If you are planning to wear a see-through dress, wear something underneath.

The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.

Told her of the bad cooking here; that I could get nothing to eat here or, sometimes, even at Shibden. We agreed we would have things nice sometime, our tastes suit & we are very thoroughly happy together. We cosed very comfortably.

Parentcraft included traditional female activities of cooking, home management and budgeting and child care, but also gardening and woodwork, and 'knowledge of civic and public affairs'. Both parents had a role to play in promoting home life and the family.