Word: husbandly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Husband Dislikes...
Iwajiro Suzuki, her late husband, inherited a prospering merchant business and died a rich man; but it was his general manager, Kaneko Naokishi, who emboldened Mme. Suzuki to embark on a succession of daring financial coups...
...housewife had to lift her carpets each spring, hang them on the clothesline in the back yard and then hope for a tramp to come along and whack the dirt out of the carpets. If no bummer appeared, she knew that she would be obliged to quarrel with her husband that evening before he would do the "dirty work." Therefore, she often beat the carpets herself and got her long hair, her eyes and her lungs filled with street filth tracked into her best parlor. Carpet beaters and carpet sweepers are still used where buggies exist...
March 21). Her new husband, Norman Matson, is her new collaborator...
...Each [husband and wife] should be unselfish and considerate of the other and both try to keep the optimism and cheerfulness of their youth ... he ought to realize that a wife is a partner...