Husbands
Jewell Bell, Three-time Widow at Twenty
I am reminded of the famous Oscar Wilde quote:
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 01, 2020 -
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Category: Death, Suicide, Husbands, 1930s
Follies of the Madmen #481
Isn't it the offending husband who is usually the spouse assigned to sleep in the tub?
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jun 26, 2020 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Safety Kisses
Throughout the 20th century, it seemed to be widely assumed that the mood of the husband was determined by the behavior of his wife at home. So, concluded the District of Columbia's traffic safety office in 1963, if a man was in a 'disgruntled disposition' and consequently got into a traffic accident, it must have been the fault of his wife who didn't cheer him up adequately when he left home with a goodbye kiss "as though she meant it."See also: Whose fault is it when your husband is cross at breakfast?
Minneapolis Star - Nov 12, 1963
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 20, 2020 -
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Category: Highways, Roads, Streets and Traffic, Gender, Husbands, Wives, 1960s
Matrimonial Delusions
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Apr 27, 2020 -
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Category: Bad Habits, Neuroses and Psychoses, Money, Husbands, Wives, 1900s
Whose fault is it when your husband is cross at breakfast?
Answer (according to 1920's ad men): It's the wife's fault for serving him coffee or tea.Strange, because I'm pretty crabby in the morning if I don't have coffee.
The Helena Star - Oct 6, 1921
Posted By: Alex - Fri Feb 28, 2020 -
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Category: Advertising, Husbands, Wives, 1920s
The Radium Wedding
Much more exciting than Platinum.Article source.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Oct 03, 2019 -
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Category: Anniversary, Husbands, Wives, 1910s
Raising a Perfect Wife From Scratch
Sabrina Sidney, was a British foundling girl taken in when she was 12 by author Thomas Day, who wanted to mould her into his perfect wife. Day had been struggling to find a wife who would share his ideology and had been rejected by several women. Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's book Emile, or On Education, he decided to educate two girls without any frivolities, using his own concepts.
In 1769, Day and his barrister friend, John Bicknell, chose Sidney and another girl, Lucretia, from orphanages, and falsely declared they would be indentured to Day's friend Richard Lovell Edgeworth. Day took the girls to France to begin Rousseau's methods of education in isolation. After a short time, he returned to Lichfield with only Sidney, having deemed Lucretia inappropriate for his experiment. He used unusual, eccentric, and sometimes cruel, techniques to try to increase her fortitude, such as firing blanks at her skirts, dripping hot wax on her arms, and having her wade into a lake fully dressed to test her resilience to cold water.
The full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 07, 2019 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Education, Husbands, Wives, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Love & Romance
Left wife, lived in forest for 10 years
Malcolm Applegate claims that he got fed up with his wife's nagging. So he left and went into hiding in a thick woodland outside of London for ten years.Applegate has since emerged from the woodland, reconnected with his wife, and he says, "We now have a great relationship again."
It reminds me of that story of the Iranian guy who's wife left him, so he lived half-naked in a cave for 30 years.
It also supports my theory that without their wives many men would revert to a stone-age-type existence.
More info: NZ Herald
Malcolm Applegate
Posted By: Alex - Tue Oct 17, 2017 -
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Category: Husbands, Marriage
Hindu Ceremonial Animal Marriages
1932 report here.
The practice of having a human marry an animal for various mystical reasons has been a part of Hindu religion for who-knows-how-long, and continues to the present.
Full article here.
And then of course there is marrying a tree as well.
Posted By: Paul - Sat Sep 10, 2016 -
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Category: Animals, Anthropomorphism, Religion, Husbands, Wives, 1930s, Asia
Mystery Illustration 26
What domestic problem is this couple undergoing? Halitosis? Bad coffee? Visit by mother-in-law?
The answer is here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jul 24, 2016 -
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Category: Domestic, Advertising, Husbands, Wives, 1940s
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