| Show kathleen norris says ott end vi I 1 sits take food with you bell syndicate features jib 4 P az N V 06 when you you go on a weekend week end visit take along things your host and hostess really need not ridiculous toys that bore bora the children or candy but essentials such as broilers butter tinned finned harn ham eggs bread by KATHLEEN NORRIS ONT go visiting your D DONT friends in the country this year without taking your sugar allowance along and while youre 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 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 and betsey aro are enchanted by that extra bedroom and bathroom betsey puts all sorts ot 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 cant wait for the tun fun of 0 having martha and david down and when they arrive she exultingly announces that lydia clydla and sam sonya and phil are coming in tor for lunch the next day too costly hospitality it Is only after two or three weekends that bob and betsey look at lite he bills look ruefully at each other and add up the bills again the cost of the soft drinks coffee butter bulter ie ice lemons ham soap la laundry work firewood and telephone charges that this happy hospitality represents simply appalls them they cant keep it apt up but they dont know how to stop it sundays are hot in town and their lovely garden very far away out como come the friends to sit panting under bobs trees to present the small son and daughter with seven se en dollar snowy lambs or large complicated games to hand band betsey a box of rich candy arid 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 or visiting friends to change this too when you go on a weekend week end visit take things the bobs really need not ald ridiculous cu u toys toy S that only bore the children or candy that gives everyone prickly heat load up your car with such essentials as caff coffee ee split broilers cases of bottled drinks pounds of butter tinned hams eggs bread find a warmer welcome from flushed little mrs bob than you ever got belore before this rule obviously apply to big establishments where a staff of servants Is kept the no older persons who manage such homes are prepared tor for the alio onslaught upon their ice boxes but to an any couple of moderate means living quietly with no help or part time help your loaded grocery box will be a blessing and brighten the weekend week end for your hosts as well as yourselves inherited a farm for many years writes an iowa wife my iny brother and sister their wife and husband and from one to five children have been coming out to us for every holiday they could seize were all country bred and when we inherited this farm on the death of jims grandfather loud and envious were the shrieks from the rest of the clan immediately we 1 tim built an outdoor kitchen and dining arbor put h hammocks am on the porches and told the family it was open house jim shared the crop profits with tile the ten ite BE WELCOME As a weekend week end guest are you always swa sure of your welcome wel colne if ff not then heres a tip that will IV ill do much to insure a standing invitation dont bur den yourself with a lot of ex pensive useless gilts gifts for your host or hostess take them something In thing they really need instead of sonic some costly knickknack lor for tho the children take them a harn ham a split broiler sonic some coffees coffee or butter something that will ivill cut down expenses for your hosts remember ber your own grocery bills A continuous flow of company conducive to the well being of your budget do unto others other ant tanner farmer I 1 was in heaven with plenty of fresh air milk eggs fruit tor for my babies from the first week I 1 wanted to sharo share it with those I 1 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 ve told them all frankly what the trouble was that an occasional box of candy swim suits for tile the dill chill dren guest soaps and guest towels although welcome and charming gifts did not pay our bills A practical suggestion suggestion my husbands brother a prosper ous doctor who adores our farm and Is never so happy as when he and jim and the other men are felling trees building a dam gathering fruit working themselves exhausted was first with a practical suggestion when ahen minna and I 1 bring the girls out here he announced well brino bring food to the amount of three dollars apiece any other outing 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 doll dollars a r S apiece since then and that was eleven years ago when my sister and her husband or my brother and his wife bring their boys here they bring between them a eighteen 19 ht can dollars worth of food this means that all week long I 1 dont pay a cent for groceries that their that r coming comin always welcome Is doubt doubly y welcome because it means no strain on my budget on the contrary they call me the rich old boardinghouse keeper and I 1 dont carea bit also I 1 think it gets children into responsible habits when ours go 90 away tor for a visit they always ask me tor for jams fresh eggs bacon fruit or butter as a present tor for their hostess what would they like mother what shau shall I 1 take are questions heard as often as what can I 1 wear or wheres my ten nh racket something to remember now this year of all years tilts this helpful letter continues 1 I think this la 13 something to remember remember that if your host on a hot day turns himself into a sort of ba barkeeper r ke C p C r and Is going back and forth with glasses all the time that that costs a surprising lot of money to find a case of soft drinks costly cosily established near your icebox ice box when the guests have gone Is to burst into a sort of prayer of gratitude well god bless old lie he never torget forge sl |
