+- The Purge (https://thepurge.net/forum)
+-- Forum: Public (https://thepurge.net/forum/forum-5.html)
+--- Forum: Off Topic (https://thepurge.net/forum/forum-17.html)
+--- Thread: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 (/thread-11340.html)
Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - strife - 08-08-2012
This is from some woman's magazine in 1955
![[Image: good_wifes_guide.jpg]](http://www.onefunsite.com/images/good_wifes_guide.jpg)
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Vllad - 08-08-2012
I wonder how much of that is made up.
I lived in that same era and I have to say women certainly didn't follow those rules then. While women have made advances in the work place and in other area's socially two things rings true today that applied back then.
1. Women rule the house.
2. If you show up late and don't have a good excuse you may find your cloths on the front lawn.
This was true in 55 and is true today.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - strife - 08-08-2012
Well it says Housekeeping Monthly, so it's probably directed towards those type of wives that are there to serve... was probably also written by a man.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - OrsunVZ - 08-08-2012
No this was written by a woman. There was a re-write done in good housekeeping in the 90s I think.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Zirak - 08-08-2012
Show that to Elowyn and tell her Lendryn sent it to you.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Snowreap - 08-08-2012
fake.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp
-ken
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - strife - 08-08-2012
Snowreap Wrote:fake.Go figure.. I was actually given a copy from someone years ago and never thought twice about confirming if it was true(not important). My wife found it last night while shredding some old paperwork we had and I thought it was funny enough to share.
http://www.snopes.com/language/document/goodwife.asp
-ken
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Elowyn - 08-09-2012
Zirak Wrote:Show that to Elowyn and tell her Lendryn sent it to you.
Ha I almost choked on my prime rib reading that
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - strife - 08-09-2012
Elowyn Wrote:The prime rib that you had ready when Lendryn got home, and then cleaned up afterwards after ya'll ate?Zirak Wrote:Show that to Elowyn and tell her Lendryn sent it to you.Ha I almost choked on my prime rib reading that
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Elowyn - 08-09-2012
Strife Wrote:Elowyn Wrote:The prime rib that you had ready when Lendryn got home, and then cleaned up afterwards after ya'll ate?Zirak Wrote:Show that to Elowyn and tell her Lendryn sent it to you.Ha I almost choked on my prime rib reading that
That's the one!
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Lendryn - 08-09-2012
Lies! It wasn't ready until 20 minutes after I got home!
She did clean up afterward, though.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - strife - 08-09-2012
Lendryn Wrote:Lies! It wasn't ready until 20 minutes after I got home!WTF! She needs to learn her place.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Elowyn - 08-09-2012
How much you want to bet that you're BOTH going to get a beating
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Grunldesnapp - 08-09-2012
Reminds me of a book i found called How to be a good citizen, it was a 50s kinda book with things like "a good citizen eats red meat every day!". I bought it for the laughs.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - Melificent - 08-24-2012
I had an elderly patron come into our library to drop off some books they wanted to donate (they were clearing out their mothers house). They were found in the attic (some were first edition copies of books like Little Women, Little Men, etc..) Among them was the How to Be a Good Housewife Handbook, and another with a similar title but was written for the local girl scout troop during that time. It was good for a laugh.
Re: Good Wife's Guide : 1955 - strife - 08-24-2012
Melificent Wrote:I had an elderly patron come into our library to drop off some books they wanted to donate (they were clearing out their mothers house). They were found in the attic (some were first edition copies of books like Little Women, Little Men, etc..) Among them was the How to Be a Good Housewife Handbook, and another with a similar title but was written for the local girl scout troop during that time. It was good for a laugh.So you brought them home right?