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Soon after the wedding, Mr. Willebrandt's lungs necessitated a move to Arizona. Mrs. Willebrandt nursed him and did all the housework. She had vitality enough left over to take a normal school course in Tempe. After his health returned, she left him. She became a school superintendent in Los Angeles and studied law at the University of Southern California. Her reputation grew with her work as Public Defender of Los Angeles-charity advocate for beaten wives and fallen women...
...girls get as much out of their scout work as boys? Why not? Much the same in character is required of them. They must have courage. It takes just as much courage to stick to the housework until it is done as it does to go out and meet a bear...
...consider their sweeper the best of all. They have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars finding out just where dirt accumulates in carpets and the best way of getting such dirt out of carpets. And they have their machine to get rid of that dirt. Many a judge of housework has approved the Hoover. Thousands have bought it. It had never been entered in a contest, before the Sesquicentennial Exposition, without gaining the best prize offered. These tests and exploits are described in a volume, Hoover?The Story of a Crusade...
...still, who was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Another girl spoke up. Once her mother had had woman's trouble, couldn't do the housework, father had got blue and grumpy. Mother had read an advertisement in the farm journal, got some big bottles and pretty soon been all right again. On the bottle it had said, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Nice tasting stuff, too. Lots of women swore...
Shrewd, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz, partners, bachelors, garment merchants, stipulated a condition: Mae Jordan should not receive payment for doing all the housework of their apartment unless she should sweep the floors northward on odd days of the month, southward on even days. Ingenious, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz kept track of the sweeping by observing each evening which way the nap lay on their living-room rug. Relentless, cruel, Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz detected wrong sweepings during January, February, April and June, withheld payment for those months...