photo from Getty Images I must counsel you, my dear, to remember that patience is one of the highest virtues a woman can possess, and self...

 

From Hobbies Weekly , November 16th, 1949.  A British publication from a time when toys, and materials to make toys, were in short supply.  ...

  "I am sick and tired of being sick and tired."

 

 

 

  Brian has been getting out of bed early to go to work, and someone is taking advantage. (*corn and soybean harvesting with his BIL).

  - A page extracted from Needlecraft magazine, September 1919, from t he Antique Pattern Library .  The medallion in the left column would ...

 

 

It was much better to imagine men in some smokey room somewhere, made mad and cynical by privilege and power, plotting over brandy.  You had...

 

  From Workbasket magazine, October 1950 comes a frilly teddy bear to crochet for Christmas - slightly more  legible instructions and the en...

  AKA the day people in Chicago jam Randolph Street near Millennial Park to get a photo of the sunset aligning perfectly with the east-west ...

 

  If you want to know who rules over you, look at who you aren't allowed to criticize. ~ George Orwell