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...nothing much wrong with stocky Mrs. Gertrude Levandowski, now 58, until her husband died ten years ago. Then she began to gain weight. She did her best to take care of her house outside the small town of Burnips, Mich. (pop. 250), but as she got fatter & fatter, housework became more difficult. When she reached nine feet in circumference, all she could do was sit on a strong chair, smile cheerfully and peel a few potatoes. Her son Charles, 17, took over the housework...
...short step to teach him to vacuum the rugs and sweep the corriders. The result inevitably will be a rush of girls to marry Harvard men, a new breed of intellectuals not only ornamental to the drawing room but gosh-darned handy at helping with the housework. --from the Logan (Utah) Herald-Journal, November...
...Annex has no union or wage squabbles with the 700 workers workers who do most of the housework at the 'Cliffe. Instead the administration relaxes while undergraduate chairmen administer a compulsory student work program...
Weekly room inspection was recently introduced to make sure 'Cliffedwellers keep up with their housework. Las year, the first when maids did not clean bed rooms at all, authorities inspected during Christmas and spring vacations to make sure that students had not damaged college property. This year a more frequent check was instituted and the Board of Hall Presidents voted to let the house committees punish any girls who did not pass weekly room inspection...
...year-old California housewife, mother of three was relieved of the ileum and all but two feet of the jejunum, leaving her (with the duodenum) about three feet of small intestine. After two years, her only complaint is diarrhea, usually traceable to fatigue or strain. She does all the housework and scrabbles in the garden without ill effects...