PLAN No. 667. ENTERTAINS CHILDREN.
A mother with a little 8-year-old girl was compelled to earn her own way. She had one asset—a home in a good neighborhood close to a school. She was a good entertainer and the idea came to her: “Why not give children’s parties four afternoons of the week?” She acted upon this idea and gave parties for children from 1 to 5 o’clock Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, when school was closed, and when school was in session she arranged for parties on Saturdays from 1 to 5 P. M.
She would entertain fifteen to twenty youngsters and give them a real wholesome time. She charged 50 cents for each child. This gave the mothers their Saturdays, and the way this lady conducted her parties was instructive to the children. She taught them how to play games and specialized in teaching good manners.
The mothers were very glad to take advantage of her parties. She arranged to have a different lot of children each day.
While school was in progress and a mother found it necessary to be gone all the afternoon, she arranged with her to have the child call at her house after school and she would look after it until the mother called. For this service she charged 25 cents. When the mother was to be gone all day she would tell the child to call at the hostess’ home at noon and eat her lunch, which her mother had prepared for her, and to stay there after school until the mother called for her. For this service our hostess charged 50 cents.
During the summer months her parties made her $30 a week, and while school was in progress she made about $20 a week.
PLAN No. 668. RAISED CHICKENS
He resolved that chickens could be raised on a large scale.
He devoted 80 acres to them in the following manner. He planted wheat, and immediately after doing so he put hundreds of young chickens on the eighty acres to make their own way. He arranged for water and made a large number of little houses on wheels wherein the chickens could roost and lay. Each day he collected his eggs. When it was necessary, he would move the houses about their length.
When fall came he sold all chickens that were over two years old and saved this money to buy pullets with the following spring. The chickens obtained plenty of food and the results were very profitable.