Visiting A Farm This Summer?

This article was published in the Kitchen-Klatter magazine, September, 1952.

Take Your Time Going, But Hurry Back

Ten ways guests have made this hostess happy:

1. By either arising when we do, or getting their own breakfast later on when we are in the midst of morning chores.
2. By going to bed at a fairly early hour so that we can get a little sleep before rising early. We find that those guests who rise when we do at 4:30 or 5 a.m. are much more willing to turn in early that night.
3. By either helping with the chores, if they really knew how, or staying strictly out of the way.
4. By keeping a watchful eye on small children so that we need not worry about city children’s ignorance of farm hazards.
5. By getting that wanted suntan while wielding a paint brush for us, or mowing the lawn.
6. By taking for granted the fact that farm life is different. We know you miss a bathroom down the hall, a drugstore around the corner, neighbors next door. We do too, sometimes.
7. By never mentioning the things we don’t have, but only the things we do have–rich Jersey cream, lots of fresh eggs and fresh vegetables, a pond in which to fish and swim.
8. By cooperating in the job that has to be done. Guests at haying time last year meant for us an extra hay hand in the field, and an excellent cook to help me in the kitchen.
9. By leaving me, always, new ideas to mull over as my hands and feet fly on the every day routine that I could do in my sleep.
10. By coming, and on leaving, promising to come again.

–Elsie Bailey

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