws move when they eat. 1' almost makes me sick." How many wings do they have? See FIVE GIFTS IN ONE BUNDLE "If I were you, Butterfly White, I their feelers wiggle. Look at their A CHRISTMAS CAROL - wouldn't say much about worms. Don't legs when they jump. Dickens " forget that you were an ugly green Grasshopper Green OLD TESTAMENT STORIES­ worm only a week or tw.o ago! But I Grasshopper Green, Jones can't waste anymore time with a You're a comical fellow, HAPPY DAYS-Daniel f- flitting butterfly, so GOODBYE!" And With a coat of green REAL MOTHER GOOSE-Rand away flew the Bumble Bee. And wings of yellow. McNally "A flitting butterfly!" snapped But­ STORY OF THE STONE AGE ., terfly White. "Well, he roars and Grasshopper Green, PEOPLE-Coffman buzzes, and I flit; I like flitting better, Is it fun to hop far All Illustrated :; so there!" Up over the grass 5 Books for 55¢ Aw.ay she flew and settled down That's higher than you are? Postage Prepaid near the gardenei: who was hoeing his Green Shutter Book Shop '!> cabbage. She hoped to hear a few Subscribe to 310 E. Tarkio St., Clarinda, Ia. kind words from him, even though no Kitchen-Klatter PAGE 16 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1940 TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE 25. ( ) Little Peppers. 26. The Tale of ( ) Cities. 1. ( ) in hand. 27. The ( ) Colonies. 28. The ( ) Won"ders of the World. 2. The House of ( Gables. 3. The spirit of ( ) . 29. Rain before ( ) ; dry before ( ) . 4. ( )-( ) or fight . 30. Ali Baba and the ( ) Thieves. 5. Friday the ( )th. ANSWERS 6. Fair, fat and ( ). 1. 4; 2. 7; 3. 76; 4. 54-40; 5. 13; 6. 7. ( ) strikes and out. 40; 7. 3; 8. 9; 9. 1; 10. 2; 11. 30; 12. 8. A cat has ( ) lives. 99 44/100; 13. 57; 14. 3; 15. 40; 16. 5; AID SOCIETY HELPS 9. The wonderful ( ) horse shay. 17. 9; 18. 2 - 3; 19. 100; 20. 4 - 20; 21. 10. ( ) Told Tales. 6 - 1h; 22. 3; 23. 4; 24. 90; 25. 5; 26. 2; 27. 13; 28. 7; 29. 7 - 11; 30. 40. Now that September is here we find 11. ( ) days hath September. ourselves thinking that it's just about 12. ( ) and ( ) ( ) per cent pure. time to start our fall program of 13. ( ) varieties. FISH CONTEST church work, and one of the best 14. The ( ) R's. things that I've he.ard .about to get the 15. ( ) winks. 1. The baby's cry?-Whale (wail) season underway with good spirits and 16. As useless as a )th wheel. 2. Very slippery?-Eel. friendliness, would be the Puzzle Sup­ 17. Possession is ( ) points of the 3. Persistent serenader?-Catfish. per. A friend in Vermont, Illinois told law. 4. Weapon of warfare?-Swordfish. me ahout this, and she said that they 18. ( ) is company, ( )'s a crowd. 5. Sometimes they shoot?--Starf!sh. made a good bit of money. She also 19. The first ( ) years are the hard­ 6. Household pet?-Dogfish. said that. everyone h.ad a great deal est. 7. One Is born every minute? - of fun, RO why not try this to get your 20. ( ) and ( ) blackbirds baked in Sucker. church group hack together again? a pie. 8. Mother's pride?-Sun (son) fish. 21. ( ) of one and ) dozen of the 9. A swindler?-Shark. Use r.ard tables for this supper in­ other. 10. What we do in deep mud?­ stead of your long tables that are gen­ 22. The ( ) bears. Flounder. erally used. Then print up the follow­ 23. ( ) wheel brakes. 11. Choir singer?-Bass. ing menus and ask each guest to give 24. The gay ( )'s. 12. Come down off it?-Perch. his order to the waitress. She'll have a duplicate card in her hand with the real names of the foods printed on it. Serve everyone .as fast as possible, and Now! Look what you get be prepared to serve some people a number of times if they choose only When you get the Kitchen-Klatter iced tea and a cracker thinking that they're going to get a great deal more. When I finished looking over all the interesting things that went into this Serve the various dishes accom­ i8sue of Kitchen-Klatter, it seemed hard for me to believe that our little maga­ panied by a slip of paper with the zine has grown so 'much in just the last few months. price written on it, and let everyone But, better yet, it is going to keep on growing-keep getting bigger and pay the total of these slips to the bigger. Each month we plan to add some new feature or department. cashier. Some people will order the entire menu just to be on the safe More than 25 Features side, and others will be very cautious. ALL TfilS IS YOURS ... You can see how much fun it would Right now you get more than 25 TO READ IN EVERY ISSUE be. After the tables are cleared off foatures in every issue. I want to in­ it would be nice to have g.ames and crease that - and keep adding more In My Garden, by Helen Fischer; A Dept. pages, but, of course, I can't do it by Frank Field; A column on Flower grow­ real puzzles for your guests to work. ing, by Mary Duncombe; Poultry Raising alone-I need your help'. by Olinda Wiles; Beauty Hints, by Eva The following menu is the one used I have found that as I get more sub­ Hopkins; 4-H Club, by Helen Louden; in Vermont, Ill. You could use this scribers I C•an add more p.ages or more Health, by Mrs. Walt Pitzer; Books to and make up your own. Remember Read, by Anna Drlftmler; Letters from departments to the magazine. So, the Egypt, by Frederick Drlftml'er; A Children's that only the waitress will have this more subscribers I get, the larger your Story, by Mrs. Fred Zappe; Gifts to Make, complete list, while the guests get the magazine will be. by Gertrude Hayzlett; A Jetter from puzzlers. Leanna to You; A Chapter of my Auto­ Three Months FREE biography; Special Dept. on sewing; Aid 1. Fodder