The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 21, 1918, Page 12

1 EVERAL mothers who were one ¥ time kindergarten teachers re- cently wrote a series of articles on training children. The arti- 11 cles were published in the Brooklyn {7 Daily Eagle, and were considered so good that the United States bureau of education republished them for public distribution. The articles were evi- dently intended for city mothers, for they continually refer to Kkinder- gartens, parks, street cars and big manufacturing establishments. But there is something in them that can be appreciated by ‘“country” mothers. i.i" ' The first article of the series tells i* of the good results that come from ! walking out with the children and tell- ing them about the things they see on the way. Of course “country” mothers haven’t much time to go walking as a rule, but they are already in the midst of the very things these city mothers are advised to go and see. They are in the country. All around them are the fields, the trees, the farms, perhaps ponds, rivers and lakes. Did it ever occur to you that one of the most useful things you could do in training the small children would FIRST PRIZE WINNER Mrs. A. E. Beckwlth of Willow Lake, South Dakota, winner of the first prize in the Leader's letter contest for farm !4 women.. Her letter was published I January 7, ? In roasting beef, heat a pan or i} roaster, place the meat in it, turning |£ it till the cut surfaces are well seared. Do not use a covered roaster. The outside which prevents the escape of . the juice, so that the meat is literally “cooked in its own juices.” “things. |3 ‘searing makes a coat or crust on the - 1f the i A R Y T T A Y T e T BT BT X or Let Him Learn Haphazard? be to go out walking with them and tell them about some of these things? O, of course you couldn’'t stay long, but small children do not need in- struction and entertainment continued long at one time. They get tired of it. Every mother knows how the children ecrowd about and ask inces- sant questions.: These run from the kitchen work they are observing to all sorts of fantastic notions they get from occasional words they hear, pic- tures they see, etec. Their minds are a jumble of indefinite impressions and the child is engaged in trying to un- tangle the jumble. The only way it can- get information is to ask ques- tions. A cure for these seemingly mean- ingless questions would be occasional walks and talks. You might get no further than the barn yard or the hen house. Very well. Even they contain a world of information of the deepest interest to the small child when prop- erly set before him. You may think the questions that children would ask around- the farm are soon answered and the “country” child soon familiar with things—at least the things he sees every day. .But _children delight in details, and details are the foundation of bigger The answers the small child gets from the hired man or the busy. father often lack everything that would be useful to him. If he asks why the colt “chews” when a cross old nag snarls at it, it is' not a sufficient answer to tell him™curtly the ecolt is “scared.” Tell him the colt is begging not to be hurt, that it can not talk in words and so has to make signs; tell him all the horses understand this, and that all the animal§ have ways of talking to each other that Laimals of the same kind understand. Tell him why the chickens eat broken bits of glass, -and what the glass does, and how the child’s own small white teeth are doing the same thing the glass is doing for the chickens. " Answers like this will £ill his mind with new thoughts and set him to speculating on other things he sees. A child who gets a few detailed answers or short “stories” about the everyday farm things he notices, will soon learn to observe other things. Before you know it the child will sur- prise his parents by the things he asks about—things you never supposed he had noticed. Then tell him something truthful and interesting about these things. " The Small Child on the Farm What the League Means to Me " Do You Answer His Questions and Make Things Interesting, Education of the Farmers and Laws for the People— A Montana Woman’s View Here is a Montana woman’s view of the Nonpartisan league. She is Mrs. Gladys Henderson of Belgrade, a w1dow, the mother of two children. To her, this great farmers’ movement means hope for the future, better opportunities for her children, and practical betterment of farm conditions. third prize in the Leader’s recent contest, in which women answered the question, ‘“What does the Nonpartisan league mean to you?’’ N BY MRS. GLADYS HENDERSON E Nonpartisan league means to me a promise of many things for the betterment of ‘rural conditions. It means to me that the day is not far distant when 1, as a widow with two small children to feed, clothe, and educate, will not be forced to sell the grain from my tiny farm for a mere pittance and later buy it back as flour at several times the original price; that the pet pig which plays about our back door will not be sold at 14 cents per pound and his sides he bought back as bacon at 55 cents per pound. So much am I hoping state-owned glevators and pack- ing houses will accomplish. When I am in need of money, per- haps I shall not always have to pay double the rate of interest I should for the security I offer in order that some banker may live in the luxury that is denied to myself and children. Per- haps I shall not always be penalized by a heavier-burden of taxation when I try to make conditions surrounding me more liveable by improving my home and adding more up-to-date ma- chinery to my stock of implements. The Nonpartisan league holds out to me the promise of legislators one day being in office- who are not con- trolled, mind, body and soul by the Mrs. Henderson won “big business” interests of our state— legislators who will not be in deadly terror of “losing their job” when they vote favorably on some bill affecting the railroads or. other large industry adversely. When that day comes we shall have no such struggles to get laws passed which all humane citi- zens know should be enacted, as for . example, the child labor law. - And last, but far from least, the League opens to me a vista of farmers’ meetings, whose educational value can hardly be over estimated. For how can we formulate a party platform, or know -what laws we are in favor of, if we know not the meaning of the proposed laws? ‘And such gatherings throughout the rural communities can be made instructive in hundreds of ways. G Perchance I may even be ‘able to make my school trustees receive my request for supplementary school read- ers or material for primary handiwork with calmness, thns paving the way to a better school when my own twe small sons shall be trudging to the little building at the crossroads. Long live the League and may the day be not far distant when its influ- ence shall extend over 48 states and the farmer shall have ceased to be a political nonentity! : Tarts Easy to Make By U. 8. Food Administration The word “tarts” hooks up with a Mother-Goose past and promises something that is different, and flat- teringly individual. Tart shells may be filled with preserves, honey or cus- tard, and varied by adding meringues eor a bit of whipped ¢ream. Sprinkle top with chopped nuts or candied . orange peel. Line tart tins or muffin tins with one of the following pastries rolled thin. Bake before filling. No. 1. Combine as for other pastry the following ingredients, adding enough water for a stiff dough: 2 cups It.is not as' difficult as-it sounds.to——barley flour, 1-4 teaspoon salt, 1-3 cup find time enough to tell the small child enough te keep its mind developing. If regular walks to the duck pond or into the fields can not be taken, a few .simply told “stories” concerning the ‘things the child notices and asks about will go a long way towards its ulti- mate training, ard help get rid of the annoying questions, Roasting Meat roast is placed properly, the melted fat will run down the sides and baste the meat sufficiently. juicy roast while if water is used or a ecover, a dry roast is the result. When water is used or a cover placed over the roast, the resulting steam will break the seal and allow 'the juices to escape. | - This makes a PAGE TWELVE X egetable fat, 1-2 teaspoon baking pow- der. No. 2. Combine ingredients using enough lquid to make a dough that can be rolled thin. Bake in quick oven: 1-2 cup cornmeal, 1-2 cup wheat flour, 1-2 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon fat, 3 tablespoons milk. No. 3. Scald two cups finely ground oatmeal with one cup boiling water; add one teaspvoon vegetable fat; roll *_very thin; bake in quick qven. : Orange Tarts When company is:coming try these tarts: 1. cup boiling water, 4 table- gpoons cornstarch, 1 large juicy orange, 2-3 eup white corn syrup, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, 3 eggs. Rub cornstarch smooth with a little cold water, add the boiling water and cook for five minutes; add the pulp and part of the grated rind of the ,,- L.N‘fi/nv :l: A »e‘?—:\f’xl H orange, the syrup and the lemon juice; heat thoroughly and pour slowly on the beaten yolks of the eggs; beat well; pour into tart shells; cover with meringue made from the whites of the egegs and flavored with lemon juice; sprinkle with grated Iemon peel; brown in oven; serve cold. Daisy and Apple Tarts Dairy tarts will please the children. Seed and mix one-half cup each raisins and dates; put fruit through food chopper; fill tart shells. Form daisy with a center of yellow preserves or candied orange peel and the petals of almonds cut lengthwise. Cranberry Tarts Wash,. dry, and prick one cup cran- berries (unless cranberries are dried there will be too much lquid); cook berries with one cup white corn syrup into which a teaspoon of cornstarch has been stirred; when fruit is cold fill tart shells. Vary this by using half raisins and half cranberries. Apple Tarts Make an apple sauce using white syrup instead of sungar; fill shells; sprinkle top with chopped nuts; place a square of currant. jelly in center of each. ; Apple-raisin tarts may be made by washing and soaking one cup seedless raiging over night; simmer in same water for an hour; add one quart peel: «ed’ quartered apples and one-half. cup white syrup; simmer together untfl done; fill tafl;lhefis. e e % 7S (534 @ Ehe