Swing (Feb-Dec 1952)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

HOW TO KEEP YOUR WIFE YOUNG 3 perhaps a cigarette. Nine out of wives admit they often skip iJi, except to nibble a candy bar whatever fresh fruit happens to lying about the house to stave off pangs of hunger. At supper, mas' ne demands bring about an overimce of starch and fats. , Jnintelligent dieting is the other ''4 of the food habit story. 10,000women, mostly wives, go hay e over such weird combinations )ananas and milk, watermellon and ins, chopped liver and rye, peanut ;er and lettuce. Where do these nen wind up? They go to bed with iting spells. jVnother survey by an Eastern ^nen's college discloses that 72 per' t of its alumnae, married five to years, described the state of their ilth as "much worse" than when pT were on the campus. Vhat is the cause of these un' ;ly symptoms? What do wives do home? Let's face it again! They alge in pernicious, around the k monotony. n the kitchen alone there are 300 isils which require unrelenting ntion. During the course of a k the homemaker will handle some )00 objects. Next week she will ;2o|dle them again, and the week e^Tie wife spends 90 percent of the ^I' ily income. She visits the grocery He four times a week; stops at the !g store every three days; cruises through the dime store twice a week; pushes her way through crowded department stores thrice a month, and carries home most of her purchases — roughly 1850 pounds a year. While so engaged, she takes 20,000 steps a day; either worries about the children, or takes them along and gets into real trouble. When the children are not on her mind, she worries about money problems, her husband's work, their personal relationships — alone and introspectively. No five o'clock whistle brings surcease to her duties; they are continuous. The common complaint of the American homemaker is chronic fatigue. DOCTORS are quite sympathetic of wives, and have come to their succor with constructive programs of exercise, diet and rest. The eminent nutrition expert, author and lecturer. Dr. Gayelord Hauser, contends there is but one exercise a woman need do for the rest of her life. Here it is: Draw the stomach in and up at the count of one. Draw it up further at the count of two. On three, draw the stomach in close to the spine. Try to hold this position to the count of ten. This is called the stomach lift, and can be practiced wherever she happens to be: in the bathtub; at the ironing board; standing in line or under the hair drier. With daily practice, Dr Hauser guarantees high morale and a flat, firm abdomen in 30 to 60 days. tie Svec Martin is a T^ew Yor}{ housewife away from home, and clearly can not have i herself as model for the monotony-snac\led homema\er. When her husband was ;d bac\ into armed service, Mrs. Martin pac\ed uf) and went with him. You'd \ Lynne to have a wide range of interests, and she has. She wor\s in copper, her and raffia crafts; rides horsebac\, s\iis, and is a devotee of the ballet. Her rite subjects are children's, babies' and women's health.