·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. In some cases the whole Though a house may have been built ten years or more, there is a look of plant may have to be cut down to soil rawness arud newness about it unless shrubs and vines reach up about it as level. However, if the main stem has though to hold it in a friendly clasp. not been frozen, no great damage will be done, providing the plant is not But what shall we plant? Not a solid row of one variety of shrubs all the frozen a second time. When it shows way around the house, or the house has the effect of sitting on a fat green cush­ signs of recovery, bring it back to its ion. If you will study Nature's planting by the roadside, you will see that warm atmosphere again. Water plants there is never a level top but rather a graceful swinging festoon line from one rather sparingly in very cold weather tall shrub to the next with lower shrubs between. This is the nicest effect for and then only in the morning. our foundation plantings, but where shall we place the tall shrubs? The all too short hours of sunlight The law of art that we folLow is the one that teaches us that the eye likes have to be used to good advantage emphasis placed on important lines, so we will let the tall shrubs serve as ac­ during mid winter months. Some cent at the corners and on either side of the entrance doors or oriel windows. plants, especially blooming varieties such as Geraniums, Flowering Be­ The size of shrubs to be used depends upon the height of your foundation. gonias, Flowering Maple and Christ­ If it is very high, you will probably like a double row, tall ones at the rear and mas Cacti or Petunias, must have the a facing of low ones in front to hide the feet of the tall ones and bring the sunniest windows to do their best. shrubbery line gracefully to the lawn. Geraniums need to be as close to the Shrubs will mot thrive unless they have sky over their heads and so be sure glass as possible in a south or west to set them out from under the edge of your eaves. The best rule is to plant window. African Violets, Cyclamen, three feet out from the foundation of the house. This may seem a long dis­ Primroses, fancy leaved Begonias and tance when they are planted, but within three years you will find the space Gloxinias like east windows, while well occupied and you will have healthy, symmetrical shrubs instead o.f stunted ferns and some foliage plants can be ones pushed forward by the foundation. placed in north ones. A dish of Hardy Cacti and Sempervivums give a good When you need a tall shrubbery planting to accent the corner and do not touch to a cool, sunny room where have ground space for large shrubs, you can o.ften place a vine that will carry temperatures do not get too low. up your line of greenery. One way of using plants for winter I know you are wanting to hear about the dwarf evergreens that make such decoration is to grow them in a sun­ charming foundation plantings, and that you would especially like a pyramidal ny kitchen window, and then to let one on either side of your doorway. If you live in the cornbelt you will find them take their turns enlivening less dwarf evergreens of very difficult culture as they like coolness and moisture sunny rooms. But be fair to them and and are subject to, red spiders. If, however, you are willing to spend the neces­ don't keep them too long away from sary time and money, the result obtained is very beautiful, especially in the the sunshine. wintertime. A great many people are resorting to the device of substituting Privet carefully trimmed and shaped into the size and form of the dwarf ever- The Kitchen-Klatter Magazine costs greens. -Helen Field Fischer. you only $1.00 per year. Subscribe now. PAGE 4 KITOREN-KLATTEB MAGAZINE, FEBBUABY, 1941 in Oklahoma City because there was The Story oF My LiFe such a limited time to spend In travel­ lAt the request of my friends I am ing, fo.r no matter what might happen writing this brief story.) he never missed conducting Sunday services where he was expected. Mr. CHAPTER SO Driftmier and I made many new friends through Frederick's ~ork, for When summer rolled around again sometimes we drove to Mound City, we went up to Spirit Lake for our va­ Missouri and other places where he cation as usual, and there I greeted preached. many old friends and made new ones. In the fall of 1938 Dorothy was mar­ We had our annual Kitchen-Klatter ried. She and Frank had known each picnic, and some of you who read this other for two years, so when she told will recall our pleasant time together me that they had decided to be mar­ when we sat and visited after a won­ ried I can't say that the news came as derful dinner to which everyone con­ a great surprise te me. Frank had tributed. These annual picnics have come to Shenandoah from Lucas, I.owa ~lways been a great joy to me, and it and many of you have met him when is a good way to renew old friendships you came to his Beauty Shop on your and to make new friends who have trips to Shenandoah. Because he had met me by means of the radio during his own business they planned to make the year. The only thing I re1gret is their hoill1C here, and this was a com­ that we have these visits but once a fort to me for Dorothy had always year, and always I see many changes been a thoughtful and dependable Wayne Drlftmler, Frank .Johnson, Dorothy that have taken place during the daughter and it meant a great deal to Drlftmler Johnson and Bernice Stark, Frank's have her where she could run in at sister, taken right after Frank and Dorothy twelve months. Babies who couldn't were married. walk a step one year are running some time during the day. about all over the picnic grounds the Dorothy wanted to be married at SHE WINS next year, and some of the five-year­ home but she felt like Lucile did about I've hung out great big washings, olds who were too shy to say more having an elaborate wedding, so we Done ironing by the pack; than "hello" have been to school since made it just as simple as possible. I've sewed and patched and mended we last met and are willing to chatter There were no guests outside of our And placed things in a stack. and tell me things. immediate family w h e n Reverend I've tended babies, washed necks and After this particular picnic we dr;o:ve Peter Jacobs read the ceremony at ears, to Minneapolis to visit Lucile and Rus­ two o'clock on a Sunday afternoon in Taught them lessons and quieted their sell. It was the first time I had been late November. After the ceremony fears, in Minneapolis and I enjoyed riding we had light refreshments, and then I've milked the cows and slopped the through the city and seeing the beau­ we to.ok several snapshots out in the swine, tiful lakes that lie in the heart of the yard. Those of y:ou who were receiv­ Done it over many a time. residential section. It was the first ing Kitchen-Klatter at that time prob­ I've mastered these things and many time too that I had visited in a small ably recall seeing one of these pic­ more, apartment, and those of you who have tures, but I am reprinting it in this If I'd name all, there'd be score on gone to see married daughters who issue for those of you who have join­ score, live in one .of these big city apart­ ed our circle since then. But there's one thing I left I haven't ment houses know how surprising it is Dorothy and Frank moved into an done; to see meals prepared in a kitchen apartment as soon as they returned I've entered every contest and never that we could put in the corner of our from a short wedding trip, and from yet won. kitchens at home. It's interesting then on I had to train my tongue to (By Mrs. Don C. Nelson, Burt Co.) what can be done in such a small say "Mrs. Frank Johnson" when I tele­ space. phoned her during the day. At first After we returned to Shenandoah we Margery could scarcely get used to the llJ.~'4 VEGETABLE had a busy summer. Almost eve·ry idea that she was the only girl left at day I met new friends who came to home because she and Dorothy and SHAMPOO call after they had visited the radio Lucile had always been such close This Vege­ stations, and if it was a hot afternoon friends, but before you know it things table Sham­ we moved our chairs out on the have a way of slipping into a pattern to poo is a front porch to visit. All of our chil­ that seems as though it has always truly scien­ dren were at home that summer ex­ been. tific chemi­ cept Frederick who was taking some The next spring Margery graduated c a 11 y cor­ extra wo·rk at Tarkio College and help­ from high school and made her ar­ ing with the big job of keeping the rangements to enter the Iowa State rect, per­ campus in good shape. He came home College at Ames for her freshman fect Sham­ over the weekends occasionally, and year. We had another graduation to poo. sometimes in the evening we drove attend also, for Frederick was finish­ Human down to visit him. ing his senior year at Tarkio College. hair has no Around the end of July Lucile and This graduation had a special signifi­ affinity for Russell stopped to spend three days cance for us because we knew that In this Vege­ with us on their r.oad to Mexico City, a few weeks lhe would leave for Egypt. table Sham­ and then before we knew it the sum­ Throughout the spring of that last poo, because it contains no al­ mer was over. Margery entered her year at Tarkio he had been making kali. Therefore it does not stick senior year in high school Frederick plans to go to Assuit as a teacher, and to the hair shaft, but rinses out entered his junior year at Tarkio, and since we knew that he would be gone very easily with either hard or Donald entered his sophomore year in for three years it was a sober time f.or soft water. No other shampoo high school. Wayne was employed in us when we drovll to Tarkio that day will give you as beautiful high­ a local bank, and Dor.othy was employ­ and saw him get his degree . lights and natural sheen as does ed at the May Seed and Nursery Com­ (Continued in March Number) this perfect Shampoo. pany. Howard was busy as usual at S.o easily used at home and so the mill, and Lucile was in Mexico un­ rm going your way, so let us go economical. Approximately 5 O til December. hand in hand. You help me and I'll shampoos per jar, which s'ells During that winter Frederick was help you. We shall not be here very for $1.00 postpaid. very busy. Not only did he carry his long, for soon Death, the kind old Send Order to- regular college courses, but he made nurse, will come and rock us all to several trips to distant cities to repre­ sleep. Let us help one another while Dorothy D. Johnson sent his school in debate. I remember wemeq. Box 467, Shenandoah, Ia. tkat once he took a plane to a debate -Selected IUTOHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1941. PAGE Ii "SH! MOTHER'S NERVOUS!" HEALTH HINTS OUR CHILDREN'S HOMEWORK By Mrs. Walt Pitzer By Helen Loudon. By Maxine Sickels A timely subject for this month is My little neighbor opened the door Do your Johnnie and Mary bring "colds". These are various troubles home their books night after night to admit me, and when I asked where often referred to as mother was, she said, "Sh! Mother's with so many arithmetic problems or ·-~~-·~·~-- colds and I will NeI"Vous." So I left my bundle and a so' many questions in geography or discuss two ways some other subject? If they do, their brief message, and promised to call that the cold may again. teacher is old-fashioned and it is pos­ attack you. 0 n e sible that a parent's organization of A few days later, I heard the little strikes with a some kind should interest itself in the girl say, "Oh, Mother, I feel so nerv­ " ban g" and you situation. ous". The mother explained, "Alice is kn o w it's there. Chi1dren are in school at least six awfully high-strung, like me. All my The other smolders folks are nervous." Actually, Alice was hours of every twenty-four, five days along for some a week. That is thirty hours a week. an exceptionally healthy child; her time and you try to nerves were only excess spirits re­ Grown men work forty hours a week decide if you are ill and they do not carry piece work pressed f.or a time, and the result of or if your imagina­ home with them. If this idea seems a hearing her mother's exciting descrip­ tion is w o r k i n g tion of her own nervous ailments. little far-fetched, examine the other overtime. You rea­ duties required of children and con­ I was just a young girl then, and lize that you feel sider that children need some time of nerves were something to giggle over. Mrs. Walt Pitzer like a wreck. But now that I have the upbringing their own. It is just as impnrtant to You may have a give a child an allowance of time as of my normally active brood of six, hacking cough and irritation of the it is to give him an allowance of I can lend a sympathetic ear to tales throat but can find no other special money, for a man must be as wise in symptoms. You might compare this of nerves. the use of his time as he is in the use "cold" to a boil that will not "head". Most nervous trouble has a purely of his money if he is be successful If you have had a boil y,ou know what to physical cause, and one who feels on and happy. a constant nervous strain should see I am referring to. their doctor. Maybe they do not wear These "so called colds" are often Be that as it may, Johnnie and Mary comfortable shoes. Don't, I beg of found in persons, especially children must still do the homework required you, attempt to do a day's work in who live in homes were there is a of them if they are to keep up with spike heels. Neither do foot special­ kerosene stove used or where fumes their classmates and remain in the ists recommend bedroom slippers or escape from a co·al stove or furnace. good graces of their teacher. tennis shoes for housework. It is com­ One cause for a hacking cough and It is up to the parents to make their mon sense to pay more for your every­ irritated throat is lack of moisture in work as convenient as possible by pro­ day shoes than for your party ones. the air of the room. If there is no viding a place, a light and a time. You will wear them more! moisture on the window pane when Have a definite place for books, The day's work should be planned to the weather is cold then you may sus­ papers, pencils and other mate,rial re­ pect the air of being too dry. give variety. If we sit and sew all quired, even if this is one drawer of a With the first SEVERE symptoms day, we must expect to be too tired to cabinet or buffet, or maybe just an of the "bang" cold you should get in a orange crate behind the door. It is sleep at night! It is better to sew an hour or so every afternoon while one warm bed in a cool room, take only so much easier to go to work if every­ liquid or light diet and plenty of fruit rests from the more strenuous part of thing can be located. juices. Avoid sweet milk if there is the day's work. Next, is a specific place to work­ a fever. kitchen table, dining table, card table If the children and the housework That "bed" suggestion is more easily -anyplace that is roomy, uncluttered, make you feel like you want to fly, said, than done, where there is a fam­ do it! Leave somebody trustworthy and well lighted. Make sure of a ily of chHdren. good light, well shaded so that the with the children, and take a walk. If you have a chill with fever, or (Not a drive; you need the exercise to light falls on the work and not in the feel weak and exhausted consult the children's eyes. This can not be too send the blood pumping along your doctor f.or you may be developing in­ veins to clear out the "cobwebs".) You strongly emphasized. A child's eye­ fluenza. sight is precious. will come home refreshed and rested, Colds are moot infectious to other glad to, see both children and house persons during the early stage. Even Create an atmospheFe for work. If again. Don't feel you are neglecting before we realize we have one develOJ>'" someone must listen to the radio or the children, either. Surely a nerv,ous, ing we may infect others. "Drops" in if someone must entertain visitors,'put irritable mother is anything but God's the ears and nose should not be used them in another room. Give the child gift to children! excepting under the doctor's instruc­ a chance to concentrate. Part of the The strain of getting chi1dren off to tions. Oily solutions are said to inter­ atmosphere, too, is a willing parent at school may be reliev.ed by getting up fere with the action of the hair in hand, sewing or reading the news, but fifteen minutes earlier. The sense of the nose and during a cold may irri­ not too busy to answer questions or being unhurried is more restful than tate the inflamed mucous membrane. to be interested in the things their the quarter hour of sleep. If you Use judgment as to when you should children are learning. doubt it, try it and see! go out of doors following a severe One last word to the wise parent. cold, especially avoid getting chilled. A truly wise parent teaches Johnnie "It would be nice," says Mrs. Klyn, Kitchen-Klatter ladies, I have not how to do fractions or long division of Albia, Iowa, "if we could put our forgotten the advice you wanted about exactly the same way that the teacher youngsters through a clinic and have nerves, constipation and that "excess and the book have been teaching him, them emerge gracious, charming chil­ baggage" on the abdomen, but there even though they would like to show dren. Most children are good, but do seems to be so much to discuss. him some go,od old way they remem­ not children and adolescents have to If you want special advice write me ber from their own childhood. reach maturity before they are really iill care of Kitchen-Klatter Magazine, gracious and well mannered?" I agree Shenandoah, Iowa. I will be glad to "I am enclosing $1 for my renewal -most of them do. Once in a while hear from you whether you need ad­ and hope you receive it OK as dollars we meet a little child who seems to us vice or not. Good luck. are few and far between these days just naturally well mannered. Maybe but I feel as tho it is a dollar well upon investigation we w:ould find that To transfer a quilt pattern without spent when invested in Kitchen-Klat­ he has been trained from babyhood. leaving a mark, baste 4 or 5 quilt ter. For its size it certainly contains blocks together. Tightly baste on the more of "everything" good than any Mrs. B. H. Reynolds of Newton, Ia., pattern. Unthread the sewing machine other magazine I have read. How I says to dry your lace table cloth on and "sew'' through the pattern. Fol­ enjoy your life story and Lucile's your curtain stretcher. Fold it through low the holes on the block for the de­ and Ted's letters. You are justly proud the center and press the crease out af­ sign.-Mrs. B. H. Whitted, Ft. Crook, of them."-Mrs. E. N. Hutchinson, ter the table cloth is dry. Nebr. Cromwell, Iowa. PAGE 8 KITOHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUAAY, 1941 A LETTER FROM LUCILE Probably many of you read aoout BEAUTY HINTS the heavy storms on the coast during By Eva Hopkins Dear Friends: the early part of last month. It had been twenty-seven years since such The small calendar on my desk tells Not long ago, this question was ask­ huge breakers pounded the coast, and ed an eminent doctor of science. "Does me that it is time every day thousands of people went to write to you, so a woman owe it as down to see them roll in. It was a a moral duty to while my dinner is great sight to see these walls o·f water cooking in the oven m a k e herself as over thirty feet high come rolling in beautiful as pos­ I shall get off this and crash against the sand, and it was letter to you. To­ sible?" even more dramatic to see them break His answer was night when I scrub­ against the walls that have been con­ this. "Yes, for two bed p.otatoes and structed to protect beach property. In prepared a m e a t reasons. First, it many places they rolled over the high­ makes her more at­ 1 oaf I wondered how many of you know what it is to way at p.oints where you wouldn't tractive to others­ get dinner at a different time every dream it was possible, and although it both men and wom­ day? Sometimes it seems to me that was an interesting sight to people who en-and thus gives it would be very nice to know that you oould merely stand and look at it in pleasure to them; were pretty likely to start dinner awe, those who had to move out of second, it b o o st s around five o'clock day in and day out, their homes were in an entirely dif­ her morale, which for Russell's work makes it impossible ferent position. means usually to have a definite routine. Some days One night last week Russell and I boosting her moral­ I fix our main meal about four in the were invited out for quite an unusual Bva Hopkins ity arn:l her feeling afternoon, other days at six, other evening. We had dinner at a restau­ Qf being equal to days at seven-thirty, and still other rant where old silent pictures are the world and performing her duties. days around midnight. The first time shown to the guests later in the eve­ The fact that hospitals for the insane I started to get a meal about eleven­ ning, and it was most interesting to have found it of real healing value to thirty at night it seemed very strange see actors and actresses whose very install beauty parlors is proof of this. to me, although I hardly expect moth­ names we had forgotten. Probably An occasional permanent wave and er to believe this because she always most of you feel as I do-that it is a facial massage gives a moral as well said that the odder the hour the better shame we never have an opportunity as a physical 'Setting up' exercise." I liked a thing! Well, that was years to see again some of the famous old Most girls in their teens and upward ago, mother, when I thought it was pictures that were made back before strive to make a good appearance. "more interesting" to sweep the front the twenties. They give daily care to their ha:ir, porch at midnight just tor sweet var­ We have now been in Hollyw.ood for clothes, nails and makeup, but these ieties sake. almost a half year and already it things are not to be stopped and thrown These days when Russell and I seems completely like home to us. The away with the bridal veil or with the spend a couple of hours sunning our­ streets that once seemed strange are advent of the. first baby! No ladies; selves on the flat roof of this apart­ now as familiar as Main Street in your childTen, your husband and your ment house it is hard for me to realize Shenandoah, and I've learned how to friends will not appreciate deteriora­ that back in the middlewest you are get everywhere I want to go although tion of your personal habits. still deep in winter. We have had a sometimes it is a two-h.our trip by Some peo:pie say to me that they do long senes of crystal-clear, beautitully streetcar. I think it's friends that not have time to spend a few minutes warm days and we've enJoyed every make a place seem like home, how­ on their complexion. Take time! Slight one of them for they cannot last much ever, and we have been fortunate something else if you must-a fact longer. l$oon we will be into our rainy enough to meet people whom we enjoy which I doubt_Jbecause you will be season, and probably aiter a solid and will always be interested in. This more appreciated in your home. week of drizzle we will have forgotten is the first time that we have been in A two hundred pound woman said the lovely days just past and laugh at a position to know musicians, and con­ to me the other day that she did not the idea of •·sunny California." lt so sequently we have been able to hear have a dollar to spend on her com­ happens that in my other trips to much beautiful music. I had always plexion. I thot of telling her that she California I have missed the rainy longed to know fine pianists and vio­ could have that dollar if she would season, so this will be a new ex­ linists, and now that opportunity has diet for one we,ek, and wished after­ perience for me. come to me. ward that I had. There may be a just Well, from the good smells that are reason for a "sloppy look", ·but some­ coming out of the kitchen I know that times· I doubt it. We may have to dinner is a:bout done and Russell will wear a calico dress, but at least we soon be h.ome, so for this time I must can be clean. say goodbye. Afte·r we eat I will I did not expect to be so critical : settle down to a long stretch of work this morning, but anyway girls let's on the new story I am writing, and so resolve that in 1941 we will strive to 1 I think that my typewriter should make the best in our personal appear- 1 have a little rest before it is pounded ance that our time will afford. , again. I send my warmest r.egards to I am glad to give any help that I ; all of you, and in March we will meet can on complexion trouble, so please 1 again. -Lucile feel free to write me as your letter < will be kept strictly confidential. 1 i EVA HOPKINS CREME FROST FLOWERS l POWDER WITH SPONGE By Mary Duncombe l Six Shades ______-$1.00 CLEANSING CREME ______.60 The cold crept up on cat-like feet r SALMARINE SOAP .23 So stealthily, so still- t SMALL ROUGE __ .25 And laid its frosty fingertips upon 0 LIP STICK .25 The plants in window sill. l t BUG LOOM, 2 balls jute 1.60 And when its havoc was all spent Service or 4 thread silk Ii It painted gardens fair, HOSE-2 prs. Berkshi·re p Koma for______1.50 With ferny leaves and waterfalls s Upon the window bare. a Postpaid Prices 1l EVA HOPKINS But I would rather have my rose, 'I Or red geranium bright, My daughter, Lucile Drlftmler Verness and Box 13 a her husband Bussell Verness, who live In Cali­ SHENANDOAH, IOWA Than all the frilly, frosted flowers a fornia. It etched with brush so light. KITCHEN-KLATTE·R MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1941 PAGE A LETTER FROM EGYPT WATCH YOUR PACE Oontinuing the Story of His First Air Raid Experience One day a busy mother was walking down town with her little three year Dear Folks: old son. Her mind was busy with I had forgotten to inquire where the some matter she seemingly thought of shelter trench was. Every soldier I great importance. Suddenly she was asked was too busy to answer me. In awakened from her revery and check­ desperation I decided to run to the ed in her hurried stride, when a child­ edge of the camp to get as far away ish voice inquired between panting frlom the buildings as possible. Run­ gasps, "Mother, do we have to go so ning across an open space in the camp, fast?" She looked down. Her con­ I came to a trench with some soldiers science smote her when she saw the in it. I asked them where the shelter little lad was actually running to keep trench was and they replied they did A. Native Egyptian weaving a fish net, on the up with her. The walk was finished not know but for me to get in the banks of the Nile River. in a saner fashion. trench with them. I jumped in and Are you too tired for another story there I stood, in my white pajamas, a Every thing is quite calm here now, s;o often begged for at bedtime; too bayonetted soldier on each side of me. but I am afraid it is the calm before busy to find new prayers to replace We all got a good laugh out of the the storm. I hate to see the fellows the old ones; too hurried to romp once humor of the situati.on. By this time get into this fight. I have come to in a while with the children as they the enemy airplanes were dropping know some of them very well. They beg "Come out and play"; too busy bombs down on the harbor about five are not at all afraid and I know that to pause now and then at the oft­ miles away. The shock of the ex­ they will fight to the end. I have r.epeated request "Just watch me, plosions shook the ground here at our thrown myself into this job heart and Mammie, see what I can do"? camp. Guns went into action. The soul. I have been drawing two pounds If so, slacken your pace. You are noise was terrific. I was trembling so a week, but have spent it all for these going too fast. You may hasten over­ much and leave behind the tender pil­ with excitement I could scarcely stand ~oldier friends, about as fast as I get up. That night we had three alarms. it. I thank the Y. M. C. A. for making grims who are looking to you for guid­ ance. Watch your step, 0 Mothers of If I walk about the camp at night, I it possible for me to help these men, for who knows, I may be in a unif,o.rm men to be. Do not permit the social am often stopped by the guards. They whirl to hurry you, or its swift and plunge at me with a bayonet and say, some day, and know what a place like this would mean to me. terrible tide to separate you far from "Halt! who goes there?" I reply, "Y. your children. You may lose golden M. C. A." and they let me pass on. Last night Willis Magill, our young­ opportunities of worship, work and Every one advised me to get a steel est and most promising missionary, play by giving too much time to other helmet and gas mask, but the army preached at the hut. He gave an ex­ interests. You may forever lose the would not issue them to me because I cellent sermon and the fellows liked companionship and understanding of am a civilian. I finally went down him a lot. Eighteen of the American your little ones. town and bought a gas mask for about colony from Side Bjahr came over for Admittedly there are many hard $6 and a steel helmet for $2.50. I will the service. I went to the gate and things in the life of every mother. probably not have to use them, but identified each of them as they came Faced alone, they might over-power us they will make nice souvenirs to bring in. I was on pins and needles until and rob us of the victorious attitude home when I come. the~ were safely out of the camp so necessary to the success of mother­ The officers in this camp are most agam. I was afraid of an air raid ing. But fortunately the difficulties courteous. They have cooperated with while they were here. At nine o'clock need not be faced alone. We can face me in everything. I am gradually get­ the air raid did sound. While trying the situation with God. Then the we­ ting to know many of the soidiers and to run across to the hut in the dark are-well-able attitude will be ours.-By I find them fine fellows. They have I fell and got a cut on my hand and Mrs. Charles Greif, Mother of a three­ chosen the army for a profession and in all the excitement I forgot to· put on y.ear-old. are anxious to fight. my steel helmet. I decided to run to the dugout without it. While I was I am having quite a bit of experi.ence Mrs. Frank Hoakison tells a good running as hard as I could toward the joke on a friend of hers, or perhaps it in eating foreign food. I find I like it. dugout, I fell head first into a trench. When I go into Aelxandria I often was on the friend's husband. Anyway, I was surprised but not hurt. Air stop for lunch at a Greek restaurant here is the story. This friend never raids have become a v.ery common could make milk gravy just like her and was served fish cooked over an thing now. I jump out O·f bed at the op.en fire. It was the best fish I have husband's Aunt Mary made. She kept first blast of the alarm, and into my trying to make it for him, so it would ever eaten. It was grilled and as they clothes as I run. With love, grilled it they poured some kind of oil taste just like his Aunt Mary's gravy, -Ted. and lemon sauce over it. but never quite succeeded. One day One of the soldiers who comes in she scorched it a little. She rather to visit with me a lot is a man from "Please send my mother a year's hesitated ab.out putting it on the table. the Royal Scotch Guards. For three subscription to the Kitchen-Klatt.er. To her surprise, when he ate the first years he stood guard at the front gate I'm sendmg a dollar now so she won't helping a wide smile beamed on his of Buckingham Palace. He said one miss any o:f the copies. The whole face."My," he said, "This is just like of the greatest pests were the Ameri­ family enjoys the Kitchen-Klatter."­ Aunt Mary used to make; now you can girl tourists. The Guards are not Mrs. Allen Brogue, Dike, Iowa. have the right flavor." allowed to move a muscle while stand­ ing at attention, and many of the American girls took advantage of that by having their friends snap pictures Watto Says: of them, kissing the guard. On coro­ nation day he had all the brass but­ Keep house Electrically tons on the back of his tunic snipped off by American souvenir hunters. with new modern Every time the little Princesses pass, the guards have to present arms. The Electric Appliances little girls think it is great fun to pass by the guards, making them pre­ sent arms, so do it over and over An Advertisement of T'he again. He says that they are dear little girls but very full of mischief. The Queen is a very good manager and very strict with the kitchen help, IOWA NEBR'ASKA, LIGHT & POWER CO. about wasting food. PA 0 E 8 KITOHEN·KLATTER MAOAZ!NE, FEBRUARY, 18'1 MACARONI AND HAM CASSEROLE 1 cup macaroni (before cooking) 1h cup gvated cheese "Recipes Tested 1 cup cooked ham, diced 14 teasp,oon salt 1 medium onion, minced in the 1 green pepper, minced 2 tablespoons ham or bacon fat 1 cup milk Kitchen Klatter 2 cups bread crumbs Cook macaroni in salted water un­ til tender. 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Add water then dry ingredients chopped Sift the dry ingredients together. which have been sifted together.-Mrs. Fry the onions, cut meat in small Mix liquids and turn into dry mixture Dale Bonnett, Keosauqua, Iowa. pieces and brown. Add a little water and stir until all the flour is dampen­ and simmer gently. Add chili pow­ ed. Don't over-stir. Bake in greased FROSTING der and flour, mixed to a paste with muffin pans in hot oven (425°) 25 a little water. Boil a few minutes. Run minutes. Makes 12 gems. - DeSoto, the hominy through the meat grinder Kansas. 3 tablespoons brown sugar 3 tablespoons cream and add a little salt. Put some hom­ 3 tablespoons butter iny in the bottom of the casserole, then meat mixture, sprinkling on a cmcKEN PIE WITH SWEET Bring to a rolling boil; cool and add POTATO CRUST few olives. Alternate mixture until all flavoring and 1 cup powdered sugar. the ingredients are used. Have the Spread on cake. Mrs. Dale Bonnett, top layer, hominy. Bake half an hour 3 cups diced cooked chicken Keosauqua, Iowa. 1 cup diced cooked carrots in 400° oven. 6 cooked small onions 1 tablesp,oon chopped parsley SAUSAGE DRESSING SALMON LOAF 1 cup milk 1 cup chicken broth 8 cups dried bread crumbs (may be 1 can pink salmon 2 tablespoons flour toasted) 3 eggs, beaten 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup finely chopped celery 1 cup strained tomatoes 1/8 teaspoon pepper 2 small onions cut fine 1 small onion, minced Arrange chicken, parsley, carrots, 1 pound sausage 1¥.i cups cracker crumbs onions in layers in casserole. Combine 2 tablespoons chopped parsley Mix well. Butter a baking pan. milk and chicken broth. Add slowly, Salt and pepper to season Place half of mixture in bottom of the flour, salt and pepper, blending Mix well and put in fowl or in a pan, then place 4 hard boiled eggs in well and cook until thickened, stirring casserole with some liquid from the a ro,w on mixture, then put in other epnstantly. Pour over chicken and roasting chicken or turkey.-Mrs. Geo. half of mixture. Shape in a nice loaf. vegetables in casserole. Cover with Miller, Pawnee City, Nebr. Dot top with butter and sprinkle with sweet potato crust. Bake 40 minutes. paprika. Bake until brown. When Sweet Potato Crust TO CORN BEEF this loaf is sliced, there will be a slice 1 cup sifted flour of hardboiled egg in each slice.-Lula 1/3 cup melted butter For 100 pounds pf beef take Hubbard, Hurdland, Mo. 1 tea$~oon baking powder % teaspoon salt 6 gallons water 7 pounds salt, fine and coarse mixed 1 cup mashed sweet potatoes ALUMINUM COOKY 'CUTTERS 1 egg, well beaten 2 pounds brown sugar Sift flour once, measure, add baking 2 ounces salt petre powder and salt and sift again. Work 1 ounce soda in mashed sweet potatoes, melted but­ Boil all tog.ether and skim ter and egg. Roll 14 inch thick and Then pour brine on the meat boiling cover chicken pie.-Mrs. J.B. Hutchi­ hot. Keep meat under brine with a son, Underwood, Iowa. weight. After the blood is all drawn "'~~ out, say 3 or 4 weeks, take the meat out piece by piece and wash the blood PIMENTO CHEESE SPREAD off in pure cold water. Wash out the jar, put the meat back; then boil the 1 tall can condensed milk ~.;,: & brine, adding a little soda to bring up 1 pound cream cheese A set of 6 Alnmtnum Cooky Outten of dlf· 1 small can pimento all the blood. Skim carefully and let ferent designs. Bright natural finish-Rust· proof - Seamless - Easy to clean. Knobs 14 teaspoon salt the brine get cold, then pour it on the finished In bright red. Price SISc or given Cut cheese in small pieces. Heat meat again<. Add enough cold water FREE with a yearly subscription to Kltchen­ milk in double boile,r. Add cheese. Klatter Magazine at $1.00 plus lOc for postage to cover the meat. Be sure to keep and packing. When melted add pimento cut in small LEANNA DRIFTMIER pieces and salt. Yield, almost 2 pints. the meat under the brine. Shenandoah, Iowa KITOH:EN-KLATT:EB HAGAZIN:E, l!':EBRUABY, 194.1 PA G :E cmCKEN CREAM SALAD FBOM MY LETTER BASKET

(This is a wonderful dish for these "Do you know which part I read ALUMINUM hot summer nights when we have com­ first in the Kitchen-Klatter Maga­ pany.) zine? Your Life Story. Of course, do JELLY MOLDS * cup cold water not get me wrong, and think I don't %. cup hot chicken stock highly like all of the magazine, as I certainly seasoned do. I generally read it over like a Individual Square Jelly Molds. Bright nat­ Salt and pepper to taste love letter-three times." Mrs. I. C. ural finish. Designed to flt electric refrigera­ tor Ice trays. 1 envelope gelatine Friesen, Fairbury, Nebraska. Price S5c per set of 6 11h cups cooked diced chicken Given FREE with a yearly .subscription to 1 cup cream (whipped) Kitchen-Klatter Magazine at $1.00 plus lOc to CANDIED ORANGE PEEL-"Add pay for postage and packing, 1 Tbls. onion juice if desired a little corn syrup to the sugar and Soften gelatine in cold water. Add water you boil for the syrup on the LEANNA DRIFTMIER hot stock and stir until dissolved. peel. Then can your peel or put in Shenandoah, Iowa Grate onion until 1 Tbls. juice is ob­ glass containers and leave the syirup tained. Cool, and when mixture be­ Fill an old large-size salt shaker on it. It is so much softer and nicer with soap powder and use to sprinkle gins to thicken, beat until forthy. Then in cakes and cookies. Add some of fold in whipped cream and chicken. into the dish water.-Mrs. Jas. G. Season highly with salt and pepper. the syrup, also, it is delicious and Webster, Beloit, Kans. Turn into mold and chill. When firm, gives it ai good navo.~. There are no unmold, cut in slices and serve on let­ hard little chunks as in the peel that "You may not remember, having tuce surrounded with a dressing to drys."-Mrs. Chas. Ankeny, Marys­ such a large family of subscribers that which chopped celery and nuts have ville, Kansas. Kitchen-Klatter was my Mother'~ Day been added.-Mrs. A.S., Mount Ayr, Ia. gift. I don't know when I have en­ DIP AND DIEAL-----'"W'hen making j.oyed a magazine so much. I should several diftferent saladS' and puddings, say "we" for the family all read it and GOOD MEAT LOAF as at the Driftmier home, I like to enjoy every page. We look forward economize, so I aim sending you this to its visit every month."-Mrs. L. A. 2 lbs. pork Bloomgren, Oxford, Nebr. 1 10¢ can tomato soup tip. I dip and deal, like Leanna does. 1 medium onion I open a can of pineapple, use 2 slices 1 c. post toasties (crushed) in Sunset saiad (pineapple and carrot) 4 egg yolks, or 2 whole eggs use 2 slices to make glorified rice, 2 1 t. salt slices in fruit salad with Jello and Mix all together except % of tomato other fruit and whipped cream, and soup, form in ball and put in roasting take the last two slices and make pan, put other 1h can of soup over the pineapple upside down cake."-Mrs. E. loaf. Cover and bake in medium oven E. Kraehling, Warsaw, Ill. till nice and brown.-Mrs. Carl Abbas, Holland, Ia. ~'•a .ARE cooJU.£ 1111 "I heard you read the letter from ~ ,,.,-ooL DAYS •"".JR·······~ LlJNCJl • the woman who asked about wax I s..,.. FJLL '[.. ~ ~><'A't • 1 DAYS - '[Jl '[JllS '[...., -• paper sticking to the cake. I have ····· BAKED HAM (HOLLYWOOD) had the same trouble, and I greased a BAsJ'E't Wl apple sauce • • 1 cup wann da. • 1 small boneless ham the pan then placed my wax paper in it, then greased the paper and dusted • 1 teaspoon so • Strips of orange peel a 1 cup sugar ••. 1 tablespoon prepared mustard flour over it and it came off perfect­ • cu butter •s 2 tablespoons brown sugar ly. I thought this might help some­ a -% p ».OTJJEB • one."-Mrs. Cora Rodgers, Syracuse, a 214 cups ST JrLOUlt • 2 tablespoons olive oil BE ~111on • 14 teaspoon pepper Nebr. • 1 teaspoon c uneg • 1 cup gr.ape juice • poon nu • Wash ham in hot water to soften. LIVER AND ONIONS ii• 1~ :a:Spoon: cloves : Make incisions with a sharp knife and "We like onions this way. Brown 74 raisiDS d • liver or beefsteak, put a layer of • 3A cup ts choppe • insert orange peel. Make a paste of • 1 cuP nu l sauce and • the other ingredients, all but the grape sliced onions in a bake dish and lay juice, which is added from time to the meat on this. Cover with more : :::.a:i1:¥fu~.. a~:ii~ ;: time as the ham is haking. Cover onions and put in a little of the fat a d add rais...... d drOP • you had browned the meat in. Add a an C tnbine an d • the ham with the paste, dot with • 0 small amount of water and salt and meats. on grease 1 whole cloves and bake in a covered : bY spoonfulSt 350 degrees I cover. Bake until onions are done. tJin. Bake a 1 roaster at 325° until done. A little This with a salad and a simple dessert • 15 ni\nUteS : hot water may be added, if the meat makes a meal for us."-Mrs. J. P. Will­ - ~ becomes too dry. hite, Humboldt, Kans...... ,. .... HONEY JELLY GUARANTEE LIGHT PLUM PUDDING 21h c. (1%. lbs.) honey No matter what you bake with Moth­ %. c. water er's Best F 1 our - % cup sugar % bottle Fruit Pectin bread, cakes, pies, 1h cup butter cookfes-lf for any Measure honey and w;ater into large reason you are not 3 tablesp,oons molasses saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil entirely pleased, re­ 1 cup raw grated c;arrots turn the unused part over hottest fire and at once add fruit of the sack to your 1 cup raw grated potato pectin, stirring constantly •Then bring grocer and he will 1 teaspoon soda to a full rolling boil and immediately refund your money In 1 cup flour run. T r y Mother's remove from fire. Skim, p:our quickly. Best soon, eut.lrely at 1 cup raisins Paraffin and cover. Makes about 5 our risk. 1h teaspoon each cinnamon, nutmeg, glasses.-Mrs. John Bushman, Avon, S. clove and salt Dak. *cup cocoa 1h teaspoon baking powder CINNAMON ROLLS Combine dry ingredients and mix "When making cinnamon rolls, place with p,otato, carrot, moLasses, butter them in a pan in which you have melt­ ed some honey-~ inch or so in the and sugar. Steam 31h hours and serve bottom of the pan. The honey cooks with whipped cream or hard sauce. into the rolls and they are delicious. PAGE 10 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1941 KMA'S DAILY PROGRAM

930 Kilocycles Shenandoah, Iowa NBC Blue Network Iowa Broadcasting System j MORNING 4:30 a. m.-Haden's Hillbillies 5 :45 a. m.--Chrck Holstein 6:00 a. m.-News 6:15 a. m.-The Farm Hands OVER THE FENCE 6 :30 a. m.-Hillbllly Songs 7 :00 a. m.-Mornlng Headlines 7:15 a. m.-Frank Field How thankful we should be, just to 7:30 a. m.-Stamp's Quartette be Americans. To be sure, we have to 7 :45 a. m.-Haden Children do without some of the luxuries we 8:00 a. m.-Lem Hawkins 8:00 a. m.-Uncle El!ll (Sun.) would enjoy, but even the poorest 8:15 a. m.-Uncle Carl American housewife has so much that 8:30 a. m.-Frank Field the women in foreign lands are de­ 8:45 a. m.-Mid-Morning Devotions prived of. Geneva Johns of Chilli­ 9:00 a. m.-Homemaker's Visit 9 :30 a. m.-Stamp's Quartette (Sun.) cothe, Mo., e~ressed this thought to 9 :45 a. m.-The Rangers me and added, "If the future holds 10:00 a. m.-Earl May, News more selfsacrifice for us, I hope we 10:00 a. m.-Church Services (Sun.) shall be worthy of the spirit of our 10 :30 a. m.-Kltty Keene 10:30 a. m.-Our Barn (Sat.) pioneer grandmothers, put our should­ 10:45 a. m.-Ma Perkins ers to the wheel and do our best for 11 :15 a. m.--Corntussel News America." 11 :30 a. m.-KMA Country School Nancy Lee. 12:00 Noon-Midday Melodies 12:15 p. m.-Golden River Boys "Nancy Lee from Tennessee' Some of my Kitchen-Klatter sisters 12 :30 p, m.-Earl May & the News pictured her.e is the girl with the have 'boys in our military training sweet voice you hear daily over KMA. AFTERNOON camps. For some of you it is a real Nancy came to KMA after singing sacrifice, but you are thankful your 1 :00 p. m.-Stamp's Quartette over some of the biggest Chicago sta­ 1 :15 p, m.-Nancy Lee boys a;re well and str.ong and willing 1 :30 p. m.- S. o. S. Program tions. and able to go. It is a comfort to know 1:30 p. m.-Back to tbe Bible (Sun.) Nancy's an ardent baseball fan, and God will care for them, no matter 1:45 p. m.-Chick Holstern 2:00 p, m.Kitchen-Klatter loves to knit. She's also one of the where they are. 2:30 p. m.-Songs of the Range Kitchen-Klatter sisters. Nancy has her 3:15 P. M.-Club Matinee own program each afternoon at 1:15 I haven't turned the letters on the 4:00 p. m.-News and is also heard at 9:45 in the morn­ January contest over to the judges 4:30 p. m.-Faylon Geist, Organist 4:30 p. m.-Back to God Honr (Sun.) ings and on the Country School pro­ yet. I have read some o

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"I want to tell you how I fixed a comfort top like you are making. In­ stead of the embroidery, as you are fixing yours, thread the sewing ma­ By chine with colored thread and stitch. Ma:SS ANNA DRIFTMIER, Librarian of course, use contrasting thread. This Clarinda, Iowa, Public Library is a good way to use odds and ends of thread."-Mrs. Earl Rouse, Millerton, THE WAVE OF THE FUTURE, a his father's death Ghengis Khan be­ Iowa. confession of faith, is an essay written gins to organize his military power­ by Anna Morrow Lindbergh who hopes his progress is portrayed, step by step to strike a mental attitude to clear for -and the whole panorama of this I usually wear out the waist of my others the doubt and torture of mind great moment is shown with all its house dresses first, so I take the skirt she has felt concerning today's world drama, vitality and color. (if plain) and make tw;o aprons for mornings. I don't like straps around problems. She asks what we shall I'LL WAIT FOR YOU by Margaret teach our children concerning the my neck, so just put ties on the back G. Nichols. Some girls have to choose and pin the bib up. values as recognized by various gov­ between love and a career, but Car.ol I sorted over all our old clothing ernments. Mrs. Lindbergh feels that Tallent, pr•etty young nurse, had her our personal readjustment to changing and if anything had any wear in it, I work cut out for her when she fell in made it into something useful. The factors about us should be faced with love with an ambitious young lawyer, courage and faith. Harcourt, $1.00. rest I used in rugs. Since New Years Alan Thomas. A light and entertain­ I've used six 300 yard spools of white MAKE BRIGHT THE ARROWS is ing romance. No. 50 thread alone, and that doesn't a volume of poetry written in defense For light appealing romance, read count the colored threads I've used.­ of Democracy by Edna St. Vincent DARK ENTRY by E. E. Carroll. 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WHO'S WHO IN MOTHER GOOSE THE REAL MOTHER GOOSE Green Shutter Book Shop ERNA DRIFTMIER, CLARINDA, IOWA Roger Dean Reyerson and his little cousin, Ronald Baker, of Emmons, l\li.nn, PAGE U KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1941 THE GIFT BOX PRACTICAL POUL TRY POINTERS food such as cabbage and lettuce By Gertrude Hayzlett By Olinda Wiles leaves, and it seems to me as if their feathers have taken on a fresh sheen, Here are some ideas for February My husband asked me the other day which is unusual at this time of year. favors or gifts. Hunt up those colored if I had a theme song that I sang be­ Begin planning for your next flock, felt hats you were going to throw f o r e I started as the weeks have a way of rolling by away, and dip them in a good dry my Kitch en­ pretty fast, and the chick season will cleaning fluid. Press with a hot iron Klatter poultry be with us before you know it. Now and a very slightly damp cloth. You column. If not, is a good time to check up on build­ will have the makings of some lovely he would like to ings and equipment, to rid the prem­ things. suggest that I ises of rats, and send to the hatcheries for literature on poultry and poultry Use a rather large piece to make an have one with something in it supplies. Then spend the winter eve­ envelope-shaped purse. Stitch the nings reading and thinking it over. sides and fasten flap with a snap fas­ about plenty of tener. On outside of flap put a de­ water for the sign of flowers. Five tiny pointed ob­ chickens, as that longs of felt, fastened in center with seemed to be my some French knots make the flowers, favorite theme outline stems with green thread. Some in c a r i n g for leaf shaped bits of green felt will them. finish the design. You might make a I will say that large bag of sateen or some heavier the subject of material for a shopping bag, and deco­ lln. Ollnlla Wllem w a t e r i n g the rate with similar felt flowers in larger chickens comes up pretty often during these winter size. Make a card table cover of days, and I believe chickens suffer black sateen, and in the corners put ~ore f:om lack of water than any liv­ "cards" of white felt with felt aces mg thmg on the farm unless it is a appliqued on each card. Any applique cow that is a heavy milk producer. design can be cut from felt. They do not need to have edges turned as the :'- hen that is laying must not only felt is so closely woven that it does drmk enough water to satisfy her own not ravel. physical needs, but also enough to pro­ duce the egg; a very large percent of Felt makes pretty needle books. the egg is water, and a laying flock VALENTINE EMBROIDERY They may be cut in any fancy shap.e can consume a surprising lot of water and for Fe·bruary you might use heart in one day when given all they want. Arrows and hearts bring intriguing shape or a hatchet, or if you have embroidery to the vanity, scarf and some brown, cut a little log cabin Another thing of vital importance to a laying flock is that it be free from pillow slips of this bedroom ensemble. shape. Applique a door on one end of The hearts are French knots, the ar­ some lighter colO'r, and a fireplace lice and mites. A heavy infestation of these parasites will force your o.Jd r.ows outline, dainty flowers comple­ chimney, outlining the stones and rows ment these central motifs. C9269, lOc running crosswise to look like logs. hens into an early molt with a crnrre­ sponding loss in egg production. brings the usable-several-times trans­ A complete sewing case may be made. fer of the arrow and heart designs. Cut three hearts the largest about 31h Today on making a trip to the hen­ house I could not help but notice what Order from Leanna Driftmier, Shen­ inches across. Buttonhole a r o u n d andoah, Iowa. them and fasten together at top with a lot of satisfacti.on the hens were a bow of ribbon. A tiny heart shaped getting out of a box of coal and wood ashes, that had been placed at their "You will find enclosed $1 for which emery and a crocheted holder for please send Kitchen-Klatter for an­ thimble fasten in the bow. Needles go disposal. They were dusting them­ selves very thoroughly, lying first on other year. I have taken it for so on second heart and on the third one long and don't want to miss a copy. I fasten a little band of felt by both one side and then on the other in the box. I went to the house and got a think it is the best magazine I get. ends, and slip a tiny pair of scissors I get so much help from it. Also like under it. box of insecticide and sprinkled it over the ashes and they w.ere soon back the recipes and Pictures. Always lis­ Scottie dogs cut from black felt and again to· finish their dust bath. I ten to Kitchen-; . . t.te! 'Jroadcast and suspended on a short length of yarn, guess that would be what you would enjoy it so mucl. Hop·, you can keep with rosette at top, make cute dress say was "killing two birds with one it up for a long time."-Mrs. Chas. J. ornaments. A matching Scottie can stone." They took a dust bath and Davis, R-1, Forest City, Mo. be glued on your pocketbook. Use y;our also could de-louse themselves all in Kitchen-Klatter cooky cutter for a pat­ one operation. SENT FREE tern. Most hatche,ries are now taking eggs Save all the odd bits of felt and fo_r setting purposes, also for shipping for your inspection, beautiful samples of make a confetti rug or centerpiece. to other hatcheries, and this year our work showing exactly what lovely pillows, comforters, mattresses we can make with only Cut circles of all sizes and coloirs and finds their demands more exacting a few pounds of your old or new feathers. applique to a background of black than ever. All eggs must meet a very WE USE YOUR FEATHER8 felt in any desired shape, with blanket high standard. They are sized, or With these samples you get full details on _how we use y;our feathers or wool, old or new, stitch. Pink or notch the edge of graded as to size, and each eg1: must to make beautiful things for you. We also foundation. now be weighed on a special kind of explain every voint in our charges-charges So many have asked for narr,ow scales which each one has to buy for which are only one-half what you would pay elsewhere. crochet edges. Here is a pretty one. their home use. It takes quite a bit SEE BEFORE YOU BUY Begin with a chain of 7 stitches, miss of time to sort, weigh, measure and T.n other words, before you send us one 5 of the chain, make 5 trebles in next re-pack a thrrty dozen case of eggs. It penny you see and examine our work at your convenience in the comfort of your own home. stitch, chain 2, 1 treble in same place, won't be long until we will have to To get these attractive samples send only a * chain 5, turn, 4 trebles in space of 2 X-ray them, too. There is a sort of Post card. They will come postpaid and with­ chain, chain 2, 1 treble in same place X-ray pr,ocess goes on at the hatch­ out obligation. \Vhat's more, when you are ready to return them to us, we pay the rt>­ and repeat to length desired. ery where I sell my eggs. The eggs tum postage, too. are passed before a light to detect any It i.s obvious that unless we had confidence "I .ordered the December copy of the cracks. or flaws in the shell that are in what we can do with YOUR feathers or wool, we couldn't afford to make such an Wl­ Kitchen-Klatter Magazine and I en­ not visible in ordinary handling and usual offer as this. joyed it so very much that I want to sorting. Naturally, we have only a limited numbeil' subscribe f.or twelve issues of it. I Since my flock has had to be con­ of these samples made up and ready to send out. First come first served. So, to be sure read and re-read the magazine from fined rather closely for several weeks you get yours without delay write at once. cover to cover. It has so many help­ on account of bad weather, we have We have been doing this work for 58 years. ful suggestions, and such interesting been feeding them alfalfa leaves and Almost everyone here in Topeka knows us, 80 just address your card t-0 THE MCENTIRE articles."-Mrs. Hjalmar Rosen, Craig, they are just as eager for them as BROTHERS, TOP,EKA, KANSAS and we'll get Nebr. they are for any kind of fresh green 111. i IITOHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 194,1 Salt and Pepper shakers. Mrs. E. J. Seltz, 2594 Laurel Ave., Omaha, Nebr. Elephants. Harry Baldwin, Little Sioux, Iowa. Salt and Pepper shakers. Mrs. J. E. Richey, Bx 585, Dayton, Iowa . Flower slips, holders, tea towels, Indian head pennies. Mrs. Anna Booe Dearborn, Mo., RFD 1. ' China dogs. Mrs. W. S. Ferrand, Manson, Iowa, Box 491. Salt and Pepper shakers. Leota Irene Yagel, Purdin, Mo. State Capitol and State Greeting post cards. Will send match book covers in exchange if desired. Mrs. Francis Myers, Rl, Springfield, Mo. Pencils. Mrs. Clifford Baker, Sears­ boro, Iowa. Tea towel patterns. Eveline Beh­ rends, Rl, Johnson, Nebr. CLIPPINGS My "Book of Knowledge" is filled Will exchange hot pan holders, tea Mrs. R.H. Marks, Alexandria, Nebr. with interesting information and used towels or other needlework for usable often. File your clippings, to suit size pitchers, old or new. Mrs. Mabel your case, and they will be "a joy fo·r­ Booth, Richmond, Mo. Clippings and scrapbooks go hand in ever." hand tho they may be separated. Clip­ Stamps. Juanita Fancher, Ridge­ way, Mo. ping items for future reference is a "I am an extensive hobbyist. I col­ hobby with most of us but too many lect old dolls, dolls and dogs of all Bulbs and lilies. Mrs. Josiah Gooden, interesting items are misplaced so are kinds. Have 355 dolls and 460 dogs. 616 S Main St., Kingfisher, Okla. of little value when needed. Today will 'swap' with any hobbyist for my Mrs. Frederick J. Ahrens, R2, Brew­ let us discuss ways of filing them. hobby. What have you? I'm also Pres. ster, Minn. will send a gift to every Scrapbooks are inexpensive-the old of Mo. Hobby Club, with over 1000 one who sends her 50 or more fancy books or magazines may be used by membe·rs enrolled fr.om all over U. S. or old fashioned buttons. cutting out pages here and there so A. All Kitchen-Klatter H o b by i s t s Poems and picture post cards. Miss the book won't be too bulky when write. Mrs. Paul Howell, Kahoka, Mo. Rosalie Carlson, Rl, B183, Marquette, filled. If your clippings are to be Kans. classified, an interesting cover may be HOBBIES added with an ap•propriate title or a picture desi·gn to reveal what the book Mrs. Ethell Shaw, 1023 Madison, "I am enclosing $1.10 for the contains. In sorting your clippings Beaumont, Tex. China, glass and metal Kitchen-Klatter Magazine and the titles such as: "Poetry", "Health'', shoes, miniature size. cooky cutters. I have been reading "Ne·ws Items", "Antiques", "R.ecipes", Mrs. Jack Kohler, 429 Kern St., your magazine for several years. I like "Care of Clothing", etc. will rapidly Waterloo, Iowa. Miniature Scotties. it because of the homelike, everyday present themselves and you will be Mrs. Flora Nassen, Hubbard, Iowa. information. I enj.oy all the good reci­ thrilled with the results. Wants to exchange something for yarn pes and poems.''-Clearmont, Mo. I will give here a good Homemade to make afghan blocks. Paste Recipe: Carol Main, Mt. Ayr, Iowa. Pictures Mix together lJ. cup flour, 14 cup and clippings about radio entertainers sugar, and 'h teaspoon powdered alum, for scrapbooks. Poems. Stamps. add 1 cup cold water and mix well. Mrs. Muri Shipp, Troy, Kans. Salt Cook until clear, stirring all the time, and pepper shakers. remove from the fire and add 7 drops Mrs. Harry Severns, 3104 Burnside, oil of cloves and cool. Store in small St. Joseph, Mo. Cream pitchers and glass jars and seal. fancy pot holders. My first hobby was a scrapbook and Mrs. Ora Hoilenbach, Fountain, the first entry is the news item about Minn. Vases and cream pitchers. my marriage in 1898. Thru thes.e years Mrs. Maude Coy, Rl, Northville, many books have been added-likewise Mich. China salt and pep'J)er shakers many hobbies. My first book is now and crocheted p.ot tholders. captioned "Ye Olde Times" and is Mrs. Philip Kinsey, 312 Leslie St., filled with personal items about my Carrollton, Mo. Buttons, sea shells, family and friends, and what mem­ cacti, wishbones of fowls. Mrs. James VanAken, 2721 5th Ave., Waldo Harrington of Tecumseh, Nebr. and his ories are brought to mind when we go salt and neoner shakers. thru these pages. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Salt and pepper shakers. She will be 80 years old But all my clippings are not in Wear Loved One's Picture in Beoutif11I scrap·books, for many I wished to keep January 28. Send her a card. free to be carried somewhere or loan­ ed to a friend. For these loose clip­ China animals (except dogs) and pings I purchased large, heavy Manila miniature vases.-Miss Mary Witcof­ ski, R2, Crab Orchard, Nebr. envelopes. These envelopes are appro­ Mrs. Vera Dean, R5, Topeka, Kans. priately labeled. Dates are written on will exchange a cloth clothesbasket the back of some clippings which is a liner, neatly made, for an embroider­ help in "Current E;vents" and "Book ed tea to·wel. Reviews", etc. Pitchers, all sizes. Mrs. Ellen Bred­ berg, Rl, Emerson, Ia. I have known of persons who filed Poetry and stamps. Alvina Dreyer, the clippings as we file recipes, but Fenton, Iowa. they will soon outgrow a filing case. View cards of state capitols, pot The real thrill is in knowing where to holders, poems, house plants. Mrs. L. find them when you want them. Vern Snell, Kensett, Iowa. PAGE 14 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1941 NEW YEAR'S DAY By Reynold W. Maimer, age 11

Charles was sitting in the rocking OUR chair. He was very unhappy because he couldn't go skating with Bob. "Oh, look! Mother, here are Grand­ ma, Aunt May, Uncle Ted and Jeanne. Now we will have fun,'' said Charles. KIDDIES "Let's look at your books," said Jeanne. "All right, I haven't read very many of them yet, so we will look at CORNER them together," said Charles. In the kitchen Aunt May and Moth­ er were talking about Grandma. "It's ' too bad she has to live in that old house down by the tracks," said Aunt ANSWERS May. "If she could only find Grand- ' pa's life insurance policy, which held 1-Ash. 2-Hinge. 3-Rash. 4- the company's address," said M,other. Gorge. 5-Gin. 6-0range. 7- "She says she lost them in this house. Giant. 8--Rat. 9-Gnat. Ant. 10- I nave looked everywhere, but it seems WHEN COMPANY'S GONJi~ 0rgan. Horn. 11-Rose. 12-Giant. 13- we have to give up all hope of finding Wren. 14-Nee. 15--Hint. 16-Trash.. the papers." When company's gone we sit awhile By this Ume Jeanne and Charles All quiet like nor even smile, TRY THIS ONE AT YOUR NEXT were through looking at the books, PARTY and were wondering what they were Then mom points out the things we've going to do next. "Oh, I know," said done Pass out numbered sheets of paper Charles. "Let's g,o up in the attic and An' she remembers ev.ery one. with the name of an animal or bird at try on some old clothes. Grandma and the top of each, and as many numbers Grandpa have some up there." She says, "Joe grabbed right off the down the side of the paper as you "That'll be fun. Come on," replied plate, have guests. Each person is to draw Jeanne, excitedly. They ran up to the An' my, the awful way he ate. on a blackboard a picture of the bird attic and opened the trunk which held or animal that is at top of his paper, all the old clothes. "Oh, look! Grand­ "Pa tucked the napkin in his chin, and the others are to write their guess ma's wedding gown. Isn't it beauti­ While Katie stumbled comin' in, as to what the picture represents be­ ful!" "He,re's her purse. It sure is side the number on their paper. The old fashioned and worn." Charles "An' how pa poured the gravy on!"­ winner will receive a small prize. - opened it and it contained some Mom talks like this when company's Myrtle Erickson, Alta, Iowa. papers. "I wonder what they are for," gone. said Jeanne. "Let's take them down RIDDLES stairs and show Mother." So together Pa puts his specs .on the shelf they scampered down the stairs. An' says, "Mom, you ain't so hot your­ "Mother! Mother! Look at these self. 1. Why do Eskimos wear fur hoods? 2. What has a mouth and fork but papers," said Charles, "Why, children! "You sat an' et there with your knife never eats? where did you get these papers?" ask­ I felt ashamed you was my wife." 3. What has. 8 legs and sings? ed Mother. "Up in the attic in Grand­ ma's old purse," replied Charles. Then mom just snaps her fingers-so, "Well, you have found her insurance ANSWERS policy. Oh, how happy she will be An' says, "Keep on an' out I go!' 1. To cover their heads. after all these years," said Mother. 2. A river. The children's faces broke into a Gee, I wish company'd stay till we're 3. A quartet. smile as they asked Mother if they in bed -Arlene Endicott, Ridgeway, Mo. could give the papers to Grandma. Or blunder some themselves instead, "You surely may," said Mother. I Charles and Jeanne ran into the liv­ Like pick their teeth or stretch an' ing room where Grandma was lying yawn; resting upon the davenport. Then m,om couldn't scold when com­ "Happy New Year! Grandma," said pany's gone. the children. "We have a surprise for -Purdin, Mo. you," and they handed her the papers. They watched her as she opened up GEORGE WASHINGTON the papers with fumbling hands, and told her where they had found the Use the letters only as many times policy. As she read them over, tears as used in George Washington. came to her eyes and she said, "God 1. What tree do you find in George bless you, children. This surely has Washington? been a happy New Year's day for all 2. Part of a door. of us. Now I can live happily to the 3. Meaning impetuous. end of my days." 4. To overeat. 5. An alcohol liquor. MY FAULTS 6. Kind of a fruit. 7. A man of extraordinary stature. My faults all sit and grin at me 8. A rodent. They think that they are smart 9. Two insects. They've been with me so long a time 10. Two musical instruments. They don't expect we'll part; 11. A flower. I'd like to lose those grinning imps 12. A former President. Yes, honestly I would, 13. A small bird. But will my friends be fond of me 14. By birth. If I become too good? Vernon Bowers, grandson of Mrs. Lee Bowers -Selected. Sent by Janice Conrad 15. To suggest. of Marlon, Kans., thinks it fine weather for 16. Material of no value. hunting. Casey, Ia. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1941 !'AGE U I could not run or walk as others did. My bitter tears CLASSIFIED ADS were filled with so·rrow. WHAT HAVE YOU TO !!JELL'? Then like spring time came Make use of this ad column. a vision, a challenge. I had been singled out Rate of 5¢ per word. Minimum to fight a valiant battle. charge 50¢. Payable in adviance. Not every soul could stand the rugged strain, PRETTIEST NEW APRON PATTERN OUT. could limp through life Small, medium, large. Price lOc. Mrs. E. and keep it glorious. R. Hinks, Munden, Kans. PILJ,OW-CASES. Hand embroidered and cro­ Now my tears are not of cheted 1ace. ""'"'llite or colors. $1.15 post­ bitterness, but rather tears paid. Mrs. C. R. Ricketts, 119 Nelson, of happiness, East St. LOUIS, Tll. RR 1. of having found the ORIGINAi, POEM BOOK containing 85 poems joy of conquest. for 35c, or any 3 poems for lOc. Mrs. Alma Dey, Gresham, Nebr. And in gratitude QUAJ,JTY RUG WEAVING by the yard. Also I thank my God new rag rugs for sale, as well as all colors of new filler rugs Carl A. Bergman, 2201 That He chose me. Ave. D, Council Bluffs, Iowa. -Bill Knittle A FJ<;W J,EF'J' OVER. Send stamped envelope and 5 cents for crocheted pattern-basket of Dear Leanna: variegated thread. Directions for enlarg­ The other day a neighbor stopped ing included. Mrs. E. R. Hinks, Munden, Bill Knittle, Shenandoah, Ia. to see me. She had her small children Kans. with her and said that they had been For Sale: CROCHETED POT HOLDERS. 35c My sister, Mrs. Fischer, brought me exposed to the chicken pox and she a pair, postpaid. Mrs. Carl Abbas, Hol­ expected them to come down with it land, Iowa. this poem written by Bill Knittle, to at any minute. Then she drove off. For Sale: KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINES read. I enjoyed it very much and ask­ I stood there with my mouth hanging from October 1939 to Sept. 1940. 12 num­ ed if I might print it in the magazine, open, to think that she would take her bers for $1. Mrs. May Myers, Truro, Iowa. knowing it would bring courage to children where there were other chil­ I Al\1 BLIND. I make small coin purses that dren when she expected them to come others who have felt the effects .of sell for 25c postpaid. Mrs. Neille Worces­ down with a contagious disease. She ter, 1529 W 18th St., Des Moines, Iowa. "polio". Bill (or Billy as he is af­ has brought her children to my house SPECIAL FOR VIEW CARD COLLECTORS. fectionately called by all who knOl\V many times when they were so sick Post Card Views of ALL State Capitol with colds they should have been in Buildings, 2 for 5c; 25c a doz. An easy him) lives across the street from Mrs. way to get those hard-to-get views. Gert­ Fischer and gave her this poem as a bed. rude Hayzlett, Shenandoah, Iowa. Christmas greeting. He has often I am not better than this neighbor, BOYS AND GIRLS: When you receive Earl played the piano on her radio pro- but I would hate to think I had been May's Seed Catalog, read about the fine the cause of spreading disease and premiums you can have by selling seeds to grams. your frlends and neighbors. Dorothy John­ I want to tell y,ou a little about even causing death. I know I am ex­ son is In charge of this department and will Billy. When he was 17 months old, pressing the thoughts of many moth­ be glad to get a letter from you. he was stricken with infantile paraly­ ers and I hope that we will all be sis and lost the use of one limb. Final­ careful to keep our children at home ly, with the aid of a heavy brace, he when they are not well. "I use my Kitchen-Klatter Maga­ was able to attend school and gradu­ This letter makes me think of the zine for all kinds of p.arties, 4-H pro­ ated from SHS in 1940. During his woman who was told to keep her chil­ grams, Ladies Aid and your party high school days he was active in the dren home from school until she cured book is such a help. My daughter musical and dramatic activities, and in them of the itch. She remarked that took all my Kitchen-Klatters to the piano won Superior in the state con­ the other children were no better than home-making teacher. She said they're test. hers. about the best she ever saw for helps. You have helped me so much in my Two different summe·rs he won a It used to be the theory of some every d1ay living. Hope to come down scholarship to the University of Iowa mothers that their children had to and see you some time. Whenever I Music School, and now is a Freshman have all the contagious diseases and visit with anyone I .always talk of at Simpson College, where he is mak­ the younger they had them, the better. Leanna. You seem just like a sister ing an excellent record. Only this Modern methods of preventing the to me, although I have never seen year, has he written poetry. He placed child from having these diseases has you."-Mrs. C. V. McNaughton, West­ second in the school poetry contest. saved many lives and much suffering field, Iowa. (Dedicated to all who have had to feel the effects of Infantile Paralysis.) Dread disease KITCHEN-KLATTER SUBSCRIBERS GET MANY Why was I a victim? FREE GIFTS 1. Just think of all you get with a year's subscription to Kitchen-Klatter ! Why did you 2. Besides gettblg all 12 issues of this dandy magazine chock full of such things as plunder my weak body poem~, menus, reclpes, favors, g,·arden helps and many other things, you get a FREE at a time when I could GIF'I with every yearly sub&cription. 3. JUipile, hunt the letter G and price. Salt and Pepper Set. ' as quickly as possible pin it on the "A sewing committee buys apron 20. Mrs. J. A. Wilcoxson, Rl, Odessa, line and return to their place. Next in material etc., to be made up, and we Mo.,Women's Pure White Linen line get the letter E, pin it on the have a Bazaar shower at the meeting Handkerchiefs. line, and so on down the line. The previous to the sale. 21. Mrs. John Wright, 714 Dunham, first side to finish pinning the name "Of course we serve public sale Des Moines, Iowa. Gold-Plated George Washington on the line wins. lunches, Commercial Club banquets Cross and Chain. Third Relay: Maintaining the same and other social events throughout the 22. Mrs. Mary Swanson, RR2, Harlan, line-up, see which team ~an deliver year, but this is the culmination of Iowa. Photograph Album. kisses the fastest. Have a bowl of 20 the year's work. In December we 23. Mrs. Emery Johnson, Gladbrook, kisses at the head of each line. Each have a Christmas party. Everyone Iowa. 7-piece Manicure Set. kiss passes down the line. Send one brings a boxed lunch, with a small 24. Mrs. E. G. Schoonover, Colo Iowa. kiss after an.other as fast as possible, gift in it, and these are numbered 3-piece Luncheon Set. ' and the side to get them all around and exchanged after the program. We 25. Wayne Boles, Glenwood, Iowa. wins the relay. all enjoy the party." Pen and Pencil Set. The judges then will announce the The Next Six Received a Set of winners of the three races. The win­ I am always glad to have you send Kitchen-Klatter Cookbooks ners get the candy kisses. in plans your Aid Society has tried, 26. Mrs. Walter Mason, Axtell, Kans. For sorn~ fun when serving, tie if they have been successful. Let's 27. Mrs. H. E. Baker, Woodburn, Ia. each partn1'rro' forks togPther. See pass our good ideas on. Mail them to 28. Mrs. Margaret D. Bentz, 2519 K which coup! c:an eat their pie first. Leanna Driftmier, Shenandoah, Ia. St., So. Side Sta., Omaha, Nebr. Have each stiing the same length. 29. Mrs. Earl Swanson, Elkhart, Iowa. WEBSTER'S 30. Mrs. Marilyn Swanson, Elkhart, FREE Iowa. A FIVE FINGER LUNCHEON DICTIONARY 31. Mrs. Ted Hanusa, 34 Orchard .Just to get the Holy Bible into more homes, Ave., Council Bluffs, Iowa. "The first Wed:1esdav in December The American Bible Club now offers a beauti­ The Next 10 Received a Year's the Aid Society group 'o which I be­ ful, cloth bound, desk size, Illustrated Web­ Subscription to Kitchen­ long, served a luncheon 't the church. ster'.s Dictionary and World Atlas, absolutely free, with eve:ry Bible ordered a-t regular price Klatter Magazine It was called a "Fi\ e F; 'lger Lunch­ of only $1. Dictionary contains 82 pages of 32.-Tie Ruth C. Schleiger, 729 S. 13th eon." There was no silvc1 vare on the m-aps in color- pronunciation and meaning of St., Lincoln, Nebr. table. We served chicken iegs (meat more than 20,000 words---opens flat to any wrapped around the end of skewers, page--more than 450 pages-measures 51/2 by 32.-Tie Mildred M. Schleiger, Box 8 Inches. Think of getting such a useful book 482, Sutton, Nebr. with paper decorations on th,' ends), FREE with your beautiful Holy Bible, bound 33. Esther E. Schleiger, 714 WL 5th long rolls, split, buttered and heated, in .stunning black Simulated Leather. Has both Old and New Testaments; gold stamped let­ St., Grand Island, Nebr. potato chips, celery and carrot rings. ters on front and back; place for family regis~ 34. Mrs. Ernest Wagner, 218 N. For dessert we had candied apples on ter; red edges ; beautiful pictures of Nazareth Dodge, Iowa City, Iowa. skewers and small home make cookies, where our Lord spent h1' youth. Big, easy to read type; stays open to any page. Send only 35. Mrs. Earl C. Crispin, Rl Boone, and coffee. We used a stick of candy $1 TODAY and your beautiful simulated Iowa. to stir the coffee with."-Mrs. Boon, Leather-Bound Bible, with Free Webster's 36.-Tie Mrs. L. A. Templeton, 903 Topeka, Kans. Dictionary, will come by return mail. West Mills, Creston, Iowa. Lots of good Aid Society helps have AMERICAN BIBLE CLUB 36.-Tie Eloise L. Crispin, Rl, Boone, come to us from Topeka. I l\'.11ow you Box GOS, OMAHA, NEBRASKA Iowa. will want to try this one.