Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1920-07-30
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
nv Laura A. hirkman.
PREPARING FOR THE
WINTERS ENTERTAINING

THIS week | have received a very IN
terostlng letter from bride reader, who
writes as follows:
You invited your readers TO write 20
YOU, telling of their discoveries and short
cuts in household matters. 81 hat other
women readers might benefit by them
Well | want YOU 20 tell my sister house
keepers through your column you may
publish this letter If you wish about a
plan | tried out last summer and which |
am putting into effect again this summer
NV husband and | like to do as much
entertaining rs his small salary viii allow
but we never could have had such site
cess rs we had last winter # | had not
thought of the scheme of making pretty
and unusual table decorations, favors and
place cards all last summer while sitting
on my front porch in odd moments
Il began by making favors for Hal
lowe en- party VIC had planned 10 give IN
October. You know how the weeks slip
by. and | was afraid | would never be
able to make prptty table decorations for
the party If | let it all go till October. So
started last July by buying some orange
crepe paper and cutting out pumpkins,
cats and witches for favors, place cards,
etc, and doing little passing whenever
| had few minutes TO sit on my porch.
/ kept the materials In a small box under
a pillow in our swing hammock and of
course took care not TO let any of our
friends G the work-for | did not want
people to know Just how the table would
look before they came to the party.
"And when | had finished my Hal
lowe'en decorations, / began thinking
about decorating the Thanksgiving din
ner table We were 10 have q number of
relatives and friends with us for that
FEAST. In little while | found myself
tracing pictures of q turkey from child's
book and making little standing cards
of them, to place at intervals all over the
table My next step was TO make horn
of plenty out of stiff paper, to be filed
with real fruit on the table. j even cut
streamers of crepe paper In advance,
which would run from beneath the centre
piece to each persons plate.
"And of course, Christmas decorations
came next These were the most interest
ing of all to make. The place-cards were
in the shape of chimneys with a snowy
Santa peeking out of the top laden with
bag; painted these of egg-shell paper,
putting standards of stiff cardboard on the
backs. But | won't go on to describe all
the dtCofdttO1iSf llbl W btli aDtut
the st. Valentines decorations and deco
rations for two birthday parties which /
made all sitting on my front porch when
/ had few minutes alone.
1--WE are young, newly-marTied people
and | like good time-but never could
have had as much fun during the past
winter as we did if / had not planned out
every detail of the parties we wanted to
give and prepared for them in advance,
in this way. j have heard so many brides
say: We'd like to entertain, but our In
come is so small-and entertaining costs
so much But / believe that almost any
young couple could entertain land get
more Joy out of life if they schemed for
it the way / do and made almost every
thing in the way of decorations instead
of buying them. And summer is the time
to do it,"
Tomorrow Sunday Night Tea for
Guests.