Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-25
THURSDAY.

THURSDAY.
With her coffee and hot wahles, Mrs.
Hooper read Rogers letter that the post
men had dropped in the box at the front
door Just as she began her breakfast.
It ran.
Dear Mother: Wonderful luck
Father and Billy and I fshed all day
and each Of Us caught mess Of perfect
beauties-and may be they didn't taste
good when Father broiled them. Helen
and Anne ara great with the canned
vegetables and a few things like that but
it takes Father TO cook fish and real
things 20 eat. The little camp stove
that you bought is q wonder. We get
our meals in no time on it, but Of course
father uses a camp fire too. and Re has
promised to make some bread IN the liz
tie Dutch oven tomorrow. The girls
are fine to have along to do the camp
awerk and Helen and Anne certainly keep
things looking slick-that is they have
for the last two days-but Il may not
last. We have a fine swimming hole and
we all 90 In the water and stay as long
as We like. The skin has all peeled off
Helen's nose and it makes her cross and
millions of little brown freckles are COM
ing out all over Anne's face. I don't
think she's discovered It vet, and Billy
says we'd better not tell her because
she'd probably be more peeved than
Helen is about her burned nose. Girls
are certainly queer thingsi Billy is as
red as a lobster and I've begun TO turn
black. and we like it-and even father
IS trying to get burned. But those girls
are always doIIing up with cold cream,
I'M If it wasn't for their washing the
dishes and doing a lot Of odd jobs, we'd
fTr-fz hoa inst
cooked a pot Of luscious beans and we
are 10 have more fish so you may know
that your children viii not go to bed
hungry,
With lots Of love.
ROGER.
?. s, Bn1y says TO please tell his
mother that he is having a good time
and sends his love. and Oh, Mother, why
don't you have a party or something
while we are gomez"
Hre was Roger following his father
lead IN suggesting that she ought 10
have company to hdIp her pass her va
cation It certainly seemed as II no one
sympathtzed or understood her desire for
just quiet. with no one around for a
change
But she thought that perhaps she was
not quite fulfilling an obligation that
every one seemed to recOgnize-and that
she might be arbitrarily eliminating
function OF home life that really be
l0nged to IL, because she didn't feel like
making the effort TO adjust to it trou-
bic and expense began to bother her for
the first time. She was particularly
anxious to have this question settled def
nitely in her own mind before IL came
up for discussion with the club women
who were endeavoring to arrange their
time schedules and budgets under her
direction.
Whether to advise them to dispense
altogether with even the most informal
entertaining in their own homes be
eause it was time consuming and be
cause no matter how carefully it was
MANAGED II did cost money 10 have
--ussts- or u suggest 10 them that they
should plan their budgets TO include >
uluch entertaining as they could possibly
rford. because Il was a duty that they
should not attempt TO evade as she had
been doing. She realized that there was
no reason why she should take any
credit as WAS being given her for house
hold management, If she were living
well within her income only because she
was cutting out some essentials and not
because she was including everything
that a perfect home demanded while