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Public Opinion decided that man's sphere was the home, where he was not likely to learn too much. So the men worked hard at domestic duties from morning to night, while the women went out and worked at their occupations for eight or ten hours a day. After their work was over, the women went to concerts, theatres, and other places of amusement, and spent all their money over and above what they needed for the bare maintenance of the family. They never gave the men any money, but they gave them their food and clothes. They never dreamed of paying the men for their hard labor, for they considered a man very lucky to have a bread winner to save him from starvation. In spite of all precautions a number of young men found out the existence of-water and the fact that there was such a thing as washing. The effect of the discovery varied according to the temperament of the individual. The majority adhered to the belief that washing was wrong. Had not their grand mothers said it? Had not the priests said it? A number of others said that they did not believe washing was nice, and they would rather not hear about it at all. Some had a natural dis like to cleanliness, and never lost a chance of parading their virtue. On the other hand, there were some who scorned the conventional morality and boldly washed. Many more, how ever, pretended to be very moral, but secretly enjoyed the de lights of washing, to the injury of their characters and the great advancement of the art of lying. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
