The American Home.
Gloomy Picture by the " Kit-best Woman." Hetty' Green, America's richest wpi man, now a septuagenarian, has confessed that since she passu! the Ihblican age her views on America have been deeply tiwgi (1 v.ih pessimism. " There's no honesty nowadays," she declared: " The country's money mad. Wholesale thievery is going on everywhere, and the American people are willing to dp anything for money. Worse 'than this dishonesty, however, is the shocking condition of American homes. There are no homes in New York.any longer. Women spend all their time and money on clothes and amusements and let the homes take care of thtmselves. They feed their husbands and children on tinned food. The husbands get angry ; then there is a row, divorce : or if there is no divorce the husbands get sick of tinned food and die."
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2285, 19 February 1912, Page 6
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138The American Home. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2285, 19 February 1912, Page 6
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