Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 9 Jun 1932, p. 15

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GRANDFATHER had. a HOEtoo LET'S. MAKE a Iittle impromptu, journey. There'll be no' bag#s to pack, no ticket to0 buy-for it's a journey in time, flot space. Just sit back where you are in your easy chair. First stop is way back, thousands of years ago n a Sone Age home. It is a dark cave hung with aniimal skins. In the doorless doorway burns a fire and by ils lickering light you can disîinguish a few crude flint, tools scattered about on the dirt floor. Home in these days is shdlter, nothing more.' Continuing our journey, an, eon or two flues by, and we, stop next ini the Middle Ages, l0 Visit another home. TFhis one is built Of Wood and Stone, il has more than one. room, and in the big room is a fireplaoe. Coarse cloth is beingr woven on a large wood frame, maker have set up shop. Living in this; Colonial home, probab.ýib wouldn't be bad for a while-i would be like campin g out ini the north woods. But we can't stop longer now. And our next jump brings us back home again in 1932. Look around you. Prac- tically a,11 the refinements that you thiuk of as indispensable to your home are new -they have been developed withiu the last 30 or 40 years. Your telephone, your bath- room., your electrie lights., your automobile', your radio. In your ele..-rie applianoes you have a crew of household ser vants ready 10 work for you at the snap-of aswitch. And their wages areý very low. We hear people talking nowadays about the great reductions recently made in the ,NY OF LIS TEN IN to the, Pu'bli Sermie am y8"Eeiga Hm"Porm ievery Tedy evensn t :5over CL

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