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Show ilN LESS STRENUOUS TIMES i Explanation of the Difference Between Be-tween Domestic Standard! New Those of Long Ago. In the Woman's Home Companion there Is an Interring piepetitutb'ii of the difference that exist between the domestic standard of young married women of today and those of the pant generation. How did the women of the middle class of a generation or two aao maimce when they iculd riot keep help? Following In the ntmwer quoted from a Companion editorial: "They lived according to their means; they did not He' t Impossible tandurdn. and they k'.ew much les about the science of bringing up children. chil-dren. They had no n pedal style to keep up; gave the ehlldien a weekly bath; kept the table set between meals; dl.l not serve their meals In courses, but put all the food on the table at onre; confined their nodal affairs o evening calls and parlieH, arid church auppera. at which they wore the same black silk ilri'ti for at least fvo seasons; In short, every woman did only what she could, and her frlenda made It easier for her by doing likewise." |
