Tomorrow Question:”What is the saddest expression you ever heard a child use while talking to its parents?” From 1936.
BigMissKnowItAll on
I just love Mrs Rosenkrantz’s answer in this!
flindersandtrim on
I hope Jean didnt have daughters. What an awful life philosophy to teach them. Or sons for that matter, that would be even worse. She is way behind most women of her generation, who would absolutely not have put up with financial abuse like that. And most gentlemen of her era would have been far better than that too, many men would have seen it as their responsibility to provide their wife with enough money for the salon, makeup, up to date clothes and entertainment. Men who confiscated their wifes earnings and only provided her with travel fare and lunch money would have 100% been ragged on and admonished by other better men.
viejomonje on
I remember reading the opposite, the husband giving the money to the wife so that she will administer it for the upkeep of the house and other expenses.
Back then and now, having a joint account or some kind of joint expense ledger is the best middle ground.
Ronicaw on
In my hometown in the mid 80’s the assistant department manager’s husband would come every Friday on payday to pickup her check and she signed it over to him.
Eventually the organization spoke to her about it (nonprofit) and she would meet him outside the job and hand him her check at lunch. She was let go a few years later.
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Tomorrow Question:”What is the saddest expression you ever heard a child use while talking to its parents?” From 1936.
I just love Mrs Rosenkrantz’s answer in this!
I hope Jean didnt have daughters. What an awful life philosophy to teach them. Or sons for that matter, that would be even worse. She is way behind most women of her generation, who would absolutely not have put up with financial abuse like that. And most gentlemen of her era would have been far better than that too, many men would have seen it as their responsibility to provide their wife with enough money for the salon, makeup, up to date clothes and entertainment. Men who confiscated their wifes earnings and only provided her with travel fare and lunch money would have 100% been ragged on and admonished by other better men.
I remember reading the opposite, the husband giving the money to the wife so that she will administer it for the upkeep of the house and other expenses.
Back then and now, having a joint account or some kind of joint expense ledger is the best middle ground.
In my hometown in the mid 80’s the assistant department manager’s husband would come every Friday on payday to pickup her check and she signed it over to him.
Eventually the organization spoke to her about it (nonprofit) and she would meet him outside the job and hand him her check at lunch. She was let go a few years later.