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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1918
Page
6
A family menu feature lists pickles as essential for future meat substitutes. Mustard pickle recipe includes cucumbers onions beans peppers tomatoes and a spiced dressing with vinegar sugar mustard turmeric celery seed and spices. Process in jars ten ounce jars twenty minutes at 180 degrees F. Also includes spiced chamber salad and spiced vinegar with cucumber and onion layers salted between.
Weekly social calendar lists numerous gatherings across clubs and churches from September 10 to 17. Highlights include the Fortnightly and Portnightly groups, Mothers' club, Ladies Aids, Knitters, and church social events, plus a detailed pickle-making recipe and a note on Miss Klingenhagen’s academic career.
A home guide details daily sugar rations for each person and a housewife led saving contest. It explains measuring six level teaspoons per person per day, transferring savings to a common cooking jar, and substituting other sweeteners like corn syrup glucose honey with weight and measure equivalents to maintain sweetness and total solids.
Instructions detail brining cucumbers peppers and other vegetables in a 45 percent brine overnight followed by rinsing soaking in half vinegar half water and scalding. A mustard dressing is prepared by rubbing dry ingredients then adding hot vinegar. Spices go in a cheese cloth bag except celery seed and mustard. Final step includes packing jars with vegetables and hot spiced vinegar and firming with bubbles removal.
Miss Anna M. Klingenhagen resigns after nine years as dean of women and history professor at the University of Iowa. She will complete PhD work at the University of Chicago this fall and leave behind numerous campus reforms and improvements for women. Her efforts helped educate two French girls through a $500 fundraising push with the Women's League covering remaining costs.
Mrs Isabella Smith editor of the Champion and head of the state W C T U spoke at Mrs M H Sartor s home urging strong continued temperance work. She cited brewery employment, wartime needs, and the Fort Des Moines hospital library project as W C T U efforts, with notes on cantonments and soldier aid.
Mrs C W McLaughlin county chairman for the Child Welfare Work has named all committees for city and township relief. Work includes measuring and weighing every baby under two in the county, with 7000 Iowa babies dying each year and the aim to save at least a third.
Madame Langford promotes a nightly cleansing routine using Velvetina Complexion soap and Velvetina Massage followed by Velvetina Vanishing Cream and Velvetina Face Powder. She claims women overreact to washing and that nightly application yields clearer skin and better protection from sun and wind.
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