The Frontier Woman — Winter Disaster ‘Could Not Have Happened to a More Courageous People—Detroiter By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE Hi there, all you nice people! Middle of April—tulips and daf fodils up and maybe getting ready to bloom by the time you read this. Hope so. Got your housecleanmg all done? You can keep the rest of — -XT's- the house more livable if you house clean just one room a t a time. Or as nearly that idea as you can. Take the curtains down first and if *.1____ fri vakV'J uav' . _ laund e r e a Blanche Spann they can be Pease pUt aside for that or sent to the dry cleaners. An idea to remember this Spring if you have some left over paint is that it can prevent mattresses picking up rust marks. Give the springs a coat of paint when the original paint shows signs of wearing thin. Dust hangs downward so when you clean walls, brush in an upward motion to prevent smearing and streaking. If you have painted walls, after wash ing walls, apply a thin coat of laundry starch and the next time you clean them, the dirt will wash right off with the starch. Keep parchment shades clean by waxing them, it will make O’NEILL AUTO j REBUILDERS j 5 Blocks North of Bus Depot SPECIALIZING IN i | Body & Fender | ^ Repairing ^ Repainting LINDQUIST & j sons ; PHONE 133 $>them easy to dust and add a soft luster to the finish. A tiny cork tacked low on the back ol a picture frame will present a dark line from forming on wall paper or a painted wall. There are several good pre parations on the market these days for washing woodwork and walls. Be sure to use these helps when you are houseelean mg. They are especially made for this, they do make your work easier and you will get better results with less work. -—tfw—■ Subscription Winning Letters— Helen Troshvnski Wilson, ol | Detroit, Mich., formerly from Holt county, wins a three months’ subscription today. An other three-months’ subscriptior goes to Mrs. J. W. Walters, ol Chambers. A surprise gift has been sent to Mrs. L. F. Kliment of Atkinson, for the use of her letter. Mrs. Wilson’s letter: Dear Mrs. Pease and Readers: Nearly a year has gone since writing to your column, anc what a year it has been! We visited O’Neill twice in tha time. The first trip was the sac duty of returning a native Ne braskan, who had been with ui here, to his beloved Holt coun ty for burial. The second trij was purely pleasure—a stopov er after spending a short tim< in California. This was sooi after the mid-November storn so we saw lots of snow. Now, foi | weeks, the blizzard story ha; been coming through on the ra 1 dio, our own daily paper, anc even the movie news reels. The Frontier has given a good blow-by-blow descrip tion of the hardship the con tinued storms have created. Our sympathy goes out to each and everyone. There will be many unsung heroes and heroines, as there always are, when folks are faced with dis aster and difficulty. It could not have happened to a more courageous people. That brings us to hopes foi Spring, and the chance to again start digging in the good earth, After seven years of apartmenl house living, we bought a home last Summer. So now we toe will be able to have a few veg etables and a flower garden. Last Fall we put in iris and a vine which were brought back from my home near Emmet. We have a rose bush, lilacs and bri dal wreath, but my flower beds, will be getting lots of attention, too. Have some seeds, and am not overlooking the offer of a cereal company—seven packages of seed for a box top and 15 cents. Who could resist? Instead of a recipe. I am send ing you a hint or two. Protect delicate curtains to be washed in a washing machine by first basting them into mus lin bags. Dirt will be much easier to wash out of curtains if half a cup of salt is added to the soak ing water. Sprinkled clothes will dampen evenly if they are folded rather than rolled and wrapped in oil ed silk or a rubber sheet. If you hang freshly laundered dresses by the hem they will be much easier to iron. HELEN TROSHYNSKI WILSON. Mrs. Walter's Letter — Dear Mrs. Pease: I have not written to you for a long time. At one time I sent in a household hint and receiv ed a small price. I did enjoy it. Here is a kitchen hint: When powdered sugar or brown sugar has turned hard and lumpy, put the package into the bread box with the bread and it will soften. I am also sending a couple of recipes. Left over recipes are always so practical so I am sending this . one: LEFT OVER MEAT CASSEROLE Cut in small pieces left over ( meat of any kind that has been . boiled, roasted or fried, put in . casserole. Make a white sauce ’ of two cups of milk and two i level tablespoons of flour sea soned with salt and pepper to taste, two tablespoons butter. Pour over meat, break a slice of bread in small pieces and put on top and dot with butter. Bake in a medium oven of 350 F for 35 or 40 minutes. CABBAGE ROLLS fake as many cabbage leaves as you are going to prepare rolls. Put in a kettle, cover with boiling water, cover and steam five minutes. Make patties of fresh season ed sausage, about 3 inches long and lMs inches in diameter. Roll in washed rice and wrap in cab bage leaves, stick a tooth pick through each one to hold in place. * — Entirely different! Cooks with Gas off! It’s the new Maytag Dutch Oven Gas Range | Be sure you see this amazing, new type range. Cooks superbly r n Dy usual memous, or automatically, using stored-up heat... as in the famed Dutch Ovens of colonial days. Put a whole meal in the oven, set the dial... then do what you please till serv ing time. Gas burns but a fraction of the cooking period... shuts off automatically at the specified time. Cooking is com pleted by stored-up heat... giving foods the supremely delicious flavors achieved only with Dutch Oven cookery. Maytag is the only range that auto matically turns off the gas and keeps right on cooking! Come in right away and see the many features that help you cook better..: more easily 1 Only.229.95 Corkle Maytag Phone 19 O’Neill Sandhill Sal Laugh when your husband wears a waste basket to show you how your new Spring hat looks. Ladies, that’s supposed to be funny! He used to hold her little hands, what wistful recollection, but nowadays when he holds her hands, it could be for self-pro tection! Who ever said no news is good news, never waited for a husband to come home. Grin. If you want to be different from your neighbors—just dye your hair plaid. Put in pan, cover with water into which has been added two tablespoons of catsup. You may cook these on top of the stove or in the oven, preferrably in the oven, about one hour or un til the meat is done. MRS. J. W. WALTERS, Chambers. —tfw— Mrs. Kliment's Gift Winning Letter — Dear Mrs. Pease: Thanks a lot for the subscrip tion which I won sometime ago. We really enjoy getting the pa per. We haven’t had our mail very regularly this Winter.; Sometimes didn’t get it for two weeks. Sure missed it, too! It's really been a bad Win- 1 ter. One we will never forget. The snow is really piled up around here. But, yet I think we are pretty lucky at that. When one reads the papers it seems to be worse in different places, and now they'll have floods which will be bad, too. I’m sending a recipe for a chocolate cake that we like very much. It’s made out of quick granulated yeast—the dry type that comes in the little sealed packages. It stays nice and moist for a long time. CHOCOLATE CAKE One-half package quick gran ulated dry yeast, three table spoons lukewarm water, I4 tea spoon sugar, »2 cup butter, 1 1-3 cups sugar, two eggs, well beat en, •% teaspoon vanilla, V4 cup sifted cocoa. 2-3 cups sweet milk, two cups sifted flour, 3-4 tea spoons baking soda, two table spoons w'arm water. Stir the yeast into the three tablespoons of lukewarm water, add V4 tea spoon sugar and let stand five minutes. Cream butter, sugar and salt thoroughly. Add beaten eggs and vanilla and cocoa. Stir in milk and flour alternately. Add softened yeast. Cover the batter and let stand overnight in a cool place. In the morning, dissolve the soda in the two tablespoons warm water, slir in to mixture. Pour into two nine inch layer greased cake pans lined with waxed paper). Bake at once in a moderately hot oven of 350 F. about 25 minutes. Cover with a fluffy white frost ing. MRS. L. F. KLIMENT, Atkinson. —tfw— Send Us a Letter — Send us a letter for The Fron tier Woman. If we have enough letters, we give two subscrip tion awards each issue. Some times there will be a bonus of an extra letter for which a small gift will be mailed, if we have enough letters. Write about what ever you like. We will soon be in need of letters on canning. If you successfully can peas, greens and strawberries, and have some good recipes for these, in cluding jams for strawberries, won’t you please send us those recipes in a letter at once, for use jn May and June? Don’t wait to send them because then they won’t reach us in time for pub lication. THE FRONTIER. O'Neill, Ne Seasonable letters of all kinds are welcome, too. Don't just send us a recipe, send us two or three of your favorite recipes and include two or three hints i or time savers—that makes up a good letter, one that is worth a subscription. Send your letters to Mrs. Blanche Pease, The Frontier I Woman, Atkinson, Nebr. —tfw— Ideas — Would you like some ideas for “Quickie Salads?” Consumer Public Power shares these with us. 1. Alternate layers of avocado and grapefruit. Orange slices may be used in place of grape fruit. 2. Cooked asparagus tips on thick tomato slices. 3. Toss lettuce, tiny spinach leaves and grapefruit segments together. Serve with cottage cheese French dressing (Aad three tablespoons cottage cheese and one tablespoon minced on ion to one cup dressing.) 4. Shredded cabbage, diced unpeeled apple, sliced green ; pepper. Toss together lightly. 5. Peach half, cut side up on j salad greens. Fill center with | cottage cheese, garnish with pe can half. 6. Place thin slices of orange on salad greens. Cover with pear half cut side down. Sprinkle with grated cheese. WSCS Holds Sales ATKINSON — Faith circle of the WSCS of the Methodist church held a food sale Tuesday, April 12 at Cleary’s market. Miriam circle of the WSCS held a rummage sale at the Collins Implement store Friday and Sat urday. Go to Omaha — ATKINSON — Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Mahin and Mrs. Agnes I Collamer, mother of Mrs. Mahin, br.. April 14. 1943—PAGE 3 left for Omaha Sunday where Mr. Mahin went to consult a specialist. Other Atkinson News Mr. and Mrss. Francis Gilg and sons, of O’Neill, visited Mrs. Mary Gilg, mother of Francis, on Sunday afternoon. Other guests at Mrs. Mary Gilg’s home were Mr. and Mrs. Roy Gilg, of At kinson. Laurence Storjohann, of the Atkinson Livestock Market, is building a new home on North Main, North of the American Lutheran church. Vincent Os borne began excavating the basement on Monday. The Gilg Construction Co., of O’Neill, holds the contract. 11 For a Good Time * i VISIT THE OLD PLANTATION CLUB i Elgin. Nebr. ! ★ • Fine Food • Dancing • Entertainment * Members and their guests are invited to visit the Old Plantation Club. It pays to shop FIRST at J. M. McDonald Cat Imagine! 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