‘To Lighten the Labor of Your Home’, 1919

4 comments to ‘To Lighten the Labor of Your Home’, 1919

• CatM

  December 28, 2011 at 3:55 pm · Reply

  The washing machine must be one of the greatest inventions ever. I don’t even want to imagine taking an entire day to boil and wring out the entire family’s wash, and to keep my kids home from school one day out of every five so they can help. With that in mind, this pamphlet must have sounded like a dream come true to every housewife lucky enough to get their hands on it. To a modern like me, it makes me long for the days when household items were beautiful as well as useful. That beautiful toaster and coffee pot! That teeny vacuum!

• Bill Thompson

  March 6, 2012 at 4:55 pm · Reply

  We take so much for granted nowadays. Pull the main breaker in your house for one evening and see what I mean! Imagine when a simple electric socket was a wondrous and magical thing.

• Tommy

  May 4, 2012 at 2:06 pm · Reply

  I get the feeling that electricity was to the early 20th century what computers are today, imagine all the time you could save if you had a lighter, faster, better computer, with super sonic internet speed

  • Maggie

    May 14, 2012 at 9:30 pm · Reply

    I was just thinking this. What a leap forward easily acquired electricity and electrical appliances were for city people back then.