Hie Frontier Woman —
Mrs. Pospeshil Wonders If Her
Garden Is Worth All the Trouble
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
Sandhill Sal
To err is human—to forgive
is devine. To speed is human
and if you’re caught—a fine!
They say they’re going to
raise the price of juke box
playing. Well, we’ve always
been one of those people who
think they ought to raise it to
$1 50.
President Truman has lots
of trouble finding folks to ser
| ve in his cabinet as he says
he wants good people. Don’t
look now, but we wonder if
he’s ever thought of looking
in any of the other 47 states!
If you would follow the road
to happiness — you’ll find it
starts out from now—and you'
ll have to do your own paving.
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We pick them every other
day and it means a lot of
work plus a few aches and
pains here and there. Some
times one wonders if it is
worth it all after spending
several hours straight in the
patch to say nothing at all of
the work picking them over
later. I think it is worth it
though. To show for our work,
we now have 42 quarts in the
locker box. I canned 19 quarts
and made 15 or 16 pints of
preserves, not to mention those
we gave away, which I ima
gine would be around 50
quarts.
Tomorrow we pick again,
but it will not be a very big
job. June berries are nice
while they last. We plan to
cut down the size of our pat
ch. My husband has finally
decided it is too big. Thats j
about enough on strawberries.
Our garden hasn’t been
much so far.
In the first place, it was too
wet to plow. Then when they
did plow it was still almost
like a swamp. But, never the
less we got busy and “mud
ded in” some potatoes and
garden vegetables. Then came
one rain right after another
one, to add to the already
“too’’ wet ground. Actually we
had begun to wish we had
kept our potatoes to eat. and '
saved our garden seeds for a
nother year. Some of our po- |
tatoes rotted, hut some did
manage to get through and .
I suppose the potato bugs
will feast on those. j
Out peas, beans, radishes,
lettuce, carrot, beets and al
most everything we planted
did come up but a big share
of it slowly but surely dis
appeared. I suppose that
credit goes to the cut worms.
Just seems we aren't meant
to have a nice garden, like
we usually have.
I am enclosing two recipes
for apples which I thought
your readers might want to try.
Hi there, all you nice peo
ple. Whew! The next time
some body asks me, “Is it hot
enough for you today?” the
best thing for them to do is
smile, because that's a ques
tion that is growing awfully
worn out these days.
Here’s a slick trick for hot
days, particularly if some one
m your home is ill. Stretch a
heavy turkish towel that has
been dipped in very cold wat
er on a short
line in front
of the bed
and turn the
fan so that it
carries the
cool air from
the towel on
the patient.
Lacking a
fan, fasten
the wet tow- j
Blanche Spann el to the win- !
Pease dow shade of
an open window. Of course, the
towel will need to be changed
aften but it may help some
when the patient is miserable. ■
Ice water in the hot water ■
bottle will help, too.
This hot weather we all hate
to iron Try standing on a fold
ad bath mat or a rubber
sponge mat to ease your feet.
Better yet, sit down to iron.
Try to get at the ironing the
first thing in the morning be
fore it gets hot, that goes for
other things which might be
done In early morning, too.
It will soon be peach can
ning time. A sprinkle of lem
on juice will prevent sliced
peaches from turning dark af
ter peeling and until they are .
ready to can.
Lemon juice is useful in ot
her ways too. To keep the
yolks of hard cooked eggs
bright, clear and light around
file edges, avoid overcooking.
When poaching eggs a few
drops of lemon juice in the
water will keep poached eggs
from separating.
Speaking of eggs, the juice
from a jar of olives will give
deviled eggs a delicious flavor.
You likely have discovered
that the best way to scramble
eggs is in the top of the dou
ble boiler. That means they
are cooked at lower tempera
ture and are very tender.
Some folks like to add a little
milk or cream before scramb
ling. Chipped beef is an idea,
too *
While it is true that the
whites of eggs are more easily
separated from the yolks when
eggs are cold, egg whites whip
up in larger volume if they
are at room temperature. Re
member that when you make
angel food cake.
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Mrs. Pospeshil
Wins Subscription—
Dear Mrs. Pease;
My goodness, how time flies.
I can hardly realize that it has
been five weeks now since I
received the first copy of a
three months subscription for
my letter I sent you. I was so
I surprised and happy, to see
that I had won something for
once. I could hardly believe it!
When my husband came
in with the mail he asked,
"How come you are getting
The Frontier, after several
weeks not receiving a copy.
I did not say a word, I just
opened up the paper to the
Frontier Woman page and
there it was—my letter! He
said, "So that's it. is it?" I
was so thrilled about it!
I intended to write you right
away but it seems pretty easy
for me to neglect writing. If
I had written you every time
I thought of it, I’m sure you
would not need to ask for more
letters for some time. I see you
are asking for more letters so
am doing my bit by writing you
pne.
Today is so different from
the day when I wrote my
first letter. It is quite warm
and windy. With weather
like this, one almost forgets
the severe Winter we had.
But, when we get a bunch
of pictures of the snow, we
can almost live the whole
thing over again.
My husband has three cam
eras. He has two 35 MM Mer
cury cameras. One takes color
shots and black and white
with the other. He also has a
movie camera, so with all those
pictures we do have an assort
ment to look at. Oh yes, I
have a Kewpie camera that
has taken 116 rolls, so I got
my two cents worth, too. I
took a roll of pictures of Mar
ch 31 snow storm and got
some good pictures.
We have been two very busy
people since about June four
th. We have a patch of straw
berries, (they are the June
berries) and have kept us busy!
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APPLE SAUCE COOKIES
One cup unsweetened apple
sauce, one cup flour, % cup
shortening, one teaspoon salt,
one teaspoon soda, 2 Li cups
I flour, one teaspoon cloves, one
teaspoon cinnamon, one all
spice, Vi cup raisins, 14 cup
nutmeats.
Stir soda, sugar and short
ening into the apple sauce.
Sift spices with flour and
iprinkle over raisins and nuts
Add to first mixture and drop
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Slice enough apples to fill a
deep pie tin, heaping full. Pour
V2 cup wihite sugar over the
apples and stir slightly.* Mix
one cup brown sugar and one
\ cup flour with 14 cup butter
to a crumbly mass and sprink
le over the top of the apples.
Place in a moderate oven and
bake until apples ar® **n
Cinnamon may be added it
you care for it.
Mrs Albert Pospeshil,
Venus, Nebraska
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Ex-School-Teacher
Writes Prize Winning Letter
Dear Blanch:
We always like The Frontier
and your kindly letters and
suggestions. As I am an ex
school-teacher I am interested
in better schools, so here is
my opinion.
This time of year we are all
interested in returning to
school. Mother, grandmother,
aunt, and uncles are busy pre
paring equipment for the chil
dren’s return to school.
This year the crying need
is for more and better school
buildings and facilities to en
tice more students to enter
the field of education. This
should be everyone’s goal to
attain such a system of edu
cation that our children and
future posterity would emerge
from the school’s as God fear
ing men and women ready to
take their places as citizens of
the greatest nation on earth
If we are to be leaders, we
must change our system of ed
ucation and teach more brot
herly love, and welfare of oth
er nations; so also shall we
prosper or grow weak. For the
greatest commandment given
us by God is “To love thy1
neighbor as thyself,” if we fail
in this, all the science, math
ematics and languages that we
learn will avail us nothing.
We have the atom bomb, but
of what profit it is.
If we keep up this rush for
power, without any heed of
God and his Commandments,
civilization as we know it, will
soon be wiped from the earth;
so why not, while we still
have time, put our shoulders
to the wheel and one and all
go out and teach all nations
by word and deed as Christ
commanded His 12 apos
tles. ‘‘Go teach all nations; as
I have taught you.” Then and
only then shall we do away
with this great wave of crime
and juvenile deliquency that
is sweeping the worl.d
AN EX-SCHOOL TEACHER
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