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Nancy Bruff, whose high-pressured novel The Manatee made her one of Park Avenue's greatest women writers, celebrated the pleasures of motherhood in a little piece for the New York Journal-American. In conclusion she informed her readers: "As for myself, I hope to produce another book and another baby next year...
There was no tuition, no terms, no marks, no attendance records, no required courses, no graduations or diplomas (except in the special high-school academic courses). You came when you could and took what you wanted: welding or writing, cooking or cartooning, mineralogy or millinery or motherhood. Said Emily: "Let people do what they can and the best they can. Don't force them...
...Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only a dreadful nuisance but is somehow a little vulgar...
Canada's housing shortage is holding up many marriages. But it has not proved an obstacle to motherhood. In cities across the country the illegitimacy rate is rising. Halifax reported twice as many bastards in 1945 as in 1936; Edmonton's rate was up 8%; in Winnipeg one out of every 13 babies was illegitimate; in Regina one of every four...
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was getting nothing . . . nothing . . . for her wretched years of motherhood. She had been forced to sell a $75,000 diamond for $30,000. She was reduced to living in a $175-a-month Manhattan apartment. Last week tradesmen were boldly presuming to offer her jobs-the tabloid New York Daily News announced, with a frightful leer, that Reggie Vanderbilt's 40-year-old widow had been asked to peddle phonograph needles at "$50 a jab." And to make it all practically unendurable, her own daughter, Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowski, with a fortune of $4,500,000, refused...