The Frontier Woman j By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE ■* Hi there, all you nice peo ple! What’s new at your house this week? New baby? Virus X influ enza? New racipa? Maybe a brand new bouse or a new address? Things happen uml we'd like to hear about what is happening at yours. Tell us bout it, won't you? .... in a letter. —tfw— Here is a recipe for a dish that tastes pretty good this time of year, and combines potatoes, meat and a vegeta ble: BAKED POTATOES WITH SAUCE OF PEAS & DRIED BEEF Three tablespoons butter, 3 tablespoons flour, 2-3 cup li quid drained from canned peas, % cup rich milk or thin cream, 1 cup shredded dried beef, cups peas, drained, 6 baked potatoes. Melt butter, add flour and blend. Add pea liquid and milk, cook until thick, stirring constantly. Add dried beef and peas. Insert tines of fork to form a deep cross in hot baked potatoes, press firmly at end. Pour beef and potatoes. Serves 6. SAVORY BEAN STEW Thig is a low-cosi dish j ■which is full of flavor. If you're watching the budget this i« * good dish to serve to save the pennies. Select beans of almost any kind, or if you like, dry peas. Soak and cook 1 Vz cups of the dry beans or peas in water in the usual way. In another pan fry Vz cup of diced salt pork until crisp. Then brown % cup chopped onion in the salt pork fat, add Vz lb. lean meat, stir and cook slowly for 5 minutes. Combine meat, on ion, salt pork and 3 cups of canned tomatoes with the cooked beans. Add salt and pepper to taste, and simmer until the meat is tender and the flavor is well blended. Serve a once. • BEAN CHOWDER Bean chowder is a different sort of dish, which we rather think you’ll like. With a des sert and salad, it’s a complete meal. I cup dry beans, 1% quarts cold water, 1 cup diced carrots, 1 cup tomatoes, Vz cup shredded green pepper. 1 on ion, chopped fine, 2 teaspoons salt, 2 tablespoons uncooked cracked wheat or 1 tablespoon flour, 2 cups milk, few grains pepper. Wash the beans, add the cold water and soak over ROYAL THEATER O'NEILL FRIDAY - SATURDAY MARCH 5-6 Big Double Bill For the Love of Rusty with Ted Donaldson, Tom Powers, Ann Dor an, Aubrey Mather, Sid Tomack. —also— Tim Holt in Avenging Rider Adm. 42c. plus tax 8c, to tal 50c — Children 10c, plus lax 2c, total 12c. Matinea Sat.. 2:30. ★ ★ ★ SUNDAY - MONDAY - TUESDAY MARCH 7-8-9 Royal Patrons will see this Grand Road Show at our Regular Prices 1 One picture among picturesl TYRONE POWER in Captain fro*i Castile Technicolor 1 Adm. 42c, plus tax 8c. to tal 50c—Matinee Sunday 2:30, Adm. 42c, plus tax 8c. total 50c — Children 10c. plus tax 2c. total 12c. ★ ★ ★ WED. - THURSDAY MARCH 10-11 "One of the Year's Ten Best!" David Niven, Raymond Massey and Roger Livesey in Stairway to Heaven in Technicolor with Kim Hunter, Marius Goring. Adm. 42c. plus tax 8c. to tal 50c — Children 10c. plus tax 2c, total 12c. night. Cook in a covered pan until the beans begin to soft en, then add the vegetables and cotinue to cook until ten der. Add salt and crackeu wheat or flour mixed with little cold water. Stir. Coo) about 30 minutes. Add milk and pepper. Heat to the boil ing point and serve. MEXICAN STYLE BEANS This is a different way of preparing beans which you maywa nt to try. Wash and soak 2 cups of beans (pinto beans preferred) overnight in 1 quart of' water. The next day, bring them to a boil in 1 % quarts of water and let them simmer gently for 3 hours. When the beans start to simmer, add a few bacon rinds. At the end of 2 hours, add a minced clove of garlic,' 1 large dried red chili pepper or chili powder and salt to taste. The cooked juice should be thick. If desired, mash the beans and add grated cheese. —tfw— Prize-Winning Letter— “Busy Mother,” Inman, wins today’s three-months’ subscrip tion to The Frontier. Dear Blanche: I’ve followed your column for so long in the Sunday pa per that I almost feel you’re an old friend of mine and needless to say I was delight ed when you started a column in The Frontier. What with holding down a job and keeping house for a husband and two small sons, it's very little time I have for reading, but I do always manage to get the daily paper and The Fron tier read. I’d like to pass along an idea that we have used for several years, and it never fails. lit seems most oppor tune at this time of year, too. Did you know that if you go over the windshield and windows of your car inside and out with a cloth dipped in stovefuel or kerosene that frost won’t accumulate on them and even when you’re driving in snow, the snow doesn’t stick to the wind shield? This does’nt have to be done very often during the winter, either. It’s surprising how long one application will last and just think how many winter accidents are