The Schoenhut family at home

Welcome to the Schoenhut family home.

From out here it looks like the family could use some repairs around the front door.  The frames of the window panes are missing from one of the sidelights and there is a chip out of the bottom of the door frame on the other side. Maybe Father is not very handy with these things. They should hire a handyman.



Let's go inside and see what the family is doing.

It looks like Mother has just arrived home to find two of her little ones unsupervised and playing with the expensive new radio.  They know they aren't suppose to touch it.

Mother is disappointed. Where are the other grownups?


"Where's Nanny?" she asks them. "Where's your father."

"on't know Mamma." says little Cecil. "Gone."

"Radio." says little Myrtle.

In the kitchen Cook is asking Mabel how school went.

One would think that Cook would be more interested in getting dinner ready. The kitchen looks pretty bare. Maybe the food is in the icebox.

Upstairs Father is in the bathtub. He really enjoys having indoor plumbing and he bathes as often as he can.


In fact he is a lot like the father in the big yellow house. He has to stay upstairs because he has no clothes. Apparently he doesn't even have a towel. No wonder the front door is in ill repair. If Father tried to fix it he would be arrested.

At least Father has a Health-o-Meter in the bathroom with him. He will know in advance if he is tending towards ill health.

In the bedroom Nanny is supervising young Ella as she learns to make her own bed.

Nanny feels proper bed making is very important and is so absorbed in the lesson that she has lost track of the other children.

Mother sighs wearily and pulls her shawl more tightly around her shoulders.


She must give tonight's menu to Cook and make sure she gets dinner going.


She must get Nanny to take the children in hand and get them ready for bed.

She must find out where Father has put his clothes and get him out of the bathtub. He is always in the bathtub.


And then she must make sure everyone goes to bed so they can do it all over again tomorrow.

Good night for now.


Hugs,

Susan