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Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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HERES TO FATHER! BY ANN BATCH ELDER When Mothers Day got started, it soon rolled up a majority aroundthe nation that must have wilted the collars of some of our better-equipped politicians. But father didnt get a pass. He was the for-gotten man around the middle of May, but its my guess that he wasalways well remembered around June first. Bills come in then, andhow necessary is father. came the day. Then someone awoke to the neglected man of thehouse. It was increasingly evident that father was still there, nomatter what a background piece he had become. And someone came ol Ha > f MENU I (For Young Fathers) Chilled Green-Pea Soup Chieken-and-Ricc.Milanese Spired Vpricots Rolls Tossed Salad Pineapple-Cheese Sanil» icli with Strawberries Demltasse Serrrs H
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up with the bright idea: if mother has her day, why not dear old dad,a- by that time he had tome to be known? So a dav in June, the month of brides and orange blossoms andJune roses, was picked—and lo, we had Fathers Day. Now fathersyoung and not so young can sit around and rock and kick their wornold slippers off. Theyll be due for new ones—plenty of new ones whenmorning comes. Vlt ii re OF FATHER. I can just see him settled in his favorite chair,smoking his favorite pipe, with a good ham-and-egg breakfast under his belt. Then the presents are brought out. If all the neckties alreadyfilling drawers and racks that father has received, admired and—sometimes—worn were laid out end to end, I estimate theyd reachfrom here to Panama. And thats conservative. (When I say con-servative, I mean bear to the right.) Then the slippers, dressinggowns, smoking jackets, cigarette lighters, and on and on, until dearold dad is a one-man Christmas with a one-man Christmas tree—andwhen he gets

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