Word: housework
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CRAIG'S WIFE-In which a woman is so careful about her housework that her husband gives notice...
...five o'clock she was guest of honor at a high green tea of the Henniger School of Music; next day she gave a concert at the Little Rock High School (which she used to attend when she could steal a morning from the Pastor's housework) ; she shook hands with everybody at a reception given in her honor at the finest hotel in Little Rock. Governor Terral said...
...clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the morning with 15 minutes off for dinner at midnight. For them the average wage is from $12 to $17 a week, though they do the same work as the men. After they return from the mills they must do housework and try to snatch some rest during the day while caring for their youngest children under school age. They work up to the last months of pregnancy and reenter the mills shortly after childbirth. The effects of this life are stamped upon them indelibly. Their backs are bent from...
...trade and made a fortune out of it. He has no children. Now he would like to give an opportunity to as many boys as possible to make fortunes for themselves. Girls he does not provide for, on the ground that they can always get married or do housework, and so find homes. "Girls don't need help like boys," said he, " so I decided on boys." Boys will be accepted who are poor, without fathers, white, native-born, healthy and between the ages of four and eight...
...school is cooperative. The elderly students support themselves by running a farm and industrial plant. Their wives do housework. As they work they learn theology. Archdeacon W. S. Claiborne, Episcopal, directs them. The roster includes two ex-sailors and many sometime clerks, mechanics, farmers...