THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 27, 1938.
NOT WHAT ONE GIVES BUT HOW
It is such a splendid idea to keep your linen in separate plles bound with decorative bands," as each batch comes from the laundry.
LINEN
Cupboard
Daintiness
Have you, perhaps, known some- one whose delight in homemaking enriched not only herself and her immediate family, but many othersTM as well? We are thinking of one such person. A young Woman whose hospitality and cordiality are ex- tended to any who come her way, who greets invited guest or chance vlaitor with equal warmth, who extends the same simple, sincere re- ception to a rich uncle or a strug- gling cousin, and who is as friend- ly and polite to a stray urchin brought in by one of her children as she is to the social leader of the neighbourhood who comes to call.
She is not a wealthy, leisured woman with a big house and plenty of servants to help her make a hob-
The home-proud modern house- time for mending when you by of entertaining, this idal hos-
wife loves to make her linen cup- pack your laundry basket, let
it broidered in the centre of half the tess of ours. Her husband is
braid, which is then folded, and board look attractive, just as much have a pile of its own in a con- the top and bottom edges are ma- hardworking, industrious_young man with steady employment, but as her mother and grandmother spicuous place where it will catch chined together. it takes careful planning and con- before her. There has always been your eye every time you open your A length of narrow tape is sewn siderable ingenuity on her part to
to either end of the band, so that make their income cover the needs something particularly satisfying to cupboard.
It's an excellent plan to make sets this can be folded over the pile of of a family with four lively children a feminine soul in piles of snowy of bands to tie round the various things and the tapes tied in a bow and to save a little for a rainy day. sheets and pillow-cases, faintly piles of towels and tablecloths, and underneath. Big articles like sheets They live in a small unpretentious, scented with verbena or lavender. so on. Besides making it easier to need two bands tied round, one at flat, which she somehow manages.
keep the contents tidy, by prevent- each end of the pile, for neatness.. to make attractive, and comfortable A useful suggestion to prolonging the various articles from get- in spite of its being rather crowded the life of your linen and prevent ting mixed up, these bands add and shabby.
you from using the same sheets enormously to the attractive
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And of course they like company. All children do. And husbands how they do like, to say, “Come on out and have dinner with us,” the spur of the moment.
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The design is am-
You
over again as they come back from pearance of the linen cupboard, es- When cooking potatoes, put the the laundry, is always to put them pecially if you make them of deep salt in after the water boils. on the bottom of the pile and take cream furnishing braid, each one find this will make them nice and that each embroidered with a pretty little floury and a better flavour. Also them from the top so
flower-trail in vivid shades of wool, treat other vegetables in the same One yard of braid is enough for way and they will be greatly im-
one gets used in turn.
Don't put linen away unmérided,
housewife knows that there are or, at least, if you really have not a band to go round a pile of towels proved. It's worth trying.” times when it is less easy than others to have company "drop in,' and so we began really to marvel at the unfailing welcome awaiting any guest at .this little
flat. Finally we said to the young moth- er, "How do you do it? don't mind our asking.”
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“Oh, not at all,” she answered. *In fact, I am very much pleased if you think our home truly hospit- able, for ever since I have been old enough to think of having a home of my own that is the kind of one I have wanted. There really isn't any secret about it. It is just that we really like to have people come. It is easy to welcome guests when you are actually glad to see them,
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"Most women make such hard work of entertaining. They have to give special invitations and get everything just so before they can have company. They tire themsel- ves out, and the guests feel the nervous reaction. And another thing the Same people exchange hospitality, over and over, and shut themselves out of the pleasure of entertaining unexpected and per- haps delightful visitors. The story of Abraham entertaining angels unawares made quite an impression on me when I was a child," laughed.
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"But honestly," she went
to do little
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"it is lots are things|
for people
are not expecting anything. Junior had a little boy with him when he came from school yesterday. 'He's six years old and. he's never been to a party," said Junior. So I stirred up a chocolate cake and sent for ice cream and asked the child to stay for supper. "Candles on the table! Candles on the table!' he exclaimed -in--awed delight when he saw the crystal candlesticks and the remnants of fapers we use for special occasions. | Hospitality doesn't appear to be so much"what" you have to give as it does "how" you give it,” she conclud- ed
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