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Escape. In Chicago, Walter Holberg pointed two toy pistols at a jeweler, got himself arrested, explained he was tired of doing housework for his wife, wanted to live in jail...
...Indianapolis, a woman suing for divorce charged that her husband kept his gun collection and an 18-foot fishing boat in the living room. In Chicago, Mrs. Frances Toler, a model, won a divorce after complaining that she supported her husband but that he refused to do the housework...
Maternal overprotection resembles an obsession neurosis, but Dr. Levy's 20 mothers were not neurotic. Practically all vere stable, responsible, aggressive, strongly maternal women. Frequently there was sexual or social incompatibility with the husband. Many of the mothers had serious responsibilities in their own childhoods, such as housework or taking care of brothers and sisters; some had been deprived of normal affection from their own parents. Any combination of these influences, on top of the natural maternal bent, was likely to produce overconcentration on a child. If the mother was over-stern, her child...
...England. Ensconced in their almost new $24,000 building, equal in comfort to most Harvard clubs, the men have a strong sense of common responsibility not only towards the property which they protect and the lives under their care, but for their own living quarters as well. The "housework" is distributed among themselves on a sort of Platonesque basis, and the 50-odd men take turns in doing the floor-waxing, window,-scrubbing, and brass polishing which keeps their establishment as spotless and shining as one of our new destroyers. Spare time is not idled away, but is spent...
...know dozens of women who work. . . . Probably every one of them would rather be at home if she had a husband earning an income sufficient to live on. Believe me, a woman who works eight or nine hours a day and then goes home and does her housework, cooking and sewing at night, hasn't much time to think of "fancy clothes...