From 8-year old Hilda’s diary:
Every Sunday night Uncle Milton and Aunt Etta come for supper and afterwards Aunt Etta’s sister Rose comes with her husband and their little daughter Claire and they have dessert and coffee with us. Claire is younger than I am and she loves to play with all Grandmother’s ornaments. She just picks them out of the cabinet and loves to look at them one by one. She never breaks anything but Grandmother always thinks she is going to and so all the time Claire is here, Grandmother sits on the edge of her chair and gets her crochet cotton into knots. Of course she can’t tell Claire not to play with the things. That is because there is a wonderful American rule that Alma taught me. A house belongs to its guests. I guess someone told Claire that too.