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Yet it was from her I learned that evening that Margaret Henan had once been one of the island belles. Herself the daughter of a well-to- do farmer, she had married Thomas Henan, equally well-to-do. Beyond the usual housewife's tasks she had never been accustomed to work. Unlike many of the island women, she had never lent a hand in the fields. "But what of her children?" I asked.
Labor-power, whether it is paid for or not, must be used wisely or we shall not be able to maintain the structure of our civilization. Then, too, the Adamistic theory weighs and values the housewife's time as little as it questions the quality of the home product.
Or, she would casually issue the order, 'Throw in a handful of something entirely unattainable. In these, the Housewife's most glaring moments of unreason, Bella would shut her up and knock her on the table, apostrophising her with the compliment, 'O you ARE a stupid old Donkey! Where am I to get it, do you think?
He held up a little nugget of pure artemisium, and then went on: "You know that all this slope was swept as clean as a Dutch housewife's kitchen floor by the thousands of miners and prospectors who swarmed over it a year or two ago, and do you suppose they would have missed such a tidbit if it had been here then?" "Dr. Syx must have been salting the mountain again," I suggested.
And when he finally ventured in through the door, round-eyed and blushing a deep russet, he gaped at my white middy and my little white apron with that silent but eloquent admiration which couldn't fail to warm the cockles of the most unimpressionable housewife's heart. Monday the Twenty-third My Dinky-Dunk is back and oh, the difference to me!
In the history of the worst cases of the housewife's neurosis one finds previously existing trouble, though, as I have before this emphasized, the neurosis may develop in the previously normal.
To drop from that brisk spin and whetted edge of life into this housewife's twilight is all one with being some sea-old admiral and drowning in a canal." The daughters of Israel could not have thrown more sadness into their voice, Evander thought, as they sang by the waters of Babylon. If her face was fair in animation, it seemed still more fair in sadness.
A copy of Part 2 of this date is in the British Museum. The Good Housewife's Treasury. 12 mo, 1588. Cookery for all manner of Dutch Victual. Licensed in 1590, but not otherwise known. The Good Housewife's Handmaid for the Kitchen. 8vo, 1594. The Ladies' Practice; or, a plain and easy direction for ladies and gentlewomen. By John Murrell. Licensed in 1617.
As she goes upstairs, Arthur Montmorency that's his name holds both hands to his heart and says, 'She and she only shall be my bride. The conclusion of this highly fascinatin' and absorbin' romance will be found in the next number of The Housewife's Companion." "Mother," suggested Roger, "why don't you subscribe for the papers yourself?"
The whole place was festooned with cobwebs, not light films, such as the housewife's broom sweeps away before they have become a permanent residence, but vast gray draperies, loaded with dust, sprinkled with yellow powder from the beams where the worms were gnawing day and night, the home of old, hairy spiders who had, lived there since they were eggs and would leave it for unborn spiders who would grow old and huge like themselves in it, long after the human tenants had left the mansion for a narrower home.
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