Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-11
HOUSEWIVES DAILY !;
ECONOMY CALENDAR
BY Frances Marshall
ARE YOU AN ENTERTAINER.

Copyright. 1916. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
Chief cook and bottle washer. baby
expert, governess, dressmaker, member,
nurse and dletician, all in one-such is
most every good housewife, who if she
really be equal to her vocation needs
infinitely more kinds of ability than
the average woman who works for a
wage.
But that's not all. The housewife.
the woman at the head of her own
nome, IN the center of her own family
group, be the home ever so humble or
the family group ever so small, ought
also to be an entertainer. The woman
who thinks her duties are done when
she has got the dinner things away at
night, the children tucked into their
beds or helped with their arithmetic
or parsing for tomorrow's school. the
bread set for the next day, and, NAV
hap. the cereal in the fireless cooker
for breakfast, hasn't really got her
tasks all completed She must then, if
che really wants to put the most into
lie and get the most out of it as well.
play the role of entertainer And it
isn't really so very hard once you get
used to it, either
The man OF the family may not be
SO muscle weary at night as the house.
w1ie' OUT ne is usually more brain
ragged, and besides men are not nat
urally so resourceful as women when
IT comes to entertaining. The children
OF the house naturally seek amusement
after the school tasks of the day and
nence this added vocation for the
housewife.
rake five minutes of the day to plan
some little diversion for the evening.
You may be quite tactful in suggest
Ing 1t. No doubt if you asked husband
at dinner whether he would play paper
and pencil games with you and the
children for an hour after dinner
things are away he would protest that
ne would rather read his paper and
smoke his evening pipe in peace. So
don't make him commit himself. You
must lay your plans deeper than that
to begin with.
i saw such an interesting set of
puzzle questions today" is a much
better way of exciting the desired in
terest Il wonder how many we can
answer? l wonder if you could make
out better than L.
And OF course after that the oues-
tons must be produced and with pen
CHS and papers the contest will begin.
Inc paper goes unread and the pipe
perhaps unsmoked. but the evening has
been an interesting one and has slipped
away before you know it,
50 old-time games can be revived
and at small expense new ones such as
any boy-young or old-honestly de-
lights in, can be kept on hand. With
set or anagramS half dozen games
can be played. and every toy depart
ment in the stores has a supply of
games that can be played a few times
TO the amusement of the whole house
hoid. suppose twenty-five cent
game does prove interesting for only
ten evenings? You have surely got
your moneys worth of entertainment
out OF 1T, and the game is still there ia
aHord some one else entertainment
Then there are lots of contests and
paper and pencil games that will serve
70 while an evening away in pleasure
mat cost nothing but the pains of
keeping your eyes open for them in the
magazines and the newspapers. From
tne library or book store a bool, nj
nome games can be bought that will,
suggest hundreds more. and so the on
tertainer's task is lightened. One wo-