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icmml Lifestyle Thursday, October 2, 1975 Section Keep the family happy with ho do gs By MARILYN N. MOORE Miami Nan Raportar 2 tablespoons cooking oil cup catsup 1 tablespoon brown sugar cup water 1 teaspoon prepared mustard 1 can (no. 2 V2 sauerkraut 10orl2hotdogs Saute onion in oil until tender, add catsup, water, sugar, mustard, and bring to boil. Empty drained sauerkraut Into large casserole, arrange franks on top slashed or split. Pour on sauce, bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

For one of the quickest dishes you'll ever put together if your family's not afraid to experiment, with different tastes to try this: MACARONI BEAN SKILLET 1 lb. franks cut in 1 inch pieces 2 teaspoons chili powder 2 tablespoons butter or margarine 1 can (16 oz.) pork and beans with tomato sauce. 1 can (14 oz.) elbow macaroni andcheese I In skillet, brown franks with chili powder in margarine. Stir in beans, and macaroni (if this isn't adventur- ous enough, add 'i cup sliced ripe olives here.) r'-r-r rtirTfflrTiritriiii'ifntin irnr-'iniiiii imniiiwiHi --t-rr r-rf' r-y-- 'r-ii mirnrirnir ate oven (350 degrees) about one hour. Uncover for last 15 minutes.

Serves 6. Cook and drain rice and set aside. Cook onions in hot oil until transparent, add remaining ingredients except franks and simmer 15 minutes. Remove bay leaf and clove, add rice. They can also be simmered, broiled, pan-broiled, barbecued, grilled, fondued, stuffed, skewered, battered, or baked in casseroles.

To make sure they stay fresh use; within 7 to 10 days, from the refrigerator, or freeze up to 2 months in original vacuum package. Now for some budget frankfurter dishes: RICE CASSEROLE cup uncooked rice I Vi cups sliced onion 3 tablespoons salad oil 3J4 cups canned tomatoes 1 tablespoon sugar 1 Vi teaspoon salt Ji cup chopped green pepper 3 whole cloves 1 bayleaf 9 frankfurters How soon we forget. Especially the joysof childhood. A youngster reminded us the other day that the greatest thing about a car trip was not the adventure of visiting new places, but the fringe benefit we could "eat out" the whole time and have hot dogs every day. Somewhere along the way we put hot dogs aside with other joys of childhood.

We replaced hot dogs with the more acceptable, "proper" meals. But the state of today's market prices have brought back simpler foods, and hot dogs lead the list. We're re-discovering what we've been missing a hot dog dinner has become a regular on our menu, thechildrenloveit. Budget-wise, hot dogs, as the main meat for out family of seven, costs at least half as much as the next lowest regular item, hamburger. (Frankfurter prices range according to brand from 8 cents each for the store brand and specials, to 25 cents each forthe Lum's brand.) Perhaps because we can't see exactly what's inside the frankfurter, and because we tend to classify hot dogs as kids' food or ball park food, come to think of them as not particularly good for you.

However, hot dogs are subject to the same federal quality controls that are used for all other types of meat. But are they good for you? "A pound of wieners has approximately 50 grams of protein nearly as much as in a pound of bone steak which has 59 grams," says the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council. "Besides the proteins, hot dogs contain carbohydrates, fat, iron, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, phosphorus, zinc, and vitamins B6, B12." How fattening are they? "The average hot dog contains 150 calories, about the same, as a cup of corn, or two boiled eggs; a cup of milk or rice. two ounce frankfurter contains approximately 15 grams of a fat. Compare this with 27 grams of fat in 3 ounces of sirloin steak; 34-grams in 3 ounces of rib roast." In addition, if you're less thaa proficient in the cooking department, you should know you can hardly wreck a hot dog.

First, they're already cooked so if you can't boil water, go ahead and eat one from the package. Otherwise: Place the quantity desired in a pan of boiling water; cover; remove from heat; let stand 5 to 7 minutes. Heat, stirring occasionally. Makes 5 cups. Now if you still have any reser- 3 vations about using the wiener as the main meat in a meal that almost 42 million hot dogs are produced each day in the i United States.

Someone you know must be having them for dinner to- night. To dress up plain franks and sauerkraut, those long-time friends, try this easy recipe: FRANKS AND SAUERKRAUT Yi onion, chopped Arrange in alternate layers in greased casserole starting with Va of the rice mixture. Save 3 franks for top. Cover and bake in moder Latin women vote xSi' for Vickie i fa; yjkm I Jij- mum pt zJk tkhLk 2Z2T; COMMON CENTS By TERRY JOHNSON KING Miami Naws LUtityla Editor To thousands of Latin women here, Victoria Puig de Lange is something of a storybook heroine. Based in Miami, she is a feature writer for Vanidades, a Spanish-language woman's magazine that's reminiscent of Cosmopolitan with clothes on.

centerfold," she says, "is a news magazine But in addition she leads the sort of life that women envy. A study in glamor, as befits her role as the publication's fashion arbiter, the petite Ecuadorian is (to the surprise of her dates, for she steadfastly hides her age) a grandmotmer. She is also: sought-after; liberated; feminine; a frequent beauty pageant (including Miss Universe) judge; outspoken; divorced; well-traveled; a good executive; throughly domestic; and at times seemingly helpless. Miami's Latin women identify with her. They find at least one of these facets rings an emotional bell.

It is the same -with women throughout South America, for Vanidades though published here goes all over the continent with a circulation of 680,000. "Victoria Lange," says a Peruvian school teacher, "is the woman we'd all like to be." So it surprised nobody but Vickie that she has been chosen Ecuador's most admired woman, by a poll of readers who were expected to vote for film stars. First ladies, or socialites. (In fact, Ecuador's First Lady placed second to Lange's overwhelming majority.) Although story assignments kept her from being there when the Mayor of her home town of Guayaquil awarded plaques to the five top runners, she's winging her way to Ecuador this week for the round of follow-up ceremonies and functions attendant upon the honor. "My mother accepted the plaque in my absence," she says, and adds off-handedly, "Mama is 80 years old, and the Panamian Consul-General to Ecuador." Not an honorary consul Vickie elaborates but a fulltime working executive who's in her office for a full schedule every day.

Vickie was, herself, also part of the consular corps. After serving in the diplomatic service in Washington, and in Chile as press attache (her ex-husband is Chilean), she came to Miami as the Ecuadorian consul a position she held in the 60s before moving to Vanidades. (That stint won her Ecuador's National Medal of But it is not her exploits which entrance her readers, but rather her ability to communicate with women through her writing. The latest bimonthly issue carries her piece on "When He Leaves You," a discussion on how to handle having one's husband or lover break off the relation- By Kate McQueen It's time to use coffee coupons Miami News Photo by KATHY WILLENS Victoria de Lange leads the sort of life many women envy Sort out any tucked-away cents-off coffee coupons and see if they're still good. If so, use them now.

Coffee prices are bound to rise even more due to a killing frost on Brazil's coffee crop. But don't hoard and create an even earlier coffee shortage. divorce," Vickie says, "so I suppose women who are caught in intolerable situations can identify with someone who has been divorced." Of her three children, only Christian a talented young graphics artist, who last year debuted with a well-received show at the Museum of Science lives with her. They share a rambling home in South Miami, and although she hits the office for an intensive work day, it is at home stretched out in bed, surrounded with files, a typewriter, and hundreds of scraps of paper that she works best. "I work American hours," she says.

"And lead anAmericanlife. "Only sometimes, I put my head on my typewriter and take a siesta. After all, I am still ship. And she has written on almost every sort of controversial topic. Vanidades also publishes a magazine called "Sex and Beauty," to which she is the major contributor.

It is not often that a divorced woman achieves high honors in South America. 'Tor one thing," sbe says, "most Latin countries have no such thing as divorce." It is nonexistent in Colombia, Chile, Brazil, and Argentina, although occasionally the Roman Catholic church arranges annullments. Politically, divorce is anathema; the newly-elected President of Colombia nearly had a revolt on his hands last year when he appointed a divorcee to the cabinet. (He backed down, and "resigned" her from the position.) "But there's such hyprocracy where there's no Be a "practical nurse" if someone in the family needs a meal in bed. Use a large, flat broiler or roasting pan as a serving tray.

The sides' keep food from spilling onto the bed. Afterwards, turn the pan bot-toms-up for a writing or reading "desk." DYSLEXIA: Great debate about 'whole-word' system continues laudet's successful use of sight-word methods in teaching the deaf to read. If the deaf could go directly from print to meaning (as they obviously had to do), he reasoned, why could not every child? Mann's eloquence (which surpassed that of possibly-wiser contemporaries who opposed his thesis) had its main revolutionary effect long after his death; among other contributing factors coming into play by 1925 were some German studies of the eye-movements of skilled readers which seemingly suggested that skipping the sounding-out process in favor of concentrating on instant recognition of entire words might be more efficient. Efficiency, of course, was a sure-fire selling-point to people caught up in an ever-accelerating, hurry-up society. New texts were needed, of course, to implement the new method.

Logically enough, frequent repetition of the same words was a key requirement, and thus the old narrative emphasis and stylistic word-variety epitomized by the sometimes-gruesome little tales in the famed McGuf-fey's Eclectic Readers was replaced by the broken-record drumbeat cadences of "Run, Spot, run. See the dog run." with their heavy mechanical emphasis on the alphabet (and on the unlamented study of orthography, for older pupils) is not, however, the desirable answer, according to these experts. After all, the examples of the learning difficulties exhibited by such dyslexlcs as Thomas Edison, King Karl XI of Sweden, Hans Christian Andersen and Woodrow Wilson (none of whom, presumably, had the whole-word method to cope with) are enough to prove that the old ways were imperfect too. i The motivation for the general switch to the whole-word method 50 years ago was precisely that the old alphabetic-phonetic approach was itself vulnerable to criticism. The most potent attack had been launched way back in 1838 by the famous Horace Mann.

He pointed out that children were already familiar with words before they started school and he insisted that teaching them the sounds of letters merely taught them to pronounce what was on a page of print without understanding at all what it said. Mann was tremendously impressed on a visit to Germany to see children learning by the "Prussian method" a precursor of the whole-word way. Mann was also strongly influenced by Gal- charged, and to the shocking number of non-readers. The solution, to him, seemed obvious simply go back to the old ways. Flesch's cry for a return to the old ways twanged a responsive chord in huge numbers of dissatisfied parents and even many teachers.

But the educational establishment saw Flesch not only as something of an outsider but also as an unpardonable rabble-rouser who had incited mere ents to meddle in a technical issue. Most educators belittled Flesch's criticism of methods in use and pounced on every minor or not-so-minor inaccuracy in his book. The unseemly venom in the educators' counterattacks partially obscured the best objection to Flesch's formula for reform: that it was simplistic. The real reason for the mass appeal of Flesch's broadside was that for all its flaws it came fairly close to a plausible explanation for reading failures. Today, many language specialists believe that the "whole-word" method may indeed be a major mischief-maker, in that the 15 per cent or even a greater proportion of all schoolchidren who are afflicted by the strange invisible handicapof dyslexia simply cannot master the whole-word method.

Merely switching back to the old methods. By WARREN R. YOUNG Special ta Tha Miami Nam Third in a Series Twenty years ago educators were enraged when Rudolf Flesch, a man who had earned one doctorate in his native Vienna, Austria, and another in his adopted country, the U.S.A., but who had no schoolroom teaching experience, came forward with a Big Answer forthe reading-failure problem. His bestselling book, "Why Johnny Can't Read," angrily laid the blame on a radical, though little-noticed, change in teaching methods that had-taken place in most U.S. schools by the 1930s.

The traditional alphabetic-phonetic method of reading instruction, in which the pupils were drilled on the sounds of letters first and later taught to sound out whole words, had been aban- doned In favor of the supposedly speedier "whole-word" system. This new method (also variously known as the Global Method, the See-and-Say method, the Look-Say method or simply Sight Reading) required the child to memorize the overall shape and internal patterns of each entire word, without worrying about how the letter-sounds within them contribute to the way they are pronounced. This led to disorderly guesswork, Flesch J..