Comments on: She Had a Question, 1920 (2nd set)

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:15:16 +0000

Why ask about women’s voting rights in 1920? Women had had the right to vote in Utah (where the majority of the YW Journal’s readers would have lived) since statehood (and before then in territorial days from 1870 until the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887) and the 19th Amendment was ratified (for all the Joanies come lately) in August of 1920?

Besides, nobody under 21 was voting in 1920, anyway. The likely voters would have been reading the Old Woman’s Journal.

By: jeans

jeans — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:31:27 +0000

Is Michael Mauss related to Armand?

Even though the remedies are different, it strikes me that the private concerns of girls this age are rather like those of many today: limited to personal appearance and grooming, social skills, being attractive to boys. I wish some girl back then would ask about, say, women’s voting rights or the war or the League of Nations or some issue of public concern beyond her hair/skin/corns/warts. I think by 1920 this column had sort of set the precedent against such questions, though. Sigh.

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:58:25 +0000

Anne, have you added “I have teeth” to your business resume this morning?

I have not, but every doctor’s CV which appears on my desk or in my Inbox, which makes no glowing reference to the state of their teeth, will be binned immediately.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:33:20 +0000

In regards to the “green pepper mangoes”, how does one tell if one’s brine is strong or weak? I am enclosing a self addressed, stamped envelope, unlike that Vivian character….

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:17:48 +0000

Some things are improving — a little — at last week’s Tabernacle concert I only heard one cell phone going off during the program.

Mex, I like your reaction to the post. If you haven’t seen the others in this series, you might like to read them by going to the Topical Guide (a link on the upper lefthand corner of this page) and searching for “She Had a Question.”

Anne, have you added “I have teeth” to your business resume this morning?

By: Anne (U.K)

Anne (U.K) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:28:36 +0000

so, teeth ‘help in business life to secure better positions’? Love it!

By: Mex Davis

Mex Davis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:25:00 +0000

Mark B – I take it that in your neck of the woods everyone is mannerly and well-bred. I think people just aren’t taught certain things anymore. Entering the Chaple during the passing of the Sacrement, talking during a movie, not offering guest a refreashment, not turning off the TV for the HT, etc. I didn’t know that there was a proper way to wear a wrist watch. Being left-handed I find most of the norms backwards for me anyway.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:58:32 +0000

All sorts of random thoughts come to mind:

– Mex, it sounds as if you’ve been going to concerts with ill-bred and unpolished persons!

– I do wish that we could get a combination of some of the bits of advice: for the reader who is willing to accept being thought dumb in exchange for great looking legs, how can she wear high heels with a piece of lemon strapped to her foot?

– I presume that the earlier advice, missed by Mary, on ridding oneself of warts involved dead cats in a graveyard at midnight.

By: Mex Davis

Mex Davis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:02:53 +0000

The social norms for attending indoor concerts, plays, etc have certainly gone by the way side. Been to some really nice affairs only to have the event disrupted by rude or uncaring people. I might be quilty of breaking some of those rules not knowing all the thing to do or not to do.
Green pepper mangoes don’t sound that good from the list provided. I do like this posting, provides some real insight into social history and issues of ‘The Day’.

By: Eric Boysen

Eric Boysen — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:13:29 +0000

Ardis, that is a romantic image, yum!