Comments on: What Latter-day Saint Women Should Know, 1906 (III)

By: Maurine

Maurine — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:12:32 +0000

The Modern Girl’s Wedding

is a far cry from the extravagent affairs of today. My wedding fifty years ago was probably in the middle of the spectrum.

A keen appetite and strong digestion depends greatly on pure air and frequent bathing. Cheerful conversation during meals is also recommended.

I don’t think this would help with digestion after eating creamed beans and tomato toast.

An Ideal Wedding

sounds like it came straight from a Zane Grey novel.

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:45:55 +0000

floridagirl, you just never know what lifechanging ideas you will miss if you skip a day at Keepa. Nice to see you’re back from whatever you thought was temporarily more important /sniff/ than your regular visits here, and I’ll do my best to welcome you back to the fold and not hold your absence against you. You’ve been punished enough by coming back to creamed beans.

/Ardis strolls casually away, pretending not to notice the strangling noises coming from SilverRain/

By: floridagirl

floridagirl — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:23:23 +0000

Oh, Keepapitchinin, how have I been away so long? How? Now that I know how to cream beans properly I can repent of my ways. Yick. And Tomato Toast? Double yick.

By: SilverRain

SilverRain — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:19:51 +0000

But do you make Tomato Toast with it? And do you serve it with creamed beans? At a wedding supper?

Uuurghle! Gggggkkkkk!!!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:52:27 +0000

But do you make Tomato Toast with it? And do you serve it with creamed beans? At a wedding supper? Hmmm?

By: Jacob J

Jacob J — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:52:19 +0000

the value of bread should be appreciated too much to have any of it thrown away or even fed to animals.

Geez, I was feeling guilty about how much food we throw away at our house *before* I read this and it didn’t help things.

By: J. Stapley

J. Stapley — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:32:48 +0000

We make a lot of bread in our home.

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:12:48 +0000

The comments on bread baking were my favorite part, too.

By: Mark Brown

Mark Brown — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:14:06 +0000

Gotta love those girls with strong primal instincts, especially the ones who tremble under the bodice of their gowns.

It is interesting how this manner of speaking is so foreign to us today, just 104 years removed. If you wrote a novel today with phrases and language like that, there is a good chance Deseret Book would refuse to stock it on their shelves.

And creamed beans, gah!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:00:49 +0000

These were almost certainly not written by the same author — I picked up pieces from several LDS publications, chosen mostly because it’s hard to imagine the same advice would be given in quite the same way today. Just wanted to give you a bit of the flavor of what it might have been like to be a woman of that era.

Catherine Hurst was in a class by herself, wasn’t she?