Identifier: ladieshomejourna65janwyet (find matches)
Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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have her hair dyedblond, and return home in triumph to marryTheodore Long. And whatever youre planning, mothersaid dryly, I hope youll think twice beforeyou do it. Dinner was an unusually peaceful affair.Becky had not returned from the movie andPaul had been sent on his bicycle to look forher. The child has absolutely no idea oftime, mother said. She may sit there allafternoon without realizing how late its get-ting. I cant understand it, father said. Icould tell time when I was five. For just a moment Priscilla was temptedto voice her suspicion that Becky had beenable to tell time for at least a year. NaturallyBecky wouldnt admit it. Ignorance wasconvenient. If Becky didnt arrive home atthe time specified for her, she couldnt in allfairness be punished as long as ignorancewas on her side. When I was Beckys age, father con-tinued, I knew all the multiplicationtables. Shes not backward, mother said. Youwouldnt call her backward, would you,Frederick? Still waters, Edna put in, run deep.
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