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 | archived 5/10/08 As quoted from: The Rollo Books, Jacob Abbott, c. 1855 "What are you thinking about so intently, Rollo?" "Why, mother," said he, "I was thinking about my vacation. I was considering what I should do to-morrow. What would you do, mother?" "I should read or study part of the time," said his mother. "Read and study, mother!" said he, with surprise. "Why, it is my vacation." |
 | archived 5/03/08 As quoted from: The Art of Home Making, Margaret E. Sangster, c. 1898 On Wasting Our Time . . . "We do not waste time when we take outdoor exercise. This, too, some of us need to remember. When we are ordered by our medical counselors to walk or drive every day, to get the air somehow and set the blood in motion, we are ready to obey, but a more sensible way would be to anticipate the prescription and take the exercise so that we may keep well." |
archived 4/26/08
As quoted from: (Godey's) The Ladys Book, Consumption Climate of America, September 1839
". . . But an American is always 'on the alert' - his mind is in constant activity - his hopes and fears are always excited. - He hopes to make a good speculation -to invent some wonder-working machine, or, perhaps, to get into a good office; and he fears some of those untoward events which often frustrate the wisest plans laid for the good of our temporalities. We Americans are an anxious people; and anxiety of mind is often prejudicial to the health of the body."
archived 4/19/08
As quoted from: (Godey's) The Ladys Book, "Popping the Question", July 1839
"It must be admitted by every one who is practically or otherwise acquainted with the topic, that 'popping the question,' as it is familiarly called, is one of the most thrilling circumstances in the life of 'a man of real sensibility.' Imagine a youngster of two and twenty, or thereabouts, with a tallow-colored face, an agitated deportment, and a heart throbbing with various emotions, seated by the side of a simpering damsel, who is laboring strenuously to make it appear that she has no suspicion concerning the subject about to be introduced."
archived 4/12/08
As quoted from: The Art of Home Making, Margaret E. Sangster, c. 1898
"Mrs. Van de Water, writing in Harper's Bazar on this subject, gives mothers some excellent hints which do not come amiss here: 'The school luncheon is a matter upon which the girl and her mother find it difficult to agree. The desire that her child shall eat nourishing digestible food leads the parent to frown upon such indigestible and toothsome dainties as tarts, fruit cake, doughnuts and crullers. Too often when the girl's lunch box does not contain that which her sweet tooth craves, her mid-day 'snack' is supplemented by a piece of pie from the nearest baker's . . .' "
 | archived 4/5/08 As quoted from: The Art of Home Making, Margaret E. Sangster, c. 1898 "Correspondence forms an important part of our modern life. We take less time for letter-writing than people did formerly, and sometimes it seems as if the old leisurely epistle has gone out with the stage-coach of our fathers. When postage was a matter of very great moment and a letter cost anywhere from six to twenty-five cents, also when its conveyance was a matter of much labor on the part of those who carried it, one relay of horses after another being harnessed to the mail-coach, sometimes when an armed escort was necessary to convey it through a hostile country, or one infested with banditti, it seemed hardly worth a person's while to sit down and dash off a hurried missive. People somehow had more time in past days than there seems to be now." | |
 | archived 3/29/08 As quoted from: The Art of Home Making, Margaret E. Sangster, c. 1898 "Whatever it is, the open fire gives the last touch of domesticity to a home. It is worth the little extra expense it costs to have its daily beauty and brightness, and no one who has ever been able to compass it will ever again do without its joy. In localities where wood is plenty and to be had for the trouble of getting it, people may indulge themselves in rousing fires with a big black log, or a roaring blaze which goes joyously up the chimney and diffuses warmth through a large room. That is for the dweller in the country. We of the town sometimes have to be satisfied with a mere imitation blaze in the shape of a gas log, and this is better than nothing, but best of all is the real thing itself." |
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