Volume 2 Article 1 Number 10 The Iowa Homemaker vol.2, no.10

1922 The oI wa Homemaker vol.2, no.10 Mildred Boyt Iowa State College

Viola M. Bell Iowa State College

Ethel Huebner Iowa State College

Eleanor Murray Iowa State College

Juanita Beard Iowa State College

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Recommended Citation Boyt, Mildred; Bell, Viola M.; Huebner, Ethel; Murray, Eleanor; Beard, Juanita; Rayburn, Esther Ellen; Beyer, Jeanette; and Schleiter, Harriett (1922) "The oI wa Homemaker vol.2, no.10," The Iowa Homemaker: Vol. 2 : No. 10 , Article 1. Available at: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol2/iss10/1

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Authors Mildred Boyt, Viola M. Bell, Ethel Huebner, Eleanor Murray, Juanita Beard, Esther Ellen Rayburn, Jeanette Beyer, and Harriett chleitS er

This article is available in The oI wa Homemaker: http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/homemaker/vol2/iss10/1 VOL. II JANUARY, 1923 No.lO · 11 - MII - M M- III - MI- AI- MII- NI - III -MI -oM- II- IIII - UI- h U- IIM - NI - I I - NI - IM - HII- II - III - III - n ii-II!!-NI-Iti-MM- II - :-II- III - ~ 11--II- II - IIII - IM- II - NI- II - II -11-'t'

Shall it be Resolution or Dissolution?

The y ear 1922 dawned gloriously. The very atmosphere was stim1tlating, and in the crisp crystalline air, one saw the scroll of months quite clearly. The okt P1tritan in one bestiTrecl herself to plan tor the cleans·ing and purifying of her p ersonal aims and ambi­ tions.

It was easy i n the glow of N ew Y ear's r esolves to look back on the b1~sy clays of D ecember, 1921, and say, "I shall neveT again put off my ChTistmas plans tor so long." It was easy to look back on November and woncleT w hat one did with those long even.tings. The memoTy of OctobeT was bright and clear, and instinctively one thought, "why did I w aste any of those beautij1t! days incloOTs? NeveT again.! I'm going to get out each nwrning while the sun is high and revel in OctoceT's colors. I'm going to let the sun shine into my so1tl and let color illumine the pages of my drab existance. WeTe you f eeling like that in JanuaTy, 1922, and ane yo1t still feelmg it in JanuaTy, 1923? B eautij1t! year before me. w hat do y ou hold? Your face is inscrutible, but youT arms aTe fil led w ith gifts, gifts to k eep and gifts to give away. ~Although y01t do mot speak, you seem to say that this year will be my best. You ac~mit that amon,g the gifts are sor­ rows and disappointments. Y01t brought t hese last y ear, in full m easure, yet it is hard even now to call them gifts. True it is t hat I have a deepened symtJathy, a wideT love. What joys are yo1t bringing, B eautiful One? New fTiemdships? Renewals of the olcl ones? Loving letters jTom the understanding hearts jar

- Eda Lord Murphy

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VOLUME 2 JANUARY, 1923 NUMBER 10

Mirrors-Antique to Ultra Modern By MILDRED BOYT

WHEN in New York one always into being for the ladies carried small arches that contained wired flowers. spends considerable time wandering looking glasses in fans, girdles, or in These were called Bilboas probably be­ thru the shops and stores, making sinall· special frames, while the beaux of Queen cause it was the term first . applied to purchases h er e and there, but principally Elizabeth's court wore mirror brooches, mirrors brought back from foreign and carried snuff-boxes with mirror shores. feasting unaccustomed eyes to the splen­ covers. The ways of joining the small panes of dor and magnitude of the lines of good.s Different types of mirrors were de­ glass together in the larger mirrors give on display. In one of these huge stores some hint as to their age, for before is an entire floor given over to pictures. veloped as need demanded them. For in­ stance, the horizontal mirror- came in 1750 the lower piece was beveled so as to They are all there, the ones you know, overlap the upper one. After that and the ones you do not know. After with side burns, and went out when tur­ bans came in style. This may be ex­ mouldings were used to cover the joined walking on and on until you feel com­ places or the frame was made in two sec­ pletely "fed up," as the saying goes, you aggerated, but it is a good illustration of the way mirrors vary with the fashion. tions. In the earlier mirrors the glass see one more door, go in and presto-you was shaped in curves at the top but the are in fairyland! The walls are com­ The most characteristic feature of the later ones are square although the frame pletely covered with mirrors, large and e-lder English glasses is a shallow harid may be round. ground beveling, about one inch wide small, each reflecting and re-reflecting From 1750 to 1780 was the Chippendale lights, and mirrors until you seem to be around the edge. However it is not by the period. Guilt frames were very popular, in an endless palace made of myriads of glass but by the frames that we tell the lights. · real antiques, for excepting the very first a nd mirrors had from four to five panes of glass. A characteristic combination After the first impression wears off looking glasses have always had frames. Did you know that even tho the frame of details were the French rococo and you wander from one to another trying to chines. At first these details were flat, decide which is the loveliest, and won­ is an antique if new glass has been sub­ stituted the looking glass is not consider­ but were soon raised by means of paste, dering why you wasted time with the or carved into the wood. Many of thItaly, and small eighteenth century. These mirrors had were plainer. Griandoles had circular hand glasses and wall mirrors without narrow slightly rounded walnut frames convex glass and circular frames deco­ frames were made. Framed looking that followed the contour of the glass. rated by heavy candlesticks at the bot­ glasses were not developed until later The Queen Anne frames were more tom, the inevitable eagle at the top, and in the century. beautiful and elaborate, they were flat the whole lavishly covered with gilt. and broad and were either solid or ve­ The French and Italians soon were neered walnut. They are very similar to Other mantle glasses or chimney pieces making beautiful elaborate frames. The a certain type of frames developed dur­ have been popular since the s eventeenth art was passed to England in 1670 when ing the Georgian period, and are easily ceJltury. About -1760

able, and always look well. Period glass­ house may be made still more attractive One way to avoid the high prices of es are always decorative and add the last by plenty of well placed mirrors. They beautiful mirrors is to obtain a slightly needed touch to a period room. When lighten a dark corner, and a spot that is damaged wind shield glass from a gar· in doubt as to where a mirror should go, hard to decorate may be made attractive age, have it silvered and framed. This try it in various places until you have by so placing a mirror that it reflects not only is advantageous as to Price but just the effect you want. Don't think a charmingly decorated spot. Our grand­ the plate glass is of the best, and the just because a looking glass has always parents were cleverer in the use of mir­ frame is exactly what you want. hung in one certain place that it gives rors than are we, for they used them over Don't let the dark nook go undecorated the best effect there. The importance fireplaces and ·betwees windows, always for lack of an oil painting or tapestry­ of the mirror in decoration is apt to be with the purpose of decorating the space but give the same effect with a mirrored under estimated. The most attractive they filled. · reflection of an opposite bit of color.

As We Buy Meat By VIOLA M. BELL, Associate Professor of Home Economics

E.S, I'll take a beef roast. Oh, three sired. The average weights of one-half and bone, using beef as the example, are Y to four pounds will be aJIIlple," and beef carcass is 450 lbs; one-half veal interesting. Round and chuck are the with that, the housewife hangs up the 90 lbs.; one-h alf lamb carcass 30 lbs., and leanest cuts of the carcass. Loin and receiver. The supply and good nature one-half pork carcass 100 lbs. rib cuts are intermediate. The flank is of her butcher determine whether or The leg of Iamb and ham of pork are low in lean, having two-thirds fat and no not, her family enjoy the said roast. "Is the bind shank, round and rump of beef bone, while the foreshank is high in per- . ignorance bliss," concerning meat cuts? and veal. The belly of ,pork-bacon centage of bone. The rump is made up More puzzling than the work of an when cured (the part for which the rest of about one-half lean and one-third visi­ was made), is breast, or flank and plate ble fat. Loin and ribs make up only Elite pattern may be the recognition of one-fourth of the weight, but represent various cuts of meat. It is no wonder, of the others. The loin of pork is the that frequently a harassed, hurried moth­ combination, or flank and plate of the one-fourth of the retail cost. er will leave the choie to the jolly, ro­ others. The loin of pork is the combina­ To speak of the retail price of the par­ tund, meat cutter. tion of the ribs and loin of the others. ticular .cut, it must be remembered that "Steaks" in beef, cut usually from round, tenderness, grain, color, general appear­ From the carcasses, often hanging in loin and chuck, are in veal, lamb, and ance and convenience of cooking are im­ the shop, a few moments information pork-"chops." Loin chops, the same portant items. The demand for· certain may be gleaned as the breakfast bacon price as rib chops, have the tenderloin ·cuts may mean, that other cuts of the is being wrapped. The round is one of muscle and much Jess bone. carcass have a lower price. the most commonly used cuts. It is from the middle of the carcass? Names may The tenderloin muscle runs through Recent experiments have taught us of or may not be descriptive of the loca­ the loin, underneath the back bone. the vitamin content of the brains, liver tion, the bone, or shape of the cut. The When removed and sold separately it and heart. The head, tongue, kidneys, reputation of a certain inn serving al­ brings a higher price, but the choice part and tail may be made into palatable ways a particular cut of beef, caused it of a porterhouse steak or loin chop is dishes. A popular European food is made to be called "Porter-house" steak. Sun­ lost. "Tenderloins" often are from in­ from the lining of the third beef stomach, dry names often disguise "boneless" ferior animals, where the whole carcass "honey-comb," tripe. The diaphragm of cuts. Identical cuts in the shoulder are could not be sold over the block. Home the beef, a long narrow dark muscle, is known by various names in the different butchers are fast realizing the value of well known as "butcher's or "skirt" animals. Experienced buyers are some­ leaving the tenderloin muscle intact. steak. Where attached to the back bone times at a Joss, when in another section Rib roast bought with the "rib in" in· it is falsely called "hanging tenderloin," of the country. Locality, tradition and de­ sure ease of carving, and less ·plate mus­ Lamb mand cause variation in the "fashion" of cle left on. Only the conscience of the 1. Leg meat cutting. butcher prevents him from leaving four 2. Leg to six inches of the placte muscle when Beef 3. Leg a "rolled rib roast" is ordered. Why not 4. Loin 1. Hind Shank sell a half pound or so of tough meat at 2. Round 5. Breast the price of tender meat? In pork, how­ 6. Breast 3. Rump ever this is the coveted bacon. 4. Loin 7. Ribs 5. Flank Careful examination of a cut, to iden­ 8. Shoulder 6. Plate tify the bone, the characteristic muscle 9. Neck 7. Ribs and "grain" of the meat is invaluable. 10. Shank 8. Chuck The "T" shaped back bone and the ten­ derloin muscle differentiate a porter­ Pork 9. Neck 1. Ham 10. Foreshank house steak from a chuck steak; a loin chop from a shoulder chop. The three 2. Ham Veal large muscles of the round cuts contrast 3. Ham 1. Hind Shank with the different shaped muscle and the 4. Loin 2. "Cutlets" small round. muscle of the shoulder. 5. Breast 6. Breast 3. Rump A brief table may be worked out for 4. Loin 7. Loin the selection of~meat. 5. Breast 8. Shoulder 6. Breast Carcase Lean Fat Bone 9. Shoulder 7. Ribs Beef Bright red Creamy color Hard 10. Shoulder 8. Shoulder Veal Pink If any, white Bloody 11. Head Lamb Pork 9. Neck Mutton Dull red Hard, white White Beef Veal the last word being quite misleading. 10. Foreshank Lamb Dark pink Hard, white Bloody Throat "sweet breads," glands regulating Pork Pale pink Soft, white Bloody The above diagrrums may explain in growth; present in veal, Iamb and young part, the relation of the wholesale Meat in good condition bas little or no pork are great delicacies. cuts of beef, veal, lamb, and pork. odor, and is firm, if gently. pressed by An intelligent buyer of meats, as an In the last two, some of the cuts are the finger. The highest quality of fat intelligent buyer of clothing, receives a retail cuts as well. Most carcasses are is around the kindneys; kidney suet for great deal of consideration. A butcher split in half down the back bone, unless puddings; kidney fat or "leaf fat" fat for is always glad to inforin one, and takes in case of veal or lamb, where either the lard. pride, that into the market comes some carcass is small, or fancy cuts are de- Some general comparisons of lean, fat one, who knows. THE lOWA HOMEMAI\ER 3 A Trip Through Healthland By ETHEL HUEBNER

EALTH habits are .the most vital other fruits and vegetables. There is no played out of doors where there is room H problems a mother has to confnwt. reason why the youngsters cannot be for action and benefits from the air and No mother can be too busy with outside taught to eat these necessary vitamin sun are obtained. In damp or rainy duties to neglect the every-day health foods. Mother tells them of this green weather mother teaches them to wear habits of her little ones. forest, of the green foliage that has their rubbers which are little boats to carefully protected the fruits and vege­ keep them safe and dry. Many a creek The wise mother cringes at the thought tables, and how in turn the oranges, car­ and flooded street are crossed when they of "musts" and "don'ts" and endeavors rots, tomatoes, etc., will protect their journey in their life-saving equipment. to originate a better method by which bodies so that they will be strong and she can teach her children personal "Soldier Review" is never neglected as happy in "Healthland." This habit of the children travel on to "Healthland." health habits. Since the instincts of chil­ eating the growt)l ·promoting foods is dren are never to be crushed it is the With mother as the captain, posture is one which should not be left for the given correct attention. Children love duty of every mother to provide expres­ child to cultivate later. Nor is the prop­ sion for these instincts and in every man­ to play soldier and mother teaches them er chewing of foods neglected, for moth­ to sit correctly, stand and walk correct­ ner to guide them. From this standpoint er watches carefully that the food is not why not work out a scheme for the culti­ ly so that they can breathe deeply, and washed down with water or milk. Tact­ be her strong little soldiers on home vation of health habits for the little ones ful mother arouses imitation, love of ap­ which involves the natural instincts and guard. How they thoroughly enjoy sol­ probation, and interest and thus good dier and their soldier parades! results in "wills' and "want to's?" eating habits are cultivated. To eat Why not put the acquiring of health candy, cakes and pastry between meals Each day as the journey progresses habits of youngsters in the form of a is harmful to the bodies of the children. mother guides her babes through "Hap­ game, calling it a journey to "!lealth­ Mother teaches them thi!;;, and after visit­ pyland." Here there are fountains of good land ?" If this is carefully earned out ing "Vitamin Forest" mother tries to nature and statues of peace about which the children, finding expression for. their have pure wholesome candies on hand they are told. If anything goes wrong instincts will take intense interest m the so that her little ones can enjoy the mother reminds them to look around to game and the whole health problem will proper visit to "Sweet grove." In this find a fountain or statue for her. This became a very much easier task for the way it is easier to guard against the can be so cultivated that the youngsters mother as well as the lively youngsters. eating of wholesome candy and other soon remind each other of the "Happy­ foods between meals. land." Mother's love .desires that her Let us start the eventful journey to the children be content and happy, and that happy "Healthland," with mother as our It is by appealing to the instincts of nothing shall hinder their health as they faithful engineer, father as our depend­ play, wonder, curiosity, and imitation rapidly progress toward the famous land. that the nutrition habits-the most im­ able conductor and little Mary and John Some children dislike to take baths {five or seven years) as the precious portant of health habits are put into effect. but if mother tells them of the pleasant­ passengers. Their tickets are a quart ness and fun of "Bathtubville," they are of milk apiece each day for mother real­ During the journey mother sets a cer­ easily induced to stop there on this jour­ izes that this amount is required for her tain time for play and guides the play as ney. This stop is made two or three children's proper growth and vitality. much as possible. This is the time when times a week and most often just before Each day as they pass through the sta­ the children visit "Play Hill" and are entering "Slumberland." The waves and tions they tarry at "Toothbrush Junction" taught fairness, generosity and good waterfal!s are on the scenic route through in the morning and evening especially. sportsmanship. Part of every day is this "splashing" station and are thorough­ Here they open their kits and brush their ly enjoyed as well as looked forward to. teeth for if they are to reach Healthland "Slumberland"-'tis a noted place for their teeth must be in good condition. plenty of time to rest, plenty of fresh, With the beauty and joy of "Healthland" cool air, a clean, snug bed and splendid explained by mother the children want to opportunity for growth. "Play Hill" tires brush their teeth and a habit is soon the little ones and after a story or so formed. mother has little trouble in starting them, The games of "Healthland" are like off to "Slumberland" quite early. It is bright stars in the heavens and each day surpising, how soon after a little prac­ they are anticipated. Out under the tice, it becomes second nature for the bright stars mother explains the beauty children to want to have windows open and purity of the heavenly milky way. and an early visit to this quiet, peace­ But the children too, have an imaginary ful land of dreams. milky way on their journey so they are Yes, the important stop at "Stooltown" eager to eat the cream and milk on ~e­ is made every day. This is easily made reals and puddings. If mother explams a habit and r elieves mother of the wor­ how coffee and tea and spices would ries of constipation. It is the all im­ darken their milky way, a good habit in portant and necessary preparation for nutrition is formed by substituting milk "Healthland" and "Play Hill. Mother and water and plenty of it. At least makes plain emphasis that "Stooltown" six glasses of water a day besides the is a resting place each day of the jour milk is mother's aim. Is is not sur­ ney. Soon the little bodies become reg­ prising that the children take interest in ulated to their health schedule which the things which they can understand mother plans and guides with her intense and share in the doing. love. "Tidytown" is a station where the lit­ By emphasizing important, daily health tle folks must stop before each meal and habits in the form of such a game it is mother tells them that here they can only a question of a short time before clean up during the journey so that they the desired impressions are made upon can enjoy all the places in "Healthland." children. Rewards or surprises worked Face and hands are washed and nails into the game help to mount the hills cleaned so that they will be ready to and smooth out difficulties in the event­ visit the many wonders of their journey. ful journey. Mother's love naturally has Fairy tales have told of forests and a way for everything and at all times the children have imagined such places. "No mother should be too busy is the most precious guide to the habit As they journey to "Healthland" they to neglect the everyday health formation of her children. As they grow can have their imaginary forest-say habits of her little ones." and develop mother can vary and add to "Vitamin Forest." It is here that mother the Health game as ·individuals and ne­ brings in the enjoyment of oranges and cessity demand. 4 THE lOWA HOMEJ1A KER Providing Worthy Use of Leisure Time for the High School St~dent As Worked Out by a Committee on Vocational Education

ITH the rapidly spreading realization two aims, properly carried out, could not Visits by pupils under supervisiOn of Wthat the old formal discipline method do otherwise than make !Jetter citizens. teachers to localities, institutions and of teaching will no longer hold children agencies that reveal in concrete forms of high school age, educators have been Citizenship Club conditions and practices that challenge striving for a workable solution of the The citizenship club is composed of all the interests and attention of all good problem and their efforts have resulted the pupils in the high school. The pur­ citizerts. in the "New Aims of Education," the pose of it is to establish a living con­ Discussion of current news from news­ physical, vocational, social-civic and avo­ sciousness in the pupils of the common papers and magazines. cationaL purposes of inter-dependence of their While the High School Club program community life, national as well as local. Community Work includes all four aims it emphasizes most to cultivate a spirit and habit of mutual Civic service projects or activities . as the social-civic and avocational aims. service and team work for the common "clean town" campaign, "tree planting" School boards and superintendents are good and to develop an immediate at­ etc. caring for the reorganization of the cur­ titude toward government, lo cal and na­ tional, resulting from the service orga­ Dramatic projects including commem­ riculum, but to the individual teacher oration festivals and pageants. falls the responsibility of helping fill the nization, and means of securing team spare ·time of the pupiL work. Information and Application of: The club work has a double purpose­ Citizenship is taught as a regular high school subject, and other ativities, such 1. Civic habits-as orderliness and that of keeping the student busy and cleanliness in public places, individual therefore away from evil, and that of as mentioned in the general program, contribute greatly to the making of citi­ responsibHity for public _property, re­ advancing him in social, civic and intel­ ation to different races and nationalities lectual and professional ways. zens. This club, in addition, by bringing the whole student body together, in dis­ in a community, as fellow citizens. Since the club as a whole is a Better cussing social, political and industrial 2. Civic knowledge-as to various in­ Citizenship Club, it will give them the problems, develops a deeper spirit of dustries of the neighborhood, essentials training necessary for good citizenship, democracy. of local government as it affects daily will develop the social instincts and will life activities carried on in public build­ result in a more rounded and complete Good citizenship results from a com­ ings, that are essential to the executon education. bination of three factors, altruistic emo­ of pupil's function as citizen (F'ire and The divisions of the Club will care for tions, correct ideas and desirable habits police dept., etc.) of response or in other words, the feel­ the development of the individual along 3. Civic service...... ,to be effective in the whatever line he chooses- it not only ing, intellect and wilL The adolescent period is essentially a period of emotion­ construction and corrective duties of a helps him train his abilities but serves citizen (condition of streets, tenement as a guide in his choice of vocation or al development. Impressions received at this time become permanent, so advant­ houses), to learn how to apply public avocation. age can be taken of these facts in de­ agencies for constructive and remedial The work of the club will in general veloping citizenship. service, to cultivate a willingness to follow the problem method and will de­ assist in emergenci"es requiring govern­ velop socialized recitation. The following activities make up the mental action, to check disease due to program for a Citizenship Club: Where localities and individuals will social causes, to cultivate a willingness alter the details of a club organization, School assembly meetings where stim­ to conform to the will of a majority as the program that we have worked out is ulating talks, inspiring readings and it is expressed in laws, (school laws, only a skeleton, subject, to alterations stirring music are given. Perhaps no art child labor laws, etc.) and revisions to fit the need of the or­ has so refining an influence on the emo­ 4. Use of civic agencies-to know ganization. tions as has music. how to utilize services of public depart­ All details are of course important, but Representation of the serious social ments, as playgrounds, library, also of the big idea, the foundation of all high conditions and social needs thru dra­ semi-public agenies, as museums, tele-· school club work is to socialize the high matics, slides or moving pictures follow­ phone, telegraph, to learn to use import­ school training, and to supply a profit­ ed by the study of their causes, preven­ ant publications of various government able expenditure of leisure time. These tions and remedies. (Continued on page 12)

Points 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Advisory Board Member of Class Vice-Pres. Point President or Gov. Body Judiciary Representative Sec. Supervisor Committee Treas. Clubs Members Member of Vice-Pres. President Major Sec. Committee . Treas . Debate Team Mang of Member of Team Team High School Bus. Mang. Minor Part Lead in Plays Costume Play High School Member of Bus. Man g. Editor Paper Staff Athletic ·Teams Reserve Mang. of Varsity - Captain Boys and Girls Teams Class Member of Vice-Pres. President Major Committee! Sec. l'HE lOWA HOMEMAKER 5 Informality Predominates the Sunday Night Lunch By ELEANOR MURRAY

HEREl are people who just naturally For uncooked food, salads and sand­ cherries, candied pineapple, oranges, T are not · domestic. Those moments wiches are best. Sometimes the salad sliced peaches, stoned cherries, etc. when a n overwhelming feeling of domes­ may be made the day before. Of such 1 cup mayonnaise ticity sweeps over them are very, very are: 1 tsp. powdered sugar rare. But if on these rare occasions they Cranberry Salad 1 tsp. granulated gelatin create a certain pink roses-silver tea­ 2 tbsp. cold water pot-mahogany gatelegged table atmos­ 1 quart cranberries Lettuce hearts and parsley. phere for themselves and indulge in 2 cups boiling water Cover the gelatin with cold water and some rather prosaic dreams, albeit quite 2 cups sugar melt over steam. Beat into the mayon­ fascinating after a fashion, there will de­ 2V2 tablespoons granulated gelatine naise. Combine with the whipped cream scend such a calm domestic feeling that 1-3 cup cold water and powdered sugar. Stir in the fruit a cat curled up and purring on a silk rag 1-3cup chopped walnut meats and pour into a mold rinsed in cold braided cushion in front of the fire will Lettuce water. Seal carefully and bury in equal be apparent and seem almost visible. Mayonnaise or boiled dressing parts of ice and salt for four hours. 1 cup diced celery. And now, surrounded by such an at­ Serve garnished with lettuce hearts and mosphere, consider the living room of a Cook the berries and water twenty parsley. squat dutch colonial house lighted only minutes. Rub through a sieve, stir in Then there are the quick salads; or­ by a soft ruddy fire and lovely candles sugar and cook five minutes. Add the ange or grapefruit with dates and nuts­ in brass c an d 1 e s tick s. In front of gelatine dissolved in the cold water for the dates may be stuffed with pimento the fire is the dream gatelegged table; five minutes. Just before it begins to cheese; apple, banana, raisins. nuts, the old andirons, the braided rugs, the set. pour half into a mold rinsed in cold grapes and marshmallows; chicken or copper teakettle are there and some water. Allow it to set, keeping the re­ tuna fish; even potato, all served either queer "haunting blue" teacups ready for mainder warm. Over the first half sprin­ with boiled dressing or oil mayonnaise, tea. It is Sunday evening and "my kle celery and nut meats. Pour the re­ prepared by heating an egg and adding guests" lift the shiny brass knocker once mainder of the gelatin over and allow to to it the juice of one lemon, salt and and then informally open the door- set. Cut into slices and serve on leaves paprike and a small amount of sugar if of lettuce with a garnish of dressing and desired. To this the oil is added very And suddenly, the dream fragments a few extra nut meats. slowly, beating all the time that a good are scattered, leaving only the word in· emulsion be formed. A fruit juice dress­ formally. Sunday evening tea and in­ Ginger ale salad may also be prepared the day before: ing may be served on fruit salads. It is forma!_ity- they are conected, for inform­ made by beating two egg yolks, adding ality is the keynote to the success of 3-4 cup diced pineapple two tablespoons flour, one-fourth cup such a lunch, whether it be served in the 3-4 cup chopped grapefruit pulp sugar, one-half teaspoon salt and one­ dream house or a real house or apart­ 1·3 cup blanched shredded almonds fourth cup each of pineapple juice, or­ ment. 1-4 cuv seeded malaga grapes ange juice, cherry or any other kind of This can be a time of real, lazy en­ 1 cup ginger ale juice, and lemon juice. Cook in a double joyment; then it is that no one must 2 tablespoons granulated gelatin boiler until thick and creamy and before rush off for anything and for once one 1-2 cup warm water serving add a cup of whipped cream. takes one's time, relaxes and begins to Few grains of salt With salad, dainty sandwiches-let­ decide that life is not so bad as it seem­ Few grains of paprika tuce, olive, nut, date or orange marma­ ed Saturday noon. Mayonnaise lade-tea or chocolate and some little Lettuce. frosted cakes or fruit cake or chocolate This delightful meal must not be spoil­ Soak the gelatin five minutes in the cookies are sufficient. ed by serving at the table-always sit warm water and dissolve over hot water. Heated and buttered cinnamon twist­ around the fire on cushions or if you Add 1-4 cup of ginger ale. Combine the "just can't sit that way" use a chair, but ers or cocoanut rolls, or cinnamon toast diced pineapple, grapefruit pulp, grapes, served with coffee, tea or chocolate and draw it up close to the fire. Perhaps you almonds, salt, paprika and then the re­ haven't a fireplace, then there are amaz­ perhaps fruit and nuts passed later are maining 3-4 cup ginger ale. Add the sufficient in themselves. ing possibilities in a rose shaded lamp. gelatin mixture,. stir thoroughly and pour Try eating around it and see. Denver or Club sandwiches and coffee into individual molds which have been make a good meal with nothing further The kind and amounts of food are not dipped in cold water. Chill thoroughly, necessary. Denver sandwiches are made so important as the appearance. If hot unmold and serve on lettuce leaves gar­ by grinding up cooked ham and cooking dishes are to be prepared both guests nished with mayonnaise. with egs into a sort of omelet. Toast and hostess will delight in using a chafing A delicious dressing for this salad is bread on one side and place the omelet dish or grill or toaster right in front of made by cooking the yolks of four eggs, between two slices on the untoasted side. the fire. one cup of sugar and the juice of two On top shred lettuce and add dressing if Perhaps best are waffles, baked on the lemons together and combining with an desired. cunning round electrics and served pip­ equal amount of whipped cream just be­ Club sandwiches are made from toast­ ing hot with butter and maple syrup. fore serving. E: d bread, bacon, lettuce, sliced tomatoes Nothing else is necessary but coffee. Frozen Fruit Mayonnaise is delightful: or olives. On the first slice of toast Cheese and eggs are particularly fitted 3 cups whipped cream put bacon, cover with a slice of toast for grill cookery. Welsh "rabbit" on 2 1-2 cups mixed fruit as maraschino containing sliced tomatoes on top of toast or toasted crackers or omlets serv­ which is toast with lettuce and salad ed with orange marmalade and bread and dressing or olives and dres-sing with a butter sandwiches and tea. Rinktum few nuts sprinkled on. Top the whole Tiddy is prepared by heating one pint with a slice of buttered toast. of canned tomatoes and adding one tea­ Egg-olive sandwiches are made by spoonful of salt, one teaspoonful of sugar, cooking chopped, stuffed olives with one-fourth teaspoonflll of pepper, a· dash eggs in an omelet form. The most satis­ of cayenne, and a tablespoonful of chop­ 'factory results are obtained if each sand­ ped onion. When very hot, melt in one wich is prepared individually. Cook one half pound of cheese cut in small bits, egg and a tablespoonful of chopped adding slowly and stirring constantly. olive in butter and place between but­ When creamy add a teaspoonful of but­ tered slices of bread. ter and a beaten egg. When served on But-after all, regardless of the food hot buttered toast or toasted crackers and service, H is the atmosphere that with tea it is delicious. Improve the tea counts. A cheerful atmosphere, a by adding a fruit tablet of any desired friendly atmosphere and a hospitable flavor to each cup. one. 6 THE lOWA HOME"l!AKER Simple Service for Home Meals As Approved by the Home Economics Division of Iowa State

The Table Everything pertaining to one course plate while one reaches for the side dish For breakfast, supper or luncheon a must be placed before the course is serv­ with the left hand. Do not stack the small cloth or doilies may be used. This ed. Serving silver is brought from the dishes in front of the guest. Stand side­ is a great saving of linen and of laundry. serving table. The carving knife is wise in reaching for plates lest one may For dinner, a beautifully laundred table placed at the right of the host, the fork crowd the guests. Never reach in front cloth is used over a pad of felt or canton is placed at the left. Serving spoons of a guest. flannel. It is well to tie the pad in place are placed at the right. Use the serving table to place dishes to prevent slipping. The table cloth, In placing jelly, pickles and other food from one cover while another is cleared, whether o.f linen or cotton must be spot­ that is to be passed, they should be so lo­ then remove dishes from both covers to less. The cloth should fall 10 to 12 inches cated that some one can r each them the kitchen. below the edge of the table. It should be without difficulty. Place the serving In r emoval of dishes, take a way all placed with the fold exactly in the cen­ silver beside the dish containing the food first, then soiled dishes, glasses, ter of the table with opposite edges of food. silver and cutlery, then clean dishes, the cloth at a uniform distance from the If open salt and pepper are used they glasses, silver and cutlery. Remove all floor . are placed at each cover or between two unusued silver belonging to the course. A bouquet of flowers or a growing covers. Small glass or silver spoons are Remove everything pretaining to one plant are a necessary addition to every placed beside these. course before serving the next course. meal. A little thought and care makes this always possible. This bouquet must Rules for Serving Lest We Forget be low so that it does not prevent guests from seeing each other. Do not use All table service should be done quiet· Stand behind the chair until the host· highly scented flowers. The flowers must ly and without any appearance of haste. ess is seated. Sit down from left side of harmonize with the color scheme of the To fill glass do not lift the glass from chair. Sit upright but naturally. Do not food. the table. If the covers are crowded the lounge or lean on the table. The hostess glass may be drawn to the edge of the unfolds her napkin first, takes up the Setting the Table table to fill. Take hold of glass well silver to be used and in all cases gives The plate, napkin, glass, and cutlery down toward the bottom. Use a napkin · the signal for beginning to eat. The nap­ set in place for each individual at the to catch the drip. This applies to the kin is placed on the lap not entirely beginning of a meal are designed "the refilling of all cups and glasses. spread out. Make no display in so doing. cover." Each cover r equires from 20 to Butter, jelly, pickles, r elishes, etc., can Never leave the spoon standing in a 24 inches of length and 15 inches for be on the table when the guests are cup or in a sherbet glass. In eating depth. seated. bread a fairly small piece is broken oft Chairs are arranged at each place Hot food must be served in hot dishes. and is buttered while resting on the when the !ileal is announced. The edge Cold food on cold dishes. bread and butter plate. Do not rest the of the seat just even with the edge of A folded napkin or small tray may be slice on the. hand or on the tableloth. thA table. so that one may be seated used in serving dishes containing food. Never spread a whole slice at one time without moving the chair. A tray may be used when bringing silver nor take a bite from the whole slice. The knife is placed at the right with and accessories to the table or when Do not gesticulate with the knife or ct,tting edge toward the plate. passing articles such as sugar and cream.. fork. In cutting food hold the knife in right The forks are at the left, tines turned P lace, pass and remove all dishes from hand and the fork in the left, tines down, up. The exception is the oyster fork the .left of the person, using the left grasping the handle firmly and natural­ which is placed at the extreme right. hand. The only time a waitress goes to ly. The spoons are placed at the right of the right is in placing, replenishing or In r aising food to mouth use fork in the knife. Silver must not touch, neither r emoving a beverage. right hand. the tines up. Use a fork for must it be too far apart. Place all side dishes at the left as near all food if possible, but creamed vege· The sequence for all spoons and forks the plate as possible without crowding. tables and water ices may be eaten with is from the outside in toward the plate The host serves the m eat , potatoes, a spoon. In using a spoon dip away from in the order in which they are used. vegetables and may also serve the oneself. Take from the side of the spoon. The water glass is set at the tip of dessert. The hostess may serve the soup, Do not sip beverage from the spoon, but the knife. Goblets are used for more vegetables, salad, dessert, and beverage. drink from the cup. Do not blow on food formal occasions. Serve the hostess first, then the next to cool. prson to her right and so on around the The mouth should be closed while it The bread and butter plate is set at table. If the host serves the plates. he contains food. It should not be too full the top of the fork. The butter spreader asks the one at his right to pass the first since it is often necessary to reply to is placed on the butter plate parallel plate to the host ess, the second to Mrs. some questions. to the edge of the table, handle toward Blank, etc., so that no confusion arises. the right or the spreader may be placed Do not eat too fast. Some people prefer to serve the guest Keep the lips closed while chewing parallel to the forks. first. food. The napkin is placed at the left of the In passing food, hold dish ·low and have forks with the hem and selvedge par­ Keep the hands quietly in the lap the serving silver in place. Always pass while not busy with the food. Do not allel to the edge of the table and the the most important accompaniment to a forks. course first, a nd the others in the order handle cutlery or m ark the tablecloth. All silver, linen and dishes ar e placed of their importance. In serving from the In using a handkerchief always do so one inch from edge of table. kitchen bring in two plates. Place one sparingly· and unobtrusively. Better re­ In all table appointments the lines plate on the service table while placing tire than be obnoxious. should be paralleled with the edges of the other. In placing a plate hold the Never hold food on the fork while the table, never on the diagonal. This plate on the palm of the hand, steadying you are talking ready, as soon as you rule applies especially to the placing of the edge with the thumb. Do not place reach a pause. to put into your mouth. salts, peppers, sugar and creamer, jelly .. the thumb over the edge, yet have a Having once picked it up, eat it promptly .. pickles, bread, etc. The cover s should be firm hold so that the guest be not alarm­ A bit of bread, but nothing else may directly opposite if possible. All articles ed at the danger of sliding food from the he used to help food upon the fork. should be conveniently and symmetrical­ plate into the lap. Never srape the plate to get the last ly arranged. The table should be studied When there is no servant it is permiss· drop as if not fully ~ati sfie d with your as a whole to see that it is well baranced. abfe to request a guest to "please help portion. Use a spoon to convey a prune, The hostess sits nearest the kitchen yourself and pass the bread," cake, etc. peach or cherry stone to the plate. if she must wait on the table, otherwise Remove one complete cover at a time The conversation should be cheerful. her place is facing the kitchen, the host using the left hand to r each for the plate. Never argue nor monopolize the conver­ sits opposite the hostess. The right hand may be used to hold the (C'ontinued on page 15) THE lOWA HOMEMAKER 7 Planning The Home Grounds By JUANITA BEARD

are automatically det ermined. A com­ "} NEVEiR had any desire so strong and mon mistake is the placing of the house so like to covetousness, as that one in the center of the lot, and thus dividing which I have had always, that I might the grounds into too many unrelated be master of a small house and a large areas. A better arrangement would be to garden." This thought might express loate the house near the front bound­ the sentiment of many of us today, and ary line to allow for a garden in the rear, the fulfillment of this desire is within or near a side boundary line to make reach of us all. room for a garden at the side. In order With the growth of democracy, people to feel that the garden is an outdoor in America have come to view fences, living room, the ground level should be hedges, and all similar means of en­ close to the first floor level. In the case closure as undemocratic. As a r esult, too of houses with high foundations, ter­ many homes have barren lawns, no pri­ races built about the living portion of vacy in the out-of-doors, and uninterest­ floors and rugs. Distant views are as the house bring the house into more ing architecture. fine paintings. If these do not exist we intimate r elationship with the grounds. iRather, should we seek to plan our inust provide interest in the garden it­ Walks and drives are important fac­ homes in correct relationship to the out­ self in the form of some terminal motif. tors in the division of lawn spaces. The of-doors, and to make the · out-of-doors In design, the first principles are util­ driveway and walk should enter the livable. ity, simplicity and beauty. In my gar­ property at right angles to the street, ex­ Naturally, the parts of the grounds den there will arise questions to which cept where the greater part of traffic that are close to and appear almost a answers must be found. What is to be goes in one direction in which case the part of the house, repeating and carry­ the shape of the ground plan, r ectangu­ entrance to the drive can favor that di­ ing out its lines, r equire a formal treat­ lar, circular or oval? What walks are r ection. If the lot is a corner one, the ment. In the design of the house, the necessary? What circulation must be driveway or walk should not enter at the first essential of good planning is to have provided for? What proportions of corner. If it is necessary to locate the it in perfect harmony with .its surround­ length and width are best? The funda­ walk or driveway close to the corner, the ings. We should plan for the connec­ mental thing will be, first, the division entrance should be at least several feet tion of the various rooms of the house of the space into areas and, second, t he away from the junction of the property with the grounds. The entrance for the arrangement of the things within these line. The walks and drives should be as family should be a part of the entrance areas so as to give the right emphasis. direct as possible; they should never walk, thr service should connect with The final success or failure of the gar­ follow a curve which would seem to car­ the service portion of the house and the den will depena upon whether we have ry one away from the place desired. For more private rooms should be connected emphasized the right features. Ther e small places, straight drives are most in a most intimate way with the private is no garden problem so common-place, desirable, and can be placed close to th!o portion of the grounds, such as terraces none so prosaic, that the final garden side of the property so as to avoid in­ and lawns. This last part should be a cannot be made more livable or inter­ terference with any other space which sanctuary for the social life of the family esting when the designer really studies might be desired for the public lawn and their guests. The whole garden com­ the problem. areas. When a curve is desirable, it position is the room. The plants and The location of the house is of great should be staked out and sighted until architectural features are the furnish­ importance, for when the house is lo­ a pleasing effect is assur ed. Then, where ings, and the walks and open spaces, the cated the various areas about the house (Continued on page 14)

A Pillow for Every Need By ESTHER ELLEN RAYBURN

THE world would not be livable with- fit into the Sun Porch. Because of the wrth a tassel on each corner, a round silk out homes. It doesn't matter partic­ decorativeness of the materials it r e­ pillow decorated with stuffed flowers, an ularly whether the home is large or small quires less time to make them. This applique square pillow or a bolster corded jus t. so it is a home. And as the world a ppeals to the busy lady of the hou.se. pillow you have much to look forward to. would not be complete without homes, There is one place about the house that One of the newest materials used for neither would a home be complete with­ crys for a triangular pillow and that is pillow covering is corduroy and it makes out pillows. All houses which make at the comfy davenport. Because the daven­ up really beautifully. Gingham in small least a pretense of keeping a homey at­ port itself is so very comfortable a stiff checks is not to be smiled at for it has mosphere should contain many pillows. brocaded, tasseled pillow is quite in or­ its place. Even cotton crepe and crash It's a case of, "Here a pillow, there a der. Let the color blend in with the are suitable for certain of the pollows. pillow everywhere a pillow, and not a clrapes and you can be sure you've pro­ Of cour se the material and sh'ape will pillow too many." duced the right effect. depend on the color scheme you select The shape does not so much matter Most loved of all ar e the round and for your rooms and the type of house you altho the odd little shapes are most at­ oblong member s · of the pillow family. have-who could imagine a stiff bro­ tractive. Let it be round, square or ob­ They can be made of soft materials and caded pillow in a flat Dutch Colonial long, yea even triangular, that's as you verv downy feathers, because they are house, with braided rugs, andirons and a like, for the covering determines whether to be placed on the bench in the chimney copper kettle? Although too much va­ or not the pillow is to be original and corner, in the chairs and in all the other riety in color is not to be desired, neither comfortable. places where the family delights in curl­ should all the pillows be the same color. Square pillows have been in use since ing up when there isn't company. Strive A soft rose pillow in a nest of dark toned the time of Peter the Great, so it is nat­ to give to the pillow a fat fluffy look, ones gives the particular dash necessary ural to cover them first. Perhaps sateen, and soft silks and velours help to give to save the interesting atmosphere of cretonne and tapestry are most suitable this. for this style. Plain colored sateen lends Pillow accessories are various. There the room. itself readily for applique, and indeed are tassels, frfnge, applique fruit, flowers So collect your pillows, oh many of the sateen applique pillow is a very dur­ and buds, embroidery designs, corded ef­ them, and scatter them here and there able one for use in the children's rooms. fects, cover ed buttons and even ribbons. about your house, so that by your pil­ Cretonne and tapestries quite naturally If you have not seen a triangular pillow lows your home and you are known. 8 THE lOW A I-IOJJIEMA KER Who's There and Where By JEANETTE BEYER

Dear Alumni:- Before going to California Miss Burl­ gravures cost $8 and ar e 31x19 inches in W!th the advent nf the new year, we're ing was one of the original twenty to do size when framed. It is said by the ar­ makmg our resolutions too. We want conservation work in the state the first tists and engravers that this is one of our "Whose There and Where" page to ye:u of Uie war. Following that she was the most beautiful piece's of this type of be the most friendly, interesting and home demonstrator in Cerro Gordo Coun­ work that t!Hiy have done for several "newsy" page in the whole Homemaker. ty for a year and then in Des Moines years. Won't you help us with a word of County for two years. · Picture funds for about 50 other high greeting and a tip a bout your neighbor That she is as sucessful in this type schools were started during fall registra­ alumna who is helping the world along of work as she was in gaining an educa­ tion. But thus far Clarinda is the first in a truly Ames fashion? tion is acclaimed her by Miss Neale S. school ·to have the picture. Alumni this Of course we like especially to hear Knowles, State Leader of Home Demos­ is your chane to help. Send your contri­ about those Ames women who are mak­ stration Agents, who says, "Helen Burl­ butions for the home high school to ing good, "putting big things across " ing was one of the best demonstration Ward M. Jones, Alumni secretary, in ~aiding important positions; and uniq~ e agents in the state. She is energetic and Alumni Hall. JObs . But everyday folks are inter esting enthusiastic, and has the happy faculty of inspiring people to work their hard­ too. We want to know about the ex­ INSTR UCTS IN H ' EC. EDUCATION citements and adventures of school est for her." ma'ams and homemakers as well. Mamie Lister, who received her M. A. at the close of the fall quarter from Iowa Iowa State College is inter ested in you. A POEM BY ELIZABETH CANADY and your success. Won't you t ell us State College, wil! instruct in the Home about yourselves, not only that we may I. S. C. Alumni will be interested in e- conomics vocational education depart­ hand the news on to your old friends, knowing that among their number is a ment here. but as a boost for your alma m ater and poet in the person of Elizabeth Canady, Miss Marcia Turner will be in charge an inspiration to undergraduates who m anaging editor of Peoples Popular of this department during the absence of are as yet casting about trying to find Monthly, who writes this poem which ap­ Miss Cora Miller who is teaching Home that work which they especially want to peared in the December issue of her mag­ 0conomics educa tion and studying at the do. Perhaps hearing of the many things azine. University of Chicago during a year's you have done will show them the way. Lante·rns in the Dusk leave of absence. Ther efore don't leave out any of the in· The year comes down to its' dusken hour, t er esting details. ADVENTURES OF A SCHOOL MA'AM Of course th er e's something for you The road gropes into gloom. to gain in this too. Could we have many The autumn leaves like springtime "I just told a boy to throw his gun out letters of the type of Lillian Giebelstein's dreams the window," writes Helen Paschal. "I it would not be difficult when calls come Have shriveled to their doom. did it by pantomime. I moved my jaws for the Home Economics .department tc. October's burnished afterglow and pointed to the window. He obeyed. suggest names. to fill 'important positions Has paled to its shadow tomb. -:;:his is his second offense. H e's a great big ugly boy, much bigger than I and or to secure data for desired r ecommend­ ations. Lo, in the last gray twilight hour it's rather pathetic the way be obeys me. May we hear from you soon? In the Lanterns of Jove a ppear, He wouldn't have to, you know." meantime. we wish you a most happy The torches of Remembrance Day Helen, who gr aduated last year, is and worthwhile year. ·To light the dimming year, teaching Home Ec.;momics and freshman Even as stars of m emnried friends English to the wiley young of Garden Kindle when night is n ear. Grove, Iowa. HELEN BURLING MAKES GOOD Mrs. Helen LeCron. editor of the Des Making a wav for oneself in the world Moines Register book page reprinter'! A LETTER FROM ULLIAN GIEBEL­ is often done by m en . bi.lt h ere is one Eli'zabeth's poem and said of it: "We S,TEIN, SAN LEANDRO, CALIF. of a few women who stands as an in­ have r ear'! it manv times and like it­ We are very happy that Vice-Dean Ed­ sPiration to those who WO'lld fight un­ esoeciallv the haunting first line. It is aided for a college education. na Walls should allow us the privilege of on0 of those lines that we alwavs thiln k r- njoying the following . letter from Lil­ On a vaation trip west this summer must have been born full-grown- they lian Giebelstein, ··21, who writes from Al­ Miss Myra Whited found her niP-ce, Miss are too· beautiful to have been thought H elen Burling, busily engaged in the out word for word. ameda County Hospital, 'San Leandro, work of Countv Demonstrator in Contra California. Co9ta County, California. November 30, 1922. Miss Burling arrived in Ames with NIRA KLAISE PURCHASES PICTURE My Dear Miss Walls: little money but much courage and a de­ FOR CLARINDA It will soon be a year since I last r e­ t e- rmina tion to gain an education. Pick­ Because of the loyalty of Nira M. ported to the home office. I am still in ing up what work she could, Helen Klaise, '22, to her college and high school C a liforn~a. at the same hospital from cleaned house. washed and ironed, and alma maters. Clarinda high school will which I wrote last time. Altho there are assisted in la boratory work. Despite her be the first to receive a framed copy of many drawbacks here, there is a great business of breadwinning she was a pop­ the beautiful drawing of Iowa State cl.eal of satisfaction in working in a hos­ ular classmate and took an active part in campus which has recently been com­ pital that 1s steadily being improved. campus organizations. until in her senior pleted. Our service building is entirely com­ year she was elected May Queen, gradu­ Nira. who is te

country for an adult to let a human die if he is in a po­ THE lOW A HOMEMAKER sition to save that life, is it not a criminal offense " A Magazine For Homemakers From a Homemaker's School" against the laws of God to be inactive when there is an opportunity to improve the lives that are here? VOL. II JANUARY No. lO This ''in between'' is a nice little resting spot for a tired mind, but like all such resorts, soon breeds lazi­ Published at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa. Price $1.50 per ness and an inward-creeping death of soul. year. Advertising rates on application Fence sitting may be a diplomatic roost while the Entered as second class matter at the post office, Ames, Iowa crops are being planned, but if you don't come down in PUBLICATION BOARD-Prof. F. W. Beckman, Miss Florence time to plant them you need not expect a share in the Busse, Mrs. Frank Kerekes, Rose Storm, Ethel Huebner, honors. Llyra Price, Esther Pond. EDITORIAL STAFF-Rose Storm, editor; •Eleanor Murray, issue editor; Katherine Goeppinger, associate editor; Jeanette WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT? --- Beyer, associate editor; Marcella Dewell, art editor; Clara Jordan, Opal Wind, Harriett Sch!eiter, Esther Rayburn, Helen Do you like surprises, or would you rather know in Hamilton, Ada Havner, Viola Jammer, Mildred Boyt, Juanita advance what will happen, so you can prepare to take Beard. advantage of it ? Of course, Christmas presents and BUSINESS STAFF-Ethel Huebner, manager; Reva Pierce, Harriett Sloss, Fern Green, Agnes Noble, Marjorie Jay, Helen proposals must be surprises, and sudden ones, but isn't Piper, Bertha Sanvoldt. it fun to peek into the future and know what is coming CIRCULATION STAFF-Llyra Price, manager; Mona Thomp­ to you ? Then let's peek into the coming editions of son, Clar e Youngclass, Fern Green, Esther Pond, Florence Hahn, Pearl Brown, Laura Bublitz, Paula Braunlich, Marcella the Homemaker and see what is in store. Dewell. Starting with the February issue, we will give you a series of stories on interior decoration. Not the kind that tell you how to hang curtains and Rembrandt KEEP THE OLD RESOLUTIONS prints, but real homey ones, that will help you live up Every year at some time the idea comes over me to the darkest nooks and most uninteresting rooms in lose five pounds and for a day I diligently diet and for your home. As a forerunner to this, we are having this two days "touch my palms to the floor"-just long time the story of the origin of mirrors, which will be enough to be extremely stiff and extremely hungry followed with a story on how to use them. Then will without the balm to each that comes if the dieting and come pillows, scarfs and combinations of ideas that the exercise are continued. will give "that touch" you've been wanting in your "'l'o reduce" is not the only resolve I make and-­ living room all this time. never keep, nor am I alone. Such resolutions are many If opportunity's forelock has already passed you up, and all the unkept resolutions in the world, even for just take hold of its tail and keep in step with your earlier one year, are many. fortunate neighbor. My this year's resolution to lose the fiv e pounds came before January first, as did the one to be in bed by ten­ thirty on study nights and to read at least one of the IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE "MOVIE" PROGRAMS, books on my waiting list every two weeks. CHANGE THEM. The idea of making resolutions on New Year's day "What's on at the Princess tonite ?" is rather old-fashioned, but on January first, early in "I don't know, but I'm sure it is nothing that we the morning, I solemnly promised myself to keep those would care to see. I don't see why they won't show three premature resolutions, and I shall. something decent once in a while.'' Resolve to keep the resolutions you've made '!'here are two good reasons why the manager fails to throughout last year, be they many or few, and if you please you in his choice of pictures. It is easy enough made none promise yourself to stand by yourself in to decide that you don't like a certain show, but it takes what you resolve to do during this coming year. much more mental exercise to study the situation, find the cause of the trouble, and choose the program of ROOSTING " IN BEWEEN. " shows that you want to come to your community. ''Why don't you ask Mrs. S-- to serve on your In that, lies the second reason why you are not sat­ committee~ She is surely dependable enough,'' said isfied. Your manager has no way of knowing what the advisor to a live wire woman's club president: you want. That you do not like his choice may be evi­ '' Dependable enough, yes, and capable, intelligent. dent to him, but when your criticisms are not construc­ More so than the majority of us, but she is so distract­ tive it places him more at sea than if he did not know ingly in-between. If she would only swear or cry once, of your dissatisfaction. or express an opinion of her own, her rise in club work The success of any theatre depends upon its patron­ would be meteoric.'' age, and your opinion is as influential as _that of _an! This conversation, overheard on a city street car, bobs olher person. If you truly want better pictures, It IS up in my mind each time I have been politely assured within your power to have them. that I appear dull. It serves as a tonic to me. But how shall you proceed ? Just as you would get How does it affect vou ~ any civic change. First acquaint yourself with desir­ Are you passing ·up chances to meteorically advance able, available films from review of motion picture liter­ yourself in your community, be it in politics, clubs, civic ature, or, better still, from the motion picture depart­ improvement or social service? Could you be of some ments of the women's magazines. valuable service to your community if you would for­ When you know what you want the manager will get your little shell of reserve and piety, and come out doubtless be glad to try to get them for you. If he is like the true, free thinking and speaking American that not willing to cooperate with you, public opinion can every woman has the privilege to be~ be brought into service, and its pressure will certainly When it is a criminal offense against the laws of a bring you your desires. 10 THE lOWA HOM -'~' liJR ~ LILBtft\L [I I QU~~TIOH

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HEALTHFULNESS OF OLEO­ MEANING OF THE TERM " VELOUTE SANDWICH FILLINGS MARGARINE SAUCE" Will you please suggest some sandwich fillings to be used in sandwiches served with tea? I have heard it said that oleomargarine is not What is the meaning of the term "veloute as healthful as butter. Is this true? sauce.. ? Chopped nuts mixed with mayonnaise, When comparing the best grades of Veloute sauce is a white sauce in which olive relish, olive and nuts chopped with both products, there is little if any dif­ veal stock is substituted for milk. In the mayonnaise, dates or raisins and nuts ference between. butter and /oleomar­ Homemaker for August and September, c h o p p e d with mayonnaise, pimento garine on the grounds of digestibility, 1922 is a list of such terms under the cheese, orange marmalade or even while a good oleomorgarine is much to heading "Card File Your Foreign Terms." plain lettuce with mayonnaise, all make be preferred to a poor butter from a nu­ delicious fillings for sandwiches to be tritive standpoint. As to its wholesome­ COD LIVER OIL served with tea. ness, a large number of experts were Of what use is cod liver oil in the diet? unanimous in expressing their favorable MAKING TAFFETA CRISP opinions of oleomargarine as a healthful Cod liver oil contains the unknown vitamin which aids in the body utiliza­ Is there anything one may do to renew the article of food. tion of calcium and phosphorous. crispness of taffeta? Taffeta may be made crisp by spong­ TO CLEAN KID GLOV,ES WITHOUT ing with alcohol. HEIGHT AT WHICH TO HANG WETTING PICTURES A GOOD NICKEL POLISH In cleaning black k id gloves I have found that What is the proper height from the floor at the dye runs, s treaking the gloves. Is there any which to hang pictures? Will you please tell me how to make a good way to clean them without using a liquid ? P ictures should be hung at or very nickel polish? Make a m ixture of dried Fuller's earth close to the line of sight which is about Whiting plus ammonia makes a good and powdered alum and brush this into five and a half feet from the floor. The nickel plish. Moisten the whiting with the gloves with a stiff,brush. Sweep the picture should always be hung with two the ammonia just enough to make a paste dust off, sprinkle witl>. dry bran and cords, one at each end instead of one and apply with a soft cloth. whiting and dust well. ff they are badly which forms an inverted V. soiled take out grease with ctumbs of toasted bread and powder of burnt bone, DANGERS OF BEING OVER-WEIGHT Does being over-weight endanger one's then go over them with a woolen cloth KITCHEN SEASONINGS dipped in Fuller's earth. health ? Is Kitchen Bouquet a seasoning and of what For every pound a person weighs over is it made? What is Poultry Seasoning? his normal weight he is increasing his Kitchen Bouquet is a mixture of kit­ chances of death one percent. This is CLEANING WHITE VEILS chen seasonings, bay leaf, clove, mar­ especially true between the ages of 40 Is there any way in which veils may be joram. thyme and allspice. It is used to and 50. cleaned when they become soiled ? I have a white make m eats, soups and dressings more one which I would like to clean if possible. tasty. Poultry seasoning is powdered Put the veil in a solution of white soap sage, bay leaf and thyme and is used in WHEN MAYON-NAISE SEPARATES and allow it to simmer half an hour. dressing. What can be done when mayonnaise dressing Squeeze in warm water and soap until separates? clean. Rinse free of soap, then in clean The emulsion has been broken. Take cold water containing a drop of liquid NEW DRAPERY MATERIAL a fresh egg white or yolk, beat it up, and blue. Then pour boiling water over a Could you tell me anything about monks cloth? slowly add the separated mayonnaise, teaspoonful of starch and put veil Monk's cloth is a new basket weave still beating until the emulsion forms. through that. Keep edges straight in material very much in vogue for interior Then add the rest more rapidly. drying. decoration used especially for living room covers and hangings. The neutr'al PREVENT'ION OF SOGGY CRUST DIET FOR GASTRAL TROUBLE color of the fabric and the small squares What can I do to prevent the crust of custard What diet do you recommend for disorders of made by the weave are ideal for wool pie becoming soggy? the gastral and intestinal tract? embroidery in oriental designs. If the milk is heated to the boiling Beside over-perparation of food, one point before it is mixed with the eggs of the chief causes of this trouble is the HOW MILDEW IS REMOVED the crust will be crisp. eating of unnatural foods, such as choco­ late, etc. A good diet for a per son suf­ What is mildew and how may it be removed? Mildew is a fungus growth which WHY WHITE CAKE RECIPES CALL fering from this trouble is one of milk, FOR MORE BUTTER eggs, grains, fruits, and vegetables which forms quite readily on clothes exposed to dampness. If the stain is not bad or I have noticed that white cake recipes usually are not over-cooked. , call for more butter than a dark cake one. Why the fabric delicate lemon juice and salt is this true? will remove it, but if the stain is a bad The proportion of fat for white cake THICK ICING one soak the article about three hours in is increased due to the toughening effect What can I do to boiled icing that gets too one ounce of chloride of lime dissolved of the egg whites. thick? in a pint of boiling water, to which has When boiled icing gets too thick add 1 been added three pints of cold water. Be t. thick cream. This will make the icing sure to r inse very thoroughly-the fabric CLEANING VASES of the right thickness to spr ead on the is injured if not well washed out- and How can you clean the inside of flower vases ? cake. launder again. Use a mixture of salt and warm water. THE lOWA HOMEMAil.ER 11 From the Trite to the Novel in Handkerchiefs By HARRIETT SCHL~lTER

VER since the days of princesses and remember an aunt who invariably sent corner of one sticking proudly out of his E knights, handkerchiefs have been ro­ each one of us a box containing a half pocket, and see him throw his chest out mantic little bits. Fair ladies threw them dozen plain white ones, every twenty­ a little more when people notice it, you to black plumed warriors on dashing fifth of December, she doesn't do it any­ will then be rewarded for all the times steeds. If they hadn't what ever would more, and if I always did suspect that the thread broke when you were draw­ the poor dear warriors have pressed to she bought a car load and just wrapped ing it. Men, after all, are just as vain their lips when they lay dying on the up a box of them when the holidays about such little things as are we women. field of battle? Of course gloves might loomed up and mailed them to all rela­ For dress up in light clothes for par­ answer the purpose, but they are such tives and friends, I'm really almost sor­ ties there is nothing daintier than a expensive things to drop about on all ry. It may be best though for I'd prob­ crepe-de-chine handkerchief with a ruf­ occasions, and handkerchiefs do ju.st as ably get so tired of plain white "ones, fle of lace around the edge. They are well. Besides they don't make such a when now-a-days there can be such a such tiny things that the scraps left from bulge in the left breast pocket, when delightful variety. Not only linen but an orchid or pale blue teddy can be turn­ picked up and cherished by modern gingham, pongee, voile, crepe de chine, ed into such a cunning handkerchief plumeless lovers. and all colors of the rainbow and colors you're glad it's after Christmas and you Even if you don't use them for such the rainbow never thought of possessing. don't have to give it away. purposes, you always feel more swag­ You know you can buy handkerchief Voile ones look lovely with lace edges, gerish if you have just .the right kind and linent cut in squares just the right size, too. They are even more adorable made color of handkerchief tucked in your poc­ and make the cute kind with drawn of white, with little squares of color hem­ ket, or your sleeve, or down your neck. threads and little embroidered flowers or stitched on, or a wide border of another Now what I started out to say was appliqued designs in one corner. Pon­ coTor joined with hemstitching. simply, only, merely that perhaps your gee can be fixed in these same ways. And now-when the Christmas rush is rather depleted supply of handkerchiefs And by the way it's not only ladies fair over. make yourself a present of some wasn't replenished at Christmas as you who dote on the pongee kind. Try them lovely new handkerchiefs for the new had expected it to be. Even though I on His Highness, and when you see a year.

Are You A Book Lover?

OW that the long winter evenings ert Browning and if your soul is weary er used to give you, cure all ails. What­ N are here, it's time to climb into the and needs food give it some of Edward ever your mood of the moment may be big arm chair and examine one's book Rowland Sill. There is Wordsworth for there is a book to fit it. All that you shelf. What one finds there is probably love of nature, Shelley for wind and need is an R. Mifflin, proprietor of "The a matter of personal tastes and inclina­ beauty, and for love songs, Mrs. Brown­ Haunted Bookshop," that C. Morley crea­ tions. But whether they be books or ing and Sara Teasdale-they are differ­ ted to prescribe for you. poetry, travel, science, romance, or ent, though. If one be filled with the Obv-iously there has been room here thought, let's read them. spirit of youth read Rupert Brooke, for only a few suggestions. _ If my favor­ Coming home from a full day, what that vivid young Apollo, and should one ites aren't on your book shelf read what could be better than settling oneself be a man one cannot overlook the red­ YOU have. One's own personal tastes comfortably and renewing acquaintance blooded poems of Service and Kipling. should be the criteria for the selection of with Lorna Doone 'and John Ridd, big Poetry, in its beauty and fantasy, reading matter. But READ,-taste, fellow, or Amelia Sedley and her friend, quickens life,-intensifies it, and in its taste, taste, and soon you can gather your Becky Sharp; or sympathetically plot­ subtle poignancy touches that inside per­ own loves about you. ting w'ith Nora in her "Doll's House"; son of ours whose existence we are We can't all climb the Swiss Alps, sail or finding oneself in the heat and the scarcely a ware of. on stormy seas, or languish under south­ magnitude of "The Garden of Allah"; or Of course, should one return home with ern palms in tropical moon light. But tn galloping by the brush pile with "The deep thoughts and an open mind, an es­ our own lives, commonplace and prosaic Brushwood Boy"; or rescuing fair maid­ say is in order. One of Emerson's, per­ as they seem, books can bring to us the ens in distress with Don Quixote. haps, or Bacon's. An essay that takes romance of foreign lands, can acquaint "If one he modern should one not gaze lots of time and lots of thought. Great, us with the most interesting of people. a moment into the mirror Sinclair Lewis then, is the enjoyment of rolling out deep, perplexing, thundrous truths with And although without continued study creates and "see ourselves as others see we cannot become trained connoisseurs, us;" love Mark Sabre in A. S. M. Hut­ the air of one who knows. Or if one be whimsically inclined why not a little of clever critics, or specialists alOng tech­ chinson's "If Winter Comes;" admire nical lines, neverthe-less by reading we Peter Wescott in "Fortitude," ·by Hugh Christopher Morley or Gilbert K. Ch~>s­ terton? "Tremendous Trifles" is a leis­ may gain a large appreciation and under­ Walpole. All of which, in f.act, means standing of those things that are good just losing oneself in delightful adven­ urely book to start on. For strict en­ joyment there is Charles Lamb, Samuel in life. tures. with delightful people, in a world Nor have we ordinary people an ade­ of enjoyment. Carruthers, and Robert Louis Stevenson, and for a mental massage try Oliver quate means for self-expression. We And then there are the books of poetry, Wendall Holmes' "The Autocrat of the cannot dance or sing, our tongues and so many and so varied that one can Breakfast Table." A pastor once said pens are awkward, and our fingers scarcely list them without omitting too that when ideas would not come in the clumsy. Our souls are buried and stir­ many favorites. "Poetry," says Max preparation of his Sunday morning ser­ led crying out for beauty and open Eastman, "is a countryman and greets mons it was the Autocrat to which he spaces. Books meet this need of self­ every experience by its own name. It is turned for a mind-rouser. expression. When we find our own a gesture toward the world. The novice So do not overlook your books of es­ thoughts and feelings, longings and striv­ must learn now lovely it is to be indirect, says; there's a satisfaction in them. ings so well expressed; when we see and when you set out to go somewhere, Neither forget books of travel: John beauty shimmering and vivid, we are sat­ instead of going there, to back up and Muir; books of science: Maeterlinck's isfied. turn around and go somewhere else." Life Historv of the Bee." outlines of sci­ "Reading maketh a full man." Yes, Therefore, would you have the keys to ence by John Arthur Thomson and Slos­ and what life, what people, and what en­ the enjovment of poetry, be indirect and son's Creative Chemistry: books of his­ joyment it spreads before one. To value browse about according to your interest ton': Well's "Outlines of History' and books. to read books. and to love books­ and mood. "History of Mankind" by Van Loon. that fellow housewife-booklover is to For ruggedness and life there is Rob- Books, like those pink pHis your moth- love life itself. 12 THE lOWA IIOJfEJliA [ ER

Clubs, etc., will come expression of the Providing Worthy Use of avocational aim, and thru songs, an aid to moral guidance. , Leisure Time for the High The vocational group will contain the School Student Home Economics Club, fhe Agricultural (Continued from page 4) Club, the Teacher Training Club and the Commercial Club. The general purpose agencies-maps, surveys, reports, to of this club will be the realization of learn how to use the privilege of a voter. one of the modern aims of education, the vocational aim. It will help the student .O r gan ization of T h e C l ubs in choosing his life work by helping the There shall be one main club known student who goes directly to work after as the Better Citizenship Club of which leaving high school, in giving him prac­ every one will be a member. Other tical knowledge that he can use, and by smaller clubs can be formed whenever at least six students feel a need for Reasons for Eyeglasses some particular Club. The clubs will in­ ~ 'II!ID -~ - clude both boys and girls. A person is I ...... - I Science has found more uses not eligible to any club until after his for them. first semetster and he must be passing Education calls for much eye in all his work. I SPEC AL! I. aiel. Increasing power of lights. Officers of the clubs will be changed every semester and they must have a Use of eyes when all nature is scholastic standing of 85 percent and asleep. they are elected by ballot. One or two m embers of the faculty depending on l~,.n~,l ARE YOUR EYES SAFE? the size of the club will act as advisors. ~· ·- There shall also be an Advisory Board ' . DR. f. E. ROBINSON or Governing Board who will have charge . ' Exclusive Optometrist of the government of the school. · This . Over- the Gift Shop Board will be made up of a representa­ lCOFFEEI Ames, Iowa tive from each class, the president cho­ sen at large, and two Faculty members I ctRich and Mellow ,~ ' I one of whom will be permanent. The fdl ( • J M Vice-President of this Board will be J I chairman of the different divisional Packed by new her- 1 clubs. This Board contains a Judiciary I metic seal process that +·-··-·--··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··- + Committee who handles all cases of J retainsinta ct the fresh I cheating, gambling and the such. roasted fragrance. There shall be a system of points 1 t whereby a few students will not hold all the honors. No person is allowed to ...... ~ ....J 8 have more than t en points per semester !:I or more than twelve points at any one thew~ ~~ holes,!~ build~~ ,!~ up athe~~ ~hea~elchs, tine. This point system has been worked +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-"·-·~~- + and save your soles. j out with the above aim in mind. JANUARY SALE i D iv isio,ns of Club ON ALL WINTER HOSE i l The large clu.b shall be divided into Wool, black and brown; Silk i l three main divisions: literary, activity, and Wool; also Camel's Hair, Linder's Shoe Shop and vocational. Under each of these i main divisions will come several sepa­ in all colors. Heather Mix, I +·-··-··-·~~-··-··-··--·-··-··-·-·-·-+ rate clubs; the kind and number depend­ with and without the clox. ing on the high school. Prices from 95 cents to $ rdl i +·-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··-··-··-~ + There are hosts of possibilities under Prices from 95c to $2.50 each of these divisions. For example un­ Remember the Place der literary we may have an English i I Club, a citizenship club, and a journal­ MILADIE'S SHOP LOWRYDRUG i itic club, to include a study of Modern • 2514ljz Lincoln Way i i Magazines, and perhaps give instructions ' in the proper use of the library_ + ~-·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·+ i In the English Club will come the op­ COMPANY i portunity for moral guidance and estab­ +·-··-··-··-··-··- ·· -··-··-··-··-··-··-~ + l lishment of high ideals thru the study CARA NOME TOILET of good literature, and, in the Citizen­ i ship Club, the students will fearn how to PREPARATIONS adjust themselves to the g·roup and to WE SELL i society as a whole. While, in the Journ­ - I a.listic Club, thev will learn· to know Clarinda Electric Washers +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-·-~-~+ literature and will condemn bad litera­ ture. It will also strengthen their ------·········-···------$75.00 +·-··-··- ··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- t choice of ideals and standards. Apex Electric Washers ! ! In the activity group there may be ------··········------$98.00 and up • Shaeffer's Life-Time Pens l a Dramatic Club, an Athletic Club, an Arts and Crafts Club. and a Music Club. PLUMBING, Parker's Duofold' i In the Dramatic Club will come oppor­ HEATING and tunities for moral guidance, individual­ ELEC'l'RIC SERVICE I ity, and leaderships, and in the Athletic i I Club we will find opportunities for real· Priced Right l izing the health aim in making for clean­ i Athletic Drug Co. er, better athletics, and a realization of i the avocational aim or play instinct. 2816 West St. t While in the Arts and Crafts Club will W. G. Madison Co. 1 Ames, Ia. i come expression of the creative and im­ Phone 1001 itative instincts, and in the Music Club, t i composed of the Boys' and Gir~s· Glee +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-11·-·+ + -··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-·+ THE lOWA HOMEMAKER 13 helping the student who plans to go to esting manner. Each meeting must re­ + college in making him more able to late in some way to the one ·before and +·-·--··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- ··-··-··- choose the line of work he wishes to tlie one to follow. Much depends upon major in. the leader, but cooperation of all, a warm, friendly feeling toward each other, Keeping up the Interest and cheerful, useful service makes a per­ The Charm l There is nothing more fatal to club fect club. i life than the "same old thing." Keeping i up the interest in a club is one of the reader's big problems. A party is one +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- ··-··-··-··- + of the most popular, but not the least important way of creating a new inter­ t est. _ It is a good idea to work on the· i parties that a club wishes to give in a i of a frock certain amount of time in a schedule i form the same as the business meetings are worked out. Too many parties are I I not good. Each party should be given 1 for a reason and all details planned dif­ I 'l'he only Luncheonette on the I ferently. A reunion party of the old i South Side. 1 members could be the first party after vacation, to talk about summer trips and i WAFFLES AND COFFEE i to r enew the spirit of the club. If the i are our specialties. i club is first organized a party should be given anyway. Then there are the par­ i i ties given for other clubs and for boy i 1 friends. A mother's party would be very Cigars enjoyable where the girls entertain their mothers at a tea or an inexpensive Cigarettes I luncheon. This gives the leader a chance to meet all of the mothers and gain something of the home life of the girls. Phone 1534-W In fact, all of the parties ar e helpful and I the leader as she learns how the girls I conduct themselves with different peo­ + -··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·+ ple is able to solve some of her problems. Parties are beneficial to the +·-·--··-··-·-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-·+ girls not only for the fun they get out of i I them, but for the training they get by i Home Economic Experts 1 planning invitations, r efreshments, deco­ recommend rations, entertainment, and by forming i committees and leadership in all phases. The parties should be simple but crea­ i Harris' Ammonia, Bluing, tive. I Certified Colors and A contest is always a stimulus and creates interest and eagerness. When ! taken as a whole club or as individuals, competition brings better r esults. The girls learn to take defeat with a good will and to give the best that is in them. Rewards may be offered and sometimes it is more inter esting not to know what the reward is going to be. However, re­ wards, should be thingF! which can be kept such as cups, pins, medals, and badges to remind them of , what they stand for. If contests are of different i i Lies in its simplicity-in its natures so that .cliffer ent girls are able FRANK E. HARRIS CO. Inc. i to win them, the interest will be greater 1 excellent tailori~1g-in its sub­ than if the same ones won them all the ,_,,_.,_.,_,,_.,_.,_,,_.,_,,_,_.,_J time_ tle lines. Club papers if too many members do not belong to a Journalistic club are in­ + teresting and something different. Even +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··- Practical m sturdy fabrics­ if they cannot afford to have the paper i published, it is worth while to organize good looking in colorful trim­ and keep a paper in the club. · The Quality Loaf t mings-becoming m youthful Public notices, such as bulletins and posters, are interesting to work on. Bul­ letin boards should be placed in the lines, our frocks are unusual, school and everyone should become ac­ customed to using them. It is good train­ and represent the season's ing for the girls to write up interesting BUTTER smartest styling. announcements and make posters. Big ' headlines, pictures, and poetry may be used to attract attention. A club should not meet too o1'ten. Too NUT much of practically the same causes lack of interest. Our model club will meet three times a month, the whole citizen­ 1BREAD ship club once and the divisions twice, i not counting the social functions. Osborn's Every meeting must be very carefully planned out beforehand and each meet­ J BATES BAKING COMPANY Ames ' New Store for Women ing should have a useful, insplnng pur­ pose and be conducted in a lively inter- i + -··-··-··-··-··-··-·~-··-··-··-··-··-·+ + -··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··-·+ 14 THE lOWA H01t1E."';JAKER Planning the Home r·-..- ·-..- .. -·-·-.. -·-·-.. _,_,_,t +--· ·--·-·-t Grounds (Continued from page 7) 1 Valentine flowers j The I possible, it should be tested by driving over it before construction is started. An area for a car to turn in should be at least 60 feet in diameter, which is too large a space to be given over for this OLSAN'S I G. T. HART purpose alone on a small place. This I I I problem is better handled by a spur which is planned to conform with the turn made b! the car in backing out. f Roses ca;::~i:ns Violets J ~- StudiO In considering the different areas, the · public area is of great importance be­ ~ Sweet Peas Jonquils I . cause it forms the setting of the home as viewed from the street. Do not plant i Corsages I i in the parking unless it is the the policy i PHOTOGRAPHS of the whole street to do so, and avoid high planting toward the street inter­ .,1 Made up m Special Heart- I" II and a Fme' Lme' of section, for such planting is objection­ able to public safety. The great portion 1 Shaped Boxes I HAND-CARVED FRAMES of the lawn should have an open center unbroken by planting except for trees and specimen plants, the shrubs being I II I massed about the foundation and border I Say It With Flowers 1 lines. The private area should be planned to express the individuality of the owner. I Phone 81 I 11 G. To HART Admittance to this should be as sacred as to the house itself. Often walls ot !._,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,__ J ------...... brick or stone or fences of lattice cover­ ed with vines will secure enclosure and their arches and niches will afford at­ +·-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-·-·--··-··-·--·-·-·-·-··-··-·-·--·-·+ tractive features in the garden. i This private portion can be planned I as an informal lawn area bordered .by i trees, shrubs and flowers, or follow a I more dignified design where the archi­ Cranford Coffee Shop tectural Jines of the house are carried 1 out into the garden and repeated in a Service a la carte I formal scheme. The service portion includes the gar­ age, garage court, vegetable garden, I HOME-MADE MINCE PIES-WAFFLES and MAPLE SYRUP laundry yard and all other out-door work­ I ing parts. This should be screened both from the street and the living portions Home Cooking Our Specialty I of the house and grounds. The service area should be easily reached from the Private Rooms for Banquets street and should be accessible to the kitchen entrance and to the entrance I leading to the basement of the house. I 2408 Lincoln Way The greatest satisfaction is gained when the pJanning and at least a part Phone 1545-W of the work we have done ourselves, for I it is only when we help construct do we i love the finished p-roduct. + · -··-··--·-··~·- ·· -··-·-··-·- ·· -··-·-·· -··-·-··-·-·- ·· -··-··--·-·-·t-111-tll--+ "And there is no employment or re­ creation which affords the mind greater or more permanent satisfaction, than + · - ·· -·--··-·~-·--·--··- ··-··-·~-·--··-··-·--··-··-·-·~-·-·-··- ·· - · --·--·~~-~--- + that of cultivating the earth and adorn­ 1 - ing our own property." 1 t t +& ·-··-··-·-··-··-··-··-·--··-·-··-·-• I 1 Winter Quarter j ! DUNLAP MOTOR CO. j I = = I ! Buy a 1923 Ford j 1 - 1 Supplies l I Pay One-Third, 40 Per Cent or I 1 50 Per Cent-Balance : I NEW AND SECOND-HAND TEXT BOOKS ' Monthly. j I. !I l 1- I- 1 We Buy and Sell l ~ DUN.LAP MOTOR CO. j ! - 1 - I Harry & Zac I 1· South of Campus Next to Theatre I 1- I• + -n-.. • - •• -t~ • -••-t~t-a -t J -tlt-u-tt-tl-+ l __,,_, _ _,_,. _,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_,_, __ j THE lOWA HOMEMAKER 15

ti-11-II-11-II-II-II-II-II-II-MI - II-I-Iil-11-ll.....,.ll-ll-ll-11- ll-ll-11--ll-l-l-l-+ Simple Service for Horne Meals I . i (Continued from page 6) : f sation. Do not talk politics or religion l Whitman's Crane's Huyler's : where there are guests of miscellaneous l beliefs. Toothpicks are never used outside the I privacy of one's own room. The Chocolate Shop The hostess continues eating until all are finished lest some guest be embar­ BOX CHOCOLATES rassed at finding herself the last to finish. The napkin is left in the lap until the l Lm.1cheonette Fountain Service hostess places her's on the table just I prior to rising. A guest who is staying i for consecutive meals should fold her I napkin inconspicuously. If invited for but +-··--·-··-·--··-··-··-··-· ·-··- ··- ··-··-··-··-··-:..··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··--·-·+ one meal lay the napkin on the table only partly folded or rumpled. Do not leave r·-·-..-·_ .. _,_,_,,_,_,,_,,_,_.,_,,_,_,,_,,_,_,_,,_.,_,,_.,_,_,,_,_,_,_ T the table until you have entirely ceased chewing. Arise from the left side of the chair. I 1 Push the chair close to the table so that I ! one may easily pass. . I Who's There and Where I Cranford Beauty Shop l (Continued from page 8) J 2400 Lincoln Way Phone 1542' 1 work there being to care for the special diet pa;tierits, and serve their trays. . I I i think this arrangement is as nearly ideal • 1 as we could want. Our diet laboratory l . in the afternoons serves as a cooking i I laboratory for the cookery and dietetics + classes. • -··--·-··--·--·-··-·-··--·-··-··-·-··-··-··-··--·-··--·-··-··-··-··-··--·-··-----+ I do not have an assistant, but have been relieved of some of the work so I +-··-·--··-··-·--··-·--··-··-·--··-·-··-··-··-··-··-·--··-··-·--·--··-··-··-·-·-·+ do :not feel too pushed at present. I for­ merly had the r esponsibility of the kit­ chen and dining rooms, as well as the I WHAT ABOUT IT? l diets, marketing, and teaching. After talking it over with several dietitians who I A FIRESIDE LUNCH I seemed to di'slike the culinary part as ~ much as I did, I made the recommenda­ I I tion that a steward or institutional man­ ager be employed to take over that part. I THE MAPLES i It happened that our housekeeper was at 1 : one time an institutional manager and l Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday Nights ! consented to take charge of our kitchen I Phone 323-W i and dining rooms, so now my work con­ sists in making out the menus, super­ i 1 vising the ward diet kitchens, marketing, and teaching the nurses. +··---·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··--·-··-11·-··-··-··--·-··--·--·--·-··-··--·-·-·+ For the past week I have had a student dietitian, a Berkley graduate who had +·-··-·-··-·-··-·-··-··-··-·-··-·-· -·-··-·~~-··-·-··-·-··-··-·-·-··-··-·- + three and a half months training at the l University hospital. She wanted to get i some practical experience in marketing as well as the comparison between a i hospital catering to private patients and a county institution. 1 am hoping that we will soon be able to offer a r egular I Your Reputation is Good---Isn't It? student dietitian course by spring at I most. If we are able to arrange for an affiliation with some private hospital 1 such as Stanford or U. of California, the So is ours, and we endeavor to keep it that way by course should be of more value· than one given in a single hospital. selling GOOD shoes- in our estimation, the finest When I came out here I certainly did not dream of all the things that would I shoes in the world for smart appearance, extreme be expected of the dietitian. The latest "horror" is a request to give the interns I comfort and unusual wearing qualities. instruction in dietitics. I rebelled stren­ i uously until I discovered that the only I way to get them to prescribe diets in­ i Come in and let us show them to you. stead of medicine was to teach them the value of dietotheraphy. One of them I didn't know that diarrhea might be reg­ ula:ted by diet, but ordered medicines f only. I only expect to give them a sum­ AMES BOOTERY mary of the latest theories in diet for I the most important diseases. I Kindly remember me to Miss Murphy, Miss Busse and any other of the staff ! of "old timers." Very sincerely, t (Signed) Lillian Giebelstein. +--·--·-··--·-··--·--·--·--·--·-··-··-··-··--·-··--·-··-··-··--·-··--·-··--·--·--·-+ I 16 THE lOW A If MEMA KER

TIME REQUIRED FOR COOKING r·-·-.. _.. _,_,._,._,._,._,._,_,_,_,_,_,_,_ .. _,_,._,._,._,_,_ .. _,_,_,_·r MEAT . A friend of mine-she graduated in Industrial Science rather than Home i J Economics-was married recently. I was much excited when my first invitation for dinner came, and upon arriving, fol­ I AMES J lowed her expectantly to the kitchen "so I i we can talk every minute." It was as blue and white as any home economics I i kitchen. ''I'm getting along beautifully, Jane," 1 PANTORIUM 1 she told me, "but do you know I haven't the faintest idea how long to cook things, i j particularly meats. It's really most as intriguing as the fourth dimension wheth­ I J er the food will be cooked just right, not MASTER CLEANERS j enough or too much." t Personally I don't know much about the fourth dimension but I certainly do i j not think its very interesting to puzzle i : about whether food is going to be cook­ = Phone 231 ! ed sufficiently or not. 1 I "Helen," I said, "I've some tables in i : my sophomore recipe file that are just : ! what you need and I'll send them to­ f We Call for and Deliver I morrow." . ! NeJ(t day, I sent her the following: I i Time Table For Coo;king Meats i i B()iling l AMES IOWA j Leg of mutton-2-3 hours Ham (12-14- lbs.)-4-5 hours i i Turkey 9 lbs.-2-3 hours Chicken 3 lbs.-1-11,4 hours +·-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··-··-·-··-··-·-··-··-··-·-··-··-··-··---·+

Broiling +M-II-II-II-II-II-II-II-II-1-II-II-II-111-II-II-III-II-II-11-IN-I-III-II-II-II-II-1-I+ Steak (1 inch thick)- 12 minutes i Steak (11/2 inch thick)- 15-20 minutes Fish slices-15-20 minutes i Lamb chops--.7-10 minutes I Veal chops-15-18 minutes I Spring chicken-15 minutes Roasti ng-(after it has been seared) i Rib of beef per lb.- 15 minutes plus 15 I minutes over I Leg of Mutton per lb.- 10-15 minutes Greetings L11mb per lb.-15-20 minutes I Veal per lb.-20 minutes plus 15 minutes over i Pork per lb.-25-30 minutes i Chicken per lb.-15 minutes plus 15 min- I utes over. Once more we pass another milestone in the history I Goose per lb.-18 minutes I Turkey 8 lbs.- 2-3 hours of the world. .And once more we stand on the Capon 4 lbs.- 1 hour. threshold of another year. f I SUCCESS What 1923 will bring forth none of us can foretell. He has achieved success who has lived i well, laughed often and loved much; who i But every indication points to the fact that the has gained the respect of intelligent men work of reconstruction will go onward with a de­ and the love of little children; who has i filled his niche and accomplished his i termination known only to .America. task; who has left the world better than i he found it, whether by an improved Our goal can only be reached through co-operation, poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; I who has never lacked appreciation of i a unity of purpose and a feeling of brotherly love. I earth's beauty, or failed to express it;· who- has looked for the best in others, To you-our friends-we extend the greetings of and has given the best he had; whose the season. life was an inspiration his memory a benediction.

A PLAN It's time for resolutions now. It's almost New Year's day. Of course we never keep them, But we make them anyway. I've thought of a much wiser plan, The Fair I'm sure it would be fine. If I'd make resolutions For acquaintances of mine. My path would be a rosy one, Without lament or woe, If I could do resolving For the people that I know. l-•-••-•-••-••-•-••-••-••-••-u-••-••-•-•-•-••-••-••-••-••-•-•-••-••--•-•--•+ +