Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-08

the readers OF the DAILY Times now
the many present-day problems or
the home are solved by working on
the budget that Mrs. Hooper has
evolved and found practical Follow
them daily in an interesting review
OF their home life and learn to meet
the conditions Of the high cost OF
living with them.l
att Just seems awful that we had to
miss our Halloween party this year be-
cause Betty was sick complained Helen
as she and her mother were having their
tea. We've always had one every year,
and 1 think we always have more fun
at it than any other thing we ever have
at home"
Il was sorry about It, too, dear" re-
piled Mrs. Hooper, but it couldn't pos
sibIy be helped and 1 am sure you and
Roger had a very good time at the party
Alice Briggs gave instead"
''Oh, we had fun" agreed Helen, be
cause we just ran around the house and
did anything we pleased and Mrs. Briggs
didn't care how much Of a mess we made.
But when it was all over it didn't seem
like a party at all. Not like the ones
We have here. anyhow"
Il wonder why?" said Mrs Hooper
"Weu, when we are going to have a
party" said Helen, you always get
things ready and we know what games
we art TO play when the children come,
and we don't waste time Just sitting
around waiting for some one to dc some
thing"
e that what you did at Alice Briggs
party?" asked Mrs. Hooper.
''Yes, it was" Helen went on eagerly
because Of the unusual opportunity to
discuss q neighbor with her mother.
Ordinarily Mrs. Hooper. discouraged
any attempt on Helens part to gossip
about the people in the neighborhood, as
IL was a falling that the child seemed to
have inherited, together with an extraor-
binary love for clothes, from her rather
frivolous Auntie Belle, and Mrs. Hooper
had made up her mind to control both
these weaknesses in her If possible.
Don't you think Mrs. Briggs had
made any preparations for the party ?"
asked Mrs. Hooper. Il thought from the
invitation you and Roger received that
It was TO be a much finer one than any
we have ever had"
well, it wasn't" exclaimed Helen en-
phatically, "and I would have told you
how hOrrid it was right after We came
home II you had let me talk about it the
way I wanted to-
You know I don't approve OF your
criticising your little friends or our
neighbOrs," Mrs. Hooper reminded her,
''and that is what you seemed inclined to
do when you returned from the party,
but II you can tell me now just why you
don't think the party was success with
out blaming any one I'll listen TO YOU"
''Well. I don't see how I'm to do that"
answered Helen, because l do think Il
was Mrs. Briggs fault and that the rea-
Ecu our parties are always so nice is be-
cause you make it so easy for US to
have fun"
Didn't Mrs. Briggs do that at alp"
inquired Mrs. HoOPer.
NO" said Helen, taking smother glass
Of milk and a cookie. "She Just said,
Come in children and have a good time
and then she went upstairs and left US
all sitting around for ages. Then Alice
took Us out in the kitchen and Roger
and another boy brought up a wash tub
from the cellar and put water in il and
some apples and then we all 'bObbed for
apples and got soaking wet and the
kItcren was a sight, because the boys
began throwing things at each other.
Then We went into the dining room and
sat in the chairs around the wall and
Alice passed around cake and lemonade.
After that we all played hide-and seek
and made a terrible racket and threw
lot Of things down and made such
noise that Mrs. Briggs came downstairs
and said it was time TO 90 home"
We'll. I should have said it was too"
observed Mrs. Hooper.
But that isn't the kind Of party we
have" insisted Helen, even II we don't
send out grand written invitations the
way Alice Briggs did"
NO. 1 believe If you invite your friends
to spend an evening with you there
should be some effort made to give them
pleasure" agreed Mrs. Hooper and 1
should expect you and Roger to be able
to entertain the girls and boys who
might come here at your invitation bet
ter than even IL I were not here to pre-
pare things for you
We'll, now you know feel as If
hadn't had any Halloween party at all
this year even If we did go out to one"
remarked Helen.
Mrs. Hooper smiled her sympathy as
she said Very well then you shall
have a party on your birthday which
comes on the first Saturday in Deem
Der, and Betty will be quite well enough
60 come downstairs and enjoy 1t too"
"Oh that viii be just fine mother"
exclaimed Helen jumping W and down
IN glee. I'll write down the names Of
those I want to invite right away. How
many can I baveT"
Let US maze It twelve suggested her
mother. 81 think that Will include every
one and we will make it all girls because
& viii be in tho afternoon"
'T'u like that" agreed Helen. II think
boys at & party in the afternoon are
silly. But why can't I have it at
hight"
II don't think you ought TO have a
party IN the evening until you are much
plder," replied her mother, but Roger
viii have one after tho first Of the year
that you can be at"
~Hew nearly paid up Is the washing
machine?" asked Henry as he and Mrs
Hooper sat down together in the living
room while Mrs. Hooper's mother, who
was still with them, went upstairs to
stay with Betty until she fell asleep.
81 made the twenty-ffth payment Of
s250 on It last week, so that makes
e11250 paid on It and S6250 that We
still owe It cost S175 ond we paid down
$50, You remember why do you ask -
"Weu, the Brides husband was asking
ne about that washing machine OF yours
when We came down on the train to-
gether last night, and I told him how
we had bought it," replied Henry, "anf
that I thought It wouldn't be so very
long before It was all paid for"
''Is he thinking Of buying one7" asked
Mrs. Hooper in surprise, as the Bride
had said nothing to her about any plan
TO buy a washing machine.
Mr. Hooper laughed as he opened the
newspaper that he was preparing to
read aloud to Mrs. Hooper while she
lid her sewing.
He said he had never had the faint
sst idea Of buying one until a few days
TgO, but he wanted to make his wife a