How I unwind from finals

I love old magazines.

Maybe it's the fashions, maybe it's the peek into a different time period...

Of BERLIN you say!  Have psychiatrists heard about this?

Maybe it's how happy it makes me that I didn't live back then...

When I'm working the desk, and I don't have any homework I need to do, Cameron likes to get me some old magazine volumes from the stacks so I have something to do besides play Farmville 2 stare at the computer screen for hours.

They are beautiful, hilarious, and bizarre.

Today, I bring you strange ads from issues of Good Housekeeping from the 1930s.  

No, this room needs to be destroyed.

The issues from this era, on the whole, seem to be trying to lift the morale of depression era housewives, telling them they can still have nice homes, eat good food, and raise well-rounded children on a limited income.  There are articles about how to can preserves, how to stretch that dollar, how to make something from practically nothing - together with short stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces.  It's like someone literate person printed out their Pinterest feed, went back in time, and started selling it to people.

Stewie was so innocent back then...

I could go on and on about what I've discovered looking through these magazines, but this is finals week.  So, if you taking a break from writing, studying, or grading, take a deep breath and thank God that you live in an era with the internet, indoor plumbing, and the ability to pursue whatever job you want (whether you're a man or a woman).  And that no one is calling your lips "common".