PAGE 8 The Perkins Journal Thursday, August I, 1985
THINKING IT OVER
The Natural Way
Dr. Jeff Black
Professor of Biology
Oklahoma Baptist University
I have developed a bad driving street and returned to the car with
habit over the years that keeps a Horned Lizard {more commonly
Judith reminding me to keep my called Horned Toad} hanging onto
life insurance paid up. I rarely pass my finger with its tiny jaws secure-
by a live turtle or lizard in the ly fastened. I had never beenbitten
highway unless I am in a real hurry, by a Horned Lizard and discovered
This usually involves a rapid back- that this one had its back broken
ing up or' a complete turn around and was probably in pain or fright-
and drive back to capture the ani- ened which caused it to bite.
mal or move it off to the side of the This was the first Horned Lizard
highway so it won't get killed, we had seen all summer. When we
I pulled this trick last week in the moved to Shawnee 13 years ago,
middle of a busy four-lane city the boys would come home with
their hands filled with Horned seemed to weep tears of blood.
Lizards and they were always in our Peter excitedly called me to his
garden in the backyard. Now they room several years ago to see a
have practically disappeared in the Horned Lizard that had ejected a
area. stream of blood three feet away
Our Horned Lizard is properly from its eye. Some people think this
known as the Texas Horned Lizard blood is ejected to frighten off
and is found throughout the state, predators. The blood is shot out of
We easily recognize it by the horns the corner of the eye due to the rais-
{spines) projecting out from the ing of blood pressure, or to fear or
back of the head. Some lizards
anger or perhaps an increase in the
lower their head so the spines stick temperature of the head. Whatever
upward and then fill their lungs the cause, the tiny blood vessels
with air to puff up their body. This near the corner of the eye actually
behavior makes them look larger, burst, ~ending out a tiny stream of
dangerous, and disagreeable to bloocL The blood feels hot, but is en-
swallow. They are still eaten by tirely harmless.
roadrunners and snakes. Some Even though Horned Lizards are
snakes have swallowed Horned cute and harmless animals, they are
Lizards only to be pierced by the difficult to keep alive in captivity,
spines and die. do not make good pets, and most
I had always heard and read die from improper care.
about the Horned Lizard's ability The Horned Lizards and I need
to squirt a thin stream of blood
your help• Could you please write or
from the corner of each eye when it call and let me know ff Horned
was frightened. This was discover- Lizards are disappearing or have
ed by Mexicans, who called the disappeared in your area and why
lizards "sacred toads" because they you think this has happened. You
can write me in care of this paper
or at OBU, Shawnee, OK 74801.
-O-
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
July 26, 1985
Dear Editor
I have been taking the Perkins
Journal for three years and I really
do enjoy all the news, poems, and
my grandmother, Mrs. Rose Saver
used to live there back 67 years ago.
Also my Uncle Will Saver by the
cotton gin.
I do see a number of people I
know in this wonderful paper, the
first thing I read from first page to
last.
Yours truly,
Iva Marie Smith
HORNED LIZARD
Sunday dinner guests of Mr• and
Mrs. Joe Russell, July 18, were
Vern and Lovell Wells of Perkins;
Bob, Barbara, and Brian Wells of
Tulsa; and Melvin, Connie, Brenda,
Janice, and Joel Franks of Hen-
nessey. The occasion was to cele-
brate Lovell's and Connie's
birthdays.
"O-
JOURNAL FOOD CORNER
; The Journal {Evans Publica-
: tions) will be publishing a book
: this fall that was written by
: Maxine Wilhelm of Erick, Okla,
homa. The title is "A Smidgen
of Honey."
,, Mrs. Wilhelm and her family
operate a honey farm near
Erick, and stock their roadside
:', store with a good supply of
: honey, candles, and other gift
• items.
Recently she got the idea to
write stories about the way she
i:: and her sisters grew up during
the Great Depression years,
,:. and the book is filled with these
experiences, some of them nice
experiences and some of them
%,
, those of hardship.
::( She thought it would also be
a good time to list all the recipes
] from that Great Depression era,
to show folks today how folks
then could take practically
0'
cornbread with crushed up
cracklings or bacon in it, or just
pure lard or bacon drippings,
along with a glass of milk,
maybe some homemade butter,
some vegetables in season, and
make a meal out of it. There was
little choice.
A pot of beans with some side
meat cooked in it, or a large, pan
of macaroni and cheese; a big
pot of stew. If there were a few
vegetables, some potatoes, and
left over meat, along with some
flour, a delicious hash could he
whipped up that could be used
to feed a small army.
If the hens were laying, and
could scratch up enough to eat
and produce eggs, here is what
could be done with them:
BAKED EGGS
2 eggs
BAKED TOMATO'N EGGS oil by degrees, stirring con-
Cut a slice from the stem end tinually, and thin as necessary
of a fine tomato, remove some with vinegar or lemon juice.
pulp, set in a buttered pan and Place on ice for one hour before
sprinkle with sale and pepper, using.
crack and drop 1 egg into this (Bet many a young homemak-
tomato cup, sprinkle with more er today doesn't even know the
salt and pepper and place a bit ingredients of a jar of salad
of butter on top of egg, prepar- dressing or mayonnaise?)
ing as many of the individual
servings as may be required and Folks even made their own
bake in a moderate oven until soapl
firm.
PICKLED EGGS
Boil to a hard boil the number
of eggs you want to pickle.
Crack boiled eggs under cold
water, peel off shells and put
eggs into a stone jar. Add mace,
cloves, and nutmeg. Fill jar
with boiling vinegar. These will
be ready to use in two days.
Keeps well.
: nothing--the very basic food 2 tablespoons bread crumbs EGG BUTTER
i:; items--and come up with some- ¼ teaspoon salt 1 cup sorghum molasses
" thing delicious and healthy to cup milk 4 eggs
eat. 1 tablespoon butter Yz teaspoon nutmeg
We think you will like '"Staid- V2 teaspoon pepper Heat sorghum in skillet until
i:, gen of Honey, ' especially those Butter 2 individual molds and it starts to boil. Mix a thin
:. of you who lived through this break i egg into each, mix salt, stream of molasses into beaten
era, even if you were just pepper and milk, pour Vs theeggs until they are warmed.
':: children then. It will also he a mixture on each egg, melt the Pour into skillet and continue
"' practical book for the young butter and add the bread
', stirring until thick. Flavor with
• homemaker in your family--the crumbs. Place the buttered nutmeg. Serve on bread.
young housewife or houseman crumbs on top of each egg.
i,: starting out on a shoestring, Bake in a moderate oven 20 Folks in the Depression days
who needs to know the basic, minutes and serve in molds, seldom bought mayonnaise
.", hardnose ways of cooking toWe're not sure how the bak- dressing. Instead, they made it.
make a dollar stretch as far ased eggs will taste with today's Here is the ecipe:
," two. bland eggs, when the yolk is
Following are a few recipes to about as white as the whites, MAYONAISE DRESSING
give you an example of what but it may be worth a try. 1 egg yolk, hard cooked
you can expect in the new book, \.
By Zola Sample
For ten days and nights the bat- or sleep, he was
tie raged with those weasley little something. They
devils, the sand fleas. There seem- but, nothing
ed to be more troops arriving from out, they examined
somewhere with no end in sight, tioner and found
Brenda and I were using every force been living in
to combat the new troops. We cumulated to a great
wracked our brains for what to do. reminded me of
They say we only use five percent living in Colorado. At
of our brain, however, I do believe
my brain worked overtime. I spray- below zero for
ed Brenda and bathed her with dip Mites had lived and
from the veterinary shop, used his horse barn u
suggestions of what to do, but had enlarged
nothing seemed to conquer the es. They lived
cause, could take a stick
It was a bad situation with me in off, leaving a bloody
my condition. My patience became I could not believe
frazzled from loss of sleep and rest. One exterminator
My appetite for food diminished have to get rid of
and I weakened in body and spirit, the job. I could not do|
I used everything folks suggest- is my all-seeing eye
ed; sprayed, used powders, etc. Ex- she guards from
terminators in all this area, as far robbed five times
as Muskogee, Wagoner, Tulsa and so that was that.
etc. were swamped and had to in- here in the city have l~
form me that they could not come fleas this year that
until later. It was the worst battle have a dog or cat.
I had ever tried to combat. They The fleas are bad
almost won. ty. They do not
But never give up. You may be me are vacant
closer to victory than you think, waist-high. The
This proved true. Peace and quiet quitoes and etc. took
eventually came to our relief on compelled
Friday. Summer hazards are
I learned from friends that some with• This next month ~
have had to battle the pesky little "Dog Days" to
mites for three months before get- fore, be
ting rid of them. One guy told me in accidents for
of an almost unbelievable occur- to contact during
ance. In a bedroom where an aircon- always been told.
ditioner was installed, every time precaution not to be
his son turned it on to take a nap pay off.
By Winnie Corley
My dad always quoted the Bible
to prove his point in correcting one
of us children. It seemed he always
knew the exact chapter and verse
to nail down whatever he had said.
Always we would have preferred
that he get on with the hickory
switch, but we knew by experience
that a lecture came first. We might
get by without the switch, but
without the lecture, never•
My sister says when she was a
kid, she often wished just once the
Bible would be on the kid's side•
Maybe the Bible was on the kid's
side. We just hadn't spent as much
time searching out the right scrip-
ture as had Dad.
Anyway, the six of us sometimes
thought Papa was mean, even
~he insisted he chests
for our own good~ In fact he always
assured us, "I do this because I love
you." That is not to say we always
saw the parallel between love and
punishment.
As we reached our teen years, he
left off the switching, but per-
sonalized each lecture. He no longer
stopped with, "Now, that's wrong!
You know it's wrong, so I ~l have to
punish you." Instead, he went to
great length to point out just what
was wrong with something we had
done, followed by some of the dire
consequences unless we changed
our ways.
were: Never tell a
something means it
ed in as good a shape
rowed; and, never,
disrespect to our
hear my dad's
through the years:
tongue off before you
mother like that!"
Have I made my
cruel? I had no
There was never a
feared him. What I
displeasure,
sequences, but
respect for him.
° He often pointed
misbehavior could
than words. If a
control his own
listens to what he
The clincher
which always
born will, was when
a lecture with,
me, you won't do
Loving a father
helps a child
'~hastening of the
"My son, despise
ing of the Lord;
his correction; even
son in whom he
verbs 3:11-12.
OLIVET EXTENSION CLUB reservation
HAS MEETING tober 7.
HOMEMADE LYE SOAP The Olivet Extension Our thanks to
6 pounds bacon fat, melted Homemakers' Club met at 11:30Care for displaying
1 can lye a.m., July 16th at the home of Bob- OSU
5 cups hot water bye Fowble for a salad and finger Velma was absent
Dissolve the lye in the hot food luncheon, shine
water. Let cool then pour lye The president, Edna, presidedday with a gift.
solution in a slow easy stream over the meeting in the afternoon. After the business
into the melted fat, stirring con- Two songs were sung, followed by
stantly. Continue stirring until the Flag Salute and the Lord's a tour of her
coo]. Pour into a shallow box Prayer. Gladys chose ProverbsMembers
22:1-6 for the devotional. Close, Carol
that is lined with a wet cloth Roll call was answered by each Gladys Inman,
spread smooth, corners tucked telling what food they brought to lene Behring,
in. Cut in desired bars when the luncheon and giving the recipe, and guests,
cold and set. Note: A crock or Edna gave the lesson, '~Entertain- Marilyn Sherman.
enamel container must be used. ing Extra )rdinaire." The Payne ing will be August
Mix and pour lye outside in County Fair was discussed and
open air! volunteer workers were chosen to Fish can be
help make pies on September 4-5. seasickness.
Remember, there are scores of Plans for September 11 were made"storm waves"
other recipes in "A Smidgen of for the County Fair kitchen glass bowl, in
workers. The E.H. tour to Tulsa, study,
Honey." Be watching for it. October 29, was discussed and the goldfish.
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, 1 egg yolk, raw i i:
' Smidgen of Honey," which in- teaspoon sugar
:: cidentally,willbe nicely CREAMED EGGS V~t~n~n~lt ~lu~"
!?, illustrated. 2 tablespoons butter ¼ teasnoon nenner
, '/4 easpoon tard D ..... I " " -
.... . ¼ teaspoon mus "'-" i i.:]i
The basic foods back in the A few grams pepper ¼ teasnoon Worcestershire
!!! Great Depression days were 1 cup scalded milk sauce !
i: flour, cornmeal beans, milk, tablespoon flour 1 cup oil
chicken and garden fruit and Put in buttered sauce pan, 3 tablespoons vinegar or lemon i
vegetables, in season, and meat stir until me!ted and bubbling, juice I I i
that could be hunted, trapped, aua hour rmxea season- Place the hard cooked egg \ '
begged or borrowe(L Meat often ings and stir until thoroughly yolk in a bowl and mash it fine
consisted of rabbit, squirrel, blended, then pour on milk and ly with the back of a silver
chicken, and when a neighborstir constantly, bring to a boil- spoon or with a wooden salad • : : ....
butchered, beef or pork. mg pont, and let boil minutes, masher. When the yolk m like | i
There were numerous meat cut up 3 hard cooked eggs in powder, add the raw yolk and -=
substitutes, Even bacon, ham, this sauce, serve on hot toast stir until the mixture is smooth, ,
or beef seasoning (grease) was (dry). Chipped beef may be add- then put in the sugar, salt, pep- Thta Gladden, of Perkins, right, is congratulated by Denelda Golden, instructor of P
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mportant to save. One could ed in the place of eggs for per, mustard and sauce. Whenlog, during graduation ceremonies held recently at Indian Meridian Area Vo.Tecb
:] make up a batch of mush or creamed chipped beef. the whole well mixed, add the Ms. Gladden is one of 18 who completed the year-long training; her education waS 1
by a $I00 grant from the Stfllwater Medical Center Auxiliary. !
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