You know you can find treasure in the most unique places. I have one of my grandmothers bibles and inside the pages are faded and worn a good indication that they have been read and reread. I also found a newspaper clipping from Ann Landers. The following is the article:
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Dear Ann Landers:
All my married life I've felt like a nobody because I was "only a housewife." Today I read something that gave me a lift.
The home economics department of our state college published a leaflet in chart form. It shows what a housewife is worth per week in dollars and cents on today's labor market. Here it is:
Cooking, table setting, sewing, at $2.00 an hour........$50.00
Dish washing, at $1.25 an hour................................... 17.50
Child Care at $.50 and hour...................................... 17.50
Routine housework, $1.25 an hour............................ 22.50
Laundry, at $1.25 an hour ........................................ 6.25
Ironing, at $1.25 an hour........................................... 6.25
The chart suggests adding 25% for miscellaneous work. So the grand total is $150 a week. On yearly basis a housewife is worth $7800. Tonight when Mr. Greatheart comes home I'm going to greet him like a woman who earns almost $8,000 a year because that's what I am. ~ Ashamed no longer~
Dear Ashamed No Longer,
Housewives of America unite! Clip this column for your husband.
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Pretty neat. Now stop and figure it in today's figures and you would be doubly surprised.
