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The Frontier Woman — ‘Just a Flower Lover,’ at Atkinson, Puys Enough Seed to Plant an Acre By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE Hi there, dll you nice peo pie! If you are as busy as 1 am then we're both about the busiest people in the country All the canning to do, harvest ers and hay crews are mak ing the ladies hop all over the country. Anybody who hasn't ever had the expe; ience of cooking for threshers has nev er lived, I always say and maybe they can be glad of it Bless the heart of who ever invented combines When you can another can* ner full of those string beans try putting in a couple of hunks of cured bacon at the top of the jai Process them as usual and you’ll have a flav ored product that will make a delightful changi from your usual diet of string beans. We like onion or green pep per flavontd added to tomato juice. When I add onion, I dice up an onion and put it in my aluminum tea ball, and let this simmer in the tomato juice. Then I remove the tea ball before canning the juice, so there is no onion in it. It works fine. Or you can put the onions in with the quartered iomo ioes before running them through the colander for the juice. I usually cut up a green pepper adding it to a big kettle of tomatoes. We like the flavor it gives to the tomato juice. I expect you’ve read about my tricks with apple sauce. My method of adding pineapple to apple sauce last year was featured In Better Homes and, Gardens. But have I ever told you another one? Add red hot candy drops to apple sauce—it j gives the sauce a slightly cin- i namon flavor and tinges the sauce a rather pretty pink. You can use ‘red hots” with j pears too Add 2 or 3 table spoons of red hots to each | quart of syrup, or use stick O’NEILL AUTO REBUILDERS S Blocks North of Bus Dopot SPECIALIZING IN BODY & FENDER if Repairing if Repainting LINDQUIST & SONS PHONE 133 cinnamon and a few red flavoring You 11 like the results Orange juice *dded to ap pic sauce often gives it more flavor. particularly if they arr a little flat For orange x'urs, use the juice and rind ,jf half an orange to each quart of syrup. Remove the rind before packing the pears. Pears arc a rather flat fruit and such flavorings serve to point up their flavor. For something really de luxe in the pear line, try using pineapple juice instead of water in making the sy rup in which to can the pears. I'm telling you. they 're really good! Even your mother-in-law will ask you for the recipe. I like to scald peaches— maybe you do, too. But foi | heaven sakes, lady, don t ov erscald them! Scald one min ute in boiling water, then cold dip for a half minute. When peaches are over scalded they ( lose their shape, flavor and are , all ready partly cooked. , —tfw—- I Subscription Winner "Just a Flower Lover from j Atkinson wins our 3 months , subscription today. and 1 j know our readers will get some good pointers from it: ] Dear Mrs. Pease: , ‘‘Breathes there a soul so , dead who never to herself has said, 'my. what beautiful flow ers’!’” Well, not if all woman love flowers as much as I do. And what a struggle I’ve had to have a few blossoms this Sum mer. Last year I was just too busy getting our house fixed up so we could call it home and having flowers was prac- i tically out of the question. So. I made up my mind there would be scads this year it j possible. ; We have a fence around pari of the house which is just per fect for a garden This Spring I wasn’t able to spade it all up myself, so after waiting for just ages, hubby finally had an hour’s time to do it for me. Then came the fun of do ing all the planting, and I think I bought enough seed to plant an acre. Well, about that time the dry spell came and I carried bucket after bucket of water and still no flowers came up. At least . not enough that I could tell them from weeds. Grin. Then my 2 aunts who have lovely flowers of all sorts, came to the rescue with a lot of plants. Well, now this should give me some flowers I said to myself. Oh yeah? First all my pansies got washed out. Our dog picked the place where my [ Wm. Krotter Co. of O’Neill farm implements Case — Minneapolis - Moline — New Idea Complete Line of Repair Parts PONTIAC AUTOMOBILES Parts and Service REO TRUCKS FAIRBANKS-MORSE • Light Plants • Water Heaters • Washing Machines • Water Systems • Stationary Engines HARDWARE Complete Line of FARM, HOME and BUILDERS’ Hardware mod™ SHOP SERVICE Vi.it Us in Our c.. w.Twor. new HOME ^nrl Farm Machinery in West O'Neill favorite sweet peas were plant ed to jump over the fence. And the neighbor children came over one day to play and, of course, had the dog chasing sticks all over the zinnias and poppies. And to top it all off just last week I was given some periennal daisy plants 1 put them in the same night and next morning I discovered that dog had slept right on them Well, I dug them out of the dirt and re planted them 3 times after that. (I think they’re going to grow after ali.) Well, if I do happen to have some flowers yet, this is what I’m going to do to make them last longer after picking They say with proper •hardening" flowers really last longer. Here are 2 rules to remem ber: (1) Put each flower in to water within the first minute it is cut. (2) Give proper treatment or harden ing of the stem so that it can drink up more water and keep the blossom fresh long er. This treatment varies with the type of stem. Woody stem plants (such as ! the shrubs): These stems draw 1 water very slowly. To speed up the moisture intake, smash the cut ends with a hammer for 2 or 3 inches up the stems, rhis will expose the fibres and illow the stem to take up all he moisture it needs. Hollow' stem plants (such as iahlias, delphiniums): To open ind soften the fibre layer so hat it will absorb more wa er, dip the cut ends of the item to a depth of 4 to 6 nches in boiling water, let ;tand for a moment, then put nto cold water. Bulbous flowers (such as tu ips, lilies, gladioli): Put in leep container of water with | ill of the stem under water | Hear up the stem. Keep in ' coolest place possible for 3 or | 1 hours. Annuals (such as marigolds, :orn flowers, asters): Put cul mds in water immediately, and harden in cool darkness for several hours. Milky sap plants (such as poppies, poinsettias): These plants let their moisture and heavy sap run down. They can be made to last several days if, when cut, stems are immed iately put in cold water and then as soon as possible, held over a flame for about 30 sec onds before being put back in to water. Buring forms a cal lous at end, stops bleeding. Flowers requiring no stem water are gardenias, camellias, orchids. These hold a great deal of moisture. They need no water in container and only a light daily sprinkling of wa ter on the flower is necessary. If you are lucky enough to have a corsage, keep it In the re frigerator. I certainly hope you flower lovers will find these sugges tions helpful. I would apprec iate having some hints on how to arrange flowers in different kinds of containers. How about some help on that subject? JUST A FLOWER LOVER, Atkinson, Nebraska. I hope you had luck with COAL THROUGH THE CLOUDS . . , El. S. army trucks and planes line up on the Rhine-Main air base waiting to load up with coal to be flown over the Soviet "starvation blockade-’ to beleaguered Berlin. The state department has demanded Jift ihg of the blockade and stated that “no amount of pressure ' would force U. S. forces out of Berlin. your flowers, nfter all, Flow er Lover, it often is quite a battle to produce any flowers at all, but the harder they are for us to raise the more high ly we value them, I think. Do write to us again one of these I days, you send us such good letters! One good point to remem ber when raising flowers is to draw attention to the flowers, not the container. Therefore, it is better not to use exotic vases and con tainers but rather plainer containers and a more taste- j ful arrangement of flowers, j Too many people crowd flowers until they can't breath. Or set them in a draft and then wonder why they wilt so quickly. DEWEY A. TRUE DIES AT EWING III with Heart Ailment Only 6 Weeks; Born July 8, 1901 EWING — Dewey A. True, 47, who was known at Ewing, where he was born, and at Spencer, where he resided for some time, died early Sunday, July 18, at Ewfng. He was at the home of his stepfather, Andrew Closson, when he died. He had been confined for 6 weeks with a In cutting gladiolus for flowers, it’s a good idea to cut in early morning or eve ning, when stems are full ol moisture. Don’t cut too close to the ground; leave at least four leaves so that the bulb can mature. Cut the flowers in bud, just as soon as the first 2 florets have opened. In this way, the bouquet lasts for days, and you have the pleasure of watch ing the flowers open. Use a deep vase with plenty of wa ter. Change the water daily, cutting off a bit of the stem each time. Despite this year’s eccentric weather, bitter below zero temperatures last Winter, a dry Spring, then rain, and then drouth at its worst, my day lilies have been so lovely this year. They will stand beating sun without fad ing too much and lack of rain to a large degree, and they will also do fairly well in shade, 3 good recommendations for planting day lilies. If the flower lovers who read The Frontier Woman have not gotten acquainted with the day lily, they should do so. My first ones were in bloom for Decoration day. One of these was the named variety, Apricot, and the other was the Flava lemon lily. I also have Fulva, Gold Dust, Hyperion, Mikado, Ophir and Sunny West. All have been lovely, also some varieties that I do not know the name. Hyperion is a late blomer as is Sunny West which does not bloom uni til August. A variety which is now in bloom, of which I have several, I do not know the name of. It is a good orange and part of them seem to be double with curling petals. They are lovely. —tfw— Send Us a Letter — Send us a letter for the Frontier Woman, won’t you? We do need your letters so much to make our department interesting and worthwhile. You read the Frontier Woman every week and it’s time our readers did their share by con tributing something. Our thanks comes in the form of a 3-months’ subscription to The Frontier if your letter is used. Do write to us. Send your let ter to Mrs. Blanche Pease, the Frontier Woman, Atkinson, Nebraska. w. F. Finley, M. D. j OFFICE PHOHEs 29 Fint National Bank Bldg. | O'NEILL 1 ! Dr*. Bennett & Cook ] VETERINARIANS — O'NEILL — j Phones: 318, 424, 304 j l-—• j John R. Gallagher j Altorn*T'*^'^,aw ! * Fi*«t Natl Bank Bldg. joTfaUi t Phoua 11 heart ailment, but had suffer ed from a weakened heart for several years. The late Dewey Arthur True was born at Ewing at July 8, 1901, a son of Nellie and George True. He was united in marriage to Anna Sievers on March 6, 1936. To this union was born a, daughter. Sharron Ann, 6. Preceding him in death were his father, mother, brother and 4 sisters. Survivors include: Widow; daughter; 2 step daughters, 1 stepston; a stepfather; 2 broth ers—George, ot Chadron, and Victor, of Ewing; 5 sisters— Della Klinetobe. of Rapid City, S. 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