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MY PLEDGE ,--- Kitchen - Klatter I will buy wisely. I will take good care of things I Ma4azine have. LEANNA FIELD DRlll'TlllIER, Editor I will waste nothing. LUCILE VERNESS, Associate Editor DOROTHY D . .JOHNSON, Associate Editor Although we try not to waste any­ M. H. DRIFTMIER, Bullnes1 Manager thing we probably do in many small subscription Price $1.00 per year (12 ways. It is these small savings that Issues) In U. S. A. Foreign Countries, $1.110 per year. do not se.em important but taken to­ Advertising rates made known on appli­ gether amount to a great deal. cation. Plan the quantity of food you need Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia., to prepare for a meal, ver'y carefully. under the Act of March 3, 1879. If the family have not enough meat Published Monthly by to satisfy their appetites, have plenty LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER of bread or something else to finish LETTllR FROM LEANNA Sbenandoab, Iowa out on. Improper cooking of food, such as burning it or adding too much salt or My Dear Friends, stationed at Waco, Texas. He is to pepper, making it unappetizing, is Now that some of you are not able go to Grand Rapids, Mich., for a wasteful, expensive and unpatriotic. to hear my daily visits on the radio, course in weather forecasting. On the In the summer time the proper stor­ I am more than ever glad I can write compl.etion of this, he will be ready ing of food is important for much this letter for all of you to read. I be­ for overseas duty, which seems to be food is lost through spoilage. Food lieve May is the busiest month of the what all of our boys are wanting. will win the war. Let none of it be year. Gardening, which comes first Frank Field's youngest son, John, is wasted. this year, chickens, housecleaning, learning to be a dive bomber pilot. Red Cross work, nutrition and first Margery was home for spring vaca­ COURAGE aid classes fill our lives so full, from tion. She has been elected to teach eariy morning until late at night, that in Pella again next year. We had a there is hardly an hour to relax dur-· good time visiting while we sewed or To send a boy to war a mother must ing the day. However, I like to think washed the dishes. Only six more have courage for she knows the real that from 1: 30 until 2: 00 you are rest­ weeks of school and she will be home dangers of war, both physical and ing while I visit with you over KMA. for the summer. Lucile and Dorothy moral. It is hard to send that boy Yes, I am a year older than I was would like to have her visit them in away with a smile. A mother must when you read the April Klatter, at Callifornia, and perhaps she can the have something more than mere cour­ least I have had a birthday. April later part of her vacation. age to uphold her during the months, 3rd, I was 57. The high spot of the By the time you read this, Howard, yes, maybe years, which will pass be­ day was the telephone call from our oldest son who is in the army fore her boy returns home again. Wayne, our soldier son in Hawaii. at Camp Adair, Oregon, will have been My inner assurance that no matter On Friday we received a telephone home on a furlough, I hope. It has where my sons may go, God will be call from San Francisco asking us to been postponed several times but I am near them, gives me the greatest be at home Saturday evening to re­ sure we will see him soon. He is a peace of heart. I can leave my sons' ceive a ca]l from Hawaii and you can Corporal now in the Infantry. He is lives entirely in God's hands and what­ be sure we were at home. My hus­ anxious to see his brother Frederick ever happens, know that God is good. band was at the telephone in the who has returned from Egypt since If one of my boys should lose their Kitchen-Klatter office, Margery (who he went into the army. present life on the battlefield, they was home for spring vacation) and I expect most of you are all through have just gone on to a better life, a Frederick were at the desk phone in housecleaning. We are almost through. continuation of th.at which they have my broadcasting office, and I at the I have a lady help me two forenoons lived here. A life is never really lost. phone in the living room. I was so a week and each time we have clean­ This lesson of eternal life brought to overcome by my emotions that I could ed a little. I don't believe we will do us by the Easter story, should bring scarcely talk when I first heard any painting or papering until fall. peace and courage to every aching Wayne's voice, but soon gained con­ I want to put off the confusion such heart. trol of my feelings and had a nice vis­ work brings, and things don't look it. That was the shortest three min­ too bad. HOME CANNING utes I ever lived through. Wayne Mrs. Edith Hansen, the morning sent me a lovely summer hand-bag home-maker at KMA, has just return­ from Honolulu. It is woven from ed from visiting her parents in South Home canners may use the hot wa­ some kind of a tropical grass and has Dakota. She was accompanied home ter bath method for all of their can­ my initials on it. He has given me by her husband whose business. con­ ning. This is the advice of Miss a purse on each birthday I have had nections. were such that he had not Frances Hettler, extension nutrition­ since he started to earn money. Lu­ been able to come to be with his fam­ ist at Iowa State CoI!ege. The use of cile and Dorothy were going to cal'l ily until now. steam pressure cookers for canning me from Hollywood but couldn't get We have some nice plans for the no-acid fruits and vegetables is -desir­ the line until after 10:30 out there Kitchen-Klatter Magazine the coming able if such equipment is available. which would have been 12:30 here so months. Very soon, either in June or However, if proper precautions are they gave up. I imagine they were July, Lucile will start a series of con­ taken, the hot water bath method is trying to call at the same time tributions of a sort of family story satisfactory. And the scarcity of Wayne's call was coming through. which we think our readers. will enjoy steam pressure cookers increases the We are having a grand s.pring rain because so many of you were not re­ need for using whatever equipment is today. We have had some very dry ceiving the Magazine when I wrote available. While sharing equipment in weather with dusty winds. I had be­ ·my "Life Story". neighborhoods is patriotic, it doesn't solve the problem in every community. gun to wonder if we were in for a Write me a ~etter when you have drought. Yesterday we planted some time. I shall enjoy hearing from Extension specialists or county home new: hybrid tea rose bushes, and per­ every one of you. Any suggestions economists will hold canning demon­ enmals. The rain came at just the you have for improving the content of strations throughout the state during right time for them. We are planting this magazine to make it more help­ May. Both the hot water bath and one hundred choice gladioli bulbs as ful will be gratefully received. Please t>ressure cooker methods will be il­ soon as the ground is dry enough. feel free to send in contributions for lustrated at that time. We had good news from our young­ my consideration. Lovingly, est son, Don, who is in the Air Corps -Leanna, Buy War Bonds and Stamps! KITCHEN-KLATT)ER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943 PAGE 3

Not so beautiful but quite as exciting are the little Early Everlastings or Pussy Toes which come with the Bird­ foot Prairie Violets and the pink Oxalis. Their silvery gray leaves whiten the ground, the small furry blooms resemble a kitten's foot. Star grass grows near by and the Blue­ eyed grass opens tiny eyes to see what is going on around it. Star Grass has · a small bulb as does also the Pink MY PAW PAW PARADISE MAY GAVE A PARTY Oxalis. By Blanche Wainwright By Mary Duncomb Perhaps the most interesting of the spring flowers is the Buffalo Bean or Pawnee Apple as it was sometimes Because someone before my time May had a little party called. Seeds, flowers and unripened dropped a big brown seed into soft And she invited me fruit are found on this small lowgrow­ Iowa soil, I now have at the edge of By way of invitation ing plant all at once. We come up­ my yard a shaded jungle as beautiful From a robin in a tree. on it as it spreads out in patches in as those of the tropics. the prairie soil among the short The seed was that of the Paw Paw Her rich and luscious table shrubby grass. Its leaves are divided and the one tree has multiplied to Had a cloth of velvet green as those of the Locust tree to which two hundred. They grow about fif­ And its little cob-web doilies family it belongs. The blossoms are teen feet tall and have arranged them­ Sparkled with a lustrous sheen. purplish pink-like clusters of small selves in interesting clumps among Sweet Peas, but what catches the which my shade loving flowers can eye are the bunches of plum-like all find conditions just to their taste. Her sky was hung with draperies Of clouds so soft and white berries lying around the plant in clus­ I have planted it with little set de­ ters, attached to the old flower spray sign aside from the path two feet And sweetest music from the brook Made listening a delight. by tiny threads. They look like white wide which winds hither and yon with grapes with a delicate pink flush, and many a turn from which to catch a She added other guests than I­ make a beautiful flower arrangement surprising picture. This path is edged if brought home. It is said that with prim baby iris and a lace work In fact, a swarm of bees Dined sumptuously on honey prairie dogs carried these to their of Timber Phlox that has scattered holes-in a dry country one might profusely back into clumps of violets;, From blooming apple trees. easily understand this, for they are blue, white, yellow and red. Here you The nectar for the party rather juicy but with an insipid taste. may find a mossy bank strewn with On looking closer one may see last the rare Anemonellas and there, from Wias on a tulip's lip, And dainty crumbs of pollen year's fruit on the ground under the a mound of dead leaves, push the plant, now a dry corky two celled Were taken with each sip. fern-like leaves and graceful hearts of seed the size and shape and color of Dutchman's Breeches, which vie in a small hickory nut; full of small And when the party ended beauty with the waxy white Blood­ angular black shining seeds. Truly A Maypole dance she gave root. this is an interesting plant. Treasure of tl'easures is a colony of And baskets full of sweetest flowers white Mertenslas, carefully isolated Which I shall always save. A little later on, the banks of the from the group of blue ones to keep railroad will be pink with Wild Roses, the strain pure. Another woodland Spiderwort will grow close to the rails, aristocrat happily settled is the yellow MID-WEST WILD FLOWERS Wild Phlox will bloom among tall Ladyslipper. IN SPRING grasses and masses of white Anenome. Among the tall ferns grow the green By Mrs. R. J. Duncomb Violets make a thick dark blue carpet umbrellas of the May Apple, and Jack contrasting with Buttercups which in the Pulpit prefers the deeper mulch are so golden they appear to have where the Maidenhair Ferns make T'he inability to travel around as been varnished carefully, petal by their delicate growth. The little wood much as has been done in previous petal. ferns scramble in and out every where years will no doubt lead us to appre­ like frolicsome babies. As we walk over !,his prairie ground ciate moi:e keenly the beauty of our we can see the young plants which All of these early flowers, along immediate surroundings. The familiar later in the summer will outwit the with Bleeding Hearts and Columbines is always or nearly always passed by from my garden have ample spring tall prairie grass and lift their heads as uninteresting and worthy of little vaingloriously above it. Not the least sun to mature, for the Paw Paw leaves note while we search in every direc­ are late in coming to take the place beautiful and now showing gray sil­ tion far from home for the very object very wands will be the Silver Psor­ of the little brown tulip shaped flow­ which may be right at our doorstep alea. Could this be more easily trans­ ers that deck their branches in April. but unnoticed because of our very planted it would find its place in Then when the leaves develop dense nearness to it. Thus it is that here every home garden, but its long roots shade, the spring flowers go dormant in our Midwest where nature has been and my collection of Hostas develop run slyly under the soil defying us to so lavish with her wild flowers, we dig them. Very beautiful it is in mid­ their clumps of big colorful leaves often ignore what people living in and graceful bells and the Amicifuga summer with small dark delphinium­ other sections of our vast country blue blossoms very sparingly snuggled sends up" its tall white spires and the would give a great deal to see and tale is told, except when the fall among its silvered sprays, waving like study. fairy wands in summer winds. Asters bring an echo of the colors of In early spring of course there is spring. the Pasque, found growing on well Beauty, like gold, is where you find The frost that turns the Paw Paw drained knolls, (now usually pastured) it and God has laid His hand kindly leaves to gold, ripens the banana-like but oftener by the sides of the rail­ on the mid-west, writing His wonders fruits that cradle the big bl'own seeds. road right-of-way. Fortunate indeed in the prairie grass for the seeing eye With the falling of the leaves comes is the individual whether child or to find and for the understanding planning for next year's pictures. Last adult who may welcome spring by heart to appreciate. Truly we may fall I harvested enough surplus pink means of the Pasque with its brave ioay that the prairie flowers are sym­ tulip bulbs so that I ,Planted drifts of little gray bonnets, unfolding their bolic of His approval of a masterly them through the lavender T'imber woolly covering to the sun's warm job well done. He looked upon His Phlox. rays. The worship the Indians of work and found it beautiful and so Do you wonder that I can scarcely early days had for the Pasque is may we if we look about us in rever­ wait for May to come? easily understood. ence and humility. PAGE 4 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943

LETTER FROM LUCILE in my little tussle with Juliana. Somehow it's so much easier to give in! And the reason is no mystery. Dear Friends: Goodbye for now, and my warmest The last. time I wrote to you I said regards to all of you. We have busy that Juliana was sleeping quietly· in months ahead of us caring for our her bassinet beside me, but tonight homes and doing what we can to help I'm sad to say that she's beside me further the earl!y peace that all of us and hoWliing her head off! We're hav­ pray for, but let's try and keep out ing a little private war of our own for enough time for this monthly visit. I she's determined to have her' ten always anticipate this opportunity to o'clock bottle this very moment, and keep in touch with you. I'm equally determined that she -Lucile. shouldn't have it until ten o'clock ar­ rives. From bitter experience I've learned that if I give in at nine o'clock A PLACE TO PLAY it means a hungry, screaming baby at four in the morning-and four can be Although you want to use every pos­ such a miserable hour when you're sible space for vegetable gardens, prowling around in a cold house, half there must be some place left for the asleep, trying to get matters straight­ children to play. If they have to use ened out. (Do I hear a loud chorus parkings and streets as playgrounds, of agreement!) there can't help but be accidents. A On the whole we're getting allong play place doesn't need to be bare and far better than I had expected. unattractive. A secluded bit of lawn Juliana is six weeks old today and in the back yard, equipped with a sand we've struggled through the first big box, a teeter-totter and a swing or hurdles that come when a tiny baby maybe a wading pool will prove at­ doesn't gain too well for a time. tractive to the younger children. For the boys a basketball goal put up on Those days already seem dim and far Our daughter Lucile Verness and Juliana, away, for she weighs nine pounds now who was 3% weeks old when this picture was the side of the garage, a horizontal and has quite an assortment of chins! taken. bar or a trapeze will make the back Russell even dreamed last night that yard a popular meeting place for the when he put her on the scales she neighborhood gang. If Father or Big Brother could find tipped them at 142 pounds, and he has a sneaking preference for a boy, thought with cold chills that she time t• build a play house, this can be but I tell her that I hope she has a used by the boys as a club house or would have to be put on a diet im­ girl so that we can both have little mediately. den, as well as by the little girls of daughters who will seem almost like the neighborhood when they bring These nights when I've been up so twins once they've passed their first their dolls to play "house". Yes! don't much of the time I've had ample mo­ birthdays. forget to plan a place for the children ments to look into the past and won­ I meant to tell you in my other let­ to play. der, from the vantage point of grim ter and it slipped my mind that Juli­ reality, how Mother ever managed. ana had an illustrious bassinet oc­ After all, Juliana is the only problem cupant next to her in the hospital for I have, but Mother kept the lonely a few days, since Brian Donlevy's vigil night after night and then start­ baby was there at the same time. ed the day with all the demands of Most of the movie stars' babies are our big family staring her in the face born at the Cedars of Lebanon hos­ It's probably true that baibies in a big pital and you can imagine the atten­ family take less looking after when tion they attract. I told Dorothy the they grow older, but we al1 know that other day that her baby might start any baby, be it the first or the tenth, out in life with Joan Bennet's baby is an engraved invitation to work and in the next bassinet because it's due loss of sleep during the first six at the same time. Goodness knows weeks. Donald was the seventh and they're all nice babies, but I wouldn't the last baby in our family, but I'll have wanted to leave the hospital bet anything that Mother went with anyone but Juliana no matter through the same thing with him that if she isn't famous. I've been going through with Juliana. Summer is really here now and In Mothers letter that reached us Dorothy and I have enjoyed going out yesterday she said that they had for drives. At night the air is heavy planted a flowering crab for Juliana with perfume from the blossoming A tribute to a victorious homecom­ and we were so happy when we heard orange trees, and the section of the ing is this tea towel series appropri­ this. I think one the nicest things city in which we live is so tranquil ately called "When Johnny Comes you can do is plant a tree or a bush and lovely that sometimes it's hard to Marching Home.'' All the Jehnnies for a baby, and since we don't own believe we're in one of the most vul­ of all the services are represented­ our home we are grateful that Mother nerable war zones. We hiad our first soldier, sailor, marine and c o as t­ and Dad have planted one for her. daylight air-raid alarm not long ago guardsman. And of course, no sooner Now when we take her back on visits and I can't tell you how strange it are they home than girl trouble be­ we can snap her picture by the flow­ seemed to hear those eerie sirens at sets them as depicted on three of the ering crab, and every year we can see one in the afternoon. That was the motifs. Catchy headings identify th9 how much she has grown in compari­ first time we'd he&rd them since last different designs, all of which are son with the tree. I say "every year" May when Dorothy, Frank and I were done in simple outlines. So 'til "John­ just as though I were sure that we caught on one of the miain boulevards ny Comes Marching Home," let the coUlld take her back that frequently during an air-raid alarm. I'll never making of these seven tea towels ec­ but it's my fervent hope that we can'. forget that experience. cupy a bit of spare time. Your own As you can well imagine, Dorothy is I'll confess that I could fill this or a friend's kitchen will welcome the enjoying Juliana very, very much. page, and probably another one, with­ finished set. Transfer C9548, lOc, has She says that it makes her time of out any difficulty whatsoever, but I'm the 7 motifs; repeat "Home Sweet waiting go more swiftly, and I'm sure sure I have my quota of space right Home" for a matching panholder. that if her baby had been born first now. Anyway it's exactly ten o'clock Order from Leanna Driftmier, I would feel the same way. Dorothy and I'm proud to say tkat I held out Shenandoah, Iowa. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943 PAGE 5

ABOUT PRISON CAMPS the help of the International Red Fredericl' (Ted) Driftmier Cross the Y'MCA is providing all types of activities in hundreds of prison camps. throughout the world to keep During the last seven months that the mmds of prisoners occupied. Un­ I was in Egypt I was employed by the ~ortunately the YMCA does not work International YMCA to work as a m all camps, b'ut where it does work YMCA secretary with prisoners of th~ men are better for it. In man; wa.r .. My job was to help with the prison camps university and high re~1g10us, e d u c a t i o n a l, and recre­ school courses are offered to the pris­ at10nal programs of the many prison­ oners. The professors in the schools er of war camps in the Middle East are captured soldiers who were in The prisoners were mostly Italian~ ed1;1cational work before the war. and Germans captured by the British Pnso~ers are always interested in in Africa. While in that work I had :ithletics, and every prison camp has opportunity to learn at first hand its football fields and basketball what life in a prison camp is like. co?rts. Volleyball is also popular with Prisoner of war camps are not con­ prisoners. Some of the finest football centration camps; generally speaking, games I have ever seen were played t~ey are much better than concentra­ by prisoners in prison camps. Almost tion camps. That is because the every camp has its own band or or­ treatment of prisoners of war is regu­ chestra with instruments supplied by lated by international law, the Ge­ the YMCA, Red Cross, and sometimes neva Convention of 1929. As far as b~ the enemy. Captured artny chap­ the Germans are concerned, it is one Frederick prepares the martin house for re­ lams conduct regular church services of the few international laws still in turn of its occupant• in early April. for the men, and some chaplains force. Although the Japanese were have had extraordinary success with not original signers of the Convention Bible school classes. He will then be given a card on whicli they have, since Pearl Harbor, stated Prison life is not all play. When to write home, and this card is usually t~11;t they intend to abide by its pro­ thousands of men are placed together given air mail priority. If he still v1s10ns. The Convention lays down a behind b111rbed wire in a small town of needs medical attention he will be ?ody of rules and regulations govern­ the>ir own, there is work to be done. pl~ced in a prison hospital where he mg treatment and living conditions of Every prison camp has its kitchens will probably receive medical ca•re prisoners. It also provides for the laundries, bakeries, shoeshops, from American or British doctors barber~ inspelil~ion of prison camps by repre­ shops, tailorshops, canteens and post­ When doctors are captured they sentatives of the International Red ar~ offices. Almost all of the work con­ u~ually put to work in the prison hos­ Cross, official representatives of some nected with a large camp is done by pitals. His living quarters in the camp neutral gov.ernment-usually Switzer­ the prisoners. It is a rare prisoner will be livable; many of the prison land-and the Wair Prisoners' Aid indeed who does not want to work. camps look just like CCC Camps with Committee of the YMCA. If any pri­ Some of the prisoners are put to work barbed wire fences around them. His soners receive bad treatment, their on Italian and Gertnan farms, while food must be the same as that which government is informed, and action is others help to build roads and rail­ the detaining power provides for its taken immediately to request the roads. The captor country has the own base troops. It so happens that right to use all enlisted men (but not enemy government to correct the situ­ our enemies do not have as much food officers) in any work not directly ation. Such action has seldom been as we have, and so of course our boys necessary as far as enemy treatment harmful to their native state. The are not fed as well as we would like of Americans and English is concern­ to have them fed, but though very prisoners cannot be made to make arms or munitions, or other war' ma­ ed. plain the food is enough to keep the terials. Most prisoners consider it a What happens when a man is taken men well and fit. As soon as his punishment to not be allowed to work. prisoner?To answer that I shall as­ relativ~s learn where he is, they can The prisoners usually receive payment sume that he is captured in Tunisia send him a box of food at regular in­ for the work they do. It is not much, by the Germans, and tell you what I tervals and he will soon be living for but it is enough to pay for the little think probably happens. First of all the days when those boxes arrive. he is searched. If he happens to be Monotony is the greatest single luxuries purchased from the camp wounded he is at once treated by the problem in the prisoner's life. Seeing canteen that help to make prison life enemy medical staff. Very often in a the dawn of a new day and knowing more bearable. front line hospital you will find enemy that it will be exactly the same as If your son or friend has been de­ soldiers lying side by side with our yesterday, and knowing that tomor­ clared missing in action, there Is al­ own. As soon as he is searched and row will be exactly as today will in ways the possibility that he is a pris­ his wounds treated he is sent back of time, drive a man to distraction' if oner of war. It may be weeks or the battle zone to a temporary prison something is not created to interrupt even months before you learn for sure camp. According to the Convention the sameness of the situation. This whether he is a prisoner or not. When prisoners of war must be removed a~ is the cID.allenge that the YMCA has you do learn that he is a prisoner, quickly as possible from war zones taken upon itself to answer. With thank God. and so he will not remain in Tunisi~ long. He is probably taken to Tunis BEAUTIFUL, NEW, HARDY PERENNIAL FLOWERS, FRESHLY DUG FROM or some other enemy occupied port MY PRIVATE GARDENS; SHIPPED THE DAY THEY ARE DUG and put aboard a ship. If he is lucky the ship will not be sunk by our own fill my naval and air forces and he will soon BEST EVER TREASURE BOX find himself in Italy. Perhaps he will EIGHT DIFFERENT CHOICE, HARDY PLANTS FOR $1.00 POSTPAID be placed in a large prison camp in My selections will thrill you. Sc.me will be budded and all will bloom for you this Italy, or he might be taken on to year and for years to come. I, personally, supervise the digging, packing and labelling. Germany. If the latter is the case he They are guaranteed to reach you all fresh and eager to continue growing. Height, will have a very hard four or five day sun or shade indicated on labels. train trip to endure. EXTRA-A PINK JEWEL DWARF IRIS will be added to all orders reach­ ing me before May 10th. No orders shipped after May 15th. Once he is placed in the safety of a To those who have received my TREASURE BOX from year to yeCllr, I big prison camp, whether it be in Ger­ many or Italy, life becomes easier for hope this may be the most joy-full one of all. him. The enemy will ask him for his JESSIE FIELD SHAMBAUGH name and address of the folks at Sunnyside Garden CLARINDA, IOWA home he wants notified of his capture. l>AGJ!I ¥ kITCBBN-K.LATTBR MAG.A.ZINB, JIAY, 1943

HEALTH HINTS MISTAKES By Mrs. Walt Pitzer I've made mistakes the same as you, The same mistakes all mortals do, E::ncourage the children to grow a Just little mistakes, and big mistakes, garden all their own. 'i'hey may be Bringing us little and .big heartaches, more interested in Bringing us sorrow and sighs and the f o o d s they tears eat after having Some of them shadowing all our years, grown and helped Turning life's song to a sad refrain­ prepare them for Let's try to forget them and start a meal. Contests OVER THE FENCE again, are a help to What's done is done and we can't turn stimulate inter­ back, est, also having Do any of you Kitchen-Klatter sis­ Let's bravely start down life's future the parents ad­ track, mire their gar­ ters have instructions for making crocheted lace using the Coronation Do what we, oan to help other men den and ta 1 k Who've made mistakes to take heart over the differ­ Braid as a foundation? If you have, please write to Mrs. Frank Dunn, again. e n t vegetables. -Jas. E. Hungerford. Try growing Clarion, Iowa. ·.. Mrs. Walt Pitzer some of the un­ usual vegetables such as brussels Many of you who use battery radio sprouts, broccoli, endive, etc. These sets will have to ration programs as foods rank very high in the necessary Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dooley, of Adel, food elements. Iowa, do. They plan to get two news programs, a market report, Kitchen­ Grow an abundance of lima beans. Klatter and a program for the chil­ Their nutritive value is high and dren. 3 dried lima beans stand ahead of the canned limas. Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Griswold have a baby daughter, Barbara Ann. Mr. WAYS YOU Griswold was, pianist for the Stamps Cucumber is a neglected vegetable, Quartette who entertained at KMA. chucked full cf precious vitamins high CAN HELP in mineral content and if properly If your name is "Grace" and your prepared they seldom cause a diges­ birthday is March 3rd, write to Mrs. tive disturbance. Grace Williams, Blencoe, Iowa. AMERICA WIN Every American housewife Hope you grow watermelons. They Mrs. J. A. Jones writes that a today has a job to do on rank high in food elements and are a "Bossy" belonging to her oldest son blessing to folks _with "excess bag­ gave birth to three white faced calves. the "home front.'~ Here gage" problems. She has done her part toward produc­ are a few of the ways you ing food to help win the war. can help! Horseradish and pepper stimulate the digestive secretions. The precious Mrs. Geo Miller of Galva, Iowa, has · SAVE FOOD dandelion is praised to the sky by nu­ some cancelled stamps she wishes to Cook foods in their tritionists. Will someone please tell give away. First to write, gets the skins whenever me how to cook them! stamps. ~ possible. Roast at low temperature fo Protect the child's foot by buying Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. your gas oven and reduce meat the shoes a half size too large. Have Geo. Barnett of Van Wert, Iowa, on shrinkage. the clerk cut and fit a pair of in­ the celebration of their 50th wedding Plan at least one casserole soles, then slip them in the shoes but anniversary, on March 29th. The day dish a week to use left-overs. do not glue them. They may be re­ was made a very happy one for them moved when the child's foot has by their children and many friends. SAVE VITAMINS grown. ~ Useverylittlewater Margaret Miller of 624 E Marion St., - · in cooking vege­ Meat rationing may make it impos­ Mishawaka, Indiana, has found two tables and cook sible for you to have the 5:00 P. M., people in her city named Margaret only until "tender crisp." meat sandwich suggested in the eight­ Miller. She would like to hear from Bring to boil quickly over day health schedule, so try one made any others having that name. high gas llame, then turn llame of whole wheat bread, peanut butter, down and boil gently~ and sprinkling of wheat germ and Box elder bugs do not like petunias. Use covered utensil to keep brewers yeast (obtainable from your Mrs. Clyde Haworth of Clyde, Kan­ steam in. Do not add soda. druggist). This sandwich is rich in sas, has discovered that these pesky protein, and the vitamin B Complex is bugs stay a way from the window sills SAVE FUEL so important to good digestion, en­ where she has pots of petunias. . ~ Make full use of ergy, sound heart and steady nerves. your gas oven or From Clara Donmyer, Solomon, Kans. broiler by "tanning If you are an allergic individual The early fly is the one to s.wat. complete oven or broi_~r meals. (sensitive to certain foods), make a It comes before the weather's hot. Do not preheat your gas ove(l careful study of the foods which re­ It sits around and cleans its legs or broiler too long. Cold stare act unfavorably. We are now told And lays almost a million eggs. is possible, if preferred• that many troubles come from eating Every egg will hatch a fly Avoid using small pans on foods to which we are allergic. To drive us cra~y bye and bye. large or giant burners. Among them are mentioned some -Selected. forms of arthritis, also sorme stomach, liver and colon disturbances. Have you some flour or sugar sacks for sale? Write to Mrs. Geo. H. Ray, IOWA- N.EBRASKA I am glad to help you with your Bellevue, Nebr. health problems (please enclose stamp­ ed envelope). Buy War Bonds and Stamps. LIGHT & POW'ER CO. KITCBEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, H.A.Y, 1941 PA GB '1

From My Letter Basket '------By Leanna Driftmier ------·

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

QUES: "I have been married for certain circumstances such an ar­ twelve years and have three children, rangement could work out happily. and the only difficulty my husband Are all four people involved equally and I ever have is over various busi­ anxious to settle their housing prob­ AROUND THE KITCHEN TABLE ness moves that he makes. I feel that lem by this arrangement? Have you By Maxine Sickels I have a right to know when he in­ had sufficient evidence that they will vests heavily in stock for our store, meet all financial matters squarely? or buys or sells property, but he never Do you keep approximately the same Lay down those hoes and rakes, takes me into his confidence and all hours? If the answer to these ques­ girls, and let us all have a glass of that I ever know about our financial tions is "yes" I think that you can milk out under the old apple tree. condition is what I can piece together give it a try. But be sure to fix up Have you tried Mrs. Pitzer's sugges­ here and there. It doesn't seem to me one bedroom as a separate living room tion of a glass of whey? I like its that this is right."-Iowa. so that there will be more than one tangy flavor when it is icy cold. Any­ way try a pick-me-up and a few min­ ANS: I agree with you-it isn't place to entertain callers. I'd appre­ ciate knowing how you come out. utes rest about ten o'clock and again right. Every woman is entitled to about three. Lie down or sit down know exactly how matters stand fi­ QUE.S: "Is it necessary to take a and put your feet up (the higher the nancially, particularly if there are chil­ gift if one is invited to a wedding better, it rests them) and relax all dren, for sudden death often leaves reception? My cousin's daughter is over. If you are the dreamy type, things in a tragic tangle. Is it pos­ being married and only the two im­ you will love it. If you are a model sible that early in your marriage you mediate families are to be at the wed­ of efficiency, it increases your ability. criticized your husband's judgment? ding which will be followed by a large Or did you try to hold him back? reception.''-Minnesota. Here is May bringing Mother's Day, Many women do this, not realizing ANS: Yes, it is customary to pre­ a double pleasure for those of us who how keenly most men resent being sent the bridal couple with a gift if are of the middle generation. We cautioned about business moves. Try one is invited to the wedding recep­ never would be so thoughtless as to concealing all curiosity for a while, tion. However, rather than taking it forget to bring our Mother some tok­ ask no questions, and seem utterly un­ with you I believe that I'd plan to en of the day. Here is another side concerned as to his business affairs. send it to the house before the wed­ to it. Let us alIT make it easy for our· If he feels that you aren't watchfully ding. children to remember us. waiting for some new evidence as to If a small boy with ten cents asks, what he has been up to, he may begin QUES: "My little boy eleven years "Mother, what do you want?" be telling you more and even consulting old has always received very high ready with some suggestions. Want a you. marks at school and no mother could war savings stamp, a hanky, a pocket QUES: "My brother's home was ask for a better all-around record, but comb. When the present is finally broken up by divorce last year and this year his grades have fallen 'way before you, be sincerely appreciative. we took their eight year old daughter down. Do you think it is the teach­ This is a good place to practice your under our care. It's my husband's er's fault-she is young and very in­ '~do unto's". opinion that we should never mention experienced ?"-Missouri. her mother, who seems to have been ANS: Before I drew any conclusions To all Mothers everywhere, the pretty largely responsible for the trou­ I would be sure that my little boy's peeks into the future carried by sev­ ble, but I have the feeing that this is health was up to par. Faulty vision eral of the current magazines are a misfake and that we should speak and poor hearing can crop out at any vitally interesting. .Scientists promise of both parents respectfully. I wish time, you know. If he is in good us that there will be wool suits that that you'd tell me what you think."­ health I would visit the teacher with can be laundered as easily as socks. Kansas. an open mind (be sure that you don't ANS: I think that your attitude is feel antagonistic) and discuss the situ­ By the way, they allso tell us that the only wise one to take. No child ation. As an ex-teacher I can tell you one female moth and her descendants should have his mind poisoned to­ that it means a great deal when par­ can eat as much wool as thirteen wards either parent, and it's highly ents come and discuss these cases sheep can produce. If you cannot important that children of broken frankly. I always appreciated it when raise wool that Uncle Sam needs so homes do not hear criticism and com­ a mother came directly to me rather badly, you can at least swat the plaint. Time will bring its own reck­ than going to all of the other mothers moths in your house. oning, and as the child matures he with a tale of woe. Future homemakers will have pri­ can draw his own conclusions without vate dehydrators. and quick freeze QUES: "My little boy was such a prejudice. units instead of canning so many good, clean-minded child until he QUES: "We have a good-sized quarts of fruit and vegetables. started to school, and now he comes house, Leanna, but it can't be adapted Housies will be centrally produced home repeating ugly words and of­ for more than one family without ex·· and set up to suit each family's re­ fensive stories. He asks me what tensive remodeling which is complete­ quirements. What will Pop do when ly out of the question. In recent weeks they mean and I feel so badly about it. My husband won't do anything Mom can move the rooms as well as a young couple with whom we are the furniture? The same author sug­ for he says it will only make matters most friendly have asked us if they gests that the most of the heavy worse. I don't know what to do about can share our home, dividing all ex­ furniture, like beds, studio couches, it."-Iowa. penses e qua 11 y. (Desirable living dressers and desks will be built-in. I quarters are almost unavailable in ANS: It's a rare school that doesn't think I wouldn't like that. They this town.) Do you think that any have this problem, and all mothers would have to stay put. roof is large enough for two fam­ face it sooner or later. My policy ilies ?"-Kansas. was always to say quietly and firmly ANS: It's a temptation to say that in our home we didn't use such Why do I tell you this? "NO" very flatly, but common sense language, and that anyone who talked If you like the idea, start saving and the serious problems of today this way in our home would have to for the future and paying for the combine to make me feel that under stay by himself. As a rule it worked. present by buying a war savings bond. PAGE 8 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943

BUTTERSCOTCH CAKE

1/2 cup butter 1 cup dark syrup "Recipes Tested 2 eggs 1 package butterscotch pudding mix 1 teaspoon vanilla in the 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon soda Kitchen Klatter 1 teaspoon baking powder 3/4 cup sour milk Cream butter with syrup, add eggs Kitchen'' and beat thoroughly, then add puJ­ ding mix, vanilla and salt. Put flour, B:v LEAN.l\-A DRIFTl\HER soda and baking powder into sifter and add alternately with the sour milk. Beat well. This makes a very large cake.--Mrs. Car'! Paulsen, Linwood, PRUNE GELATIN WHIP HOT CROSS BUNS Nebr.

Made in Kitchen-Klatter Kitchen, Baked in Kitchen-Klatter Kitchen, ORANGE ICE CREAM March 18, 1943 April 8, 1943. 1 package iemon gelatin 1 cup milk, scalded 2/3 cup sweetened condensed milk 1 1/2 cups boiling water 1/2 cup sugar 1 cup orange juice 1 cup stewed prune pu1p 3 tablespoons lard 1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange rind 2 egg whites 1/2 teaspoon salt Chill thoroughly, then fold in 1 cup 1/2 cup whipped cream 1 cake compressed yeast of cream which has been whipped. Dissolve gelatin in boiling water. 1 tablespoon sugar Freeze to a mush, pour into a chilled Set aside to cool. When beginning to Put the 1 tablespoon sugar on the bowl and beat till smooth then return thicken, whip until light and frothy. yeast and mix until it liquifies. Beat to tr,ays and finish freezing.-Mrs. L. Fold in prune pulp which has been 1 egg until fluffy and add to the milk A. Boyer, Leavenworth, Kans. rubbed through a sieve. Fold in stiff­ which has had the lar'd, sugar and salt ly beaten egg whites and whipped dissolved in it. Sift 3 cups flour with NUT PIE CRUST cream. Pour in a mold and set in ice 1/2 teaspoon baking powder. Add box or cold place. half the flour to the yeast mixture and beat real hard for 3 minutes, until Use nuts that are rich in fat, like pecans or walnuts. Grind them fine. SUGARLESS CUP CAKES bubbly. Add 1/2 cup currants or rai­ sins, then add rest of the flour. Let Using any good recipe for plain pas­ try, substitute the finely ground nuts Baked in Kitchen-Klatter Kitchen, rise 10 minutes, then knead until no longer sticky. Cover and let rise un­ for half the fat the recipe calls for. March 2·:5, 1943. (If the recipe calls for 6 tablespoons 2 1/4 cup sifted flour til about double in size. Make into biscuits. Cut deep crosses acr'oss of fat, use 3 tablespo0ns f.at and 3 ta­ 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder blespoons finely ground nuts.) Mix each bun with a sharp knife and let 1/4 teaspoon salt and bake like ordinary pastry. Nut l'ise again until double in bulk. Bake Sift together three times. crust is especially good for cream fill­ 20 minutes at 400 degrees. Fill the 1/2 cup butter well creamed ing. Sprinkle chopped nuts over top crosses with powdered sugar frosting. 2 teaspoons grated orange rind of the meringue just before serving. 1 cup white syrup -·Mrs. Helen Ryan, Corning, Iowa. 2 eggs, not beaten HOME MADE YEAST 1/2 cup milk CINNAMON TWISTS 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla 1 cake compressed yeast Mix and bake in 375 degree oven for 1/2 cup Juke warm milk Scald 1/2 cup buttermilk. When 30 minutes.-Mrs. Adolph Vojtech, 2 cups flour Juke warm add 1/2 cup Juke warm Traer, Iowa. 1/2 cup shortening water. Put in a crock and add 2 cakes 1 egg, beaten of red star yeast. Mix well, then add CHOCOLATE PUDDING CAKE 4 teaspoons sugar enough flour to make a soft spong.e. 1/2 teaspoon salt Let this stand till good and light, then Baked in Kitchen-Klatter· Kitchen, Work shortening in sifted flour, stir in this enough corn meal to make April 1, 1943. sugar' and salt, as you would pie crust. a stiff ball. Divide into 20 equal 1/2 cup shortening Add beaten egg and yeast which has pieces. Take each piece and make in 2 packages (4 1/2 oz. size) powdered been dissolved in the Juke warm milk. to a ball with your hands then put on chocolate pudding mix Mix well with spoon. Put dough ln a a plate and press flat. When partly 2 eggs, beaten wet cloth-a large thin square. Fast­ dry turn over and let dry on other 1 cup enriched flour en ends loosely and place in cold wa­ side a while. Keep that up till they 1/2 teaspoon soda ter to cover for 1 hour or u::ilil dough are completely dry. Add potatoes 1 teaspoon cream of tartar begins to float. Then remove dough when you bake.-Mrs. C. W. Wineing­ 1 cup milk in cloth, draining excess water off. er, Baldwin, Kans. 1 teaspoon v,anilla Use a tablespoon of dough at a time Cream shortening and pudding mix; and drop into a dish containing a mix TO MAKE VINEGAR add eggs and beat. Sift flour and ture of 2/3 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon measure, then sift with soda and cinnamon. Pat, turn and stretch into 1 1/2 cups brown sugar cream of tartar. Add dry ingredients a long piece. Twist gently, making 1 gallon soft water alternately with milk and vanilla. Mix sure surfaces are well covered with 2 c.akes soft yeast well and pour into greased eight-inch cinnamon mixture. Place on grease:i 2 cups apples, cut up square pan. Bake in moderate oven pan, cover loosely with waxed paper Mix this and put in a jar and cover (350) degrees) 40 minutes.-Mrs. W. and set to rise in a cozy place for li 2 with brown paper then with a cloth. E. Cusick, Kirksville, Mo. hour. Bake in moderate oven (375 When it quits working, strain into degrees) for about 20 minutes. Re­ jugs. Takes about 60 days to get If you're blue, sick, or don't know move from pan immediately when ready for use. what's the matter, taken from oven to prevent sticking. Pep up your morale by reading Kitch- -Mrs. W. M. Longenecker, Eldora, Buy a share of freedom-Invest in en-Klatter ! -A Klatterer. Iowa. War Bonds and hasten victory. KITCHEN-KLATT'ER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1948 PAGE

MY PART MOCK CHICKEN CASSEROLE KITCHEN HELPS

Coffee, sugar, meat, and cheese, 4 tablespoons fat For cleaning Rancid Lard. To 1 gal­ Gasoline and tires- 4 tablespoons flour lon rancid lard add 1 gallon water and ! can do with less of these Few grains pepper bring to boiling point. Add 2 quarts If the need requires; 2 1/2 cups milk water. Let cool, and skim. Lard will What do such things mean to me 1 can tuna fish come to the top and can be easily re­ When across the warring sea, 1 three ounce pkg potato chips moved. Neighbor, friend, and brother, 1/2 cup mushrooms Battle a remorseless foe: Heat fat, add flour and pepper, add Make French Dressing with half Pain and death they undergo, milk gradually, stirring constantly un­ lemon and half lime juice. This will make an especially good dressing for All for one another. til thick. Separate fish in flakes. Add to sauce. Combine all ingredients, fruit, vegetable or fish salad. Rations, taxes, bonds each pay; saving a few potato chips to sprinkle Peeling Potatoes. Pour very warm That's my contribution; on top. Pour into greased casserole water over potatoes. This enables you That's the part that I can play, and bake in moderate oven about 30 to peel them very thinly, thus saving Toward the war's solution: minutes, until top is brown. 1 cup of the part next to the skin which con­ Mine is not to march away, peas ot finely diced, cooked carrots tains the best food element. Nor to grapple in the fray, may be added if desired.-Mrs. Chas. To Clean Teakettles. A tablespoon To defend the nation: Harris, Garden City, Mo. of borax in a kettle of hot water will But I can with all my might remove the coating which forms in­ Help to put the foe to flight, HONEY ICE CREAM side a teakettle. By living on my ration. To Clean the Grater after grating -Robert Sidney Kieser. 1 1/4 cups milk lemon rind, try the pastry brush. It 1 3/4 cups coffee cream cleans and brushes off around the NUT BREAD 1/2 cup honey sharp points. 2 eggs Home-made Fly Swatter. Cut a 1 egg, well beaten 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1/2 cup sugar or 1/4 cup honey piece of inner tube 61/2 inches long Pinch Salt and 4 1/2 inches wide. Round the 1/2 teaspoon salt Heat honey in top of double nailer 3/4 cup nut meats corners. With a harness punch, cut a and add scalded milk. Make a paste lot of small holes in the rubber, or use 1 cup water or milk added alter­ of cornstarch and a little cold milk, scissors if you have no punch. Then nately with add and cook until thick. Add beat­ 21/2 cups flour and 2 1/2 teaspoons sew onto an old fly swatter handle. en egg yolks and cook 3 minutes. These outwear most boughten swat­ double action baking powder which Chill thoroughly. Add whipped cream have been sifted 3 times. Set for 20 ters and never snag or catch curtains and beaten egg whites and mix with or mar furniture. minutes. Bake in a 350 degree oven egg beater. Pour in trays or freezer for 1 hour.-Mrs. W.W. Ettleman, Per­ To Successfully Starch Dark Cloth­ and freeze as rapidly .as possible. 1/3 cival, Ia. ing, add about 1/2 cup vinegar to the cup honey and 3 tablespoons sugar starch after you have starched the may be used instead of all honey­ white clothes. WHIPPED CREAM Mrs. Wayne Thompson, Camden Point, Mo. Covers for the Rolling Pin can be 1 teaspoon of plain gelatin dissolved made from a pair of size 5 children's white stockings. Cut the feet off and in 2 teaspoons milk over hot water. GOLDEN TAPIOCA DESSERT Beat 1 cup coffee cream until a little hem the raw edge. This gives two covers that are easily laundered. thick, then add cold gelatine mixture 1/3 cup tapioca Make a pastry cloth by binding a and beat 1 or 2 minutes, add vanilla, 1/4 cup sugar square of heavy white duck with bias sugar to taste, and a small pinch of 1/2 cUp honey salt. If it is too thick, a little more tape. You can make it the size of 1/8 teaspoon salt your bread board and tie on with milk or cream may be added. Keep 2 cups water where it is cool.-Mrs. J. E. McCon­ tapes, if desired. Cook in sauce pan until clear and The Soap-filled Pads used for nell, Council Bluffs, Ia. slightly thickened, stirring constant­ scouring aluminum are excellent to ly. Will be thin but do not overcook remove the black marks made on for it will thicken as it cools. Peel floors by rubber soled shoes. KITCH EN-KLA TTER carefully 2 or 3 oranges, cut in small To Remove Glue or Airplane Ce­ pieces, use a little of the peel and the COOK BOOKS ment from clothing, rub alcohol on the juice of half an orange. Add this to Don't use the same old recipes day spots and then wash or sponge with the tapioca mixture when cooled. after day when for so little you can turpentine. When glue starts to have a collection of six Kltchen-Klatter Serve with whipped cream.-Mrs. J. J. loosen, scrape off, then wash as usual. Cook Books, each running over with Ries, Hedrick, Ia. new and dellcloue, tested recipes. lllalte Bon Ami will clean chromium ar­ your cookinir a pleasure. Send me ticles.. A sister who lives in a trailer $1.00 for the set of 6 cook hooks to­ YELLOW SPONGE CAKE day. I pay the poetaire. discovered this when experimenting with different cleaners for her stove A SET OF 4 egg yolks, beaten well pipe. KITCHEN-KLATTER BOOKS Rind of 1/2 lemon or lemon extract Coating for Raised D o u g h n u t s. No gift would be more BoU 3/4 cup white corn syrup Make a very thin mixture of powdered appreciated. Pour over 4 stiffly b e a t e n egg sugar and milk or water and flavor­ 1. Cookies and Candles whites ing. Dip when slightly cooled and lay Z. Salads and Sandwiches Add the yolks to the whites then on waxed paper to drain. You can S. Vegetables add 1 cup cake flour which has been scrape up the icing that runs off and t. De88erts sifted with 1/2 teaspoon baking pow­ use again. Vary the flavor by using 6. Oven Dishes der and a pinch of salt. Bake in an cocoa or different flavorings. 8. Pickl~ams and Preserves ungr.eased pan 45 minutes in a 325 de- When Making Meringue for pies, 7. Household Helps gree oven. just before you put it in the oven to Price 25c Each Frosting brown, sprinkle about a tablespoon of or any 6 for $1.00, Postpaid Boil 3/4 cup white corn syrup. Add granulated sugar all over the top of Order from 8 marshmallows. Pour over 2 well the meringue. Be sure the meringue beaten egg whites and beat. Add a touches all sides of the crust. It will Leanna Driftmier pinch of salt and vanilla or lemon not shrink on the pie and the sugar Shenandoah, Iowa flavoring.-Mrs. R. C. Zeller, 610 Sey­ causes it to slice cleanly and not stick mour St., Tama, Ia. to the knife. PAGE 11 B:ITCREN-K:LATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1941

GOOD NEIGHBORS ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN By Gertrude Hayzlett By James Pearson

A card from Mrs. F. Temple Head Certainly a word about home safety today asks me to thank you for the will not be out of place in the Kitchen­ lovely cards and remembrances you Klatter Magazine. have sent her. Her eyes are so much A housewife recently went to put worse that she cannot see to write coal oil in the stove and accidently legibly-and is not able to answer got gasoline instead. As a result the your letters. She has been ill so long home burned down and she was killed and I am sorry she has to give up the by the fire. pleasure her letters give her. Another woman tried to hurry up In the same mail, a fellow patient the kitchen stove with a dash of kero­ in the sanitarium wrote about Mrs. sene and it exploded. House and Lois Luman. Lois has been in the housewife gone! hospital for 2 years now and every A little tot fell down the outside time she thought she was beginning cellar steps, as the door was open. It to improve, something happened to died from the fall. give her a set-back. She is just now A little child ran behind the tractor beginning to gain following two recent as daddy was backing it around in the operations. She has four children, the yard. He did not know the child was oldest about ten, and being away from there. He ran over it and killed it. them is one of the hardest things she Another child wanted to ride on the has to bear. The children are in a tractor with daddy. He took it along Home since their mother has been in for a little ride and in some way it the sanitarium. Will you write her? fell off and was crushed by the wagon Address Box 390, Webb City, Mo. Mrs. A. H. Nelson of Omaha, Nebr., sent he was pulling. We have been asked for a letter this picture of her son Bill, 19 years old, A child got hold of some rat poison, who has been in the Navy two years. shower for Miss Anna Larson, c/o L. ate some and died. N. Olson, Rt. 2, Ventura, Iowa. She A child ran out into the road and is crippled and confined to her home. PRAYER was struck by an automobile. He died She pieces quite a lot of quilts and almost instantly. I'm sure would like quilt prints. A child was fooling with an elec­ During these times when our boys What can a mother find to keep tric cord in the basement, where the are in all the corners of the globe, you Her heart alive and warm ground was wet. He was killed by an may like to write to a shutin who may When suddenly her boy becomes electric shock. be near where your boy is. Mrs. Ruth A man in uniform? Grandpa slipped on the waxed floor, Hastie, South Makaretu, Takapau, broke his hip, and died after some New Zealand is a splendid correspon­ What can she give him he can hold? days of suffering. dent. She has been an invalid for a What armour can he wear? We could go on and on and relate good many years, in fact, since a Against the wintry hail of death­ instances of such home accidents that short time after she was married. Her What shield is there-but Prayer. have occurred here in Iowa within the husband is doing war work and Ruth -From Cromwell, Iowa. last very few weeks. In 1941 there worries what will become of her if were 101,000 people killed in accidents he is called to do military service. WHY I PLANT A GARDEN of all kinds in the United States. Her brother is with the New Zealand 40,000 traffic accidents, and 32,000 forces in Africa and in her last letter home accidents. The balance from she told of receiving snapshots from Why do I plant a garden? various causes, in factories, mines, him and how strong and well he I'm glad to let you know. drownings, shootings, etc. looked. Ruth has a birthday June The first of all the reasons We hope people will give more heed first-she will be 40. If you write at Is cause I love it so. to the Safety side of life in the home. once, she will get your letter just Never boost the fire with kerosene by about in time for her birthday. Post­ I love to cover dormant seeds direct application. If it is necessary age to New Zealand is 5¢ an ounce. With just a bit of earth; to use kerosene, pour some in a little Mrs. Mark W. Neily, Rt. 6, King­ And then behold the miracle can out in the yard or porch and put ston, Kings County, Nova Scotia will My effort has brought forth. three or four cobs or sticks in the like to hear from you. She has fluid. Take the saturated fuel and arthritis and has been in a wheel I love it for it's beauty, put into the stove and immediately chair for ten years. She is not able For the smell of growing things, apply the match. In this way, it is to walk a step but she does do a lot For lovely blossoms that greet me pretty safe. of quilt piecing. She has made 121 And the pleasure that they bring. Never wash garments in gasoline. quilt tops. Imagine that! She has Gasoline is more dangerous than lots of hobbies-hankies, shakers, I love it for the exercise dynamite in many ways, especially dogs and stamps, also she wants dog That keeps my body slim; because of its vaporizing. pictures to put in a scrapbook. May­ I love it for the vitamins Life is too serious to flirt with be you could help her with some of That make us full of vim. death, to try and gain a moment or her hobbies. two. May we suggest that the sub­ Now for a nearby shutin. Caroline I love it for the rosy hue ject of home safety be taken up for Oehmke, R2 B9, Linn, Kansas will It paints in a child's cheek; discussion at clubs or aid meetings. have a birthday the last part of this For the saving that it gives us There is an unlimited field for doing month. She has been in a wheel As we live from week to week. good. Get people to think before an chair fo1· a long, long time and now accident, and thus prevent, rather is needing a new chair. She has a I love it for a garden than think afterwards and regret. tiny greenhouse where she raises Is like a lovely poem. houseplants and if you have bulbs or But most of all I love it slips of any kind, either for indoors For it helps to make a home. Oh, ask not thou, How shall I bear or outdoors, I am sure she will be The burden of tomorrow? more than happy to receive them. I love it for a garden Sufficient for today, its care International Shutin Day comes Was in God's perfect plan Its evil and its sorrow, early in June. Let's be thinking up a It was put there for a purpose God imparteth by the way lot of nice things we can do to make To insure good health to man. Strength sufficient for the day. some shutin glad to be alive. -Amy B. Vincent. -- -Saxby KITCBEN-KLAT'l'ER MAGAZINE, HAY, 194.S P.A.GB 11

OZARK'S WILD FLOWERS Wild Columbine is an early summer Annie Parish Slankard flower, a really beautiful thing. It is not plentiful in these hills. At one Should I write only a few words in time it grew here in abundance, but describing each of Ozark's wild flow­ forest fires and tourists have taken ers, it would take reams of paper. most of it out. It is found, now, only Their number rivals those of the on high table lands or ledges on the Rockies. One must go high and well face of the cliffs, usually around back into the deep ravines or down some seeping spring. Its colors are into the river bottoms to find the delicate yellow, orchid, and deep pur­ rarest and most interesting of these ple, blended perfectly. Its perfume is varieties. like that of the tame variety, except I have chosen a favorite few to tell to us natives. We notice a subtle dif­ you about. I will begin with the dog­ ference. wood. Most people know about it, as Another favorite is the May appie. it grows so profusely over all of Mis­ Its flowers are a waxy white. Its souri and Arkansas. The tree is 10¥.' perfume is a fascinating tropical and is often broken away and ruined odor. It bears late in summer, a de­ by thoughtless people. There is a licious fruit. The plant is small and beautiful story connected with the its leaves umbrella shaped. It is dogwood trees, telling how the cross found only in damp black soil, nearly on which Jesus was crucified was always beside a year-round brook. made of it. Its blossoms are in the Wild honeysuckle grows always just form of a cross, two long and two out of reach, far out on little projec­ short petals. In the center of the tions or on topmost heights of an old petal's outer edge are the nail prints, grey bluff. Its perfume will sweeten brown with rust and stained with the entire valley. blood. In the flower's center is a tiny On these same ledges grows the crown of thorns. At the time of the Sweet William. Its rare coloring crucifixion the dogwood was a tall, cannot be found in commercial dyes. beautiful tree of the forest. Its neigh­ There are two varieties. One blooms bor trees were greatly distressed that Helen Fischer's daughter, Mary Chapin and in spring, a bluish lavendar. The oth­ lit tie son Elliott Field, who was 4 weeks old one of them should be used for so er blooms later and is something like when this picture was taken. We think her cruel a purpose. Jesus, so sensitive baby and Lucile's look something alike. 'l1he a nellrose pink. They are members mothors are firE-t cousins. to all sorrow, gave this promise: of the phlox family. "Never again shall the dogwood grow The strangest flower in all the large enough for a cross, and all who trees being ten or twelve feet tall. Ozarks is the all green violet. I have see it will remember that it was on The bell shaped blossoms are small read that this plant is found nowhere this lovely dogwood that I was cruci­ and so dark a wine in color that they else except in these hills. It is not fied. It shall always be cherished, al­ are almost black. The fruit is a rich plentiful. I know of only one place ways protected as a reminder of my yellow inside its green and black where it grows. I never fail each agony and death." Its blossoms are mottled skin. In Louisiana the Paw­ early summer to make the Jong trek creamy white and the rusty bloodlike paw is known as the wild banana. into its hidden valley, there to marvel stain is a familiar marking. There is a little flower in these old and admire this strange flower. It is Then there is the Sarvice. It is a hills that I missed. It is wild ginger. all green, plant and flower. The cen­ companion tree to the dogwood. It is The plant grows in mulching leaves ter flower is lighter, the tiny stamens tall and slender and its blossoms are or moss. The flower lies flat on the a still paler green. It does not re­ snow white. The Sarvice is a hilltop ground and at first glance you would semble other violets, but is considered tree and we must admire it from a say it was a mouse or caterplllar one of that family. I found, as close distance. It bears a fruit that is when you take it into your hands. It neighbors to the green violet, many edible, but the tree being so tall and is an attractive little flower of fine varieties of wild fern. These fern unfriendly, the fruit is hard to obtain. grey fur. grow always in deep, moist ravines or While the dogwood is blooming along These Ozark hills are colorful the black shady vales, the vales so lying the trails and highways, the sarvice year round. In bleakest winter there that high hills may shade the fern looks down, its snow white blossoms are cedar and pine for green, wahoo at least eight hours of the sunlit day. sweetening all the countryside. and bittersweet berries for red, poison Some of the giant varieties are knee Wild plum is another early tree ivy for orange and gold, and strange­ high and the long fronds quiver flower. Its perfume is very sweet. ly, the two winter birds of these old gracefully when a stray breeze filters Its sweetness can be picked up miles hills are brightly colored. The red down through higher timber. A lazy away if the hilltop breeze is favoraNe. bird is the reddest red, the jay is the person or a timid one will never see I can't remember that I ever gathered bluest blue, both love still grey woods these lovely fern vales. It is real wild plum blossoms, because of the on a winter day. labor to tramp across Ozark hills, but thousands of honeybees feeding upon it is worth It. them. One other flowering tree of TEA SUBSTITUTES early spring is Hawthorne or Red There are many odd flowers in my These should be used carefully. Haw. Its flowers are also white. Ozark wild gardens. One of these is Many herbs that have been used by Many tiny flowers make a huge clust­ Indian Peace-pipe. This little para­ previous generations as tea substitutes er. Its perfume is strange, something site plant grows in complete darkness, are really medicinal teas and are not like almond or maybe just a breath feeding on leaf mould or under rot­ good for us to use as beverages. Rasp­ of ether. ting logs. It Is pale In color, but per­ berry tea, sometimes used for black Then there is the Spicewood with fectly formed. The drabness of its tea, or tea made from the root of small yellow flowers. Its long switch­ colors lightens up as It is kept in open sassafras, should only be used occas­ es can be broken up and steeped for air. ionally and never as a beverage. I tea. You will not find sweeter fra­ Jack in the Pulpit is quite odd and have been told that very good tea Is grance in an ordinary cup of tea. Is still very mysterious to me. It is made from tender alfalfa leaves. This Spicewood is found only along streams known to many people as Indian tur­ drink would not be harmful. My chil­ or damp vales. nip. Its firat appearance is that of a dren remember the "cambric" tea The Redbud is one of the earliest tightly rolled parasol. As !t grows, th!lY were aJ!owed to drink. Tbey blooming trees, its rose color har­ the one white veined leaf unfurls and thought It very amus.ing to see me monizing with the snowy whiteness of at full blossom Jack stands ;:itra!ght pick the imaginary "cambrics'' out of the Sarvice. Redbud is also a hilltop and well protected in his pulpit. the air, put them In a cup and then tree and often is in full blossom late Another odd wild fruit tree is the fill the cup with hot water, and add in February. Pawp,aw. It grows quite large, old cream and sugar. P A G E 12 KITCHEN-KLATTE!! MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943

the white house which had been Rus­ WHAT WE ty's home. It seemed to Lew right then that the small American town SHALL READ was the most ideal place in which a boy could gr'ow up. Tony told them about Rusty and BOOK REVIEW how he had died. "He was real good By Edith Seabury at his job. I can't tell you much HAPPY LAND walk with you. Come on Lew, let's more except that I thought a lot of take a stroll." Rusty. We all thought he was real By MacKinlay Kantor good at any job he had to do." Time slipped hack as Lew and Lew finally went over and made a "Marsh's", the gold and black sign Gr'amps started on their walk, and he fist out of his hand and hit Tony above the drug store, meant a great saw again the parade of the 168th In­ lightly two or three times on the deal to everybody in Hartfield. It fantry. He saw himself as he looked shoulder. meant gleaming old mirr'ors and white when he returned a corporal from the "Come on, let's eat mother's lunch: last war. He saw Agnes for the first topped, wire legged tables at which shall we, Tony 0?" three generations of Hartfield people time, the new Methodist minister's had eaten strawberry sundaes. It daughter. He stood behind the drug meant prescriptions faithfully filled, store counter and made her a peanut "IF YOUR BLUE STAR a place to lounge and loaf, joke and dnpe sundae and they had gone on TURNS TO GOLD" gossip, to read magazines on the rack picnics. free or to play victrola records in the Rusty was bnrn in 1920 and Agnes If your blue star turns to gold back room, also free. had had rather a bad time of it so Be as brave as was your son. When Miss Emmy, the old maid who they had never had any more chil­ Courage though a virtue old worked at Marsh's got back from din­ dren. Gramp had died soon after Is admired by everyone. ner at twelve-thirty, then Lew Marsh Rusty's birth. Read the promises of God could go home to his own dinner. Lew Lew remembered Rusty playing In­ And believe that they are true. was forty-six but he didn't think he dian in the corn back of the house. Though son sleeps. beneath the sod looked it. He hurried home to meat He could hear the whooping and smell Still his spirit walks with you. b,alls, escalloped potatoes and sliced the cool, green corn in the twilight. In fond memory he'll return tomatoes skillfully prepared by his "That's one thing," s,aid Grampa, As a baby, boy and man. wife Agnes. "Kids could always do in America, Never can you lose him now, Lew and Agnes chatted about play Indian and Daniel Boone, Buffalo It is nature's heavenly plan. events of their respective mornings, Bill and so forth. You know Lew, Mother hearts do not forget wh!le they ate at the round, old-fash­ that's one thing God intended in But to smile is best and wise, ioned table. You don't talk much America forever. Kids have got to Son deserves a mother brave about the war, not when you have a play Indian, always. Nobody must be As he looks down· from the skies. son who has been gone with the allowed to stop'em." Life may never be as gay Pacific fleet for nearly two years and Lew saw Rusty being made a mQm­ Time and work will ease the pain, when you haven't heard from him for ber of the Ovd Patrol, Troop One, Boy Live in patience day by day six weeks or more. Scouts of Amei'ica. How proud he Till you meet in heaven again. Then came the ringing of the and Agnes looked at the ceremony. -By Amy Martin, Dec. 12, 1942. squeaky door bell and Lew's answer­ Then Hitler had gone crushing in­ ing journey to the door. Then came the to Poland and Rusty began talking TO THE MEN little telegraph girl and then, a yellow about joining up. He went to Des envelope and the queer lines of type Moines to the College of Pharmacy OUT ON THE ACRES which were so hard to understand. and finished up in 1941. Still the The Navy Department deeply re­ world wasn't at peace and Rusty join­ Soldiers without uniforms, grets to inform you that your son was ed the navy. Patriotic as can be killed in action-etc. And that was the end-the end of Are the men out on the acres, For several weeks after that Lew everything. Who feed humanity. Marsh didn't stay at the store any "Remember this," Grampa mused They too fight many battles, more than he could help. He sat mildly, "As long as American boys For they have troubles galore, around, he couldn't seem to shake can be Boy Scouts, as long as they Yet they never know defeat himself out of it. In his mind was can eat ice cream and go to high But just come back for more. one big WHY. Rusty had been killed school, play football or have picnics, They never receive a medal, fighting for his country. What was it'll be worthwhile." Then Gramp No rank of great repute, Rusty Marsh's country anyway? He left him. Still they feed the millions didn't know life, he hadn't had a Lew went to the store for the first And help a lot to boot. chance to live. He hadn't seen places time that night and worked until aft­ So "when Johnny comes marching he had wanted to see, he hadn't even er ten. He saw things that needed to home," paid his own rent or made a scooter be done and he felt his enthusiasm Midst rousing shouts and cheers, for his little boy. He had his dreams, coming back. About ten-thirty, a Give one to the men on the acres, had gone to school, worked for his young man walked in. He wore the Who have fed us through the dad, and then the war and death. uniform of the U. S. Navy. years. Where was any personal world, any "I guess you're Rusty's father -I. Bennett. wonderful and worthwhile world for aren't you? I'm Tony. T h o u g h t which Rusty Martin had died? maybe Rusty had said something The doorbell rang and Lew didn't about me in his letters." AS TO LOOKS go at first but at last he looked out Lew remembered, "So you're Tony." J. K. Bangs on the porch. "Grampa", everything And they shook hands. went filmy as Lew whispered the "Rusty and I used to talk a lot and "Some folks in looks take so much word. Gr.amp standing there looking he sort of wanted me to come and pride just the same. People didn't come call on you and his mother if some­ They don't think much on what's in- back like this. Why he had died just thing should happen." side. after Rusty was born. · There was a misty silence, then Lew Well, ,as for me, I know my face "I know," conceded Grampa, "but I said, "I guess maybe I'd better call Can ne'er be made a thing of grace, couldn't stand it any longer. You up Rusty's mother and tell her we're And so I rather think I'll see grievin' so hard. Felt like I had to comin'." How I can fix th' inside ol me. do something. So I told the Authori­ Lew and Tony walked through the So folk'll say, He looks like sin ties I would like to come and take a peaceful streets of the small town to But ain't he beautiful within." KITCHEN-KLATT'ER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943 P A G E 13

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FOR THE CHILDREN THE NEW HOME everything but his hunger for a minute. By Lois E. Sprague A boy's warm hand which smelled of cows, lifted him from the ground. Wee Wee Kitten was very unhappy. Wee Wee Kitten was glad to be out He was cold and he was Jost. Now of the dog's reach. He felt less he could see very well in the dark frightened now. He tried to find the but no where could he see anything warm milk, but the hand held him that looked like home. He could back. It carried him over the step smell none of the familiar scents of into the shed. It put him down be­ the old barn where he lived with his side a clean saucer. Then he saw brothers and sisters. warm milk pouring into the saucer. Mother Cat had taught him to run He lapped it eagerly. Some other cats quickly to their nest if a dog should came running to drink with him. come near. She had told him to spit He looked up quickly when the boy and scratch if rough hands tried to began turning a cream separator near pick him up. But Mother Cat had Janette LeRue Parkins, Jackson, Minn., takes by. He had never seen such a thing her doll for a ride. never told Wee Wee Kitten what to before. He could see the streams of do when he found himself dumped out milk pouring into the pails. He Little Prayers for Little People of a sack onto a strange road with no turned back to his saucer of milk. warm nest and no kind mother to be When the saucer was empty the other Father hear us as we pray; found. cats sat down and began licking their Guard and keep us every day; Help us with Thy loving care Wee Wee Kitten sat very still for fur. Every day and every where. Amen. a while, hoping his mother would It reminded him of his mother. He come to carry him home. Finally he felt warm and happy. He had found Jesus, keep me all this day, began to creep hurriedly from one a nice new home. When at school and when at play; little clump of grass to another, look­ May I do the things I ought, ing and listening for something he I WILL BE May I hate each evil thought; knew. Help me love and trust in Thee, A bright light blinded his eyes. A 1. P - 1 -- t e. Now and through eternity. Amen. loud noise roared over his head, and 2. H - - p y. then passed on down the road. Bits 3. K - - d. of dirt struck his body. He did not 4. G - n - r - u s. know how nearly he had come to 5. He 1 - - u I. being caught under the wheels of a 6. T r - - h - u 1. ANIMAL, car. 7. Ho - - st. WHEN Wee Wee Kitten grew more home­ 8. 0 b - d i - - t. sick every minute. He was getting 9. L o - -- -- g. MATCHED hungry, too. Suddenly he heard the 10. Re-· p - ct - u I. terrible noise of a dog's bark. He 11. D - p - n d - - l e. AGAINST A HUMAN started to run. He dashed into a 12. F - r g - v - n g. tangle of bushes. He could not get Answers. 1. Polite. 2. Happy. 3. OPPONENT, SHOWS Kind. 4. Gene1'ous. 5. H·ilpful. 6. away. He was caught by the branches. 3 Truthful. 7. Honest. 8. 0 l edient. 9. :t • /l'L AMAZI NC He began mewing loudly. 4' ~/ /?..O He felt the warm breath of the dog Loving. 10. Respectful ' 1. I Jcpenu­ ?.5·'); .?;,_.... SKILL able. 12. Forgiving. on his back. He thought it would !§' ~ surely kill him. He was too fright­ 'J.JY/:t.29 l.;17 AS A ened to move. It sniffed his body. TRY THESE It pawed him with its big foot. Then it picked him up with its mouth. It Two people sit on the floor with 17-~ .· ~613~xeJc did not hurt him but Wee Wee Kitten their backs together. Lock arms and was still afraid. It trotted up the stand up together, with arms still '?M ,~ \ road with a jogging motion. This linked. made him think of the time his Lie on the floor with arms folded. mother moved him, with the rest of Rise to sitting position without help. "'- ... .,,....._ __ her kittens, to a new nest in the old With heels against the wall and '. ·~ barn, only she had held him by the knees straight, try to pick up a penny back of his neck as she trotted along. placed a foot in front of you and The dog came to a gate. It stopped straighten back up against the wall. and opened it with one paw. It car­ Lean over and pick up a handker­ ried Wee Wee Kitten along a path of chief without bending the knees. stepping stones until it came to a step. There it dropped him gently and MOTHER AND HOME lay down with its big paw on each The home that holds a mother side of the kitten. Wee Wee Kitten's Is a cheery place and fair, heart beat fast. He tried to creep Her smile lights up the corners away but the big dog pawed him with And puts the sunshine there, its foot. There's peace and joy and comfort, A sound of whistling and then of There's gladness every minute, footsteps came nearer. The soft light For the home that holds a mother of a lantern shown over them. The Has a bit of heaven in it. smell of warm milk made him forget -Selected. PAGE 1' KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MAY, 1943

HUMMING BIRD STORY By Viola Wilson

Recipe: Take one glorious summer day and a Cardinal Climber vine be­ By Mrs. Olinda Wiles decking its green lace gown with gay red polka-dots. Add thereto one Ruby­ Throated Hummingibird plus a goodly measure of patience and love. There Many people are of the opinion that you have the ingredients for the skimmed milk is only fit for pig feed, sweetest adventure in friendship ever but I am a firm believer of feeding granted to a human being! it to hens and young chicks as you My "filling stations" for Hummers can get a profit in egg yield and a consist of small glass vials holding fine growth in chicks by feeding it in one teaspoon of nectar. This is made the sour form. by mixing one teaspoon of sugar with Experiments have proven that sour three teaspoonfuls of water and milk fed to poultry will return three stirring until dissolved. A green leaf to six times as much profit as when is wrapped around the vial and fed to pigs. When eggs are around secured with scotch tape or fine wire, 30¢ a dozen, skimmilk is worth two a flower from the plant upon which dollars a hundred weight as feed for the vial is to be hung, is inserted in pullets. the top and the filling station is hung in a place that will be easy to reach. VVhen hens are fed tankage as a Then, just sit back until the birds dis­ source of protein, it sometimes causes cover it. After the birds come regu­ Mrs. Vi<>la Wilson feeding a humming bird. a lower percentage of fertility of eggs, larly to the vial, seat yourself near it while milk shows no effect whatever -then gradually move closer until you on the eggs. can touch it. You have to be patient The males are. a bit more difficult to tame than the females unless you Milk should always be fed sour, and above all, never move quickly when they are near. After they come are lucky enough to have a baby male because birds will consume more of it find your filling station. Then you in this condition. It has a slightly to the station a few times as you touch it, you can hold it in your hand will learn that "the way to a man's laxative effect and the lactic acid heart is through his stomach" could combats many disease germs. and sit a bit farther away. But do not work too fat>t, for remem,ber, they are well have been written about the male VVhen feeding milk to hens the only tiny wildlings, and you have to hummer. He is usually just sprouting amount of animal protein must be cut win their confidence. It does not the feathers that make the ruby down. When hens are allowed free take them long to realize that you throat as the season ends. One wee access to sour milk and water the have food for them and mean them no red spot will appear-then his head milk will furnish half of the protein harm and they will come to you read­ will turn-and the spot is black! For and one-third the liquid necessary for ily, and, if you are lucky, they will it seems the gorgeous coloring in a h8n, but she must have some water, search you out wherever you may be those feathers is only a refraction of also. in the yard. light. Watch one perched sometime. At first the throat will be all black At present my first brood of five Rimmer came back this year, but then as his head turns it will be rose: hundred chickens are thriving on so late I had given up hoping for her. rose-gold, yellow, orange, burnt orange, home-grown and home-ground feed Then one day as I looked out the then that breathtaking red. mixed with sour milk and fed in door, a wee bird dropped lightly to The female has only tiny brown twelve-foot wooden troughs. They are the rim of the tiny glass of nectar flecks of color on the throat. One three weeks old (March 16 hatch) and that was standing on the porch rail. sure way to tell if it is male or female are feathering out nicely. Milk fed I moved quietly to the door and we is by the tail feathers. On the female chicks feather out quickly and evenly. looked at each other for a moment, they are a tiny rounded fan edged No bare backs to contend with at then she flew to the screen and with white. On the male the tail is marketing time if you have plenty of squeaked that little note of hers! forked and as he grows up, all the sour milk. Do not make the mistake Tears ran down my face as I said white vanishes and the tail is solid of giving sour milk one day and sweet "Hello, Rimmer!" That evening she black. Watch them in flight and the milk the next. Leave a little sour was coming to me in the garden and difference is very marked. milk in your jar to serve as a starter remembered all her cute tricks of So, when summer comes 'round for the next pail of milk. other years. The weather man forecast a temp­ again, may I wish you luck in your I keep mine in a six gallon stone jar erature of twenty degrees for one adventure in friendship with my and add a pail full after each milking. night and I was afraid she might suf­ friends, the Humming Birds? fer s.o I opened the window and called to her. She came in and spent the night on the rack that holds ivy pots RECIPE FOR A SOLDIER and next morning was happily flitting about my houseplants. VVhen it got warm the window was opened and Take one draftee, slightly green, she sailed out but returned many stir from bed at an early hour, soak times and wanted in again. in shower or tub daily, dress in olive It left a bit of heartache when she drab, mix with others of his kind, had gone for the experts tell me their gr.ate on sergeant's nerves, toughen life span is only two or three years with maneuvers, add liberal portions and this was her fourth with me. The of baked beans and toast beef, season first bird I tamed, Milady, came back with wind, sun, rain and snow. Sweet­ five years but the fifth she was so en from time to time with chocolate old and tired I had to devise all sorts bars. Let smoke occasionally, bake in of ways for her to come to me as the 110 degree temperature summer, and younger birds would drive her away. let cool in below zero winter. Serves But we finally found just the right 140,000,000 people.-Sent by Mrs. K. place to hide and she would perch :Madsen, Humboldt, Ia. there, patiently waiting until I came On the "Production Line" of a with her "sipper". Buy War Bonds and Stamps! Minnesota Farm. r--- P A G E 15 KITCHEN-KLATTIER MAGAZINE, MAY, 19'3

Our Hobby Club "Little Ads" If you have something to sell try this For Subscribers to the "Kitchen-Klatter Magazine" "Little Ad" department. Over 50,000 people read this magazine every month. BARTER 5f per word. $1.00 minimum. Pay­ HOBBIES able in advance. When counting words By Mrs. R.H. Marks include name and address. Rejection Pitchers.-Mrs. Fred M. Hensley, rights reserved. Zurich, Kans. To trade, or barter, is a trait of the Handkerchives. Would like to hear human race, so in ancient times it was HEALTH HINTS BOOKLET; Safe non­ from folks whose birthday is March 5. necessary to u;;;e some medium to starvation uEight-Day" reducing schedule -Miss Arlene Endicott, Ridgeway, "designate exchange of commodity and using common foods. Articles on Grey 1 Mo. Hair, Wrinkles, Why We Grow Old, and the measure and standard value." many other health suggestions for all. Novelty Costume Jewelry, prefer Cows seemed to be the first medium Write your name, address, and words pins.-Miss Marilyn Torman, clo Mrs. of exchange and of high value for the "Health Booklet" on paper and wrap It A. E. Torman, R3, Jackson, Minn. milk was used, the cow was a "beast around 15 cents. Then mail to Mrs. Walt Pitzer, Shell Rock, Iowa. Hankies. Will exchange.-Mrs. C. of burden," when killed the flesh was L. Hill, Box 44, Huxley, Ia. good food and the skin, scraped and tanned, furnished clothing. The horns ATTENnON, VIEW CARD COLLECTORS. Shakers.-,Mrs. John Vithen, Kim­ Post Card Vlews of an State Capital adorned the heads of the men folks Bulldlngs. Large Letter cards from many ballton, Ia. and were supposed to keep away evil states and cities. Scripture text postcards Linen Handkerchiefs.-Mrs. E m i 1 spirits. To trade a cow for a wife was for an occasions. 25c a dozen. Gertrude Hayzlett, Box 288, Shenandoah, Iowa. Fisher, Eureka, Ill. a good price. Bottles. Write first.-Mrs. E. E. Later corn, salt, wampum, furs, etc. LADIES ! - A Booklet of "300 Household Stewart, Homewood, Kans. were used for exchange, but all these Hints." Chapters on removing stains. Hopalong Cassidy books by Clarence things were inconvenient to carry for odors, care of furniture, floors, cooking tips, cleaning hints and everything to save E. Mulford. Write first. Will buy or it was often necessary to trade around you time and money around the house. exchange something for your hobby.­ several times before completing a deal. Only 15¢. MILITARY SERVICE GUIDE Mrs. L. E. Olson, Bridgewater, South Some countries began to carry pieces BOOK: gives a complete story of the Insignia, Emblems, and Flags of our Dakota. of stone or metal in odd shapes to fighting men. Only 15¢. Special premium Tea Towels.-Mrs. Martha Miszner, use as barter and eventually slabs or included when you order both b0<>ks. LaPorte City, Ia. nearly round discs of metal were HOWARD RASMUSSEN, Boonville, Mo. found to be more practical. The first Shakers. Buttons of all kinds, old designs were very crude. ANEMONE HUPEHENSIS-4 colors-$1.00. and new.-Mrs.. Clara Fiala, R 4., Asphodel; Zua Blue Iris; Variegated B150, Council Bluffs, Ia. The American Indians used g'old and Yucca; Variegated Iris; May Day Tree; silver and made rings for the fingers, Tulip Tree ; each 35¢. Betonica; Clematis Pennants of states, cities and col­ toes, ears and nose, and other orna­ Reeta White, Blue; Elsholtzia; Eryngium; leges. Will exchange buttons and Valeriana; Oenothera Youngii; Zebra ments of beads to attract the fairer Grass; each 25¢. Thomas Hogg Hoeta, handkerchiefs. -- Bernadette Robben, sex and use in exchange for commodi­ 40¢. Collection: - Thermopsis; Hardy Victoria, Kans. Dahlia; Echinops; Mo. Primrose; Red ties. Dictamnus; 5 for 75¢. Sphagnum Moss, Handkerchieves. Will exchange.­ Finally coins were made of copper, 50¢ peck. Free List :-70 Hemerocallis, Mrs. Harold Larsen, Persia, Ia. 100 Rare Perennials. DARRELL CRAW­ lead, bronze, silver, gold and iron in FORD, SALINA, KANS. View Cards and Hotel Letterheads. shapes to represent the exchange of --Bob Thornton, Kirksville, Mo. certain things. One form was good FOR SALE-White Cloverine Salve. Recom­ .LOWa Court House Viewcards.-Mrs. for three chickens, another was used mended for cuts, irritations, superficial Carl Hansen, Cumberland, Iowa, Rt. 1. only for the purchase of a wife, some burns, sunburn, chafing, chapped skin, were used for clothing only, 'etc. chilblains, etc. 30¢ box. Beautiful picture Spoonholders, small cup and saucer free. Esther Cooper, 321 Atwood St., sets, crocheted pot holders.-Mrs. W. The early Japanese and Chinese Pittsburgh, Penn. E. Miller, Rt. 1, Evansville, Wis. coins were large rounds of metal with Shaker Sets.-Mrs. ,Teddy Roach, a square hole in the center and were SURPRISE BOX. This and that in pottery Grant City, Mo. strung on a cord and worn around the from the shelves of Sue's Studio. BIG neck. This shape still remains the DOLLAR'S WORTH. You'll be surprised. Vases. Will exchange your hobby. Send $1.00 to Sue Field Conrad, Clarinda, -Mrs. H. G. Stuhmer, Box 182, Kene­ same but greatly reduced in size. Iowa. saw, Nebr. Here are a few queer customs per­ Washcloths. Will exchange.-Mar­ taining to coins. CROCHETED PINEAPPLE DOILIES, round or oval, white or ecru, 65¢. Vera Lachelt, jorie Preheim, Freeman, South Dako­ An English custom was to pass out Janesville, Minn. ta. Maundy coins to the poor people 011 Maundy Thursday during holy week. Pot holders.-Mrs. Milan Hitchcook, REGISTERED RED PEKINGESE PUPPIES. Savannah, Mo. In Russia, during the World War, Russell Jacobson, Jr., Concordia, Kans. Buttons. Will exchang,e cactus, pieces of cheese were marked and used , slips of houseplants, holders, etc.­ as money. THE WORKBASKET Pattern Service. Each Coins were made to bury with the month's issue includes a large sheet of , Mrs. Jake Unruh, Rt. 3, Inman, Kans. directions for making all sorts of article

MOTHER & DAUGHTER BANQUET TOAST TO BE GIVEN BY A Sue Field Conrad MOTHER TO DAUGHTERS

AID 'Tis a toast "to the Daughter" is it? So many reque·&ts for help in g1v1ng a From the Mothers gathered here; Mother's Day banquet have been received It shouldn't be hard to give a toast that I have offered to Leanna the follow­ SOCIETY ing plan which I prepared for a grO'llp of To Her we hold so dear. friends in California. If the treasury of We've known her all her earthly life, your Aid Society needs refilling, plan a She's been a part of ours, banquet or tea. This idea for a program could be given at a tea as well as a din­ We've weathered her through ups and HELPS ner. Don't let this Mother's Day go by downs without observing it in some way. Through "cross" and happy hours. We've wiped her nose and combed her hair THE TABLE And buttoned up her shoes The table could be set in a very homelike way of a generation ago with a And sent her off to school each morn colored tablecloth and napkins in paper rings which could have the names of With not much time to lose, guests on and serve for place cards. The plates could be at the places and the We gave hGir bread and jelly food put on in serving dishes "family style". When she trudged home at night, The decorations should be just garden flowers in oldfashioned vases and if And he.ard her say her tables candles are used they should be in old-fashioned candlesticks. With cheeks and eyes so bright. For favors there could be little old-fashioned nosegays of either real flowers We've washed her clothes and ironed, or made of small gumdrops wrapped in cellophane. And lengthened down her skirt; The program could be made attractive by securing reproductions of Whist­ We've darned her hose and cut her ler's Mcther from the Perry Picture Company or some of the daughters could nails look thru magazines and find small pictures of mothers and children that they And cleaned her ears of dirt; could cut out. We've made her bed and cooked hE SUGGESTED PROGRAM meals, Everything should be made as beautiful and gay as possible in simple, in­ And tidied up her room e {pensive ways. Grandmothers, mothers and daughters should be seated to­ And swept up all she's strewed about gether. In case one has no grandmother or daughter, it may be possible to in­ 'With many a swish of broom. vite a substitute for this joyous occasion. We've hunted all the things she's Jost The informal singing should start early, copies of words to be at the table, And put them in their place; while the first course is being served,-a daughter leading the girls in. We've mended many a ragged tear "How do you do, Mothers Dear, how do you do? And sewed on yards of lace. We are very glad that we are here with you, We've asked her Pa if she could go For of all the mothers grand, you're the best ones in the land­ When she was afraid to ask; How do you do Mothers Dear, how do you do, do, do?" We've stayed up many a night to do A mother leads the mothers in singing the same words changing the word Her uncompleted task. "Mothers" to "Daughters". We've lain awake till she came home Between courses have the favorite "Mother" songs sung. And wondered where she'd been; Following the last course, the toast program is held. A mother and daugh­ And oh, the prayers that we have ter may preside together, or some outstanding daughter or mother chosen as prayed toast mistress. That she be kept from sin. The first toast should be "To Our Mothers" by a daughter. We watch her grow from babe to girl, The speaker may be introduced by the toast mistress with the· following From girl to womanhood, rhyme: And all our love and interest "Now, in thinking of daughters, we just racked our mind, Are centered in her good. To see if there might be a daughter we'd find, While We-well we just love her­ Who'd just say the things yo·u girls would each say, I'll here a secret tell From the depth of your heart to your mother today. Which she will never really know Then, we thought of Miss who's with us tonight Till life has served her well­ And I know when you hear her you'll think I was right When she first lay upon our arm In choosing this one to speak now for you; With nose against om· breast So give her a hand, come on girls, please do." She captured us completely And paid for all the rest. TOAST TO BE GIVEN BY A DAUGHTER TO MOTHERS So, here's a toast to Daughter, Mothers, mine is the pieasure of trying to tell you in words how welcome She's only what she is- you are here tonight although it is a time when words are hardly needed. The center of a mother's love, We know without words, how welcome to the heart is the coming of One of life's mysteries. spring. The birds, and the bees and the butterflies tell us without the use of a vocabulary, yet thousands of writers have tried to put into words the thrill that it brings to every heart. Every human being knows the warmth and peace and joy, that fills the heart when getting back to Mother after a long absence. Words have never been able to express it-but writers have never ceased trying, and so, as we read the poetry of all ages we find these tributes which put into beautiful languag.e the feelings that lie deep in the heart of each one of us. The following poem is one of my favorites. (Quote your favorite poem) The second Toast would be "To Our Daughters" by a Mother. The speaker may be introduced with the following: I feel very sure that already you've found, ;,,. .._,.. That my judgment in choosing is perfectly sound. But, Oh! How I quivered to think of the rest, For each thinks her mother the dearest and best, So what could I do For one mother to stand for all mothers to you? But my quivers soon ceased when I thought of this one Who sent all my doubtings away at a run. Mrs. you all know and where could you find A mother whose heart is more tender and kind- Mrs. Hattie Miller, mother of Mrs. Guy A mother to everyone and so tonight Sturdy, Harveyville, Kansas, and flowers site She speaks for you mothers; A hand now-that's right. received on her 83rd birthday.