In Love With Her Life, 1915

Here’s a day-in-the-life glimpse of a joyful homemaker. I hope she gives you a little inspiration as we start a new week! It is dusk. The children and I have just come in from the corral, where I milked seven cows. I am so in love with life that I find a day very short…

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Grow Old Gracefully by Living Gratefully; 1928

“Growing Old” is not a very welcome subject in America just now. [Or in 2021, for that matter!] Beauty experts and Keep-young-societies are filling the land with Anti-wrinkle Truth, yet the simple fact remains that our yesterdays do not come back. For most people, the advancing years are a blessing for through them we grow…

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Advice for a Well-Balanced Reading Diet; 1937 &1903

This post may contain affiliate links. Read my disclosure policy here. From 1937– I try to read one book every two weeks–and 25 books a year can do much to brighten and make interesting a practical, overworked housewife. I try to vary my reading diet, for I believe the menu for our minds should be…

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A New Deal For Women, from 1936

Right in the middle of Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s, one woman suggested that homemakers adopt their own new household policies. Today, 85 years later, I still think they’re applicable for today. Enjoy. I, for one, think it’s high time that we hear something about a New Deal for women. I make the…

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