Little Grey Bungalow
Published in the December, 1935 issue of Modern Mechanix, just in time for Christmas. Readers were supposed to make and sell these things to unsuspecting parents, I suppose, but as Bill Watterson once put it, the opportunities for mayhem would have been unlimited.
There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can display itself suddenly with terrifying effect. ~ Bruce Catton
"A slick look in hats is the desired style this season," according to the Australian Home Journal of October, 1951. Some tips when purchasing new or refurbishing old. Left click to enlarge.
Ring, happy bells, across the snow
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Frosty wind made moan;
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak mid-winter
Long ago. ~ Christina Rossetti
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