~ Gold Shield Coffee, Cupid’s Book of Good Counsel, 1918
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“How the taste tickles palates and drowns the petty memories of the things that may have happened the night before! Don’t ever be without it in the house. Something awful might happen if you were forced to disappoint him with ordinary coffee.”
~ The American Pictorial Home Book, or Housekeeper’s Encyclopedia, by Mrs. Harriet Almaria Baker Suddoth, 1883
via Internet Archive
~ The Pittsburgh Press, January 9, 1911
“Uneeda Biscuit are touched only once by human hands - when the pretty girls pack them - That makes them CLEAN”
~ Etiquette For Ladies: A Manual Of The Most Approved Rules Of Conduct In Polished Society For Married And Unmarried Ladies, by a Lady of New York, 1845
~ Highland Linen Writing Paper, c. 1920’s
via Vintage Ads Live Journal
“Your Self-Respect will not allow you to receive friends in a kimono. But do you ever send your friends letters that are inappropriately dressed?”
~ The Mentor: A Little Book for the Guidance of Such Men and Boys as would Appear to Advantage in the Society of Persons of the Better Sort, by Alfred Ayres, 1884
via Hathi Trust Digital Library
Do You Have the Right Personality to Become a Secretary in 1959? Take This Quiz
~ Brooke’s Your Reflector Number I (Personality) Quiz from the Secretarial Training Program in Waco, Texas, January 1959 to June 1959
via National Archives (h/t to Slate Vault)
My score: 32. And I spent several years as a secretary *cough* Administrative Assistant.
~ An ABC For Baby Patriots, Mrs. Ernest Ames, 1898
via University of Southern Mississippi
~ The Ladies’ Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners; or, Miss Leslie’s Behaviour Book, a Guide and Manual for Ladies, by Eliza Leslie, 1864
via Open Library
~ The American Gentleman’s Guide to Politeness and Fashion, Henry Lunettes, 1863
