·r··1' ' .~ ' . ' Kitchen-Klatter MAGAZINE (Beg. U. S. Pat. Off.) Volume VI FEBRUARY Number 2 1941 Copyright 1941 by Leanna Field Drlftmler SHENANDOAH, IOWA Price 10 cents "To My Valentine" PAGE % KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1941 Kitchen - Klatter Magazine LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER, Editor LUCILE VERNESS, Associate Editor DOROTHY D. JOHNSON, Associate Edftor M. H. DRIFTMIER, Business Manager Subscription Price, $1.00 per year (12 issues) in U. S. A. Foreign Countries, $1.50 per year. Advertising rates made known on appli­ cation. Entered as second class matter May 21, 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandoah, Ia., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Monthly by LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER A LETTER FROM LEANNA Shenandoah, Iowa Dear Kitchen-Klatter Friends: As judges, I chose three competent February is the month for valentines people, a lawy.er, a former high school so this magazine will be my valentine teacher, and a farmer's wife, who had to you. Let me see, a valentine needs been a teacher. They handed me the a verse, doesn't it? How w.ould this names of the prize winners in a seal­ do: ed envelope. After receiving the list "Roses are red, candy is sweet of winners, I checked up and found I hope that you and I may meet." that more than half of them were or yearly subscribers, so they will receive "Altho I know I am not clever, double the award. Let me be your friend, f.orever." May I congratulate all of you win­ Margery Drlftmier my daughter who ls a Not even good rhyme, but those are ners, and .offer the use of my best Jun101• at Maryville Teachers College. linen Christmas handkerchiefs to those my sentiments. I do appreciate your REACH OUT AND TAKE IT friendship. No one can live his life of you who were not so fortunate. alone. We are all going along the The other day a friend wrote me, same road, traveling to the same KEEPING HOUSE FOR YOU telling me her troubles, and she was Eternal City. We must share each honest in thinking she had them. She other's burdens as we walk together It's not so much the little house had three children and the fact that and cheer those who find the pathway As keeping it for you: her husband received only a small hard. S.ome of us have learned how I'm sure that I could get along salary was making her unhappy. Then to carry our burdens lightly, while With just a room or two, she told me they had never had to others are stooped with their weight. With just a tiny place to cook have a doctor for these children, that The love of our friends helps to lighten A little bed to sleep.- they owned their own home and that our burdens, while the loving hand of Why I'd not mind if halls were dark, her husband loved her. our Lord in ours leads us over the Or stairs were cold and steep! This woman had three important rough places in the road. If there could be one comfy chair causes for happiness, and did not My big excitement this past month A table laid for tw.o. realize it. We are all richer than we has been the December Contest letters. It's not so much the little house, know. Happiness is all around :us if I really feel I have had an education It's keeping it for you! we reach out and take it. We can't along this line. ~By Martha F. Simmonds. be happy unless we love something I received a lot of letters asking my outside ourselves. We must love to be advice about this or that regarding the TEACH .PATRIOTISM happy. For most of us it is our hus­ contest. I could not answer them be­ bands, children and our homes that cause it would have been unfair to the Some mothers complain because add a joyous thrill to life. To this we other contestants. I sincerely hope more patriotism is not taught in our may add our work, flowers, birds and that those who wrote me will not scho.ols, but how many take time to the changing of nature around us. God feel that I was not interested in them. teach patriotism in the home? From has placed hv.ppiness within the reach I have been in a lot of contests the time a child is o1d enough to myself, and like some of you, have of all of us. recognize the flag of our country, he I could not help but contrast this wondered why I did not win a prize. I should be taught to respect and love letter with another one I received the have a fairly g.ood idea, now, why I it. same day. The sec.ond :kiend lived in did not win. I probably did not .obey February is a good month to empha­ a one-room house. She did six or eight all of the instructions. The next time size patriotism. Be sure to display the washings a week and often had to dry I enter a contest, I will check my fhg on Lincoln's and Washington's them in this room. She told me how entry with the Contest Rules, to be birthdays. If you are near a library, her husband helped her arrange their sure I obeyed them to the letter. have the children take out books on furniture to the best advantage and Just because I want to help you in the lives of these patriots and if they how much she enjoyed going to the future contests, let me tell you that are too small to read, take time fr.om little club she belonged to. This w.om­ the judges had to throw out scores of your household duties to read aloud an was happy because she loved some­ entries because they addressed the to them. thing outside herself. The ones who letter to Le•nna Driftmier instead of With patriotism, teach good citizen­ can't find happiness where they are to Kitchen-Klatter, Dept. C. Quite a ship. Discuss with them what it will rarely find it elsewhere. The few were sorted out because they means to live in the United States, farther we go in search of happiness wrote their name and address instead and enjoy a life of freedom. Our son the more elusive it becomes. Look of printing it, on each page. Others Frederick loved America, but never carefully. Maybe it is on your own were eliminated because the pages fully r.ealized what it meant to· him to doorstep. were not numbere.d in the upper right be an American until he visited foreign hand corner, or because they did not lands. I never knew a night so black have the total number of words listed We mothers are apt to be so busy Light failed to follow on its track; at the top of the first page. providing food and clothing and look­ I never knew a storm so gray These things may seem trivial to ing after the physical needs of our It failed to have its clearing day. you but, to be fair to every one, con­ children that we leave too much of the I never knew such bleak despair tests must have rules, and these rules moral and ethical training of our chil­ That there was noit a rift somewhere. must be followed to the letter. Be­ dren to the church and school. The I never knew an hour so drear fore I planned this contest I had ex­ most valuable lessons of life are learn­ Love could not fill it full of cheer! pert advice from a contest specialist. ed from the parents in the home. -Selected. PAGE S WINTER WAYS WITH HOUSE PLANTS By Mrs. R. J. Duncombe Two of the greatest disadvantages in growing house plants successfully during our cold winter months are cold windows at night and too little sunlight daytimes. Just as we have to consider weather conditions in ar­ ranging our flowers in their summer homes, so also we must study their adaptability to the same conditions in the winter home we have chosen for them. In mid-winter there will be nights in many homes where the frost will col­ lect on the window pane. Either re­ move the plants or else protect them by putting cardboard or newspapers between them and the glass. The up­ per sill sometimes is a cold place for them as the draft penetrates up through the pots. A piece of rubber tubing can be cut to fit this ledge, thus preventing cold air from c.oming through. If by bad luck a plant has been frozen, chances are that it can be re­ vived by giving the soil in the pot a thorough soaking in very cold water. A few degrees above freezing is all right, also sprinkle the foliage with this cold water. Next, remove the plant to some cool, sunless spot, tak­ ing care it will not freeze again. Wait about a week before cutting off the FOUNDATION PLANTING frozen foliage, which must be removed or rot will set in. It may come back all right. Plants which have soft snappy leaf stems, such as some lilies, Someone voiced the epigram "a nice new house with an exposed foundation should be placed in an inverted posi­ looks as a woman would, going down the street wearing a beautiful dress, but tion so that the weight of the leaves with no shoes and stockings." From this has been coined the Garden Club's will not cause the stems to collapse as slogan, "No more barefooted houses." they thaw.