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VOL. 27 MAY, 1963 NUMBER 5

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wagon; they were still alive and long­ ing for earth. He ploughed a furrow Kitchen·Klatte1· and stuck them in---and they rewarded velvet, and nameless early red and sorrow. The gates of memory were ajar to take my little pointed hoe and help yellow ones. The peonies were half and we went in and lived again all them find the sunshine, but I've learned way to the gate, just after you passed those strenuous, happy fifty years of by experience that it is better to let the tree honeysuckle, and at the end life at Sunnyside Farm. them find their own way. The winter were two lilac bushes, one white and "We loved our book better than any covering makes a satisfactory mulch one purple. The annual flowers were earthly possession and Mother guarded later on. in a bed to the right side of the lawn as it with jealous care. She christened it It's interesting to observe how the you went in, and quite at the right edge The Memory Book and now as we share love for all growing plants is handed was a fringe of wild plum trees and it with our friends, it is in memocy of down from one generation to another a crab apple tree, planted for their her pure, lovely, happy life--a life in the Field family. Our father, as many blossoms which went so well with the that made the world a better place in of you know, came to the Iowa prairies bluebells at their feet. The bluebells which to live. It is in memory of th after the Civil War and spent his life s t a rt e d from a root which Mother noble soul that made a man of Y!>u. as a farmer, selling vegetables and brought in her trunk when she came as father and filled his life with love an fruits from his gardens and making a bride from Illinois. (I think there happiness and still blesses and s · a beauty spot of our country home, must have been a bit of horticultural tains him. Sunnyside. My brother Henry followed passion in Mother's blood, too!) ''I feel there is nothing in earth in his footsteps and through his seed "Under the crab apple tree were the Heaven more pure and holy than t catalogs and radio talks inspired early purple flags, too, and the ground soul of that woman who has made people to beautify their yards. His ivy with the tiny blue flowers which home a:nd reared children who rise son, Frank Field, now carries this came so delightfully early. Between and call her blessed. Such a sou inspiration on to this generation and the path and the flower bed stood a the soul of Mother." with the aid of television, shows what smoke bush; midway of the lawn and As Mother's Day approaches more nature has to offer us. out closer to the fence was a flowering than ever we think back on our lives Many of you were inspired by my quince, a clump of tiger lilies, bridal as we lived them as children in our sister Helen's radio garden talks and wreath, flowering almond and the white parents' loving care. How thankful we her wonderful garden. She is followed rose bush. were that we put into words our feel­ by her daughter Gretchen Harshbarger, "Balancing these on the other side ings for our father and mother, and who is nationally known as a garden of the path was a bed of early bulbs how much it meant to us to have authority. and down opposite the smoke bush, Father's gentle, loving thoughts about Our son Wayne carries on the tradition a little elm tree over which Father Mother put into words. of the Field's interest in horticulture scolded us for straddling and running We're busy making summer plans, but and is the manager of the W. W. Wilmore over such a little time ago, but which there isn't space to go into them now, nurseries in Denver. We can trace this was ta 11 er than the house when I so I'll save details until next month. inheritance back to our father, who as passed it last week. Sincerely, a boy roamed the beautiful hills of New "And now I come to the chiefest England, hunting the first flowers glory of our yard--the lilac hedge. It ~ of spring. bordered the left side of the lawn, In these months my thoughts go back dividing it from the driveway. Its plant­ to that farm home where we seven ing was an accident. It happened that COVER PICTURE Field children were born. I cannot one day, in late spring, Father passed To many of you, the face on the cover improve on this description written by the dump where surplus nursery stock is a very familiar one. But to our my sister Susan as one of her contri­ was thrown when the season was over. brand-new readers, we introduce our butions to the Field MemoT11 Book. His heart was touched by the buds mother, Mrs. Martin H. Driftmier (Le­ "The square red brick house stood opening impotently on the discarded anna), pictured in the living room of well back from the road with a wide bundles. He gathered them into his the family home in Shenandoah, Iowa. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 3

COMMENTS FROM LUCILE

There are times when I like to "get off" on a collection of things that aren't hooked together at all, just a hodge-podge of notions and ideas, so to speak, and this is one of the times ·when I want to put down some of these things that have been boiling up in my mind recently. I like a chance to air some of my notions because I don't know if I'm 'way off on my opinions and hopelessly out of step with the times, or if other women feel pretty much the same way and just haven't had a chance to speak up on the sub­ ject. The only way I have of knowing if I'm all a 1 one or in a flock of company is by reading the letters that some of you will take time to write. The first thing I want to mention is a piece of kitchen equipment called The Blender. Recently I read a most interesting article by a woman who Martin Strom enjoyed some rousing games of checkers with his grand­ obviously knows her way around the father (Martin H. Driftmier) while his parents were on their trip this kitchen, and she said that the one spring, and he found that he had some mighty stiff competition! thing she considered the most in­ valuable (aside from stove and things these women who d0esn't have wits I gave up on all this trouble at the in this bracket) was her blender; she'd enough to get the maximum service out table fully twenty years ago. We just part with anything before she'd part of it and am I going to be left wearing cut the meat in the kitchen and let it with that blender. She told what all a big dunce cap on the day when the go at that. This way we miss frayed she· did with it and also said that in blender comes into its own, or just tempers, drippings on the tablecloth-­ her opinion it was the single most what is wrong anyway? and the meat is HOT. I've had guests ill-put-to-use appliance available today. If you have a blender, I'd like to who said that it just didn't seem like Women didn't know how to get the max­ know how useful you find it. Is it your Thanksgiving or Christmas unless the imum service out of it and, said she, good old right hand or does it simply golden bird could be viewed intact, so someday it would come into its own. hog cupboard space? I'd really likE for those guests we just run the bird Well, this struck a raw nerve in my to know. around on a platter--rush it through the head because I've had a blender for The next thing up is the subject of living room so they can look and sniff-­ about. fourteen years and I consider it carving. It seems to be the accepted and then hurry it back to the kitchen the most worthless thing that ever idea that the man of the house carves and get down to business. I like a came into my kitchen. The only reason the meat, and particularly when there handsome fowl or roast just as well I give it cupboard space is because is company--oh, certainly when there as the next person, but if it has to be I can't bring myself to throw it away. is company! We have a mental picture a choice between a big production and But an article like that sort of wor­ of the table all fixed up in splendor cold food, or the same meat cut up ries me and leaves me fretful, so I and everyone gathered around it in his and good and hot, I'll take the latter decided that I'd borrow a brand- new best bib and tucker, and on every face every time. model from a friend and give it a fling. there is a bright smile of expectancy In short, we don't go in for carving I figured that in fourteen years there'd and anticipation--all faces turned at our house. Do you? been a lot done to improve it, and until toward the head of the house who is Another thing that I think about and I tried a new one I couldn't really know standing with carving tools in hand wonder about is this whole question just what a blender would or would not and the splendid fowl or roast in front of company. (I'm not referring now to do. Furthermore, I decided to give it of him. family or relatives, near or distant, but a run on a specific job that the author We see pictures like this all the time. to friends.) Recently I had coffee with praised very highly: pulverizing crack­ We read about it. Every book on eti­ a group of women, around twenty wo­ ers or wafers or bread crumbs. She quette goes into careful detail about men ranging in age from the early said it was priceless for this purpose. the whole set-up. And it all looks fine twenties up to my age--early fifties! So I set about to make a crumb crust and sounds fine. BUT ...in my opinion This question of having friends in for with this blender to do all the work of this is the most impractical and nerve­ a meal came up somehow and I was crushing those graham crackers, and wracking idea that's ever gained such astounded to hear that none of these I can report that it took me at least solid footing. I've sat at many a table women saw anyone casually, on the ten times as long with the blender and while the host carved away and every­ spur of the moment, so to speak, but those crumbs were ground to such a thing got stone cold. By the time the that the rare times they had company fine powder that it took twice as many last plate was served we had congealed it was planned for long in advance wafers. I've turned out very few crumb gravy, lukewarm potatoes, and all the and tackled as a real project. crusts as poor as that one. rest. Even the meat was cold! (And This is so very different from the I really gave this blender a good I might add that you don't know what way it was when Russell and I were workout on at least a half-dozen jobs cold food really is until you get into first married years ago. We had a large and all I could think as I worried with the clutches of a master carver who circle of friends in the same financial it was how much faster and better I takes enorraous pride in his skill and throes and we were together very fre- could do it by hand! Now am I one of turns out a big productiqn.) (Continued on page 18) PAGE 4 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

Stick candy Maypoles make pretty place favors. Simply cut small circles of cardboard and glue a circle to a Gnlerlainin'J }}j (}a'! very small paper doily. Then, using a thick powdered sugar icing, make a "blob" in which to stand the stick of peppermint candy. When icing has set firmly, tie short lengths of ribbons to top of candy Maypole. Glue other ends Luncheons and Showers ful and will make fine souvenirs for to edge of cardboard circle to form by your guests. streamers of Maypole. To use these as Mildred Dooley Cathcart When you plan your refreshments you name cards, also, make tiny pennants can carry out a flower scheme by dec­ One can always find a good excuse of white paper (upon which the name orating cup cakes or cookies with tiny for entertaining in the month of May. is written) to "fly" atop each Maypole. frosting flowers. Open-faced sand­ Along with spring house cleaning and Honor mothers at a Mother's Day wiches, or salads, can have tinted the song of the first robin, there is an party with a lei of flowers, Hawaiian urge to polish the silver and bring out flowers made from colored cream style. What a lovely gesture it would the best linens. And in May we llave cheese run through your cake be at some point in the afternoon, if decorator. Mother's Day, the last day of school each daughter were to place around If you should want a game or two, a activities, Mother-Daughter parties, the neck of her mother (or a guest springtime luncheons, and special group of ladies might enjoy playing whom she might be honoring on this courtesies for the June bride. FROM SEEDS TO FLOWERS. Secure occasion) a lei of pansies, lilacs, The abundance of spring flowers and seeds of some twenty well known mock orange-any garden blossoms, or wild blossoms can add an "extrava­ flowers, such as zinnias, marigolds, an assortment of blossoms. gant air" to your decorating scheme. petunias, or four o'clocks. Put a few Here's to the Graduate! For a flowery invitation, cut a flower seeds in numbered dishes. Then give by from a folded piece of colored con­ the players the names of the flowers struction paper. On the inside of this and see who can match the greatest Virginia Thomas little flower booklet, print your invita­ number correctly. And what could be a It has become customary, in recent tion. On the outside of the booklet, more suitable prize than packages of years, in more and more communities make outlines to resemble petals and flower seeds or a box of bulbs! for the parents of the high school grad­ make yellow or appropriately colored Birds and springtime go together, so uate to honor their senior with an in­ centers for the blossom. These invita­ see how many birds can be found in formal reception following the com­ tions will be a bit more elegant if you the scrambled list. mencement exercises. mount them on a small lace-paper 1. Dire bulb (Bluebird) In some instances where several of doily. 2. I can lard (Cardinal) the graduates have the same circle of For a centerpiece, what could be 3. Any car (Canary) friends, and often times, many of the more appropriate than a low container 4. Row pars (Sparrow) same relatives, the parents have com­ holding a few branches of wild blos­ 5. Tin ram (Martin) bined efforts and held one large co­ soms? Around the base of the center­ 6. Pars row (Sparrow) operative reception for their seniors. piece, place artificial grass with tiny 7. Girl stan (Starling) This is a fine thing to do, since it violets or wild f 1 owe rs peeping 8. R new (Wren) allows friends and relatives to share through. This centerpiece may be 9. Hush tr (Thrush) this happy occasion without needing to varied to suit the type of party. If you 10. Eli oro (Oriole) "divide" up their evening among sev­ are entertaining for a bride-to-be, place eral different homes. Time and expense one of Dorothy's little pixies on the This next must be a "time" game. are saved when the same decorations branch and put a tiny wedding band in See who writes, in the least time, the can be used for one large party. his arms. If you are entertaining for names of ten flowers that contain pro­ Whether you are entertaining for a Mother's Day, secure the miniature per names. You may include Daisy, single graduate, or helping to plan a type of doll-house plastic brooms, Violet, Rose, Lily, Pansy, Iris, Sweet co-operative party, no doubt you are mops, or sweepers, and tie them with William, Rose of Sharon, Johnny Jump­ pondering the question of centerpiece, colored ribbons to the branches. up, Viola, Petunia. decorations, and refreshments for this Tiny bunches of violets or other wild thrilling event. flowers pulled through a golden lace­ Teas Probably the most popular form of by paper doily and tied with ribbon may this graduation party is the "open be used as place cards and as favors Mabel Nair Brown house" reception, with a tea table for each guest. For a tea table centerpiece, when ice arranged with an appropriate center­ Another d e c or at iv e conversation cream is on the menu, fashion a piece, punch bowl, mints and nuts, piece are little colonial ladies. To ribbon-festooned candle Maypole with cake or cookies, and perhaps ice make these, cut the lady from very ribbons leading to little nosegays. cream. Guests feel free to come for a pale pink construction paper. Draw the These nosegays can be little clusters short time to greet the graduate, have head and waist then draw a semi-circle of mock orange, violets, pansies-any refreshments, see the gifts (if they are for the skirt. When the figure is cut garden flower available-tied with on display) and then go on to another out, staple the skirt in the back and loops of ribbon, and perhaps a bit of similiar party for another young friend, this will make the lady stand alone. net. Then encircle this arrangement if they wish. These should be about four inches with rainbow-colored May baskets, CENTERPIECES: How about tying high. Paint in the features and add a filled with three small scoops of dif­ it to the "Sitting on Top of the World" bit of yarn for the hair. Decorate the ferent colored ice cream. The baskets theme? If the senior has a mortar board skirt with rows of lace, ruffles or are made by pasting doily ruffs (cut the to wear at the commencement, perhaps crepe paper, or scraps of material. center from lace paper doilies) onto you can borrow it to place at a jaunty These colonial ladies are most color- ti.. rim of paper serving dishes. (Continued on page 21) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 5

THE STROMS ENJOYED means of taking Vicksburg by way of A TRIP SOUTH the river and one was his attempt to dig a canal which failed. After the war Dear Friends: the old Mississippi changed her course No sooner had I written my letter to on her own, and very near the spot you last month when plans for our trip where Grant had made his attempt. south began to crystalize. Since I had The Illinois monument is probably made preliminary preparations, it the most beautiful in this National didn't take long to pack our suitcases Military Park. It stands on a high ele­ and we were on our way. Oliver and I vation and the 47 steps one must climb had both been working extremely hard to reach it represent the 47 days of the at our respective jobs, so it was a bit siege. Inside the monument, lining the hard to relax the first day out. It isn't walls, are the names on bronze of easy to pick ourselves up out of busy -everyone from Illinois who had a part routines and transform overnight into The Iowa Monument at the Na­ in this battle. Standing inside this tiona I Military Park at Vicks­ carefree travelers! The first day out is burg, Miss. The dirt in the magnificent structure, our guide told us a period of adjustment, but once we are foreground is due to road con­ stories about a number of the soldiers, several hundred miles from home we struction. and then located their names for us on begin to feel that we are actually on mation Center. The kind hostess gave the plaques. our way and relax. us a great deal of information and One should also visit the Old Court­ We traveled Highways 71 and 13 to h:rep 1 i ca of this fact, everything was running about a are as familiar with Vicksburg and the famous Wallpaper Newspaper in the month or so behind schedule. Conse­ siege that took place there as anyone museum. quently we didn't see the flowers that could possibly be. When our guide Another interesting item in the muse­ we had hoped to see. People were learned that we were from Iowa, she um is a four-rocker chair, made by a putting in their home gardens, the first took us to see the Iowa monument Union Soldier and sent to a Rebel grass was turning green, trees were on the battlegrounds and gave us a Soldier following the Vicksburg cam­ budding, and only the very earliest of "blow-by-blow account" of the Iowa paign. He drew the entire campaign on spring flowers were blooming-forsyth­ regiments' part in the battle. From our the chair and made a notation: "May ia, jonquils, hyacinths, etc. These conversations I could tell that no God forgive, unite and bless us all." flowers were a welcome sight to us, matter from which state tourists had This building was new when the however. come, she could have given that state's siege took place and in all of the South of Little Rock we expected to part in the war. Her knowledge was shelling of the city it received only see evidences of cotton fields for Pine amazing! one direct hit. Bluff, noted as the leading cotton mar­ She also took us to see the remains And speaking of the damages, one ket between Memphis and Dallas, was of the earthworks and systems of should also see McRaven, a beautiful on our route. We thought that planting trenches of the Confederate defenses, antebellum home which is completely would have been started, not realizing as well as outlines of the Federal unchanged since the Civil War days. that the weather had interfered. We did approach trenches. We could see the The tragic period of history is re­ see some of last year's plants which remains of major forts, both Confed­ corded in the hall and parlor walls by had not been plowed up and enormous erate and Federal. Gun placements and numerous shell marks. Many of the warehouses containing bales of cotton. rifle-pits are still visible in many original furnishings are still in the Driving southeast, we crossed the places. While one could view these home. Mississippi River at Vicksburg. Oliver things on his own, we had the advan­ Another beautiful home to see in and I had read several books recently tage of hearing the account of the war Vicksburg is Cedar Grove. Unfortun­ on the siege of this city during the War and numerous little stories and inci­ ately, we didn't get to go through it Between the States, (we noticed that in dents that took place amongst the for they were in the process of re­ the south it is called that rather than soldiers. pairing damage following a small fire. the Civil War), and were most anxious From Fort Hill, at the northern end However, we drove past it a number of to spend some time there. of the park, we viewed the Yazoo times and admired it so much. At the As soon as we were located in our Canal which play~d such an important time this plantation home was built motel, we drove to the Visitors Infor- part. General Grant had tried various (Continued on page 17) PAGE 6 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

DONALD AND MARY BETH WILL HAVE NEW NEIGHBORS

Dear Friends: Katharine is rushing around this morning applying the last finishing touches to her hair before she streaks down the street toward Elmweod School. We're on that last homestretch before school will be out for the sum­ mer and it's not a minute too soon! We've come to a point with Kath­ arine's hair when we must decide whether to return to a short cut with bangs or suffer through the "sheep­ do stage" until it is long enough to .·a:d. Katharine wants to have bangs agam and although I prefer her hair short, I must confess that I'm not "scheduled-up" to putting in the pin curls every night! She has lots of natu­ ral curl in her hair but not enough to sustain the weight of her heavy locks, We promised a picture of the Wisconsin Driftmiers' new puppy, so I've been saddled with hair-pinning E lloise, and here she is shoring the spotlight with Adrienne, Paul every evening before bedtime. and Katharine. This summer is going to be an en­ tirely different experience for us. A in an effort to stimulate a greater vote, summer. rt will be our first visit in new home is going up directly across to concentrate our invitations on the alrnos t three years. Let me hasten to the street and although the ages of the new people in the ward who probably add that Donald has been home for a children won't match the ages of our didn't know the candidates. quick visit or two, and the Senior youngsters, we'll be happy to have Just to prove again what a small Driftmiers have been here in this three· four new ones in the neighborhood. world this is, one of the couples whom year period. We've (I'll be honest; it Surveyors are working industriously in we called, the McCowens, came from was I!) lacked courage to tackle a the vacant lot right beside our house, Clarinda, Iowa, and had heard about 600-mile trip with a small baby and all and these new owners hope to have the Kitchen-Klatter Family. We were de­ the associated paraphernalia. This trip their home finished by July, And the lighted to have them among the people W€ shall travel without diapers, baby biggest news about them is that they who came to our house on the most bottles, cover-all plastic bibs, special have an eight-year-old daughter! miserable Saturday I've seen in many satin-trimmed blankets which had to be The house to the north of us has been months! It rained all morning, and by dragged into and out of every restaurant sold and the new owners have a boy noon such a thick, heavy fog settled along the way, and a thousand other named Paul who is four years old, down on us that navigation in an auto­ things which traveling with small chil­ going on five. This is occasion for mobile was positively risky. But de­ dren involves. This visit should, in real celebration! This new Paul will spite the weather, the McCowens and fact, be fun, and I'm looking forward to be the first boy our Paul has had to many other interested citizens r,ume to a vacation and a change of landscape play with, and won't we create some our home for coffee and donuts, and for me and mine. confusion when we call outside for our became acquainted with the Mayor and Our summer is shaping up to be a Pauls? It might be the wrong boy but our ward's Alderman. busy one. In June we'll go to Shen­ at least we'll be bound to get an This was a wonderfully interesting andoah; in July Katharine goes to answer! afternoon for us. Donald and I hadn't Brownie Day Camp; in August we hope All together, I've counted 20 children met the Mayor personally and it was to find a quiet spot in northern Wiscon­ in the neighborhood as opposed to five very informative to visit with him. sin where we can settle down with the last summer. That will be quite a Katharine's first piano recital is children and enjoy our first vacation change. coming up in two weeks and she's sub­ (not counting visits with our parents) This rapid growth of our neighborhood limely confidant about the whole pros­ since 1957. We finally got all the lawn is a very accurate picture of the entire pect. I can remember the wretched in and the patio finished, and all the city of New Berlin. We recently had a cases of stage fright that enveloped major projects that took precedence Mayorial election in our city and let me before each piano recital, but not over our personal pleasures are com­ me add right here that it was strictly so with this seven-year-old of ours. pleted. I can't tell you how excited I non-partisan. This was quite a start­ Naturally, I have no intention of telling am to be looking forward to our plans ling fact for Don and me after having her she should be feeling anything but for the summer. seen Mayorial elections and City Coun­ confidant! We are seeing to it that I have a beautiful piece of white fish cil elections carried out on a distinct she plays for other people as often as ready to bake for supper tonight. (I'll political platform in Indiana. We were possible in preparation for the recital. send along the recipe in case there is asked to serve on a committee in our In fact, 3he is more than willing to room for it in this issue.) I found this voting ward to help with the campaign oblige any newcomer with a perform­ beautiful fresh fish at the little old­ for the men of our choice. Because ance. Brownie meetings are slowly fashioned meat market where I shop. there are so many new residents in om turning into recitals as each piano This market is another of the Milwau­ ward, we decided to entertain the student gives a quick performance of kee "finds" I've made. Mayor and the Alderman from our area. last week's lesson. Until next month ...... (Alderman is the same as City Council­ We're making plans for the trip to Sincerely, man in most areas.) We also· decided. Shenandoah for the familv reunion this Mary Beth KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 7

Commencement :lor motker

by Mabel Nair Brown

This skit is written as a take-off on a Mother should have, she really make it well". Music: Some sad chords college commencement with Mother should. and then some light and skipping' receiving a degree in every department. Doctor of Laws with purple hat? music. It is intended to strike a lighter vein Doctor of Literature? No, not that. "For her untiring efforts in the Res­ as a change from the sentimental pro­ Doctor of Science? Doesn't fit! cue Department supervised by Profes­ gram which usually characterizes a Doctor of Miscellaneous-is that it?" sor Kiss-and-make-well, we are happy Mother's Day observance. Too fre­ (President Soft Soap takes her place to award this Degree in Nursing." quently they become sad rather than beside the table to the music of Pomp (Presents a box of bandages and bottle the happy occasions they should be. and Circumstance.) of antiseptic.) Setting Baby Sitter Degree: The scene shows Lawyer: Mother attempts to settle an a mother rocking baby to the music of argument between two belligerent little Prepare the stage as for a commence­ Brahm's Lullaby. Then she steps over girls who are struggling over posses­ ment with baskets of flowers and, at to receive her degree from President sion of some toy. Music: I Don't Want the left side, place a small table upon Soft Soap. to Play in Your Yard. which the "awards" and "degrees" "For c om p 1et in g the prescribed "From the Fuss-and-Fume Depart­ are placed until presented by the course in the Science of Cuddling and ment, directed by Professor Referee, "president" of the "college". At tl).e Soothing under Professor Love-it, you we present this Degree in Law." right side, set up two screens with an are awarded this Baby Sitter's De­ (Gives catcher's mask and protector.) opening between them which becomes gree." (Hands the mother a baby's the stage for the tableaus. As each Detective: Mother catches the cookie pacifier.) tableau is finished, the mother re­ jar "sneak thief" in the act, turns the ceives a "degree" from President Soft Librarian: Mother is reading a story child over her knee for spanking, and Soap. Any others participating in the to a small child and as she appears to then ends up by giving her a handful of scene quietly step out of sight behind finish one little book, the child hands cookies. Music: Theme song from Drag­ the screens. her another. Mother is obviously trying net. The President's "mortar board" is an to put an end to the reading session so "From the Who-Dunnit Department old-fashioned dust cap, and her "aca­ she can get on with other tasks. Music: under Professor Eyes-in-the-back-of­ demic robe" is a large coverall apron. Zippity Doo Da, or any children's song. her-head, we are proud to present this Of course she will wear horn-rimmed •'For excellent achievement in the Detective's Degree." (Hands her a glasses and go through the exercises Science of 'What's That and Why?', mouse trap.) with exaggerated dignity. As each conducted by Professor Monotone, we Psychologist: The scene shows a mother steps up to receive the "de­ are happy to give you this Librarian's mother striving to sooth an upset teen­ gree", President Soft Soap first places Degree." (Hands her a box of throat ager who goes through an exaggerated upon her head her "mortar board", lozenges.) pantomime of being disgusted to the which is a square potholder with a Dietitian: Mother sits at a table point of tears over her hair and her plastic spoon tied to it for a tassel. which is loaded with clippings of dress. She is obviously not satisfied Program recipes, recipe file, cook books, etc. with her appearance. Music: Any hit She studies grocery ad in newspaper, Narrator: tune of the teen-age crowd. then looks into a purse from which "They give degrees to everyone "For her term of hard labor in the she shakes a few coins. Music: Yes, Sneaker-and-Twist Department, we These days for things that have We Have No Bananas. proudly present this Degree in Phy­ been done, And every new occasion brings "With deep pleasure from the Dip­ chology and Counseling." (Hands her and-Deal Department, taught by Pro­ More Doctors of all kinds of things. a bottle of asprin.) fessor Fill-up, I award you this Dieti­ But there is Mother. While we go Child Development: A mother and tian's Degree." (Gives the mother a For all this academic show, children are shown with a picnic bas­ can opener.) She calmly works on through the ket, ball and bat, etc.; or act out any fuss, Nurse: A mother and her tomboy scene depicting a mother playing with And takes care of the rest of us. daughter make up the scene. Mother is her children. Music: My Mom or That It is high time, I think, don't you, bandaging a stubbed toe and examines Little Girl of Mine. She had some recognition, too? a black eye. Of course the child gri­ "From the Palsy-walsy Department A Doctor's gown-at least cap, or maces and tries to jerk away, etc. taught by Professor Kidding, you are hood, Mother ends the scene with a kiss "to (Continued on page 22) PAGE 8 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

CARNATIONS FOR MOTHER fir\ is for OBEDIENCE that Mother An Acrostic W taught us--obedience to the By home, the school, the government, and Mabel Nair Brown above all, to the will of God. My son, hear the instruction of thy Place nine bud vases, a single pink father, and forsake not the law of thy or white carnation in each, upon a mother .... Train up a child the way small table in the center of the stage. he should go, and he .will not depart In front of each vase, place a small from it. needlepoint flower holder, or square of styrofoam with a slit in it, to hold :bJ' is for NOW--the time to let the letters which spell out the word C"', Mother know how much we love "C-a-r-n-a-t-i-o-n". Each of the speak­ her; how much we appreciate all that ers places her letter in the proper she has taught us. As we wear the holder before she says the lines per­ carnation this Mother's Day, let's go taining to her assigned letter. These deeper than the outward sign. Let's letters should be cut from a deep rose go farther than one special day. Let shade of heavy poster paper. Twine Mother's Day mark the beginning of greenery around the base of vases a "mother" year--a year to offer her, and holders. not one day, but every day, our love, Each speaker returns to her place in our deference, our care, our interest, the audience after speaking. Sharon Brown graduates from high and our prayers. school this month. She is a daugh­ Lea.der: She keeps the hearth-fire ter cf Mabe I and Dale Brown, burning, holds the home together, Ogden, Iowa. ''For her who knows the grandeur of makes a little sanctuary of love and love and sacrifice, faith and comfort for her family in the For her whose hands have shaped the is for the NOBLE thoughts midst of a hectic, turbulent world. And :bJ' destinies of men, Mother implanted in our youth­ always the light of her guidance, and C"', For her whose heart has dreamed the ful minds; inspiring us to set high the tenderness of her caring, and the dreams which create beauty warmth of her presence, make bright goals, to strive toward high ideals, to everywhere, be worthy of those who trust us, to be the lives of those she calls her own. For her whose reverent worshiping a true to ourselves and to God, and to "There's a center to each home from thousand shrines has fashioned, be friends to all mankind. which all joys must start--the center For all this, and oh, so much more of the home? It is a mother's heart." Ye shall know them by their fruits. that words cannot tell, Do men gather grapes of thorns, or If all the flowers of Mother's Day could We wear a carnation for Mother." speak, what would they say? Let us figs of thistles? Every good tree bring­ BEATITUDES FOR WOMEN hear, and ponder, the message the eth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree CARNATIONS would give us today. bringeth forth evil fruit. Blessed is she whose daily tasks Let them speak to us of her whom we are a labor of love, for her willing honor this day. ~ is for ASSURANCE so firm and hands and happy heart translate duty C"" so strong, binding us to Mother into privilege and her labor becomes a 1-lr (first speaker): is for the all of life long; for the assurance that service to God and all mankind. \LJ., COURAGE instilled in us by whatever, wherever, we may be, Moth­ Blessed is she who opens the door to Mother--the courage to be brave in er's prayers follow you, follow me. welcome both stranger and well-loved the face of adversity, the courage to Seek ye the Lord while He may be friend, for gracious hospitality is a change what can be changed, and to found, call ye upon Him while He is test of brotherly love. accept that which cannot. near. The Lord is nigh unto all them Blessed is she who mends stockings The Lord is my light and my salva­ that call upon Him, to all that call and toys and broken hearts, for her tion; whom shall I fear? The Lord is upon Him in truth. understanding is a balm to humanity. the strength of my life; of whom shall Blessed is she who scours and I be afraid? <71r stands for TENDER, for TIRE­ scrubs, for well she knows that clean­ \!.). LESS. Tender, tireless, and liness is one expression of Godliness. is for the ADORING LOVE she patient, Mother guides, with a gentle Blessed is she whom children love, gives the tiny baby entrusted hand, her flock along the way, never for the love of a child is to be valued to her care. "Two worn little shoes failing to care--to understand. more than fortune or fame. with a hole in the toe. And why have Let us not be weary in well doing; Blessed is she who sings at her I saved them? WeU·-all mothers know. for in due season we shall reap if we work, for music lightens the heaviest There's nothing so sweet as a baby's faint not .... A man's wisdom maketh load and brightens the dullest chore. worn shoe, and the patter of little his face to shine. Blessed is she who dusts away doubt steps following you." and fear and sweeps out the cobwebs It we love one another, God dwelleth is for INTEREST that a mother of confusion, for her faith will triumph in us, and His love is perfected in us. shows in all that concerns her over adversity. child all his life long--interest in his Blessed is she who serves laughter lt? is for the RESPONSIBILITY baby fears, his fun, his dreams, his and smiles with every meal, for her ~l assumed by this mother of accomplishments. Yes, even the fail­ buoyancy of spirit is an aid to mental ours--for our nurture and growth, our ures and discouragements are shared and physical digestion. faith, our ideals, she shirked not by Mother. Blessed is she who preserves the one hour. Whatsoever things are true, whatso­ sanctity of the Christain home, for The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, ever things are honest . . . . whatso­ hers is a sacred trust that crowns her peace, long-suffering, gentleness, ever things are lovely .... think on with dignity. goodness, and faith. these things. -Anonymous KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 9

ABIGAIL'S LETTER IS VERY INTERESTING Dear Friends: This year when the first day of Spring rolled around I felt just plain smug. My spring house cleaning was all done. I couldn't really feel smug very long, however, for I knew then that by the time Summer was officially ushered in, many areas of the house would have long since lost that immaculate look. I'm really not that eager a house­ cleaner. It's just that this year we decided to add carpeting. This deci­ Abigai I has mentioned the Wi I more Nurseries' new garden center in sion precipitated considerable painting previous letters. This picture shows some of the new buildings. and from that point on, it was a simple matter to clean the remaining portions Once the growing season gets under­ the enormous Glen Canyon Dam is of the house. way I devote many more hours to house­ nearing completion. This dam will When we moved into this house we keeping our yard than I do to the ac­ create huge new Lake Powell. In a few owned nothing in the way of floor cov­ tual house itself. As a matter of fact, years it is expected that this new dam ering except a few small throw rugs. most household activities just plain :::nd lake will provide recreational fa­ We would have liked then to have in­ get neglected when there is competi­ cilities comparable to those of Hoover stalled wall-to-wall carpeting. But with tion from gardening, golf and the moun­ Dam and Lake Mead. the expenses of moving and getting tains. I have always felt a powerful From Glen Canyon Dam it is not many settled in a new home, the cost was lure for the out-of-doors in the West. miles on alternate Highway 89 to the prohibitive so Wayne and I decided to Already I'm developing my usual sum­ turnoff for the North Rim of the Grand buy rugs for the living and dining mer wanderlust! Canyon. Some day our family hopes to rooms. It was our intention that when Certainly some of you must have visit the North Rim. Our good friends these rugs started to show wear, we plans to drive to Grand Canyon and next door much prefer it to the South would have them moved into two of the perhaps on to Southern California this Rim. It is considerably higher in alti­ bedrooms. Their size was sufficient to summer. A brand-new highway was tude, making it cooler in summer, and, enable them to be installed in these completed last fall which opens not in addition, has been considerably less latter rooms as carpeting. only a shorter route, but one that cov­ crowded. They reported the drive This past winter those rugs seemed ers country not frequented before by through the Kaibab National Forest to disintegrate overnight. We knew if T'1any tourists. I'm referring to the especially beautiful. we were ever to salvage them for the Navajo Trail Highway which goes from Of course, once the North Rim of the bedrooms, we couldn't delay a month Cortez, Colorado, through the Arizona Grand Canyon is reached, you are prac­ longer. The old rugs were a dark green. towns of Tees Nos Pas, Mexican Water, tically next door to Bryce and Zion We had tired of this color so the new Kayenta, Tuba City and Cameron to National Parks. It's a fortunate thing carpeting is a gold and white tweed. Flagstaff. This highway is so new that that I don't have a car parked outside. Once we had ordered the new carpeting it is shown on very few highway maps. Tust sitting here writing about these there were exactly two weeks in which But it is possible to find the approxi­ ?Jh:ring places makes me want to start to paint the living room, dining room, mate route it follows by tracing the out right now to see each and every front hall, bedroom hall, our bedroom primitive or unimproved roads it re­ one of them. and the girls' bedroom. Unfortunately, places on most highway maps for Ari­ Our own family's plans for the sum­ we had a number of previous engage­ zona. Prior to the completion of this mer are quite indefinite at this point. ments for this same time period so that payed highway, it was virtually im­ We are planning a brief trip to Iowa in it became a real scramble to complete possible to reach the Four-Corners June. But any other travel plans will the painting. But there is nothing like point where Utah, Colorado, New Mex­ have to wait to be made. Perhaps next a deadline to make you work long and ic6 and Arizona join-the only such month will find the course of events hard and we managed to finish on time. geographic union in the United States. for the summer shaping up. Our bedroom is painted a grey-green Much of this highway was built under Sincerely, that blends in nicely with the green of contracts let by the Navajo Indian Abigail the old rug now freshly shampooed. Tribe since it traverses their reserva­ Emily and Alison have a very bright tion. Wayne and I have not been over Some people pass through this shade of gold on their walls-we now this route, but last January the Wil­ wonderful world refer to their room as Fort Knox. The mores used it when they drove to Cali­ And never look up at the sky. remaining portions, which are the areas fornia. They reported the road was very It's nothing to them that the lark sings where the new carpeting is installed, fine but accomodations then were ex­ there are painted a very light shade of beige; tremely limited. The only motel open While the great white clouds sail by. it really looks off-white. below Cortez and in northern Arizona This new light and cheerful color in was at Kayenta. It was new and modern It's nothing to them that millions of the carpeting has certainly brightened and I'm sure there will be several more stars up our house, So far, it has been much constructed this summer. Weave a silver web at night. easier to keep clean-looking than the Directly north of Kayenta, on a road They do not know of the hush that falls dark green. Our furniture is all dark extending up into utah, is the magnifi­ When the dawn gives birth to light. wood so it shows up more effectively cent Monument Valley. Most of us have now. We just hope the nylon will be seen these spectacular formations only Oh, pity the people with all your heart, able to do a better job of taking the in movies. Also, a few miles west of Who never look up at the sky. heavy traffic than the wool has. Only Tuba City, it is possible to turn north So many beautiful sights they miss time will give us the answer to that. on Highway 89 to Page, Arizona, where As the pageant of God goes by. PAGE 10 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

CERAMICS-PLUS TRIBUTE TO AN OLD TEACHER by by Hallie M. Harrow Alice G. Harvey Have you always thought of ceramics For sixty years she had tau g ht as a hobby just for a woman wanting school-in the country and in a small knick-knacks for home decorations? midwestern town, all within a radius of Mrs. Rex Orr, Cameron, Mo., who holds ten miles. And now she was dead. As ceramics classes in her basement fame and fortune went she had col­ workshop, says one reason ceramics is lected none, but she will hotve a monu­ such a fast growing hobby is the fact ment in the memory and hearts of the that it reaches many different classes hundreds of students whom she helped. of people. Because of her, many men and women First, it serves as a creative outlet today are leading useful and happy for older folks, both men and women. lives. Yet, for them she never did any­ We visited a class just before thing spectacular. Often she simply sat She introduces to t:s her prize pupil, Christmas and snapped this pic­ Mrs. Molly Wines, age 81, of Hamilton, ture of Mrs. Allen Doak, Osborn, down quietly and talked to them­ Mo. WhPn we asked Mrs. Wines who Mo. on the left, making ceramic inspired them to do their best, when broubht her each week, she replied, holders for facial tissues. In the often that best was a terrific effort. middle is Mrs. Ruby Cowell, Os­ With the dumb, the stupid and the "I drive my own car!" Mrs. Orr adds born, Ma., finishing 24 pairs of that Mrs. Wines' driving her own car ceramic earrings with holiday slow she had infinite patience and love now is even more remarkable because decorations. At the right is the and always a smile of encouragement. of her accident a year ago. jolly Mrs. Wines, making candle How much that pat on the back or the holders of two dark green leaves, arm around the shoulder of an unhappy She was working at her table in the held together with a gold socket, basement studio when she saw a big to hold red Christmas candles. child meant! black water bug skittering towards her. And with the bright and exceptional She jumped up quickly to kill it-prob­ Mrs. Orr says her happiest pupils student she was equally adept-keeping ably too quickly, for she stumbled and come from schools for retarded, or them busy with extra work, bringing in fell. She didn't think she was hurt backward, children, especially teen­ outside material at her own expense to badly, and insisted on driving her car agers who so often feel left out of most give them a broader view of life. She home. Several days later Mrs. Wines regular school activities. Often young had a large library of her own beyond consulted a physician, who said she folks who make very little progress in what the school supplied, and she put had a broken hip, and she was hospi­ books are talented along this line. it to good use. talized for three months. Everyone When Mrs. Orr praises their finished Perhaps one of her hardest tasks was predicted that this would end many of work, they are radiantly happy. It is a to deal with a boy who insisted on her former activities. But in no time at masterpiece to them. Mrs. Orr adds that spending his recesses reading the all she was driving her car again, and ceramics is a new therapy now being encyclopedias instead of playing. When resumed her ceramic lessons. She said used at mental institutions, and has 'she was through with him, he had a that one thing that kept her courage up been a big help in restoring normalcy better sense of social conduct and was her determination to attend her in many cases. today is a popular university professor. ceramics classes again. Little wonder that it is a hobby Governors, teachers and statesmen Incidentally, the class, who adore growing so fast that it ranks in the have come from her classroom, all a Mrs. Wines for her happy disposition, high brackets of creative arts. If you little more refined-a little better for wondered how best to handle the bug love beauty in china and decorations, having been under her kindly influence. situation in their basement workshop. and if you could visit Mrs. Orr's show She had her training in the old school A very simple expedient solved their room with its hundreds of attractive of thoroughness and never departed problem perfectly. They brought in a articles, you, too, would wish to prac­ from it. small toad! In the past year, the toad tice this art. Her greatest joy came from hearing o1 has doubled in size and keeps the the success of some of her former pu­ classroom free of bugs-even to tlre pils. She had taught through three wars hordes of box-elder bugs which gather and during those times wrote to as in clusters on the basement walls in many of her students as possible. the fall season of the year. Her Hr:;t meager salary of $22.50 a Mrs. Orr encourages older folks to month went to help bolster the family take up this art, and is planning to Our new Kitchen-Klatter book income. And she helped many nieces start classes for older women from of inspiration for Mother's Day and nephews through the years, not nearby rest homes. She has classes in and complete plans for many only materially and financially but with the evening for employed women. Per­ Mother-Daughter banquets and encouragement, humor and inspiration. haps the largest class of women she is programs. She was my staunch friend, and as reaching are the rural women in the This is a big collection of the she takes her place in that small town three adjoining counties. In this sec­ best of such material which has c e meter y, many others mourn her tion the women are too far away from appeared in our magazine over passing. Over sixty years a teacher! the larger cities to enjoy such art the years - all together in book Not a glamorous record as measured by work. Mrs. Orr has given many after­ form. the accumulation of money. But it is a noon programs to the extension clubs. The price? Imagine! wonderful record in human relationship, Many of these clubs have studied or ONLY 50¢ a wonderful record of promoting high are studying, flower arranging. For this Send your order today to: ideals, a wonderful record of thorough they need containers, bowls of various teaching of the simple and basic ele­ sizes, and accessories. So making The Driftmier Co. ments of learning, habits of industry, these at the ceramics class fits in with Shenandoah, Iowa of leading others up that road of know­ their flower study. ledge. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 11

FREDERICK LEAVES ON little sweeter this year than last, and ANOTHER PREACHING MISSION that means a really good quality of sirup. A few weeks ago when the last Dear Friends: of the run was being taken just before In a few hours Betty and I shall be shutting off for this season, some of flying to Bermuda for a ten-day visit the young people in my church went with the families of the United States up into Berkshire Hills for a "sugaring Air Force. I have been invited to do off party". They had lots of fun help­ in Bermuda what I did for seven of our ing the farmer bring in the buckets of large air stations in Europe just a sap, pouring it into the big evaporator little over a year ago. On Sunday I tanks, and then feeding the big wood preach three times in the main chapel, fires to get the right amount of boil. and then I preach in one of the chapels Do you know what we must have for each evening during the week. The a good sap season?We must have warm, daylight hours will be spent visiting thawing days, and cold, freezing nights. with the men and their families, speak­ It is the alternate melting and freezing ing over the radio and television Frederick takes the young people that keeps the sap running, and the of his church on frequent outings. facilities on the island, and I hope Here you see him ot a steak fry. more it runs, the better the season. getting in a little sunbathing on the The State of Vermont, a few miles to beach. the north of us. is the chief state around When Major Trapp, the senior American bad enough the first night, but unfortu­ here for maple sirup. Of course, New chaplain at the air station, wrote and nately. the skunk likes it under the York boasts a lot about its sirup, but asked me to do this for the Air Force porch and shows no signs of making an I can tell you that Vermont sirup is he mentioned that he knew all about early departure. If any of you have any better. Act u a 11 y, some of our Mas­ me because his wife took the Kitchen­ ideas about getting rid of such an un­ sachusetts sirup is just about as good Klatter Magazine. Actually this did welcome visitor, I wish you would write as it comes. It all depends upon the not surprise me in the least, for when and tell me. This happened to us once particular farm, and the particular I was with the Air Force in Europe before about five years ago. quality of the trees. I met many men whose wives take the Mother nature put on a little show to I love this time of year with all of magazine regularly. help make up for the skunk problem. its promise of a beautiful summer in Our plan now is to drive our car to We have had dozens and dozens of the weeks ahead. Quite often after the Springfield airport and leave it Evening Grosbeaks flying about onr supper I take a walk down to the corner there until our return. We fly to New yard and that of our neighbor. This is of the block where I can look out across York early in the morning and then at the first spring we have had any around the Connecticut River, on across the 10:30 take a plane from there for Ber­ here, and to have them in such quantity densely settled valley to the rolling muda. Our actual flight time from New is really delightful. Of course the big .Berkshire Hills beyond. The sun sets York to Bermuda will be less than two attraction is the bird food, and how behind the Berkshires, and at this time hours. It will be Betty's first flight they do eat it. The Evening Grosbeak of the year the sunsets are always by Jet, and she's quite excited about it. is a dusky yellow color with large white lovely. The Berkshire hills go up from My! how aviation has changed in wing patches. They are about the size the valley to about 3,200 feet at their recent years. The other evening I got of a Starling, and, as a matter of fact, highest point. We have to drive through out some old books on Bermuda and they have had to drive off the Starlings the hills to get to the Hudson River was showing my son David the pictures so they could get at the bird food. Valley beyond, and on a nice day in of familiar Bermuda scenes. Many of We have wild ducks around here like the spring or in the summer it is a you will remember that Betty and I some people have sparrows. The wild lovely drive. There are many fine sum­ lived in Bermuda for a year when I was ducks know that they are safe in the mer hotels and good camps for young a Navy Chaplain. Among the pictures park, and every day of the week many people all through the Berkshires. were some of the big Clipper planes children and adults go to the park just Our David goes to a big Boy Scout that I once flew in to Bermuda. The to feed the ducks. As a result, the Camp high in the hills where several plane had a lovely dining room, a large ducks just stay right here all year long. streams come together to form a perfect gallery with two chefs, a card room, They know a good thing when they see lake for boating and swimming. etc. Those old planes may have been it, and free food is to their liking. I keep promising the family that some­ slow in comparison with the modern Actually, wild animals adjust very day I shall take them on a vagabond ones, but I must say that they did have quickly to lazy food habits, and once trip following all the little side roads conveniences. It was so nice to sit at they have been given free food and that run off through the Berkshire Hills a comfortable table and to be served lodging, they refuse to look for it the in every direction. But for now, I just a meal by a regular waiter. That par­ hard way. It is really most entertaining have enough time to walk down to the ticular plane even had staterooms and to see the wild ducks walking in a long corner and look at them. Isn't that the a honeymoon suite. column through one of the residential way it usually is? The people who live Believe it or not, we have a skunk neighborhoods close to the park. They right in the heart of such magnificent problem at our house. The other night have no fear of anything, and yet some scenic country never find the time to I woke up thinking that there must be of them were just as wild as they could really enjoy it. If you should come out a skunk right under my bed. The odor be last fall when they stopped by the to see our lovely Berkshires, be sure was so penetratingly strong! Actually, park on their way south from Canada. to stop in and tell us about them. the skunk was under the front porch You folks who are planning to make And now we're going to have some and the wind was blowing the scent a trip through New England this sum­ quiet music on the phonograph. We've through a crack in the foundation and mer are going to see our famous maple certainly enjoyed that fine new record right into the automatic humidifying sugar products on sale at every market, by the Mormon choir that was mentioned system air intake. Of course the scent gasoline station, and restaurant. This in the magazine in March. of the skunk was blown through the past season was a good one for all the Sincerely, whole house in no time at all. It was maple sugar farmers. The sap was a Frederick PAGE 12 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

SOUR CREAM APPLE PIE (This exceptionally delicious apple pie bears repeating, and particularly Recipes Tested at the present season when it's not always easy to come across extra good by the apples for pie.) 2 Tbls. flour Kitchen - Klatter 1/2 tsp. salt 3/4 cup sugar Family 1 egg 1 cup commercial sour cream 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla flavoring 2 cups apples, finely chopped Sift together dry ingredie-fits and add egg, cream and vanilla. Beat well and VERY GOOD BARBECUED MOVING DAY POTATO SOUP then add apples. When thoroughly SPARERIBS 4 cups potatoes, peeled and cubed mixed pour into 9-inch unbaked pie shell and place in a 400 degree oven Enough ribs (country style) to serve 2 medium onions, sliced for 15 minutes. Then reduce heat to 6 generously 3/4 cups water 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Remove Salt - pepper to taste 1 tsp. salt pie, turn oven back up to 400 degrees, 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/4 tsp. garlic salt and sprinkle this topping over the pie: 1 8 oz. can tomato sauce 1/4 tsp. oregano Combine 1/3 cup sugar, 1/3 cup 1/2 cup commercial chili sauce A dash of pepper flour, a pinch of salt, 1 tsp. cinnamon. 1/4 cup water 3 cups milk Cut into these dry ingredients 1I4 cup 2 tsp. vinegar 1/4 cup margarine butter. Sprinkle this mixture over pie 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce A few drops Kitchen-Klatter butter and return to 400 degree oven for 10 Very few drops liquid smoke flavoring minutes. Combine all ingredients, aside from Combine the water, potatoes, onions People who don't like apple pie ribs, in saucepan and brin.; to a boil. and seasonings in a saucepan. Simmer (there are such people, brother Freder­ Pour over ribs that have been spread until the potatoes are tender; mash ick included) enjoy this, and people out in a roaster and place in a 200 slightly and add the milk, margarine who won't eat sour cream pie enjoy degree oven. At the end of one hour, and flavoring. The potatoes should this, so you have the field covered turn ribs so that every portion of the thicken the soup slightly. f'srve hot when you bake this pie! meat is covered with sauce and in­ with crumbled bacon and crisp crackers. crease temperature to 350 degrees for -Evelyn HOMEMADE MAYONNAISE an hour. If time permits, turn ribs several times during last hour. SPICY APPLESAUCE COOKIES 1 tsp. salt Suggestions: Country style spareribs 1/4 tsp. paprika 1 3/4 cups flour are much easier to serve if the butcher Dash of red pepper 1/2 tsp. salt separates them from the heavy bone 1 tsp. prepared mustard 1 tsp. cinnamon that "holds them together". This will 2 egg yolks 1 /2 tsp. nutmeg also enable you to trim off every bit 2 Tbls. tarragon vinegar 1/2 tsp. cloves of fat. And they are flat in the roaster, 2 Tbls. red wine vinegar 1 cup applesauce when separated, and absorb much more 2 cups salad oil 1 tsp. soda of the sauce. Mix dry ingredients with prepared 1/2 cup shortening Use liquid smoke with extreme cau­ mustard; add egg yolks and beat well. 1 cup sugar tion. A very few drops will do the job. Add vinegars to egg yolk mixture and 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter These barbecued ribs along with when thoroughly combined, add oil, flavoring twice-baked potatoes and a big green very slowly at first. Continue adding 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla salad makes for very good eating. oil, until all 2 cups are in. Beat the flavoring entire time, and let's hope you have an PEPPERMINT CANDY DESSERT 1 egg electric mixer for this job! 1 cup seedless raisins (We'd forgotton how good homemade 2 cups whipping cream 1 cup bran flakes cereal mayonnaise tastes until I ran out of 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla Mix the shortening with the sugar, the commercial variety and whipped flavoring flavorings and egg until creamy. Sift this up so I could go ahead and make 1 lb. marshmallows, cut in small together the flour, salt, cinnamon, nut­ a salad!) pieces meg, and cloves. Stir the soda into the - Lucile 1/2 lb. peppermint stick candy, applesauce. Add the dry ingredients to crushed the creamed mixture alternately with SWEET SCHOOL DAY SPREAD 1 lb. butter cookies the applesauce. Fold in the raisins and Whip the cream, adding the vanilla bran flakes. Drop by teaspoonfuls onto 1/2 cup School Day peanut butter flavoring to it. Add the marshmallows a greased cooky sheet and bake 12 1/2 cup raisins, ground and crushed candy. Crumble the butter minutes in a 375 degree oven. Makes 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter lemon cookies and place a layer of them in a about three dozen. flavoring buttered pan. Then add the whipped Note: The applesauce fizzes when 2 Tbls. honey cream mixture. Top with more crumbs. the soda is added to it, so be sure to Combine all the ingredients. Spread This should stand in the refrigerator put it into a bowl which will allow for on bread for a delicious sandwich over night. Serve with whipped cream. this. filling. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 13

CHEF'S DELIGHT CHICKEN DISH CRAB LOUIS SALAD PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

1 pkg. frozen broccoli or asparagus, small head lettuce 1/4 cup margarine, melted cooked 3 6Vz-oz. cans crab meat 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter Sliced chicken or turkey, cooked 6 hard-cooked eggs flavoring 1 can condensed cream of chicken Chopped chives 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter maple soup, undiluted Shred lettuce on six salad plates. flavoring 1/2 cup light cream Drain and separate crab meat placing 3/4 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese one-half of each can on top of lettuce. Pineapple slices, drained 1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce Rice the hard-cooked eggs over crab Maraschino cherries, drained 1/4 tsp. salt meat and sprinkle with chopped chives. Nuts, if desired Paprika Spoon dressing generously over crab 1 pkg. white cake mix, or your Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Ar­ meat. favorite cake recipe range the cooked broccoli or asparagus Dressing 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter pineapple and the cooked sliced chicken in layers flavoring 1 cup mayonnaise in individual baking dishes. Combine Combine the melted margarine, butter the soup with the remaining ingredi­ 1I4 cup lemon juice and maple flavorings and brown sugar. ents. Pour over the casserole and 1/2 cup chili sauce Spread over the bottom of a lightly sprinkle the top with paprika. Bake 20 1/4 cup chopped, stuffed green olive;" greased 9-by-13-inch cake pan. Arrange minutes, or until hot and bubbly. 1 tsp. horseradish pineapple slices, cherries and nuts 1 tsp. V1orcestershire sauce EVELYN'S BEST DOUGHNUTS over the sugar mixture. Beat up a white 1 Tbls. minced onion cake mix, or use your own white cake 2 eggs 1 Tbls. capers recipe for the batter, adding 1/2 tsp. 1 cup sugar Few grains salt of the Kitchen-Klatter pineapple flav­ 2 tsp. shortening, melted Freshly ground pepper oring. Spoon the batter over the fruit 1/2 tsp. salt Combine all ingredients and chill layer in the cake pan until the pan is 3 cups flour thoroughly. about 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees for 2 tsp. baking powder -Abigail 50 minutes. (The time would be less 1/4 tsp. cinnamon if you are making a smaller cake.) 1/4 tsp. nutmeg FILLING FOR NUT BREAD Remove from the oven; let stand for 1 cup milk SANDWICHES 5 minutes. Turn upside down on a plate. 1/2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla Serve warm with whipped cream. flavoring 3 oz. pkg. cream cheese Beat eggs and sugar together. Add 2 Tb ls. orange juice GOLDEN NUGGET CASSEROLE the cooled shortening. Sift the dry 1/4 cup chopped raisins 2 cups carrots, diced and cooked ingredients together and add alter­ 2 Tbls. butter nately with the milk and flavoring. If BAKED WHITEFISH WITH STUFFING 3 Tb ls. flour you roll out your doughnuts and cut 1 /2 tsp. salt them with a cutter, add enough milk to Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. 1 1 /2 cups milk make of rolling consistency. Cut out Oil or grease rack of roasting pan; 1 Tbls. onion, minced the doughnuts or drop from maker into place 2 or 3 slices of salt pork or 1/3 cup cheese, grated deep, hot fat. Brown a few minutes on bacon on it. The fish is placed on 1 can whole kernel corn, drained each side. Remove from the hot fat, these slices. 1 /2 cup cracker crumbs, buttered drain and sugar or frost with a thin Remove head of fish, wash inside While the carrots are cooking in powdered sugar frosting. and out, salt inside of fish and then fill with stuffing. Hold edges of fish salted water, melt the butter, stir in APPLESAUCE COOKIES together with toothpicks or lace shut the flour until smooth, add the salt and 1 cup sugar with basting pins and string. milk and continue cooking over low 1/2 cup vegetable shortening heat, stirring constantly, until thick­ 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter butter Stuffing ened. Into this white sauce stir all the flavoring 2 cups soft bread crumbs ingredients, including the drained 1 egg 1/2 tsp. salt carrots, except for the cracker crumbs. 1 cup thick unsweetened applesauce 1/8 tsp. pepper Put in a greased casserole and sprin­ 1 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter vanilla 1 tsp. scraped onion kle the buttered cracker crumbs over flavoring Few grains cayenne pepper the top. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 2 cups flour 2 Tbls. butter minutes. Serves 8. 1 Tbls. chopped parsley 1 tsp. baking powder MINT MAYONNAISE 1 tsp. soda 1 Tbls. chopped pickle 1 tsp. cloves Melt butter in saucepan; mix into it 4 Tb ls. mayonnaise 1 tsp. cinnamon the crumbs, seasonings and onion. Stir 1 Tbls. lemon juice 1/2 tsp. salt until crumbs are slightly browned. Re­ A dash of salt 1 cup raisins move from heat and add parsley and 4 Tbls. cream, whipped 1 cup chopped nuts pickles to the buttered crumbs. 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter mint Cream the sugar and shortening. Add Place fish, uncovered, in oven. Sear flavoring the egg, flavorings and applesauce. for 30 minutes, then remove from oven, A few drops of green food coloring Sift all of the dry ingredients and add. sprinkle the fish with salt and pour Combine all of the ingredients. Blend Stir in the raisins and nuts. Drop by 1 cupful boiling water into the paL and well and serve on fruit. The cream spoonfuls onto greased baking sheets cover it. Lower oven temperature to could be used plain, but it does make and bake at 350 degrees until light 275 degrees and continue baking for a fluffier, lighter dressing if it is brown in color. 3 to 5 hours, until fish is well done. whipped first. This is a moist cooky that keeps The length of baking time depenrls on well. the size and weight of fish. Listen to Kitcken-Klatter. PAGE 14 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

There seems to be no end to the things you can do with chicken, and I, for one, never tire of trying something different. The other day I ate some chicken that was different from any­ THERE IS A MAN IN THE KITCHEN ST. PATRICK'S DAY PIE thing I had ever had before, and it by (Don't jump over this simply because Frederick really was del.icious. I practically had to threaten the cook to get the recipe, St. Patrick's Day has passed. It's all Two clays ago I had a family that did but here it is. ex•raordinarily delicious and handsome not particularly care for cooked car­ pie that would be wonderful eating on rots; today they are asking for more! Easy Baked Parmesan Chicken any occasion, but is made-to-order for Quite by accident I learned of a way 2 cups toasted bread crumbs any occasion when you want a pale to prepare carrots that is so simple, 3/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese green to carry through some color and the final result is so good! 1/4 cup chopped parsley scheme. Don't try to whip up this one on the run. It takes time.) Kitchen-Klatter Carrots 2 tsp. salt 1 /4 tsp. pepper 1 9-inch crumb crust 6 or 8 medium-sized carrots Dash garlic powder 1 pkg. unflavored gelatin 1/2 cup of water 1/4 lb. butter, melted 1/4 cup cold water 1/2 cup of orange juice 1 broiler-fryer chicken 2 cups milk 4 Tb ls. of butter Cut chicken for frying anrl then dip in 3/4 cup sugar 3 Tbls. of sugar butter. Roll buttered pieces in the 1 Tbls. cornstarch 1 Tb ls. of Kitchen-Klatter crumbs to which you have added all 1/4 tsp. salt Burnt Sugar Flavoring the other ingredients. Place in a single 4 egg yolks, well beaten 1/2 tsp. of salt layer in a shallow baking dish, skin 1 1/2 squares unsweetened chocolate Wash and scrape carrots for boiling. side up. Do not turn. Bake at 350 de­ 1 /2 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter mint I usually cut them into at least two grees for 1 1/4 to 1 112 hours. (Of flavoring pieces. Put all the ingredients into the course, you know that you can buy the Melt chocolate over hot water. Dis­ pan and cook until tender. Parmesan cheese already grated.) solve gelatin in 1/4 cup cold water. Scald milk in double boiler. Mix to­ gether the sugar, cornstarch and salt and stir slowly into milk, stirring con­ stantly. Cook until it coats a silver spoon. Then remove a portion of this custard and stir into the beaten egg yolks. Return to double boiler to cook 3 minutes longer, and then add the dissolved gelatin and stir well. Di­ vide custard into two portions. In one half add the melted chocolate and mint MAPLE flavoring, stir thoroughly, and then spoon into the crumb crust. Place in WHEN .... refrigerator to get firm. It's "sugaring-off" time in New Eng­ Second Layer land, when the drip, drip, drip of sap in buckets means spring is on the way. Most 4 egg whites of us don't have real sugar-maples to tap 1 /8 tsp. cream of tartar (or oranges to pick or coconuts to open). 1/2 cup sugar But we don't need them; not with Kitchen­ When remaining half of custard is Klatter Flavorings on our shelves. For cool, fold into it the egg whites that these real-tasting flavorings never cook have been beaten until stiff. (Cream of out, never bake out-always add the right tartar should be added when the whites delicious touch to puddings, desserts, are frothy, and then the sugar should salads. Sixteen to choose from: be added slowly just as if you were mil.King a meringue.) This layer will be Maple, Butter, Raspberry, Mint, Almond, very fluffy and white. Spread it care­ Burnt Sugar, Vanilla, Lemon, Blueberry, fully over the chocolate layer and Pineapple, Banana, Strawberry, Cherry, return to refrigerator until just before Coconut, Orange and Black Walnut. you are ready to serve it. At this time, whip one cup of heavy cream until it is stiff, adding to it Kitchen-Klatter Products Co. caretully 2 Tbls. granulated sugar, 1/4 tsp. Kitchen-Klatter mint flavoring, Shenandoah, Iowa and a very few drops of green food coloring. Pile whipped cream over pie. A quickly made decoration for any If you can't yet buy these at pie with a whipped cream topping is to your store, send $1.40 for any run a potato peeler down the side of three 3-ounce bottles. Jumbo any bar chocolate. Just a few tiny 8-ounce Vanilla is $1.00. We pay curls cf chocolate scattered over the the postage. top will give it an extra-fancy look. -Lucile KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 15

OF DISHES AND MEMORIES loved flowers and her yard showed the A small, red, glass bowl with an magic of her green thumb. In the spring­ by encircling flower design, came to me time, my two daughters pick the wild Harverna Woodling on a birthday. I often fill it with jelly violets that bloom down the old creek or jam, but it was given full of deli­ road. When they bring in the great hand­ cious divinity candy, the gift of my fuls of purple beauty, Mrs. Arnold's sister-in-law who makes the best divin­ little pitcher is first to be filled and ity that ever was. given the favorite place on the kitchen A perfect gift this past Christmas Look up there on your she 1 v es, window sill. came f'rom our eleven-year-old Dale. rt Ma'am. What do you keep there besides A third memory belongs to a little is a small tan pottery pitcher with red dishes? Memories, maybe? I'm sure you pickle dish. It, too, is used often, and blue flowers and one green leaf do. If you are a new homemaker, they usually with a reminiscent chuckle. painted on one side. We take water to are bright and shiny new memories of An intriguing, red-haired boy, who was the table in it now, but we are visu­ first lovely days or months, some per­ my fifth grade pupil the year before I alizing our little pitcher filled with haps just of yesterday. If you are an was married, gave me that dish. When firecracker zinnias in the summertime. experienced homemaker, many of those he presented it, he wrinkled up his This will be the beginning of another memories shine like the dishes to nose and remarked very seriously, memory, perhaps. which they belong. They are dear with "Here, Teacher. I hope you like this. Through the past several years, our the glow of the years. I was going to get a bigger one but it own family and other friends have We keep memories with our dishes, cost a dime and this one was a nickel." added often to our stock of dishes and too-memories of nice people and happy Well, bless that little boy of days gone memories. There are the coffee mugs, times. by! Never has a pickle dish been used another Christmas gift; the lovely, One treasured dish is a bowl of frosty oftener or more fondly. bright red cookie jar, gift from my green glass. The edges are irregularly A large, green pottery pitcher is an­ mother-in-law; the g 1 as s that has scalloped in points and the whole dish other school-teaching memento. The printed on it "The Golden Gate City, resembles the flower imprinted in the third grader who gave it to me is a San Francisco, Cal.," and pictures to bottom. father of two now. Many a glass of match. Some twenty years ago, my husband cold, cold lemonade and iced tea have And, oh, there are so many more! and I had as a neighbor a lady named been poured from that pitcher. Do your dishes hold memories, too? Mrs. Brehm, a wonderful, gallant, in­ dustrious woman who was newly­ widowed. She was at that time in her 70's and very capable and independent. Her son-in-law farmed her land but she lived alone and took care of her cows and chickens. Often she walked by our house on the way to visit a daughter who lived about two miles from her. Once arrived, she helped with any task on hand while they visited, and then walked home again in the evening. Many a fine visit we had with her either in her home, or in ours, as she often stopped in. She had reared a sizeable family, had a lively sense of humor, and was interesting, and interested in her neighbors and in the world. The green dish? That was a gift she brought us when she returned from visiting a son in another state. My husband and I had cared for her ani­ mals in her absence. She has been gone for some years now, but we use the dish often and remember our good WHICH WILL YOU BE TODAY? neighbor happily. All of them. probably. Your job is the most varied-and most A carved, clear glass cream pitcher demanding-of any in the world. Thank goodness for short cuts and sugar bowl set occupies another like Kitclwn-1\latter Kleaner! This is the cleaner that starts to space on our shelf and in our memories. work thP minute it touches water-even hardest water. Grease. They were given to me at a Christmas grime and dirt all disappear like magic. And, since it leaves no program when I was teaching in a rural suds and scum to rinse away, cleaning time is cut in half. For school some sixteen years ago. An dishes, floors, woodwork, walls, clothes, windows, bathroom elderly lady, Mrs. Arnold, who lived fixtures-everything that needs hard cleaning fast-depend on with her husband close to the school­ Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner. Remember: house, gave them to me as a surprise. She told me that she had owned them YOU GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS ... for thirty years and hoped I would accept them and use them. Although they have been used on our table many KITCHEN-KLATTER KLEANER times since, we have another use for DOES THE WORK! the small straight pitcher which we think would please Mrs. Arnold. She PAGE 16 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

MAKING-DO IS FUN! perfectly. The handles were rusted and unsightly and the lid slightly chip­ By ped, so I enameled both these parts Evelyn Birkby black. (Many people contend that old articles should be left old looking and Several of my friends who have re­ not painted. I agree, if they look attrac­ cently built or bought new homes were tively old. If something is rusted or in a position where they could buy chipped or drab looking, I paint it') a complete set of new furnishings, As I said, that chum has been a drapes and accessories. This, no doubt, conversation piece. One person com­ has great advantages. However, we mented, "What is that doing here, it were not able to have both a new house belongs in the kitchen--doesn 't it?" and new furnishings, which could have Another stated, "Well, I'd never think been frustrating, I suppose, but it of putting a churn there!" A third turned out to be a blessing in disguise. friend said, "I like that old churn by While trying to use ingenuity and imagi­ the pump organ, they just go together." nation where old things were concerned, It has been interesting to get such we've come up with some different open expressions of such varied This is the lovely antique that accessories and have a homey, friend­ Evelyn refinished for the small opinions. I like the churn beside the ly atmosphere. powder room off the kitchen. Isn't organ so it will probably stay. We've haunted auction sales and it charming? We hope to have more Black enamel was used also on our secondhand stores. We've bought rem­ pictures of Evelyn's home soon. old iron kettle. It has served its time nants and bargain-basement specials. ror with its four metal "horns" hung as a flower planter and as a magazine We've looked with a critical eye at at the bottom of her stairs serving as rack. Now, with a fresh coat of gleam­ our old furniture and equipment to see a hat and coat rack. We treated the ing paint, it stands proudly on the how they could be re-covered, repainted wood just as we had the other antique fireplace hearth, firmly holding fine and renovated into the necessary perk­ mirror, rubbing and scrubbing until it sticks of wood in preparation for a fire. iness for new surroundings. was down to the fine wood. The stain Someday we hope to get an old-fash­ Some of our finds have been tremen­ was clear and pretty on this one, so ioned black fire set to go on the other dously successful. The mirror in the we did not have to give it another coat. side of the hearth. small washroom between the kitchen With the plastic and a good waxing, It has been so much fun fixing up the and the bedroom, for example. This a spray of gold paint for the chain and mantelpiece. I like to change it from undoubtedly started life on top of a rings from which it hangs, the mirror week to week. Right now it is holding dresser. Its wide, wooden frame comes went up on the wall over the counter in a piece of wind-sculpture we brought to a peak at the top with a met a 1 the bathroom. The "horns" now hold home a number of years ago from the bracket to use for hanging. Below the brightly colored towels in fine fashion. top of a mountain. The silvered, wind­ framed mirror are two narrow drawers Yes, that mirror is a conversation twis ted wood has prongs, angles and with white porcelain knobs. (One knob piece. So is the butter churn in the sharp branches which give an entirely was broken and is now in the process living room. We fixed the old pump different appearance from the ocean­ of being replaced.) By the time this organ with new textured material over type driftwood with its smooth areas. mirror reached us, the frame was coated the air grills in front, a fresh coat of On the tiny prongs I have fastened a with years of varnish and grime. It linseed oil over the original oak wood, few brightly colored imitation birds. took several scrubbings with Kitchen­ and set on top the little china doll A philodendron winds green leaves Klatter Kleaner and a good deal of which my mother received for her birth­ among the branches. A small ceramic work with sandpaper before we finally day 73 years ago. Beside the organ bunny peeks out of one side and a got down to the beautiful wood and was one of those vacant corners too fuzzy-tailed squirrel from the other. the gleaming brass of the top bracket! small for a piece of furniture but too This arrangement may sound like some­ By staining and giving it three coats large to leave empty. My secondhand­ thing which would appeal especially of the satin plastic which we are using store butter churn, complete with the to children - and they do like it - but on the woodwork (Flecto Varathan) fine lid and dasher kindly sent by I enjoy the gay colors and rugged lines we now have a mirror that is different Kitchen-Klatter friends, fills the space as much as they do. and lifts the tiny washroom out of We sanded and refinished several the ordinary. old bookcases, using a satin enamel On one side of the mirror is an ex­ MAKE YOUR HOUSE A HOME the same color as the walls of the room pandable wooden rack on which towels Remember· ... in which we planned to use them. In are hung; on the other are three A large house can be a small home. my study is the old, sturdy, three-shelf, Kodachrome enlargements of pictures and a small house can be a large oak bookcase which my father used taken at out favorite vacation spots. home ... for many years in his pastor's study. Above the mirror is a round, globe A rich house can be a poor home It was beyond sanding and varnishing. light which hangs out from the wall and a poor house can be a rich The painted shelves look very nice just a little on a brass arm. On the home ... against the pink wall and blend in wall opposite the mirror we are hanging A warm house can be a cold home much as they w o u 1 d if they were little Hopi Indian Kachina dolls to add and a cold house can be a warm built in. brightness and a touch of whimsey. home ... Fixing up these familiar belongings (After all, in an Early American house Make your home large, though it be and the new-old acquisitions has been, one can't get much earlier than Indian small in size ... and is, one of the most interesting handcraft!) Make it rich, though it be poor in aspects of our new home, and we are Another mirror which proved very gold ... not nearly finished. But, as one friend satisfactory is in the main bathroom. Make it warm, though it be void of wrote, "Don't be in too big a hurry to It came from the auction sale of a dear heat ... get everything done--for then all the old friend of ours. For years this mir- In brief, make your house a home. fun is over." Maybe she is right. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 17

of drip-dry cotton would make a spot of The Bangleboard color above the telephone. It, too, by might prove to be a "conversation Oneita Fisher piece." Did you have a "bangle board"? At But who has hog rings any more? least that's what we called the catch­ all that was suspended below our clock shelf in the kitchen. Our bangleboard was a length of white pine about twenty inches long and a foot wide. It was lightly padded and covered with calico or cretonne in TO: Al I Homemakers a small print design. By means of up­ holstery tacks, hook-like hog rings FROM: The Kitchen-Klatter were attached to the board, giving a family quilted effect. Hog rings were in stag­ The old courthouse ot Vicksburg, gered rows two or three inches apart. Our daily visit with you can be Mississippi, which houses on Has any appliance ever been more heard over the following stations outstanding museum. useful, or of simpler design? Monday thru Saturday: Where did this utilitarian piece get MARGERY'S LETTER - Concluded its name? When I was young, I assumed KCFI Cedar Fa I ls, la., 1250 on it was because the whole thing "ban­ your dial - 9:00 A.M. in the early 1800's, there was nothing gled" against the wall when you KWPC Muscatine, la., 860 on between it and the Mississippi River, bumped it. Now, I imagine they were yaurdial -10:30A.M. and a beautiful lawn and gardens ex­ so named because they were intended KWBG Boone, la., 1590 on your tended to the river banks. It suffernd to hold milady's "baubles, bangles, dial - 9:00 A.M. some damage from Fect0ral gunboats as and beads." Regardless of the histor­ KOAM Pittsburg, Kans., O ori they passed the shore batteries on f ical origin of the name, I still prefer your dial - 9:00 A .. their way downstream. Cedar Grove my interpretation. And how it did ban­ KWOA Worthington, Minn. 730 was purchased by the Vicksburg Little gle! No wonder, though, when you think on your dial - 9:30! A.M. Theatre Guild a few years ago when of all the objects that bangled there. KFEQ St. Joseph, Mo., 6.80 on plans to purchase portions of the First, the scissors. It seemed to be your dial - 9:00 A.M. grounds for commercial purposes were the only place you could put the scis­ KLIK Jefferson City, Mo., 950 made known. It was in an excellent sors and be sure of finding them later. on your dial - 9:30 A.M. state of preservation and is now being The hooks made convenient holders for KHAS Hastings, Nebr., 1230 on restored to its original grandeur. I saw anything small that had a handle or an your dial - 10:30 A.M. pictures of the interior and the fur­ opening. We seldom locked anything on KVSH Valentine, Nebr., 940 on nishings are perfectly beautiful. It was the farm but if we did, the key was your dial - 9:00 A.M. a disappointment to learn that it was hung on the bangleboard. So were WJAG Norfolk, Nebr., 780 on temporarily closed while we were there. "found" articles, like bracelets or your dial - 10:00 A.M. One of the most delightful meals we skate keys, or hair ribbons and bar­ KSMN Mason City, la., 1010 on ate on our trip was enjoyed at the Old retts. your dial - 10:00 A.M. Southern Tea Room, "Deep South Papers could be spindled on the Cooking at Its Best", in Vicksburg, hooks or pinned lo the padding. Re­ The decor of the dining room was ceipts and bills were filed there tem­ charming and we sensed the gracious A REAL BARGAIN!! porarily; so were new recipes copied hospitality the moment we stepped at club meeting or over the party-line. Look What inside the door. I don't know when I Newspaper clippings might hang there hovered so over a dinner menu, but it $1.00 WILL BRING YOU! indefinitely, or until the next house was so hard to decide which to choose Complete cleaning sent them to the cob basket from the entrees. Just listen to these EMBROIDERY TRANSFERS with other kindling. and see if you wouldn't find it difficult For: The padded portion served as a pin to make a selection: Famous Plantation 9 pairs of pillow coses Dinner, Old Fashioned Country Dinner, cushion, for straight pins, safety pins, 4 sets of tea towe Is with Southern Stuffed Baked Ham with Jel­ hat pins and needles. When you were matching pot holders A dinette set with accessory lied Apple (a recipe over 100 years in a hurry, you nearly always could find a needle, threaded and ready to pieces to match old!), Oysters Johnny Reb, Aunt Al­ Graceful new designs for scarfs berta's Chicken Pie Dinner, Creole go. The thread might be the wrong and vanity sets color but in an emergency, who cared Shrimp on Rice, Trout Amandine (Fi­ ALSO let of Trout broiled in lemon butter and if a white button was sewn on with served with toasted almonds, New black thread? You might even find a Leanna's Tulip Garden Quilt pattern Orleans Style), Special Seafood Dinner. suitable button impaled on a hog ring as o FREE gift with all orders. hook. The desserts were equally intriguing• IDEAL FOR GIFTS AND I came away with a few choice recipes Many things that once populated BAZAAR ITEMS which I will share with you friends in bangleboards now live in desk drawers the future. on bulletin boards, or in filing cabi~ ALL THIS FOR ONLY $1.00 p.p. Our next stop was Natchez and I'll nets. The crammed-full, often un­ Order your package today from: share our experiences there next month. sightly catchall bangleboards have Until then ...... disappeared. Maybe they're gone for­ Dorothy Driftmier Johnson Sincerely, ever. Route 1, Lucas, Iowa Margery On the other hand, that bright scrap PAGE 18 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

THE JOY OF GARDENING but in a small garden, never. LUCILE'S COMMENTS - Concluded Make cuttings of your favorite chrys­ by q uently on a spur of the moment basis. anthemums and root them in a plastic­ Eva M. Schroeder Someone fixed chili or spaghetti covered propagation box (easily made (anything that could be stretched to May is a glorious month, so enjoy it from a fruit crate filled with damp the nth degree!) and someone else to the fullest! sphagnum moss). After the cuttings fixed salad and someone else fixed If you planted hyacinths, narcissi, have rooted, line them out in a garden dessert; the unmarried men and women tulips and other spring flowering bulbs row and keep the tops pinched back always hauled in rolls and butter and last fall, they should be giving a until mid-July so that they will form relishes. Everyone contributed some­ lavish display now. If you neglected to nice bushy plants. You can move them thing and we had perfectly wonderful plant any, make a resolution to do so easily by taking a ball of soil with the times without it being a burden to come fall. Keep a Garden Notebook! It roots to wherever a spot of color is anyone. No one planned meals long in will help you to plan for a better gar­ needed in the fall garden. advance or wrecked the budget trying den next year. Jot down the blooming This is the best time to plant peren­ to put on a fancy collection of food or dates, planting dates, sources of nial seeds in cold frames or some tried to fix up an unusual and stunning seeds and plants whenever possible. protected spot in the garden. Germina­ centerpiece. We just got together and Now is the time to get after weeds tion is usually good because moisture shared what we had. when they are small. Cultivation also and· temperature are usually right in (I should add too that all of us were helps the vegetables and flowers get May and the plants will get a full working women and we lived in Min­ off to a fast start. Oftentimes folks season of growth before cold weather neapolis.) ask which is the best weed killer to arrives. When I tell young people these things use in the vegetable and flower garden. It seems to me that May is also the today they look at me as if I were My answer is always the same: month when insect pests hold their recounting meals shared around a "There-is-no-such-thing!" Weed killers annual conventions! Almost every covered wagon on the far prairies! are so potent and must be handled with shade tree, ornamental, flower and They say that they don't do anything such extreme caution, that I think it vegetable is attacked by some leaf­ like this at all and they have a whole is much safer to destroy weeds the feeding pest this month. Do you sup­ list of reasons why it's impossible. hard way-by hoeing or pulling by hand. pose they take "leaf samples" during Too hard to get together. Husbands If there is the slightest breeze when a the day and then report on them at an too tired or wives too tired. Too hard weed-killer spray is applied, the evening meet? In any case the gar­ to "get ready" for company. Every­ drifting fumes can kill tender plants dener should have the proper sprayer thing simply seems to be too hard! at an unbelievable distance from where or dust gun and a supply of the right I've heard this in different places and the application is being made. I think ammunition on hand to wage war from different types of people, so I they are fine to use on lawns and per­ against them. Always keep such sup­ don't know now if I /just happened to haps in farmer's fields where large plies out of the reach of children and "hit" an unusual situation or if this areas of weeds must be eradicated, pets and use them with extreme caution. is more or less the picture of social life today. In my own experience I can say that we entertain very, very little ,-dip Th;;- tot Special-By-Mail Off;;--, today compared to what we did when we were younger, and I'm wondering too if this is because we are older and I 3 AFRICAN VIOLETS I there is less energy for entertaining, or if we're the exception and others are forging ahead just as they have Only $1 75) 1~ $ 1~~o• I always d9J1C? (9 for $2.50) I'd much appreciate hearing your own I •A Great Violet Buy I experiences on this subject. My favor­ •Sent to you in Pots I ite reading is still your letters (how I I love a thick letter crammed with com­ • Blues - Pinks - White ments of all kinds!), and if you take These dainty little plants are bargains at 35¢ I a notion to write about any of these I each. They are already 6 to 8 months old (photos things I've mentioned it would certainly are plants approx. 7 mo. old) almost ready to be of great interest to me. I'd like to bud or just starting to bloom--their whole bloom- I know if I have much company in these I ing life is ahead of them. Before long they'll look like $1.00 and $1.50 plants you see in viewpoints! stores. Both new and old varieties. Blues, pinks. I I whites, bicolors, singles and doubles. All plants established and shipped in attractive plastic pots. This insures your get- ting the very best plant. Supply limited, so order yours today! You'll be I 1 glad you did. SEND NO MONEY. On delivery pay postman $1.00 for 3 plants, $1.75 for 6 plants, or $2.50 for 9 plants plus COD charges. Sorry but no less than 3 plants per order. On prepaid orders please add 35¢ to I PRECARIOUS BALANCE I help postage and handling charges. If not 100% satisfied on arrival, we'll The status seeker, you must know, gladly refund your money--you don't even have to return the plants. Soon finds he has no place to go. 1------HOUSE-OFWESLEY~NURSERYolVl~oN------1 For upward, he must daily fight To keep himself in constant sight; Easy R.R. l Dept. 848-22 Bloomington, Illinois And downward pathways mean, to him, Sendme Violets oc.O.D. 0Postpaid Order I Annihilation, sure and grim. I Name ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He's sadly pinned right in the middle, 1 Longs to flame, but has to fiddle. l~lank ~~ ~=- ___ ~-==-= _I -Vivian Baumgartner KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 19

COME, READ WITH ME created a major crisis. The family by called the chemist who put in various Armada Swanson acids, but it tasted no better. Finally, the lady from Philadelphia (I thought Since Mother's Day falls in May, I of the Kitchen-Klatter family as I read wish to honor my own Mother and thank this!) suggested that Mrs. Peterkin her for instilling in me a love for an­ brew herself a fresh cup of coffee. Mr. tiques, be it an old washstand picked White's feeling is the world's brew is up at a sale and carefully refinished, bitter today, but he wonders whether or an iron kettle filled with red gera­ there is another cup of coffee in the niums, or a prized set of Tea-Leaf pot. dishes gracing the dining room cup­ The world was saddened earlier this board. year with the death of Robert Frost, Thanks, too, for a beautiful flower America's most-honored poet. A four­ garden complete with hundreds of time Pulitzer Prize winner, he worked glowing tulips in a May breeze, and for Mrs. Swanson's mother, Mrs. in comparative obscurity until age 40, the "Flower Garden" quilt on my bed C. W. Carlson, Humboldt, Iowa. and not until later years did he reach which reminds me of her patience in of humor and wisdom. In the foreword full prominence. His friend, Carl Sand­ letting little fingers try their hand at of the book, Mr. White points out that burg, said he was not merely a great quilting. the center of his compass was his mid­ poet, but also a beloved person. MY gift to Mother will be a book. town Manhattan office. "Letters from His last collection of poems, In The Won't I have a fine choice because of the East" are from his Maine home. Clearing (Holt, $4), is a worthy addi­ her various interests? "Letters from the West" are from the tion to his works. Included is his poem Since the revival of crewel work in West Side of New York. "The Gift Outright" which he recited this country, you may be interested in The essays include a visit from Hur­ at the inauguration in January, 1961. Crewel Embroidery by Erica Wilson. ricane Edna, a fascinating discussion A collection of favorite Frost poems (Scribner, $6.50) Included is a history on the wood-burning black iron stove for young people is You Come Too. A of crewel work as well as practical in the kitchen versus the modern elec­ favorite poem of many is "Stopping by suggestions and instructions for things tric stove, interesting thoughts on the the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and is to make. Simplicity of instructions will United Nations, fallout, railroad serv­ found in his book The Road Not Taken be appreciated by needlework fans. ice in Maine, and his love for a 1949 published by Holt in 1951. How to Make Children's Furniture and green DeSoto sedan with a busted What better tribute to Robert Frost Play Equipment by Mario Dal Fabbro fender. than the words of our President: "His is a new book just published by Mc­ Mr. White says The Peterkin Papers, death impoverishes us all; but he has Graw-Hill Book Co. ($6.50). Here are which he has been reading to his bequeathed his nation a body of im­ some 60 projects to help create a more grandson, is a perfect fable for these perishable verse from which Americans pleasant place in which children may times. He recalled that Mrs. Peterkin will forever gain joy and understanding. live and play. Included are sections on poured herself a cup of coffee and put He has promises to keep, and miles to baby furniture, beds, room irnprovers, salt in it instead of sugar, which go and now he sleeps." desks, storage units and play equip­ ment. There are sketches of each com­ plete work as well as detailed instruc­ GIVE HER tions. A do-it-yourself handyman could gain real pleasure from this book. Keep out of the reach of children-they'll Kitchen-Klatter want Daddy to make everything in the book! The Points of My Compass by E. B. THIS White (Harper and Row, $4) is a blend MOTHER'S DAY

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YOUR BABY NEEDS YOUR SMILE AND THE CHILDREN LED THEM By by Evelyn Witter Evelyn Witter

Through the woes and wonders of Laurence Whiteside, a neighbor of caring for our two babies, I've learned mine, worked for years to improve the that the most accessible and least ex­ quality of his dairy herd. His barns pensive bit of equipment every mother were immaculate and his herd of cows constantly improved under his care­ has is the most useful. I'm referring to but he was not doing well financially. her smile. A mother's smile can per­ He tried selling his milk to whole­ form miracles for her baby. It's a most salers, but lost money. Then he tried absorbent tear-drier, an excellent hurt­ selling milk retail at the farm, offering healer, an efficient appetite-stimulator richer milk at lower prices than cus­ a progress-encourager, a security-build: tomers paid in town six miles away. er and disposition-molder. He did a little better by this method, When Jimmy was learning to crawl, but still his returns were not in pro­ how exasperated he used to get at his portion to the time and money he had own lack of coordination! He just lay invested. People would rather have there and cried. I felt so sorry for him r their milk delivered to their doors than "Hey!" my husband said one day, drive out to the farm for better milk at coming in on such a scene unexpectedly. a lower price. "Look at the tension on your face. No Then Whiteside noticed that the chil­ wonder Jimmy's crying!" I took a Kerry Lee Cathcart, daughter of dren of his town customers were fasci­ glance at the mirror over my desk. My Mr. and Mrs. John Cathcart of Centerville, Iowa, is another love­ nated with the animal life on the farm. deep frown was anything but helpful­ ly high school graduate this May. looking. The parents usually forbade the chil­ dren to go into the barns, pens, and That's when I first realized how much seriously befuddle his little world. The feed lots, or to run helter-skelter over more helpful a smile would be. The first time I took Jimmy to a children's the farm. Whiteside was sorry about next time Jimmy's attempts at crawling party, the milling youngsters, the extra this. He loved children; to him it did were futile (realizing a frown downed attention he was getting confused him not seem right that such wholesome, him as much as his own lack of skill terribly. When a pat and a big reassuring natural interest· should be thwarted. did) I smiled encouragingly. He was smile from me transmitted the feeling Surely the youngsters should have an quick to sense my spirit of "Just keep that everything was really all right, he began to enjoy himself! opportunity to learn by satisfying their trying". The tears stopped and he natural curiosity. "kept on trying". Perhaps the most important reason for smiling at children is that it helps So he made a corral, with a wide And haven't you seen a toddler run board all around the top for adequate to his mother after a fall or bump or a to mold their whole personalities into seating. He painted the corral fence pinched finger, and display his hurt sunny, pleasing ones. Setting an ex­ attractively in red and white. Then he anxiously? After a calm but sympathetic ample by having a pleasant expression teaches them the "pleasant look" selected two animals of each kind (not examination let the mother smile and unlike Noah); two donkeys, two sheep, kiss the hurt part, and a "miraculous" habit. They absorb the important two hogs, two goats, and two calves. healing takes place. Let her fuss and vitamins of well-being from the sunlight around them. More and more townspeople with chil­ fume over the child - the hurt goes on dren began patronizing the Whiteside But remember one thing: if your smile hurting and the child goes on crying, dairy. "It is such an interesting place I learned early in the life of my second doesn't get immediate results, don't give up. A smile, like the rays of the for children!" they said. baby that a smile is the best introducer Now at almost any hour of the day to new foods. The first time I opened sun, does the most good after it soaks in. you can see children perched on the a jar of strained spinach it looked most corral fence, wide-eyed and delighted, unappealing to me, and I guess I just * * * * * * * * * * OVER MOONBEAM PATHS enjoying the animals. Whiteside is let my face go, When I offered it to usually available to answer juvenile Louise she turned her head away even The yesterdays return to give delight­ questions about the livestock. He though she had not tasted it. The next Clear-channeled over moonbeam paths seems never to tire of the same ques­ time I tried a smile! With her eyes on tonight. tions calling for the same answers; in my face, Louise accepted the food and They offer beauty to my dream-stirred fact, his broad smiles attest that he as I went on s mi 1 in g, she went on heart, enjoys this part of his "work". eating! And circle me till they become a part How is business? Whiteside has had With a smile I helped encourage Of blessed challenges from Wisdom's to add five helpers to his staff, and Louise's progress in toilet habits, in love, profits are satisfactory. talking habits, in learning how to but­ Sent from His ageless Throne as if a "Suffer the little children-to come ton a button and in many other essential dove unto me," the Master of living said skills. Flew over childhood's still remembered long ago. Because a modern dairy A smile can give your baby that all­ lanes farmer feels the same way, he is now important feeling of security, too. When To bring soft echoes of old hymn­ enjoying the pleasure of daily associ­ a baby is uncertain of his world he is refrains. tion with children-and a satisfactory unhappy all over. So when he finds The Lord seems very near this quiet flow of cash into his till. himself in some new situation or in a hour, new place, a friendly smile from mother And I can feel the wonder of His power, helps give him the reassurance he For I was taught of God's reality needs. I know from experience that a When as a child I knelt at Mother's No one can give faith unless he visit to a strange home, a doctor's knee. has faith. It is the persuaded who office, a crowded department store can -Thelma Allinder persuade. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 21

ENTERTAINING - Concluded when you ate them. Or perhaps it is angle atop a world globe to use in the one that stands at the corner of your centerpiece. Lacking the real thing, house today and provides cooling shade you can easily make one from con­ on a torrid sum)Jler day, or a lovely struction paper, with a picture to look evergreen that enhances the beauty of at as a guide. The senior's diploma your home. and class flower might be placed at The best loved tree in our neighbor­ the base of the globe. If nut cups are hood is a motherly old elm that the to be used, miniature mortar boards, of children love to climb. Its branches construction paper, in the appropriate hold them like a mother's loving arms. color, could be made to place on top In the years that it has stood there each nut cup. several generations of children have If the school has a favorite mascot, scampered among its branches. As fast perhaps you would like to use it some­ as one generation of children grows up way in the center arrangement. A KIND OLD TREE another comes along and "Mother" elm Certainly, it would be hard to find a by is right there ready to clasp them to her heart. lovelier arrangement, especially for Sue Reed the "sweet girl graduate", than one Her lower branches are devoid of using the class flower in a low ar­ There's a line in a popular song that leaves and bark and are as smooth and rangement, with some nylon net tufts goes; ''Linger in the shade of a kind shiny as a poiished floor from all the in the class colors, and with the diplo­ old tree." I wonder how many thou­ little bodies that have scooted and ma placed beside it. The net tufts are sands of students have lingered in the crawled over them. simply squares of net (about 7 inches) shade of the majestic old oak that With a little trimming and shaping which are caught up in the middle, and stands on the campus of Rutgers Uni­ "Mother" elm could easily ·be the most a short length of pipe cleaner or flo­ versity that inspired Joyce Kilmer to handsome tree in the neighborhood but rist's wire twisted around it. Fluffed write his famous poem, "Trees". I'm no one would dream of cutting any of out, these little tufts may be inserted sure that all who have known that the limbs. It would be like depriving a among the flowers in a bouquet, or venerable old tree love it as much as mother of her arms so she couldn't hold placed among the greenery encircling he did. her babies. I believe that tree loves the base of an arrangement, to carry In almost everyone's life there is a the children as much as they love it out a desired color scheme. tree comparable to Kilmer Oak. It may and it would wither away and die if it THE CAREER THEME: If the gradu­ be one remembered from childhood that couldn't have them in its arms. ate has already decided upon a defi­ you climbed or that held your rope Our town has many beautiful trees nite profession or career, then perhaps swing on one of its sturdy branches and as I travel the streets and observe you would like to work that idea out in and never let you down. Or maybe it their loveliness I can agree with Joyce the centerpiece: for example, a nursing was a mulberry tree that bore big juicy Kilmer that ''Only God can make a career could be indicated by a doll berries that made your tongue purple tree." dressed in a nurse's uniform, accented with "tools of the trade "-thermometer, pill box, etc. For one planning a teaching profession, how about a mini­ ature cardboard school house, an old 139 fashioned slate with a big red apple, and a few school books stacked beside 138 it? Beautician, engineer, farmer, doc­ tor-whatever the planned career, you 137 can come up with a clever centerpiece with a little imagination. Don't forget 136 the toy counter offers endless possi­ bilities when you are hunting materials 135 for such a centerpiece. 134 For other decoration ideas, consider 133 the class motto, which might be printed on a large scroll to be placed on the 132 DOWN YOU GO! wall back of the refreshment table; or silhouettes of the head and bust of a That's not a Cape Canaveral count down-that's your weight senior wearing a mortar board, to be record! Pounds can melt away, without starvation, when you use used as "stand-ups" in the center­ Kitchen-Klatter No-Calorie Sweetener. This miracle sweetener piece. The class song, the class pic­ takes the place of sugar in drinks, cereals, baking and cooking. ture, or a cardboard replica of the Never adds a single calorie, yet never tastes "different" or "arti­ school building, are all interesting ficial". Economical, too, with a flip-top bottle cap that never possibilities to consider using for the wastes a drop. Try a bottle now. Discover how really delicious decorations. non-fattening foods can be,. For something a bit "different" as a conversation piece, why not arrange an attractive display of the school Kitchen-Klatter ~o-Calorie Sweetener pictures your child has had taken each year from kindergarten through senior? Available at your grocer's. Be sure to save the valuable cap­ liners and exchange them for premiums. PAGE 22 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

COMMENCEMENT - Concluded If I'd Knew You Were Comin' I'd 'a' More years don't lead to idle awarded this degree in Child Develop­ Baked a Cake. chatter- ment." (Hands her a can of fish bait, Greying hair signifies grey matter. l/ur.ir.,n ,Selations: Husband and wife Though your shoulders stoop, if jumping rope, or other toy suitable to are shown pouring over a budget book, children's age.) your thoughts are true, or she can seem to be "talking him The world still needs the likes of It Home Management: Mother is shown down" on some question. ends hap­ you. pily in the holding of hands and smiles. loaded down with all the tools of her The longer you live, the more you Music: I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl trade-vacuum cleaner, dust cloth, know, Who Married Dear Old Dad. soap, etc. with the look upon her face So come on, give out, let your wis­ "From the Rolling Pin-to-Kisses De­ of a general marching into battle. dom show! partment, under the guidance of Pro­ Music: Just Before the Battle, Mother. Though your joints may creak, if fessor Co-op, is given this Helpmate "From the Jack-of-all-trades Depart­ you've the will to do, award in Human Relations." (Gives a ment under the direction of Dr. Elbow The world sure can use the likes of package of candy kisses.) Grease, comes this degree with a certi­ you. ficate of Distinction for the prescribed Romance: Scene shows a bride and So forget those glasses and store­ course in Home Management." (Hands her mother, with the mother adjusting bought teeth. her a box of Kitchen-Klatter Kleaner.) the veil as wedding music is played or Ignore the wrinkles and the joints sung. Baker: A mother, dressed in big white that creak. apron and a baker's cap, is mixing "From the Hearts-and-Flowers De­ Bring to the world all you've something in a large bowl. Youngsters partment under the excellent direction learned that's true standing by surreptitiously stick in of Professor Dan Cupid, we award this And the world will never stop needing you. fingers to get a taste or two. Music: Degree in Romance to the greatest cupid of them all." (Hands her a bow -Adopted from poem by unknown author and arrow.) Special Notes Narrator: This commencement idea might well "A mother is expertly fashioned be used as an entire theme and pro­ Of truly marvelous stuff: BIG $$$ IN CAKE gram for a Mother-Daughter banquet. Velvet for cuddling babies, DECORATING and One could top each nut cup with a Iron, when the going gets tough; CANDY MAKING miniature construction-paper mortar Rubber for stretching the pennies, board. The program booklet could read And sponge, for absorbing tears; like a commencement program, or it Lace for datings and dreamings might be patterned after an old-fash­ Of brief adolescent years; ioned diploma, rolled and tied with a Close-knit for holding young ribbon. secrets, The evening's program would carry Frayed, now and then by life's pain; out the commencement exercise idea Porous for coaxing in sunshine, beginning with the Invocation, then Water repellent for rain! Special Music. The Speaker's Address -Selected could be someone reading "Beatitudes "Now we come to that part of our for Women" or the "Carnation Acros­ commencement exercises when we give tic" found in this issue. This tableau the graduate degrees for advanced could conclude the evening's enter­ study. Once again, here is President tainment. Soft Soap." EARLY SETTLERS Grandmother: The final scene shows They nicknamed plants as good friends a grandmother with grandchildren gath­ would: ered about her. Music: Mighty Lak a Blackeyed susan and nimblewill, Rose. Poorjo, growing where nothing else "For having completed your thesis could entitled 'Now I've Seen Everything', And proud blacksamson to claim a and for having done the prescribed ecorating tubes, bags, hill. ·sugar molds, thermometer work in the I've-Had-It Department, we all the tools and equipment you'll need SUPPLIED BY now award you this Doctorate in Wis­ ME WITHOUT CHARGE as you The trail seemed shorter because these progress with your home dom." (Hands her yarn and knitting grew; instruction. I show needles.) you how to turn Curlycup, purpletop, windmillweed, what you already know into big, At this point in the program a corsage Snow-on-the-mountain cooled the view extra income! No age or educational or a single rose might be presented to And broomgrass answered a set· restrictions! all the grandmothers present. tler's need.

Narrator: "We picked them for you," prairie "You're not washed up when your children said hair turns grey, And gave, with love, great wild And wrinkles no cause for deep bouquets dismay. To calloused hands that know the red Tho' your teeth are false, if your Enduring texture of prairie ways. he art is true, -Oneita F'ish1'r The world still has great need of (By written permission of Writers' you. Notes & Quotes) KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963 PAGE 23

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BLUE - TURQUOISE - for Woden and Thor, the Norse gods of WEAR COLORED "MITTS" to protect your WHITE IVORY • ·. BLACK and MOTHER supremacy and thunder respectively. silk hose. $1.00 per pair. Tressa Hannan, of PEARL $3.00 Kensington, Kansas, per set. Postpaid. Friday comes from Freya, the Scan­ LAWLER ENTERPRISE CHURCH WOMEN: Wi!! print 150 page Cook­ 76 Wesley Ave., Atlantic Highlands, N.J. dinavian goddess of marriage. book for organizations for less than $1.00 And Saturday was the day sacred to each. Write for details. General Publishing and Binding, Iowa Falls, Iowa. Listen to Kitchen-Klatter. Saturn. PAGE 24 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1963

REMEMBER GRANDMA'S APRON? modern females of now-a-days could do seldom used for a trip to the orchard to without their jeans and pedal pushers. gather fruit because her apron served by It's uses were legion. the purpose. And who would ever h'lVe Mollie Dou·dle A potholder wasn't necessary in considered picking a mess of str lng Prowling through an old trunk of pic­ olden times because all grandma had beans in a container other th a tures which was stored away in one of to do was lift up the folds of her apron, 1 o oped-up apron? They would be my mother's upstairs bedrooms the catch her hands under its folds, and brought inside, then scattered out over other day, I was intrigued by the long scoot the pans around in the coals of grandma's lap while she prepared them voluminous aprons, worn by so many an open fireplace and later on her wood for a meal. women of by-gone years. Some of them cook stove. To pour coffee from a hot A timid child could find a haven of appeared to be white, while others pot she merely wrapped her apron refuge under a mother's apron. It was a were patterned with the small calico around the handle. good place for a cry-baby-a sanctuary designs of that time. They reached She could brush the crumbs from the when grandpa popped the razor strap. almost to the hem of the long full table with her apron, or conveniently In cold weather the apron could skirts, which were lifted a trifle off flick the dust off the rocking chair if easily be untied and wrapped around the floor-just enough to show a high she saw company coming. grandma's shoulders or used to cover a button shoe. She would tuck up its folds, put the sleeping child in her lap. Or if she was Aprons were a fashionable and a nec­ corn for the chickens into it, and then in the field and a sudden shower came essary article of c lot hi n g for the gather the eggs without letting it down up, she just used the apron to cover housewife and were used for more again. If a baby chick needed to be her head from the rain. purposes than anything milady wore. brought inside and warmed up it was Her apron was a signal for grandpa to A pioneer woman could no more have carried in her apron. come for his meals or when he was managed without her apron than the A bucket wasn't necessary and was needed at the house. When the pioneer ,--.,..._...,..-...,..__,_, _ _,_ ____ l women were crossing the country in covered wagons, and there were people wounded in a battle with the Indians, the big aprons were the first things torn into strips and used for bandages. Her precious keepsakes were wrapped CURTAIN in her aprons and carefully stowed inside the wagons for the trip. It could be used for a flag of truce in time of battle, or folded and placed under a TIME child's sleeping head. At night she could take it off and Curtain-washing time, that is. Time to wrap it around the warming pan that take down those smoke-dulled, winter­ was tucked .between the cold sheets on a bed. weary curtains and try to get some spring­ The story J' like best about the big fresh brightness back into them. And, aprons is this one. When a baby sister again this year, your best helper will be was less than a week old we had to Kitchen-Klatter Safety Bleach. White or flee for our lives from an intense camp fire that burned all of our homes and colored, your curtains will sparkle like possessions and took the lives of five new when Kitchen-Klatter Bleach goes men. A kind neighbor tucked the six­ into your wash water. And more important, pound infant into her apron and firmly their lives won't be shortened. Unlike fastened the folds under the wide band. harsh liquid bleaches, Kitchen-Klatter There it nestled without a whimper while she took two small children by Safety Bleach contains no chlorine. Even the hand and escaped to safety over a the new synthetics have nothing to fear: rough mountain trail. if they're washable, they're bleachable in Many are the treasured memories of a grandma's apron. (Reprinted from the Skagit Valley Herald) Kitchen-Klatter THE LOVELY MONTH OF MAY Maytime is a gay time, The month ot children and flowers; May time is a young time, SAFETY BLEACH The montl! of lovely hours.

May is the time to ride horses, We know it's safe! The time to swing in a swing; The time to pick wild flowers, We make it! And find favorite songs to sing.

May is a happy month to me. May is wonderful. Don't you agree? -Harverna Woodling