TO INTEREST HOUSEWIVES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 156, 1 June 1940, Page 11

TO INTEREST HOUSEWIVES.

HELPING YOUR HOSTESS. (Copyright.) When yon are helping someone do any work, it is necessary to do it as nearly as possible in the way the other person wants it done. It is well to remember this during visits when you desire to be a helpful guest. Every homemaker has her own pet way of doing things, and if you know what it is, it is for you to do it her way unless she expresses no preferences. There are women who prefer their guests to clo, in their own way, whatever little tasks they offer to s -possibly because the hostess realises the guest is expert and efficient, or possibly because she likes to learn new ways. But most homemakers have certain definite methods of work, and plans of accomplishment, and appreciate it when a guest does things the way she, as homemaker, prefers.' To be specific, I know of one homemaker who likes her beds made without turning down the top sheet before putting on the daytime spread. She is apt to tell her friends who visit. her and want to help that this way is what she likes. So whatever the friend prefers, it is for her to make the beds thus. i -. Another woman likes peaches cut in slivers. It irritates her to have them cut into medium segments, although she tries not to show it, when a guest follows her own method inadvertently. This is a hostess who is not very adaptable. However, she entertains delightfully, and it is a pleasure to visit her. When it comes to dish washing, the number of ways of doing the work are endless. One woman rinses her dishes under running water from a faucet as a preliminary process. Another scrapes each dish, and makes them all into prim piles before stai-ting to wash them. Another woman washes pots and pans before dishes, another afterwards. Jf you are a guest and do them with the hostess, be sure to follow her system. although should you do the work yourself, you could undoubtedly follow your own process, if you so requested. Whatever you do avoid the appearance of criticising. It is ungracious.