VOL. 27 MARCH, 1963 NUMBER 3 a:: ..,., """ '.-<: ,!) (.) LJ..J Q! ''.ti< uJ z: z z < < u. :Jr 0.. !:'-- 0 <t'- ,,. ")(' uJ - 0 z - ~ :Ct: ,_ ".;) 1U ~ O ~ t..' ,_ - 0:: (f) PAGE 2 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 see each other so often in the winter­ time because of ice and snow, but we Kitchen·Klatte1~ visit over the phone frequently. This (Rec. u. s. Pat. Off.) morning she called and told me about MAGAZINE a quilt she is making. It is the familiar "Colonial Lady" in applique. It is "More Than Just Paper And Ink" double-bed size, but she is making EDITORIAL STAFF Leanna Field Driftmier, additional blocks so that she will have Lucile Driftmier Verness, enough for a single bed, too. I imagine Margery D1·iftmie1· Strom she will use the smaller one on the Subscription Price $1.50 1>el' year (12 issues) in the U.S.A. bed where Lettie's daughter, Jean Ann Fol'eign Countries S2.00 per year. Advertising rah_•s made known on a1)plication. Bianco, sleeps when she comes to E_ntered as second class matter May 21, 1937, at the Post visit her grandmother. Bertha promised 01f1ce at Shenandoah, Ia., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Monthly by to come spend an afternoon soon so we THE DRIFTMIER COMPANY can sew and visit together. LETTER FROM LEANNA Shenandoah, Iowa Speaking of sewing, I wish you could Copyright 1963 by The Driftmier Company. see the big package of embroidery patterns Dorothy has chosen to offer Dear Friends: have children living in the neighbor­ to you. (She has an ad for them in this Every winter I think I was never hood. issue.) Now I'm all enthused to make happier to see Spring drawing near. Our son, Wayne, who lives in Denver, some sets of tea towels and pillow Oh, yes! I know we will probably have Colorado, spent a day with us since I cases. Just as soon as I finish the more snow storms, but at least we can wrote last. He had been attending a round tablecloth I'm embroidering for cheer ourselves by thinking that Spring nursery convention in Chicago. Howard Mae, I'm going to start on them. is not too far away. and Mae drove to Red Oak to meet him, This tablecloth that I'm making is We expect cold weather during the and Margery and Oliver returned him to one of the packaged ones that I bought winter season, although none of us catch the same train the following at Brandeis Department Store in Omaha. really enjoy temperatures 20 degrees night. It has always been difficult for me to below zero. Our sympathy goes out to When any of the children come home, go to the city because of my wheel those living in the usually warm states I enjoy fixing foods that they particu­ chair and the parking problem, but that who lost valuable fruit and vegetable larly like. For Wayne, I made date bars was solved when Brandeis built a crops. and graham cracker pudding-two things parking building that connects with the A few years ago we experienced such high on his list of favorite foods. Mar­ store. Margery wanted to get there a winter in California. I will never gery and Oliver invited all of us to early and it is fortunate that we did, forget the beautiful green orchards their home for a wonderful turkey din­ for we found a parking place on the 4th stripped of leaves, the ground beneath ner just before he left. We were so level near the door AND there were no them covered with o rang e s ! The glad that Dorothy was here that week, steps at all. This made it very simple spoiled fruit was trucked out into the for she misses out on many of our to get into the store. ·with elevators at desert and thousands and thousands of family dinners. hand, I could go from the top floor to dollars were lost in that catastrophe. My sister, Jessie Shambaugh, is the basement, and I'm sure we took in Surprisingly enough, nature made her spending the winter in San Mateo, Cal­ every floor. rt was such fun; I don't comeback and the trees leafed out ifornia, where her daughter Ruth and think anyone in the store was having a again-some even wore a few brave her 'family live. Ruth has four little better time than I was. blossoms in the Spring. Friends from girls and a little boy, so Jessie, who Any of my friends who use wheel California write that many of these enjoys being near her grandchildren so chairs and who haven't been in big same orange groves have been taken much, will have a happy winter. Just stores for a long time-or in any stores, over for housing developments. The before she left for California, she for that matter-do let someone in your area around Redlands would look very spent some time with her son, Bill, family arrange such a trip for you. different to us if we were to go back who lives in Des Moines, and his fam­ They really want to, you know. even there now, they write. ily. They have two girls and two boys. though you may have argued that it is Martin, our grandson, kept the walks In Jessie's last letter, she said that too much trouble for them. free of snow and took care of the bird she was enjoying being outside in the This reminds me of an article that I feeder every day. Margery stopped by sunshine working around Ruth's flower read recently which said that often it with our mail on her way home from the garden. We miss having her near, but is harder for us to accept gifts or help office on days that Mart couldn't go it won't be long until Spring comes to than it is to give them. We should out to brave the elements. We could Iowa and she'll head back for the think of the pleasure people receive have the mail delivered to the house, Midwest. from doing for us, just as we gain but Mart enjoys so much going down to This letter is being written in in­ satisfaction from doing things for them. the plant after it when the weather is stallments. I stopped this morning Sometimes this is a hard lesson to pleasant. Although he is no longer when cousins, whom I hadn't seen for learn. active in the business, he takes great years, arrived for a visit. I asked them I see that my space is gone, so I'll pleasure in watching its growth-one of to stay for dinner-if they wouldn't have to close for this month. his dreams fulfilled. mind eating in the kitchen-so I scur­ Sincerely, When the front door opens around ried around to get dinner on the table. 12:30 during the noon hour, we know Thanks to my "emergency shelf" in that it is Howard and Mae, stopping for the pantry, I had the makings for an a little chat on their way back to work. easy meal. P .S. Just as this issue is going to They always spend Sunday evenings Most of you know that Bertha Field, press we've received word that Mart's with us too, arriving with the rest of my brother Henry's wife, still lives in brother, A. F. (Bert) Driftmier of Clar­ the local families in time for coffee Shenandoah. We have many common inda, Iowa, has passed away following and a snack. We are so fortunate to interests, one being sewing. We don't a long illness. KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, MARCH, 1963 PAGE 3 LETTER FROM LUCILE would be delivered. (All I could think of as I heard this ominous statement was the water I had carelessly and Hello, Good Friends: foolishly wasted in days gone by!) I've just finished packing up a shoe But before we could really pin our box of bar cookies to mail to Juliana, attention to getting along "indefi­ and as I fussed around with wax paper, nitely" without water we had another wrapping paper and all the rest, I won­ furnace collapse, and that did it-we dered how many of you friends were could see clearly enough that this was doing the same thing? It would be my no situation for someone whose goal guess that quite a few of us were tack­ was to regain his health! ling the food-from-home project on a As a rule we don't make spur-of-the­ wintry afternoon, young people being moment plans; our responsibilities what they are-and mothers being what don't allow for impetuous, split­ they are! Common sense tells us there second decisions. But this was once must be perfectly delicious things we moved fast without weighing end­ available within a stone's throw of less pros-and-cons. Russell decided wherever our child may be and, every­ We were all delighted that Wayne to go south where he could actually thing considered, it's silly to stew (Driftmier) could stop over for a find the sun (Hermosillo, Mexico­ around with shoe boxes of "stuff"; but brief visit enroute back to Denver about 175 miles more or less from the oh! what a pleasure it is to do this following his attendance at a border) and I decided to come back nursery convention in Chicago.