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...conversation he wants, any housewife over here could bring him down to earth in nothing flat. He'd find that a good portion of us are college graduates, as are our husbands. We're usually a family of four with the usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets . . . We drive cars that are not the newest models, and we don't have chicken every Sunday. We haven't had a real family vacation in years-we can't afford one. We listen to good music, we read good books...
...neighborhood where they lived, and tried to behave like grownups. For Tiger, that meant working his tiny patch of land, getting drunk now & then on rum bought on credit at the store of Tall Boy, the Chinaman, and occasionally beating up Urmilla. For Urmilla it meant doing the primitive housework, delivering the milk, worshiping Tiger, and having babies. Everything might have gone well enough in picturesque squalor if Tiger hadn't begun to think about things, and if the war hadn't brought the Yankee dollar...
Though three out of four of the group questioned went to college, scarcely one of them now has the time to display her learning. Today, at 35, Mrs. Median Yale has 2.3 children, puts in a good ten hours a day at her housework. She is apparently allowed only one part-time maid one day a week, spends a modest $325 a year for her clothes and $40 more for "personal beautification." Politically, she is apt to be Republican, usually voting just the way her husband does. In whatever spare time she has, she gets through about twelve books...
...year-old Miss Frances, Ding Dong answers an age-old problem: what to do with the moppets whose older brothers & sisters have just trudged off to school. Most mothers, Miss Frances thinks, are far too busy with housework to pay much attention to the children left at home. The result: the children either feel left out, or start getting in mother...
Radcliffe rates for chauffeuring, cooking, housework, reading aloud, working as waitresses, office work, and messenger service are all now 75 cents an hour, a rise of about 10 cents an hour apiece. Library workers have received a 20 cent an hour increase, from 55 cents to 75 cents. Mimeographing is set at 80 cents an hour and experienced typing at 85 cents, a hike of 10 cents an hour apiece...