The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 13

1 “boys’’ abroad. AT L0 THE FARM WOMAN’S PAGE South Daketa Woman Tells What the Ndnpattisan League Means to Her By MRS. A. E. BECKWITH T seems to me that the Nonpartl- san league is rapidly broadening I our field of vision. For years we saw no farther than our own gardens and wheat fields and the mar- kets where, we proffered our hard- earned produce for whatever price our buyers deemed it wise to pay. We used to mildly wonder, as we drove from the elevator, what became of all the grain. Or perhaps we stood in the country store, with a child in our arms and another tugging at our skirts, trying to figure out how to ° make the few dozen eggs buy the week’s supply of groceries. LEAGUE ENCOURAGES LOVE OF FARMING We have long been credulous chil- dren of toil. But over the grain fields has come a ripple. It is the propa- ganda of organized farming. It has stirred in us a sense of right long dor- +all over again mant. A thousand queries as to eco-~ nomic and social conditions occur to us. Nor has all this made us dissatis- fied with ‘our life’s occupation, the art of producing. We have fallen in love with ' farming ~but it is honest toil which expects and demands an equally honest recom- pense. FROM HOMES LIKE THIS or the children in the country store? After all it is' for them that the work- ings of the League will come to mean the most. . Our organized efforts wili not have been -in vain if, through them, our boy girl 'can enter life’s work free from the shackling de- ceptions and difficulties we have borne. We would not wish our ITS MES- child a life SAGE FOR without work, THE CHIL- but we would DREN, TOO wish him You remem- From homes like this, as well as from pros- = & chance to ber what I. perous farms in the older farming sections, do all the bet- said about women wrote what the League means to them ter, greater things his heart prompts him to do, unhampered by the ignorance, graft and partisan dealing, which have cost _us our life’s best years. 5 NONPARTISAN LEAGUE A HELP TO MOTHERS Among all kind who rear their young, the mothers ever fight for the welfare of their offspring. So must we mothers, and the Nonparti- san league is helping us to fight. The little fair-haired tot who plays on the floor today will be a man in the near tomorrow. Today, we play the game fair. To our baby we give smile for smile, comfort for little hurts, courage to face the small tasks, and lo, the little one is expanding— growing! 8o, we trust, will our man- boy grow to greater things in the fair- er, truer future we are working to bring him through the League. A HANDY LIST Figures giving the food supplies of the world tell us that in 1918 America will more and more be called on to - share with a hungry world what she can spare from her own board. This can be done by substituting other foods not needed for shipping. Some- times it is hard to think of that sub- stitute. Why not prepare a list to hang on-the kitchen cabinet to be used for ready reference when in doubt? Let the list below grow with your experiments. Meat Substitutes ~ Poultry Rabbit Fish Eggs ! Cheese Dishes Baked Beans Bean Loaf Nut Loaf Bean Soup i Milk Soup < Chowders g GG Milk Wheat Bread Substitutes Corn Bread Brown Bread Oat Cakes Buckwheat Cakes’ " Hominy . Potato Biscuit Rye Bread Potatoes : Rice S SUCCESSFUL SAVING Perhaps the clearest proof of the value of the food conservation move- ment that has yet been made’ public is in a statement just issued by Food Administrator Hoover in which he shows that every ounce of wheat that is exported from America from the 1917 crop,’ from this time until the 1918 harvest, will be just what the American people can save from their normal consumption of wheat and no more! : : PN Mr. Hoover’s statement shows that : .~ wheatless and meatless days have al- ready resulted in saving enough wheat; and enough meat to have a very grat- ifying and appreciable effect on-the supply that is available for shipment to the allies of the United States and . to feed the soldiers of this nation who are fow fighting, or preparing to fight, in Burope. ! ¢ S 'Wlieatless and meat.leas days here at home mean deféatless days for our { 3 N In L¢ader’s to her. ~ ‘ Here are a few kitchen recipes of- fered by the food administration as suggestions to housewives for saving meat. By adopting some such ideas a small amount of meat can be stretched to flavor a big dish. The Leader has found that many of its readers ap- Dreciate the “récipes. it has offered from time to time, whether from the food administration or other reliable sources. Try these savory hot dishes, they are highly recommended: - It is possible to make a little meat go a long way. Meat pies and meat stews offer a variation for every day in the month. In these combinations a small piece of meat can be stretched to flavor a big dish. Try these hot savory dishes, the whole family will ke them. g Fish Chowder Rabbit, fowl, or any meat may be used instead of the fish, or tomatoes instead of milk. ' The carrots may be omitted. One and one-half pounds fish (fresh, salt, or canned), 9 pota-. ' toes peeled and cut in small pieces, 1 onion, 2 cups carrots cut in pieces, 3 cups milk, pepper, 3 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon fat. Fry chopped _onion in fat for five minutes. - Put fat, “ onions, carrots and potatoes in kettle and cover with boiling water. 'Cook until - vegetables are tender. Mix flour with one-kalf cup cold milk and “stir in Hquid in pot to thicken. Add the rest of the milk and the fish which has been removed from the bone and cut. in small pieces. Cook until fish = » First Prize Letter Above is the first prize letter that our readers have been waiting for. It is written by Mrs. A. E. Beckwith of. Willow Lake, S. D. It contains the best answer to the question, ‘‘ What does the Non- partisan league mean to you?’’of all the answers received in the recent prize letter contest for farm women. You will note Mrs. Beckwith i3 full of hope—the hope that the league has brought She sees fair play for her children. chance ahead for farming. The second prize letter will appear next week. It’s a splendid testimonial to the leagué from the state of its birth, North Dakota. Watch for these prizewinnding - letters and those that received honorable mention that will follow. Big Contest She sees a better . Stretching Meat Flavor is tender, about 10 minutes. hot. Serve Tamale Pie Take 2 cups cornmeal, 214 tea- spoons salt, 6 cups boiling water, 1 onion, 1 tablespoon fat, 1 pound Ham- burger steak, 2 cups tomatoes, 14 tea- spoon cayenne pepper or 1 small chopped sweet pepper. -by stirring the cornmeal and 114 tea- spoons salt into boiling water. Cook in a double boiler or over water for 45 minutes.. Brown the onion in fat, add the Hamburg steak and stir until the red color disappears. Add the to- mato, pepper and 1 teaspoon salt. Grease a baking dish, put in a layer of cornmeal mush; add the seasoned meat, and cover with mush. Bake 30 minutes.’ Potted Hominy and Beef Take 5 cups cooked hominy, 4 po- tatoes, 2 cups carrots, 1 teaspoon salt, % pound dried beef, 2 cups milk, 2 tablespoons fat, 2 tablespoons flour. Melt the fat, stir in the flour, add the cold milk, and mix well. Cook until it thickens. Cut the potatoes and car- rots in dice, mix all the materials in a baking dish, and bake for one hour. Shepherd’s Pie Take 2 cups cooked meat, 1 cup stock, 1 tablespoon fat, 1 tablespoon flour, % teaspoon saft, pepper, 2 cups mashed potatoes. Put diced meat in- to a baking dish. Add brown sauce ° made of fat, flour, seasonings and stock. Cover top with mashed pota- brown in J toes, brush with fat and oven, 74 | PAGE THIRTEEN Make a mush ° WOMEN TO TEST CREAM - As a means of increasing the nation’s supply of labor, George E. Haskell, dairy specialist of the food administration staff, has suggested the more general employment of women as cream testers. There are at least 10,000 cream receiving stations in the United States, according to Mr. Haskell, at which cream is purchased, sampled, tested and then shipped to churning centers for manufacture into butter. Women have to some extent assisted their husbands as cream station operators and in states requiring such-operators to be licensed, a small percentage of women have success- tully passed the technical tests and been granted licenses. When con- venient platforms are arranged for loading and unloading cans of cream with a minimum of lifting, the work is not physically difficult. ‘“Women are well qualified for the painstaking work of sampling and testing,” declared Mr. Haskell, “and only a short training is necessary to . make them proficient. The substitu- tion of women as cream station oper- ators, especially in the smaller sta- tions, seems in harmony with the na- tion’s need, as it will release several thousand men for farming and war industries.” . v IMPORTANCE OF MILK Milk is the child’s most important food. It is nutritious, is rich in the lime needed to make bone, it makes other foods more digestible, and in addition to that contains substances that are needed by the child if it is to grow. Experiments made at the ‘Wisconsin agricultural college show- ed that if the butter fat was withheld from growing animals and other fats as lard or vegetable fats fed instead, that the growth stopped no matter how much was fed, and growth - started as soon as the butter fat was fed again. Milk may seem expensive but at present prices it furnishes nu- trients cheaper than meat in addi- tion to supplying the growth stimu- lating principle. o Farm machinery is the artillery of agriculture. In what conditipp will your “field pieces” be for the Spring drive? ° b S i AT