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SHENANDOAH, IOWA 45 CENTS VOL. 48 JUNE,1984 NUMBER 6 It\ a:> - Studio One Photography PAGE2 KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, JUNE, 1984 called hot. Instead of gradually changing Kitchen-Klatter over I have done the whole process in (USPS 296-300) (Reg. U.S. Pat. Off.) one day. All of the long-sleeved shirts are carefully laundered and put away. All of MAGAZINE the short-sleeved shirts were laundered "More Than Just Paper And Ink" and ironed and hung in the closet. Yes, I did say ironed. Somehow Jed Leanna Field Driftmier, Founder just doesn't believe that permanent press Lucile Driftmier Vemess, Publisher is truly permanent or pressed! I think this Subscription Price $5.00 per year (12 issues) in the U.S.A. quirk has something to do with the fact Foreign Countries, $6.00 that Jed is a professional engineer. I have Advertising rates made known on application. several friends who are married to Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937, at the post office at Shenandoah, Iowa, under the Act of March 3, 1879. engineers and their husbands insist upon Published monthly at ironed shirts as well. Other friends tell The Driftmier Company me the day permanent press came into Shenandoah, Iowa 51601 their houses, their irons went to the junk Copyright 1984 by The Driftmier Compony. yard. I fear these ladies will be replacing their irons before long. Many of the new fashions feature 100% cotton and other LETTER FROM JULIANA natural fabrics that require touching up with an iron. Dear Friends: A job I enjoyed MUCH more than Just before I sat down to write to you, I ironing shirts was FINALLY making my closed all the windows and doors but candied or sugared violets. I had care Interior of the San Jose de Laguna really did not want to. I have "battened fully saved all of the recipes you readers Church in New Mexico which Juliana down the hatches" so to speak. The sun were kind enough to send me. The violet Lowey describes in her letter. is shining. Our crazy mockingbird is ser crop cooperated by being fairly abun enading the neighbor's rusty pump. Why dant. The end result is that I have about year. That process still goes on. The would I close everything up and shut out three dozen candied violets in the walls and the ceiling above the altar a~ this lovely day? Because the weather freezer. I am planning to save them for painted with many symbols which ar~ man on the radio just announced that special occasions and hope they keep combination of Christian and Intli sixty-mile-an-hour winds are blowing just well as I would like to get some out next beliefs. It makes for an unusual ,i;ettin west of town and they should hit here at winter when we could use a breath of for worship. • .. any minute. Ugh! spring. By the way, the violets I used in On July 4, 1699, the church was'consf Spring winds in New Mexico are not this project originally came from plants crated by Friar Antonio de Miranda w wafting zephyrs. They resemble dust which grew by the front walk of Jed's was a member of the Francisoai;t Ord laden hurricanes! I am not exaggerating family home in Massachusetts. This is an of the Roman Catholic Church. fm '- · one iota. This spring has been excep old-fashioned type of violet and I how this young Friar must have felt it tionally windy. What flowers and small wouldn't trade it for all the hybrids on the treking through the desert to_i1.:1i§ ... plants were not damaged by late frost market! mote little village and finding • " have been battered by winds. My With summer just around the corner, just waiting for him. The ch41cl\. hanging basket fuchsias have made the some of you will be hitting the road and changed very little in the inte1'tening trip back into their household location traveling west. I would like to share a years. Visiting it is really visiting a piece of several times just to keep from being special, little-known side trip with you. history that is still in use. broken to pieces. As you are traveling on Interstate 40 just The rest of my space will be used by Our wind-driven dust problem has west of Albuquerque, note a scenic over my daughter, Katharine who is 13. She been compounded by the fact that the look marker pointing out Laguna Pueblo. would like to share some of her experi proposed industrial park near us has not By all means stop and look! This little ences with a public school tour group happened. All the earthmoving equip· white-washed adobe town looks trans which went to Washington, D.C. ment moved in and cleared the area planted directly from the Mediterranean Sincerely, which is about fifty acres. Gone are the area. Friends who have been to Spain Juliana small desert trees, sagebrush and other and Italy have given me this information. KATHARINE LOWEY'S TRIP ground covers. All that is left is a huge, Even better than just "over-looking" is unprotected flat area. You can imagine to take a few extra minutes and drive to It all started at 4:00 AM on a cold Mon what happens when the wind blows over the pueblo. The village is dominated by a day morning. It was spring vacation and this area. I think I have some vague idea wonderful, old mission church which is all the other kids were still asleep at of what people experienced during the usually open to visitors. On my last visit I home. I wouldn't have traded places with dust bowl days. As much as I am not was able to find out a little of the history them for the world. looking forward to the increased traffic of the church which was fascinating. For an early Monday morning, all the that an industrial park will bring, I am San Jose de Laguna was the only kids in the school parking lot waiting for looking forward to getting ANYTHING mission church to be built in the New the bus to take them to the airport were to cover this dusty area. Mexico area before a priest actually active and excited. Everyone was ready When the winds blow, working out in came to the village. The Indians took it to go! Once the chaperones had checked the yard is impossible. I am forced to do upon themselves to be ready to start ser all of our names on the lists we were off things around the house that have been vices if and when a priest came to their for a wild, fun and rigorous five-day trip crying for attention. One BIG job I area. Because of the lack of large trees in to Washington, D.C. tackled last week was to do the great the Laguna area, the main ceiling beams It seemed like we were on the plane for shirt change-over. My husband, Jed, has which were 105 feet long had to be hand hours. Then we landed in Baltimore, been hinting that it would be nice to have carried for thirty miles over rugged Maryland, and immediately got on a bus some short-sleeved shirts now that the terrain. The floor of the church is hard for a 45-minute ride to our first destin- weather has warmed up enough to be packed earth which is refurbished once a (Continued on page 22) KITCHEN-KLATIER MAGAZINE, JUNE, 1984 PAGE3 DOROTHY navy blue skirt, and am altering a skirt of my own. I have a long skirt that was made WRITES FROM for a special occasion a few years ago and ~~ THE FARM haven't worn it but once. I decided to - make it over so I can get some good out - of it. If I like the results, I'll do the same Dear Friends: with another one. Clothing is just too ex The weather here the past few days pensive these days to let something hang has seemed more like March than the forever in the closet and not be worn. first part of May. The wind has been so I wish I had a sewing room in my strong that a lot of small limbs have been house. I would get a lot more sewing blown off the trees and our yard will have done if there was a place to leave my ma to be raked again. chine out and the ironing board up. Our As of the first of May there has been no house is small and every time I want to fieldwork whatsoever done on our farm, sew I have to set up the sewing table, get and I haven't seen any tractors in the out the machine, put the ironing board neighborhood fields. I did see one farmer up, and when I'm finished take all of it spreading lime or fertilizer a few days down and put it away. ago, but that is all. We had so much rain, · Our church women have been busy and although the creek hasn't been out this month. We had our bake sale and did here, a lot of water is still standing in the very well, so our "kitty" for painting the low places in the fields. More rain is fore church is growing. Our next project was cast for the next few days, so if this Elizabeth Brase is wearing the dress to entertain the women's groups from weather continues there may be less her grandmother, Dorothy Driftmier the Chariton Presbyterian Church and Johnson, made.