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HOW TO GIVE
A
(SUCCESSFUL)'
PARTY-
FOR CHILDREN IT'S A BATTLE—BUT, YOU CAN WIN!
NEVER be deceived by the touching, innocent appearance of a child dressed for a Christmas party. Behind every velvet buster suit there beats the heart of Al Capone. Children judge a party strictly by the loot, and every year they plot together to add a fresh prize to the traditional list of booty.
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This year it's sausages on sticks. If you want your party to be socially possible, in addition to the tea, the squashes, the ices, the jellies, the presents, the balloons, the crackers, the games, the prizes and the entertainment, I'm afraid you've got to serve a round of sizzling chipolatas. On sticks.
bolting will bo There will be
There is so much to do in the and the whole two or three hours you have there by 3.50. ullotted that you must plan no false politeness about your
IC
"Behind every velvet buster there 6.30
beats the heart of Al Capone.* 3.30, because
Lanton Espera arries
Children
over
What they want is The Night They invented Champagne.
Keep them at belive games porty ken military arriving late.
Hi tesa time, which 1 Ꭲ.
* An entertainer is the best answer if you want a clear hour” operation. This is Alamein and Start with A crowd game commmend early, at 4,30. Don't you are Montgomery. (Or do I which all can join as they arrive, have place cards. Let them seat
Aa entertainer is the best mean Lord Alanbrooke?)
like musical parcels or musical themselves, or there will be rows child-loving adult supervising your party is from 4 to chairs, The tunes should be galore.
each table and if you know five answer if you want a clear hour after ten to clear away, have a be ut action stations by sophisticated.
In my early parties, I made such you are lucky, three Beveral children
won't two mistakes over tea,
the look on my rest, attend to any child who is I remember will arrive 20 minutes early, thank you for, Mulberry Bush, I invited grown-up friends to husband's face as he argued with feeling sick, pat out the presents
help.
damned who wanted
fry⚫ those my time a pretty Hite blond boy who and gossiping, wanted waiting DR was cheating at shpond. It was sauengés. themselves, and were generally on ugly thing to see. a pain in the neck.
I have been touting round for mother for ideas from other the testing time after tea.
STORIES FOR BOYS & GIRLS
A Lesson in Courtesy
-Chicks and Ducklings Learn to Greet Each Other-
By MAX TRELL
EVERYONE
crowded around Mr Punch, begging him for story.
to
"A story, a story," Mr Punch repeated
himself several imes, as he looked around at bis friends.
Then suddenly he said:
'Did I ever fell you the story five little Chickens about the
Ducks who met the Ave little and what they said to one an- other?"
Begins Story
had heard this story No one belore. So Mr Punch, eating n or two to give him- gumdrop self strength, began:
"Once upon a time, there was a Mother Hien named Henrietta. She had Ave Chicks, whose Henry, Harriet, names
were
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Helen, Higby and Oswald. Their mother was very proud of them.
"But one day something hap- pened which made her disap- pointed in them,”
The
Hanld, the
Mr Punch was asked why Henrietta Hen was disappoint- ed in her five young Chicks.
"What happened?"
Shadow Girl with Turned-About Name, asked,
Mat A Duck
"Well," said Mr Punch, "ono beautiful morning Henrietta Hen was taking a walk with her five Chicks behind her. Along came a Duck with her five young Ducklings. They-" Here Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Knart, the Shadow Boy, both interrupted to usk Mr Punch what the names of the five Ducklings were,
Mr Punch replied: "The Ave Ducklings were numed Jim, Josie, Jerry, Jer- ome and Percival.
Henrietto Hen said "Good 'Momlug" to Quacklee Duck,
Josie, Jerry, Jerome and Perci- val, must learn to greet each other whenever they met.
And I provided too many sweet things and too large a Christmas cake.
I now provide slacks of Savoury food-bridge rells Alled with: (a) mashed sardines, and (b) scrambled eitz: a few filled with honey; a lot of chocolate [hiscuits; a few ́snall cakes; and a smail Christmas cake, which is ποτε for decoration than anything else.
Protocol demands crackers by rach plate, those rather nasty foney paper napkins and jellies and ices when tea is over.
I used to keep the ives for the end of the party, as a stirrup cup; this was the old ritual But TOW that the children have brought in the sausage racket, the fees have to come early.
Be prepared
This year I am going to be reckless and call in the Castros. The Castros are the My Falz Lady of children's entertain- ment. Many children, from Prince Charles and Princess Anne down, have seen them three or four times, but each ilme, the experience gets richer. Children know the songs as well as you and I know I'm Getting Married in the Morning.
The Castros cost nine guineas, 50 I am afraid they area luxury though you could_chare your party with another family. But the lowest entertainer costs seven guiness, including that man with the dreadfully vulgar comic m Po many mothers of the greatest refinement have ordered by mistake..
From 8.15 on, parents come to collect and I ask them to help themselves to sherry" (cocktails. -Mira Anthony Quayle says: are too complicated) while we "Borrow a tape recorder. I gave find the children's coats, give
*** I remember the look on my husband's face os he argued with a pretty blond boy."
a present and a balloon, CATTY round 1be hot
a party last year for children of each FTER tes comes the climax 9 to 12 and T coached them end and
of the battle. You win of they acted and recited into the sausages. lose in the hour from 5 to 0.
tape recorder. We did numbers The WORST party i ever like Rudolph rave
back, announcing each
the Red-Nosed You're happy... was when I left 12 10 Reladeer. Then I played the chance my first party, and I tape was inexperienced,
number. They were thrilled to THE rule for presents-HAVE ALL EXACTLY THE SAME. The BEST was when my son hear their voices, it was a howl- So the next day, when Mama was eight and we had progres- ing success, "T
I have seen such a aad Hitle Henrieta Hen and her five rive games for 20 children. Antonia Fraser, with ting look on a small girl's face when Chicks met Mama Quacked There
Wad fishpond Uddle children, says "We play nursery she won a clockwork mouse and Duck and her five Ducklings, winks, map, blow football and games and I hand out presents another child had a Japanese Mrs Duck sald:
hooking boot buttons into a cup every 10 minutes. It keeps their Barden.
This
you brings dear with bent pins on "'Good morning,
a rod and minds off their troubles." string. Every Ave minutes we The new Mr B. A Butler party's end, with every little gone, hands full and ring a bell counted scores and says. "We always have a fim Cangster Good morning, my dear moved on.
show, so that I can sit back and pockels bulging.
You will feel mentally The objection to this is that recover, and I and animal filas
my Henrietta, and Mrs Henrietta Hen said:
Quackice.
FOCUS.
to
the
London Express Service).
on a problem every woman knows
"And as for Henry, Harriet, the games require literally days are adored. We have our own drained and physically whacked Creeted Each Other
Helen, Highy and Oswald, and of üdvance preparation. You projector, but anyone can hire but somehow rather happy.. Jim, Josie, Jerry, Jerome and also have to have a patient, one." "Now," continued Mr Punch, Percival, they all looked at one "when Mama Hen mot Mama another, nodded cheerfully, and Duck, they both greeted each all cald: other in the most pleasant
"Good morning, good morn- manner imaginable.
ing, good morning, good morn- Good morning, my deat ing good morning, good morn- Henrietta, sald Mama Quacking, good morning, good morn lee Duck.
ing, good morning-and good "Good moming, my dear morning. said Percival (who Quacklee, said Minma Henri- was a little late). etta Hen
"And from then on," said Me But the five young Chicks Punch, "whenever Henry, Har- Oswald named Henry, Harrict, Helen, riet, Helen, Higby, and Higby and Oswald, and the Ave met Jim, Josie, Jerry, Jerome politely Percival, they named young Ducks
Jim, and Josie, Jerry, Jerome and Per greeted each other. cival, just stood and looked at one another and didn't say 'a word"
f
*Not
word?" everyone in the room,
Just Looked
Really interesting · ·
"But it really became inter- shouted esting," said Mr Punch, when Henry, Harriet, Helen, Higby and Oswald, and Jim, Josic, Percival Jerry, Jerome and "Not a word!" repeated Mr et Charles, Charlotte Ches- Punch, "The ten of them just fer, Catherine and Theobold."
"Who were, they?" asked stand jooking at one another everybody.
SEE
YOU IN
THE HEEL BAR
17HAT is any g'oman's
It has
W biggest wardrobe bug- bear? Ask her, and she will almost certainly reply "Keeping my shoes in heel." and didnt say a single word” "Young little Cats," said Mir
dixin't they say good Punch.
been calculated that why
the average woman needs her mening?" asked Mary-Jane, "Do you know what they all shoes reheeled 38 times a year the Rag Doll.
said to one another when they (and if she goes to an office in "Because," said Mr Punch, met right after lunch?”
high-heeled shoes six days a "no one had taught them,
And everyone in the room week, I can well believe ity. - "So it was decided, then and shouted: there, by Mama Henrietta Hen "Good afternoon, good after- But the sverige shoe repair and Mama Quackles Duck that noon" fourteen times and
one service takes three or four days their children, Henry, Harriet, last good afternoon for Percival to heel shoem.,
Helen, Hleby, Oswald, Jim, (who won still late).
New hope
The five-minute repair is
big business now
Rupert and the Whistlefish-50 the intervals of 'anding time more in Central London.
The little procession of boats starts off in what Rapers thinks the wong direction. Both he and Sailoë am hope that there is worse way, boxe other than the Erigrinning "way by which they cacoes by the ending boat swings in a wide curve and beads at top
speed for ibe nézzers, crack is 'the huyo cliff in a moment they all swallowed up by the dense mist; and not-watil "the waves around them are higher do they know that they are out at may Again they are surrounded by the forma of leaping fiski... ALšKIGUTH RESERVED
cope
nitention some girls arrive with capped man who wanted work, It turned out he was trained in up to six patro,
Within the next year up to shoe-repairing and we decided 50 more of these heeling bors we'd like to help him. will be opening in stores up and "Boctrine he couldn't down the country, And a few with ' the ordinary equip-
tent wo fixed up the firet Personally, I'd like to red as of the heeling bars in a local to take and time to collect many of them as there are store. We used a standard place the shoes, other beals wear cigarette kiosks, but that dreare of nalling equipment; the rest down new shoes have to be is unlikely to be realised. was designok specially, bought, others have to be given. This business-like all the "The thing art of imowballed complete new, heels (roughly best business — started in a from there, and Donald Ryan Els time), and money flows romantically improbable, way, came in on it with me," like water, "M
There are 'now heeling, harn It" was originated, by a "young Within, the lit month, bor- American called, Donald Phillips from South Afries to Sweden, ever, hope- hme dawned. Two at present based. In Brussels and what started ag a generoRE= London alores, Belfridges and in partnership with a college. ly helpful, resture has grown Gamages. have noted heeling triert, Donald Fran bare where you perch on a stool,
hatid k over the boes you're Good idea
werring--and yet thiers back in
Into big Business,
..
Once a store has offered, to supply space, à men to run it la
office and equipment
"Ninety," pér
cent of the
five minutes with new head-tope. THEN we were at Harvard trained in the Brussels hend for about 464, and the bushess school together,"
Before your eyes, the did he told me "we decided that if supplied, simp keel-top: is gently prided off, a one of us ever had a good idea ellentale consist of women, (to new top Bolboted, "itted, and we'd go in on it together obodo's, marprise), and all the smoothed into an exact file went into the stent trusten bare need is soft music and a
"Already" "the local (ofico" skin, and he want tato marketing, y have got wins to this and pre trong my wife and I were happy Imening syndicates to trace the lakini throughs a prose sind we' affics, collection of 7 aboar for raw and ad, put av by a baridi--
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