Even *I* cannot quite believe that any such-named 'magazine' ever wrote! such sycophantic gibberish.. even in '55 in the Murica of Ike, Norman Rockwell and Joe Mc Carthy..

I mean - it surely isn't unthinkable!, such being the Little Boy's dream in a paternalistic, mercantile kultur - just -

Any refs? bona fides for the origin? It's auf Deutsch, verstehenzie!?

(Take's a lot to surprise me about our mores; I vas dere - but this one *does*)



Ashton
Surely that writer was rendered sterile so as to.. snuff out any sequels. Possibly by a squad of ex-WAACs or riveters (?)

at Hubby's er office.

First: a sharp steak knife - for wholesale tie-ectomy, to restore some blood flow to Hubby's brain (even if there's still not enough for.. [see below])

Second: negotiations for a vacation. Separately and with no kids. Hubby stays - Boss pays.

Third: Boss-sponsored legal counsel on, how do I get outta this chicken outfit?



(At least I think that's how *my* mother would have responded to such a magazine, at that time)

:-\ufffd

At least there is consensus in all the other reprints, save for the perhaps most egregious (gratuitous!) insult, and other yellow-lined additions:

"Let him talk first - remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours"

[Not even in the Ike years would that phrase have flown (!) though the rest was typical BS du jour fed to the 'homemaker in training' - and the German illustration is of a frequent style of magazine ad line-drawing thus.. almost convincing!]

The German one seems also the only ref with full date other than "'50s" and calls source, "Housekeeping Monthly" - not exactly a "textbook" sounding source. Why believe exact date, source either, now - "extra precision" is a common ploy for enhanced credibility, as in the '40s ad, written and spoken,

Ivory Soap, 99 and 44 one hundredths percent pure: it floats!
(talk about yer non-sequiturs in ads - nothing new, we see)

So it's made it to many sites - a "textbook" example of the morph-ology of now anything seen in digital 'print', including every ""photograph"" -- from here on out! ie, also from here on out:


Caveat Emptor

Nothing next seen in digital format may ever again be presumed to be WSYSIWIG. It is evermore to be a Crap Shoot\ufffd

Happy evidence collection, counsellor...

(Even the stick-figures in cinema have now reached pseudo-human physiognomies) >>>> We've Done It!
The ultimate goal of the Murican Dream is Realized:

Gosh... I can't think what possibly
You Might Mean.