·rx 1 ~ k-<~ ;{ C, I Kitchen-Klatter MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER VOLUME V NUMBER9 1940 Copyright 1940 by J,eanna Field Drlftmler SHENANDOAH, IOWA Price 10 cent1 Photo by Burdick THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL PA GE 2 KITCHEN-KLATTER MAGAZINE, SEPTEMBER, 1940 begin to long to stay the hand of Time. Kitchen - Klatter "Perhaps that is why Mother clings so tightly to the last child and so often Ma2azine robs her or him of the liberty which LEANNA FIELD DRIFTMIER. Editor the others have enjoyed. And this LUCILE VERNESS. Associate Editor seems especially true in cases where DOROTHY D. JOHNSON, Associate Editor M. H. DRIFTMIER. Business Manager the husband has passed on. God gnant Subscription Price, $1.00 ppr yf":u (12 I may never be a woman of this cali­ isr-:nP.s) in U. S. A. ber, and that is why I am beginning 6 Months .50c (6 Issues) Foreign Countries, $1.50 per year now to fill my life full of the things Advertising rates made known on applt· which are worth while, and which per­ cation. haps-who knows?-may fill a very Entered as second clas!I matter May 21, 1937 at the Post Office at Shenandmth. Ia definite need in it some day." under the Act of March 3. 1879 I wanted to share this letter with you Puhllsh•ri Monthly by I.F.AN1'A FTELD DRTFTMIER because I feel that all of us mothers A Ll!lTTEB FROM LEANNA Shenandoah. Iowa have this very real and urgent situa­ tion to face sooner or later. If your Dear Friend: are zinnias. We have many rows of youngsters are little now you probably This is a letter to you , my good them in bloom, too. think that it will be yem:s and years friend and Kitchen-Kl.atter sister. I I surely apvreci:ated all the wonder­ and years before you have to see the hope this summer with all its heat and ful letters you girls wrote me this sum­ last one leave home, but oh! how fast storms has not been too hard on you. mer. You proved yourselves to be real those ye,ars go, faster than you young­ I'm always glad to see f.all come. Its friends. Come and see me if you are er mothers can ever believe. Yet I cool days are such a relief after the ever in Shenandoah. My latch string feel as Mrs. Duncomb does that we hot summer weather. is always out and I am generally at must give our children freedom to live This fall Donald goes away to school home. their own lives, for after all there for the first time. He has chosen Park This is a busy home. The Kitchen­ isn't a soul living who can see into the College, at Parkville, Mo., as his scho.ol, Klatter Magazine has grown to where future and how are we to know what and le.aves September 17th. For 25 I have to have four helpers on :part this trip or that chance at a job would years there has been a Driftmier in or full time. They are Helen Castle, mean to our son or daughter:? the Shenandoah schools, except for a Fern Schantz, Gertrude .Hayzlett and I know that when Frederick was try­ few years in Clarinda, Iow,a, and Cali­ Serena Ashenfelter. All but my part, ing to decide whether or not to go to fornia. Donald was the Last one to the editorial desk, is housed in an out­ Egypt I sometimes felt that I just finish. He graduated from the Shen­ side office which used to be a double couldn't keep silent when I thought andoah High School last spring. garage. My husband, who has had how far away it was, and what a Lucile and Russell have gone back years of office ,and executive exper­ great possibility there was of war. If to California. As much as we would ience, has taken over the responsibility I had said that I thought it wisest for have liked to have had them stay in o.f publication and mailing. This is a him not to g.o, he would have stayed, Shenandoah, they felt the "call of the big help to me, for the magazine circu­ but how can any mother Who really West" and left the last week in July. lation has grown so rapidly I could no loves her child say the few words that We hope the venture will prove suc­ longer look after this myself. With will make all the difference in the cessful. the children away so much, Mr. Drift­ world? We have not had a letter from miel' felt he should be at home as We simply have to know that God Frederick since his summer vacation much as possible, so the situation is never changes, and that all things began and he went to Alexiandria to ideal for both o.f us. We are both busy work out for the best regardless of do Y.M.C.A. work in the British army. and enj,oy our work, together. how ill~advised they may seem at the Because no mail can come to America Well, I've rambled on, longer than moment. by way of the Mediterranean Sea, it I intended to, but must say goodbye I know that we have all had the ex­ will take his letters twice as long or now. Write to me this month, will perience of claiming at least one friend almost two months to reach us. There you, please- I'll be looking for your who feels bitterly th:at his or her entire is very strict censorship and no doubt letter. life has been blighted by too much he has written so freely of military Sincerely your friend, selfish concern on the parents' part. affairs that his letters have been held -Leanna "If they had only let me go that time in Egypt. We will feel like putting I had the chance!" one says. And up the flag when we do get a letter When Mrs. Duncomb sent in her another says, "If mother only hadn't from him. article about house plants, she also stood in my way when Ernest and I Many of you mothers have sons who enclosed a poem that I think you will wanted to marry that summer he got are joining the army or the navy. I enjoy. And because her letter is so a job in Oregon and begged me to go 1'now how hard it is to give our chil­ full of good, common sense that all of with him." Lives twisted and happi­ dren up for a time but we must not us mothers should heed, I am copying ness ruined - that's what happens let them know our heartache. It is a part of it too. when we let our wishes for our chil­ our part to send them on their way "You held me helpless, warm against dren and our ideas of what they with a smile and a happy goodbye. your heart, should do, interfere with the things (The tears c:an come after they are And then, when old and grey, that they really want to do. too f.ar away to see them.) We know And when you needed me the most No, let us give our children every op­ the same God who watches over them You let me go my way portunity they need to try their own when they are near us, is watching Knowing that cords which bind wings. And furthermore, let's see them over them where ever they may be. Can hateful grow, g.o happily; we can let them go and I sigh sometimes to see thy face But love's sweet liberty does evermore still spoil their pleasure by looking But since this cannot be, Draw like a magnet's glow." desolate and bereft. This month marks I'll leave thee to the care of Him Mary Duncomb a time when many of us will see our Who cares for thee and me. "I know that you feel the same way youngest go away to school (you "I'll keep you both beneath My wings" about your children, Leanna, and I mothers who start your baby to kin­ This comforts, dear; admire you for your pluck and courage dergarten are getting a taste of this) One wing o'er thee and one o'er me, in not holding them tight to you. Some or to a job in a distant place. Let us Will keep us near. never can understand this, can they? remember every hour of the day that -Anon. As each child leaves us and we have often the strongest cords of love and I hope all of you had as nice gladio­ to grow used to setting one place less devotion are being built when to all lus as I did. We picked them as fast at the table, remember it was the ab­ outward purposes they are being as they blossomed and brought them in sent one wh<.J was so fond of the broken. This sounds like a paradox, the house. They made such lovely especial dish Y.'e will no longer have to but it is more true than we can bouquets, and bloom so long, in the make, a feeling of desolation creeps imagine. -Leanna house. My husband's favorite flowers into our very heart and SQl}.11 ~nd we K I T C H E N - K L A T T E R M A G A Z I N E, S E P T E M R E R, l 9 4 0 PAGE WINTERING HOUSE PLANTS By Mrs.