The Frontier Woman—
‘Spoiled’ Farm Wife Abused When Obliged
to Use Her Back Porch for an Ice Box
By BLANCHE SPANN PEASE
Hi there, all you wonderful
people. Washington’s birthda>
is next, by gum. Somehow since 1
visited Mt. Vernon and saw
Washington’s home, and viewed
the things he used, he has come
much more alive to me. I think
of him a very human person
rather than a sort of historical
great alone.
What do I remember as the
stand out of my visit to Mt. Ver
non?
One of Martha’s dresses on dis
play there! It was worn thin and
faded over the
stomach, from
much washing.
Somehow that
brought home
the fact that
they had been
real breathing
people, with the
usual faults
and foibles as
well au being
. _ the famous
Bland* Spann people of our
early history.
Well, we still have to eat in
1951. Brisk winter days call for
hearty eating and there’s no bet
ter way to insure your family’s
good health than to see to it that
they have well balanced meals.
Plan your menus carefully and
be sure and include at least one
daily serving of meat.
Homemakers who must lead
families on limited budgets
will find that the use of pick
les as an ingredient in meal
cookery creates • wide variety
of delightful dishes and also
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CHIROPRACTOR
Complata X-Ray Equipmani ,
V» Block So. of Ford Garage ,
O’NeilL Nebraska
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1 | provides them with attractive
ways to economize by using
' | ess expensive cuts of meat.
[ Pickles add color and flavor
, and the pickle juice is a wonder
ful tenderizer. Here are a few
recipes that rate high nutrional
ly as well as flavor wise:
Watch everyone sit up and
take notice when you set this
aromatic dish of spareribs with
barbecue sauce before them. It
won’t be necessary to call any
one to the dinner table more
than once when this is on the
menu.
SPARERIBS WITH BARBECUE
PICKLE SAUCE
Four pounds spare ribs, salt
and pepper, 1 large onion, sliced,
Vi cup catsup, 2 tablespoons pick
le juice, Vi cup water, few drops
hot sauce, 2 tablespoons Worces
tershire sauce, 1 teaspoon salt,
Vi teaspoon carenne pepper, Vi
teaspoon black pepper, 1 teaspoon
chili powder, Vi cup sweet relish.
Wipe spare ribs and crack
bones across the middle, sprinkle
with salt and pepper. Place in a
roasting pan with sliced onion
on top. Cover and bake in a mod
erate oven of 35F. for 1 hour.
Combine remaining ingredients
and mix throughly. Pour sauce
over spare ribs and return to ov
en, bake uncovered 1 hour.
Next time you buy round
steak, try fixing it this way. The
pickles and pickle juice blend
with the garlic and seasonings
to make a savory steak.
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Nice Winter—But Still
Cold at Clothes Line—
Mrs. Roy Lanman, of O’Neill,
wins one of three-months’ prizes
today.
O’Neill, Nebr.
Dear Blanche Pease:
Have meant to write to you
for a long time. Haven’t we had
a lovely winter? I was red to
day, though, and I must say I
don’t think I ever hung clothes
NORTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
HEREFORD ASSOCIATION’S
20TH ANNUAL SPRING
BULL SALE
BASSETT, NEBRASKA
Saturday, February 24
SHOW IN MORNING — SALE IN AFTERNOON
Benton Marshall, Crawford—Judge
"Buy Better Bulls at Bassett"
44 - HEREFORD BULLS - 44
LIST OF CONSIGNORS AND BLOOD LINES
Floyd Arrowsmith, Newport — B. B. Mischief, Real Prince
Domino; Harry J. Brown, Bassett-Onward Brae; H. L. Buell,
Bassett —Trupex; Floyd Burkinshaw, Herrick, S. D.—Battle
Pioneer; Chas. Dorsey, Newport—Royal Tone, Anxiety Dom
ino; > Dallas DorSey, Newport—Royal Tone; Marvin Dorsey,
Newport—Royal Tone; Charles J. Johnson, Rose — Onward
Pioneer; O. A. Larson, Bassett—Royal Pioneer; Stanley Lar
son, Bassett—Royal Pioneer; Harold Melcher, Page—Silver
Knight; C. El Miller, Bassett—Silver Knight; Chas. Morton,
Duff—Royal Aster; Irvin D. Nicholson, Springview—U. U. U.,
Blanchard Block; Bernard C. Phifer, Long Pine—Pioneer
Blanchard, Conquering Lad; Dean Rowse, Bassett—U. U. U.;
F. E. Titus, Springview—Silver Knight, Royal Duke, U. U. U.,
Pioneer; H. A. and Robert E. VanHorn, Page—Silver Knight,
Battle Aster; Artice Wentworth, Mills—Saturn, Beau Ideal;
Henry Wood, Ewing—North Star.
FOR CATALOG WRITE
TUG PHILLIPS, Sale Manager
BASSETT, NEBRASKA
CHARLE1S CORKLE, Auctioneer—Usual Field Men
Will Be Present
when my hands got any colder.
Here’s a hint for that very
thing: Dry hands well and put
a little vaseline on them, that
keeps off the cold a lot.
Save potato water and use in
gravy, along with the milk, this
way you get the vitamins.
For potholders, use the little
hooks off the childrens support
ers, they last so long when sewed
or put on with tape.
I am sending you a couple
of recipes I have just tried
and fcund good. I'm very fond
of the one dish meals. They
save so much cooking and are
hea thful, too.
HAMBURGER HASH
One pound hamberger, 1 chop
ped onion, 1 small box spaghetti,
(or more if desired), 1 pint can
ned tomatoes, 1 teaspoonful salt,
one-eighth teaspoon pepper, 1
teaspoon chili powder. Fry ham
burger and onion brown, cook
spaghetti in salted water till
done. Then drain and mix all in
gredients together. Bake in cas
serole or pan about 3 minutes in
a moderate oven.
TUNA AND NOODLES
One can tuna, put in a wire
drainer and pour boiling water
over it to remove all oil. One 8
ounce package noodles cooked in
salted water 15 r 20 minutes and
drain and add tuna, 1 can mush
room soup, 1 onion cut fine, one
pint of milk or more if necessary.
Stir all together and put in cas
serole. Put wheaties over the top
and dot with butter. Bake Vt to
% of an hour.
MRS. ROY LANMAN
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Where Do Youngster Get
Energy at Day's End?—
“Mrs. A. P.” wins our second
three-months’ subscription to The
Frontier.
Ewing, Nebr.
Dear Blanche:
Now that the youngsters are
in 'bed and it’s quiet, maybe I
can get this written. If I just had
the energy that our four have
left at the end of the day I
could get a lot more done. Where
in the world do they get it?
Would you like to hear about
the wonderful week we just had?
The last thing first. At long, long
last we have REA. Our nice new
refrigerator has been sitting in
the comer just taking up space
since two days before Christmas.
We were told we’d have electri
city for Christmas so when the
men brought our new refrigerat- j
or we let them take our kerosene !
one.
Evry bad thing has its good
points. The back porch made a
pretty good ice box, but I guess
I was spoiled because it seem
ed so much trouble to have to
go out there to get something
or lake something out.
Another nice Christmas pres
j ent that was waiting to be used
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NOBODY starves if the meat’s left at the
butcher’s. All this call does is stave off a veg
etarian dinner—no life and death matter and
hence not too important. Still, such a call is
probably worth more than it cost. How about
that cost—what goes into it?
Everybody benefits when telephone service
is improved and expanded. It means better
service and more of it for
more people. The catch
is, where does the money
come from to pay for
more wires and cables,
new buildings, compli
cat. ’ sv. 'rchboards? Not
much comes from what
you pay for service.
Your monthly bill covers
the cost of rendering
that service, plus a small
amount for profit. The
profit — when it is fair
and reasonable—attracts
new investment money
for improvements and
expansion. What you
pay should include
tmougb profit to do this
vital job.
NORTHWISTIRN RILL TILIPHONI COMPANY
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TO LEAVE ON'EILL . . . Supt.
Ira George (above), affiliated
with the O’Neill public school
13 years, will not return to O’
Neill next year. He doubled as
bandmaster.
was a nice electric iron. I must
have “smelled the rat" because 1
was so pokey about getting my
ironing done. It seemed like first
one thing and thetn another
would come up hat made me put
my ironing off. I still had it to do
when our electricity was turned
on Friday afternoon. I dropped
everything and did my ironing.
Supper was even a few minutes
late because I wanted to finish
it.
Grandma promised to let us
use her waffle iron as soon as we
had electricity. The kiddies coax
ed their daddy to go get it, even
if it was getting stormy.
Incidentally we had waffles
for supper and waffles for break
fast and it would have been waf
fles for dinner if the kiddies had
had their way about it.
We aren’t used to our new lux
ury yet. We grope around in the
dark, forgetting all we have to
do is flip the switch.
Now the first nice thing that
happened last week. Hubby put
his John Henry on the line and
in about two weeks I’ll have a
nice shiny set of stainless steel
cookware to use to fix good
things for these hungry little
mouths. I’m as excited as a little
boy with a new toy.
I’m sending along a couple of
waffle recipes. We like them
both and hope you do, too:
CREAM WAFFLES
One and three-fourths cups
flour, 1 teaspoon soda, 2 tea
spoons baking powder, 2 table
spoons melted shortening (salad
oil works fine), % teaspoon salt,
IV4 cups sour cream, 2 eggs
(separated). Mix and sift dry
ingredients. Add cream, well
beaten egg yolks and melted
shortening. Fold in stiffly beaten
egg white. Preheat iron, pour
batter and bake. Serves 5 people.
FLUFFY WAFFLES
Two cups flour, 3 teaspoons
baking powder, 1 tablespoon su
gar, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 eggs sep
arated, 1 2/3 cups milk, 6 table
spoons melted shortening (salad
oil is fine). Mix and sift dry in
gredients. Add egg yolks beaten
with milk and melted shortening.
Mix together. Fold in stiffly
beaten egg whites. Preheat iron
and bake. Serves 4 people.
“MRS. A. P ”
SANDHILL SAL
Bachelors are simple fellows
who think that when they get
married they will have less trou
ble with their wives than other
husbands.
Little pay check, I wonder why
you never stretch oe’r all I buy!
EWING SCHOOL NEWS
The Ewing high school audi
torium is now equipped to show
films. First was shown Friday af
ternoon to the entire school—the
main feature “Great Mike Wins”.
It was a 50-minute drama with
Stuart Erwin and Buzzy Henry
in a story of a race horse. The
film also included “Mail and
Family”, a famous kids comedy.
The Tigers play at Inman Fri
day, February 16. Both games
have promise of being excellent
entertainment. The Ewing pep
club is very much worth seeing in
action, and the band will play
between games for entertain
ment.
Contributions for tfhe march
of dimes were made by each
grade room and high school in
the Ewing public school The
total amount contributed was
$57.77. which is an average of
over 25 cents per pupil.
The music department of the
Ewing public school, under the
direction of Miss Esther Schram,
is preparing the annual music
concert. Selections will be ren
dered by the band, the glee club
and mixed chorus. The enter
tainment will also include solos
and songs by small groups. The
department is planning to give
the concert the evening of Febr- i
uary 22.
55 Legionnaires
Hear Selenlic—
Fifty-five members of Simon
son post 93, of the American Le
gion, heard S. A. Selentic, con
sultant engineer for Consumers
Public Power district and Loup
River Public Powder district, in
formally discuss freign affairs at
the regular monthly meeting
Thursday night.
The Legion voted to sell Christ
mas trees next yule season and
will use proceeds for benefit
purposes.
A stag luncheon was schedul
ed for Thursday, February 22.
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