~ Sausalito News, January 11, 1913
via California Digital Newspaper Collection

~ The College Freshman’s Don’t Book, by George Fullerton Evans, 1910
via Internet Archive

~ Don’ts for Girls, A Manual of Mistakes, Minna Thomas Antrim, 1902

vintascope:

~ 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.”

~ Executive Etiquette, by Chester Burger, 1969
via Open Library

~ 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”

~ 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?”

~ Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1922
via Flickr

~ Clothes with Character, 1941
via Vixen Vintage

~ Hygiene for the Worker, by William H. Tolman, Ph.D. and Adelaide Wood Guthrie, 1912

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.

~ The Pleasures of Ignorance, by Robert Lynd, 1921

~ Your Highway ABC Book, by Jay H. Williams, 1935
via University of Washington

~ The Nervous Housewife, by Abraham Myerson, M.D., 1920