Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JOHN G. COOK...
...revival of the U.S. maid-and the fact that there are still not enough of them-is one more byproduct of the prosperous '50s. With more money than ever before, people have bigger houses to keep tidy, more meals to cook and clothes to wash, more places to go and problems to cope with every day. The migration to the suburbs means more chauffeuring for mothers, more gardening, more sports and club meetings, all jammed into an already crowded day. Despite all the labor-saving new gadgets, the U.S. woman wants and needs a maid to help...
More often than not, today's maid-hunting housewife will not find just what she wants-she never could. The supermaid, the magnificent cook, the perfect butler have always been jewels beyond price; Catherine of Aragon had the same problem. The surprising thing is that the standard, oldtime maid of all work has practically disappeared from the U.S. scene. Like everybody else, the modern domestic is a specialist-or at least acts like one. Many maids will not mind children; a special "mother's helper" does that for an extra 50? an hour. Others do not do heavy...
...oyome-san is not a happy one. She must be first to rise, must cook for the whole family, may eat herself only after everyone else has finished. She is seldom if ever permitted even to accompany her husband when he goes calling, and if she does must arrive unobtrusively and much later than her husband. Oyome-san comes last even in the order of the bath, and has to wash the tub rings left by everyone else when she is through...
Otherwise . . . In Kingston, Tenn., Cyclist J. B. Cook, booked for public drunkenness after a mile-long flight in which he wove in and out of traffic and pedaled hard to get away despite the patrol car's spotlight and siren, mumbled with chagrin: "There's a lot of play in these handle bars...