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Show Kathleen Norrisjays; On Weck-End Visits Take Food With You Bell Syndlcate-WNU Features. . rlu When you go on a week-end visit take along things your host and hostess really need, not ridiculous toys that bore the children, or candy, but essentials such as coffee, split broilers, butter, tinned ham, eggs, bread. By KATHLEEN NORMS DON'T go visiting your friends in the country this year without taking tak-ing your sugar allowance along. And while you're about it, take other things, too. When a young couple buy a suburban home they are in for a delightful experience. The sun-flooded rooms, the privacy, the garden, the very feeling of owning the ground under their feet and the roof over their heads is wonderful; wonder-ful; it is a feeling all young persons ought to have. Perhaps the most enjoyable phase of it is the opportunity It offers for hospitality. Bob a,nd Betsey are enchanted by that extra bedroom and bathroom. Betsey puts all sorts of pretty furnishings in, finishes the bathroom with pink soap and pink towels, equips the dressing-table with a score of pink trifles to match its pink bows. She can't wait for the fun of having Martha and David down, and when they arrive she exultingly announces that Lydia and Sam, Sonya and Phil are coming in for lunch the next day, too. Costly Hospitality. It Is only after two or three weekends week-ends that Bab and Betsey look at the bills, look ruefully at each other, oth-er, and add up the bills again. The cost of the soft drinks, coffee, butter, but-ter, ice, lemons, ham, soap, laundry laun-dry work, firewood and telephone charges that this happy hospitality represents simply appalls them. They can't keep it up! I YOU'LL BE WELCOME As a week-end guest are you always sure of your welcome? If not, then here's a tip that will do much to insure a standing invitation. Don't bur-den bur-den yourself with a lot of expensive, ex-pensive, useless gifts for your host or hostess. Take them something they really need. Instead of some costly knick-knack knick-knack for the children, take them a ham, a split broiler, some coffee or butter something some-thing that will cut down expenses ex-penses for your hosts. Remember your own grocery bills! A continuous flow of company isn't conducive to the well-being of your budget. Do unto others . , . ant farmer; I was in heaven, with plenty of fresh air, milk, eggs, fruit for my babies from the first week I wanted to share it with those I loved. When he came home at noon on Saturdays, Jim had marketed for me, and sometimes the list was as long as my arm. "One month that first summer my grocery bill, exclusive of the milk, vegetables, butter, eggs and so on from the farm, was more than one hundred dollars. We had to call a halt. "We all had an honest talk. It was an agonizing talk for Jim and me. We told them all frankly what the trouble was; that an occasional box of candy, swim suits for the children, chil-dren, guest soaps and guest towels, although welcome and charming gifts, did not pay our bills. A Practical Suggestion. "My husband's brother, a prosperous prosper-ous doctor, who adores our farm, and is never so happy as when he But they don t know how to stop it. Sundays are hot in town and their lovely garden isn't very far away. Out come the friends, to sit panting under Bob's trees, to present pre-sent the small son and daughter with seven-dollar snowy lambs or large complicated games, to hand Betsey a box of rich candy and to feel that these gifts entitle them to about twenty dollars' worth of food, drink, service, rooms and comfort . Everything else has changed this year, and it is for visiting friends to change this, too. " When you go on a week-end visit take things the Bobs really need, not ridiculous toys that only bore the children, or candy that gives everyone prickly heat Load up your car with such essentials essen-tials as coffee, split broilers, cases of bottled drinks, pounds of butter, tinned hams, eggs, bread. You'll find a warmer welcome from flushed little Mrs. Bob than you ever got before. This rule obviously doesn't apply to big establishments, where a staff of servants is kept The older perrons per-rons who manage such homes are prepared for the onslaught upon their ice-boxes. But to any couple of moderate means, living quietly with no help or part-time help, your loaded grocery box will be a blessing, bless-ing, and brighten the week-end for your hosts as well as yourselves. Inherited a Farm. "For many years," writes an Iowa wife, "my brother and sister, their wife and husband, and from one to five children have been coming com-ing out to us for every holiday they could seize. We're all country bred and when we Inherited this farm on the death of Jim's grandfather, loud and envious were the shrieks from the rest of the clan. "Immediately we built an outdoor kitchen and dinlng-arbor, put hammocks ham-mocks on the porches and told the family it was open house. Jim shared the crop profits with the ten- and Jim and the other men are felling fell-ing trees, building a dam, gathering gather-ing fruit, working themselves exhausted, ex-hausted, was first with a practical suggestion. " 'When Minna and I bring the girls out here,' he announced, 'we'll bring food to the amount of three dollars apiece. Any other cuting would cost us that, and this is our favorite outing.' "We protested of course, and we finally did get them to cut it down to two dollars apiece. Since then, and that was dern ye ars ago, when my sister and her husband, or my brother and his wife, bring their boys here, they bring between them eighteen dollars worth of food. This means that all week long I don't pay a cent for groceries, that their coming-always welcome is, doubly welcome because it means no strain on my budget. On the contrary they caU nie the rich olo boarding! house keeper, and I don't care a bit "Also, I think it gets children 'nto responsible habits. When ours P0 away for a visit they always ask me for jams, fresh eggs. bac0M fruit or butter as a present for their hostess. 'What would they W-l mother? What shall I take" are questions heard as o:t;n as ''Wha can I wear?' Or 'Where's my ten-' nis racket?' ' Something to Remember "Now. this year of all years"" this helpful letter continues, "i think th ! is something to rernember. P ber that if your host oa a h0?Xr turns himself into a sort of barkeeper bar-keeper and is going back baT' with glasses all the time, that Uiat find a case of soft drinks cosUv ft "I" y0Jr be x? when J. guests have gone, is forgets! He never |