You’re probably familiar with the article published in Housekeeping Monthly in May of 1955 on how to be a good wife. It was called, “The Good Wife’s Guide,” and it detailed all the ways that a wife should act and how best she can be a partner to her husband and a mother to her children.
The rules have certainly changed a lot since then but it is truly fascinating how society once behaved and the rituals and traditions that have carried over from the 50s to today.
The article is pretty much based on the man’s arrival home after a long day at work and what your duties are to prepare for it.
So here goes:
1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs.
2. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
3. Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you’ll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people.
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ShariD says
This would be irritating at best, suggesting women should all be meek little second class nobodies to do and be nothing more than household drudges, only good for doing her master’s bidding 24-7, and never having an individuality of her own, or granted the privilege of speaking up for herself when taken so ridiculously for granted, as this nonsense states.
IF it were real, but it’s a fraud. The article to which this all referred did not exist. The magazine, titled “Housekeeping Monthly” did not exist either. It’s never been found in any register of published magazines in this country, or any other. The image purported to be published at the beginning of the original article, from which this has all been taken, has at the top right corner a reference to “The Advertising Archives” which suggests a fraud, since the Archives itself was not started until 1990. Even the presence of that image is a dead giveaway since it first was published as original cover art on a magazine from Great Britain, called “John Bull” but not until January, 1957. The original article, from which all this stems, claims a publication date of May, 1955. Can’t be, if it was actually published for the first time in 1957.
Many sources have investigated it all thoroughly, and have just as thoroughly debunked the whole thing.
Google it – simple as that – and you’ll find plenty to verify what I’ve said. Even the Wikipedia article on the “John Bull” magazine shows this particular cover art to illustrate it!