Category Archives: Old Fashioned Living

A Great Work

          “Your children are the greatest gift God will give you and their souls the heaviest responsibility he will place in your hands. Take time with them, and teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you’ve […]

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A Boy & His Dog

A boy and his dog make a glorious pair: No better friendship is found anywhere, For they talk and they walk and they run and they play, And they have their deep secrets for many a day; And that boy has a comrade who thinks and who feels, Who walks down the road with a […]

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Now Is the Time – Get Your House in Order

“It has occurred to me that I am only doing what every housewife did as a matter of course only a generation or two ago. She always preserved food for the coming year as it came into season and bulk-purchased staples such as sugar and vinegar. Our grandmothers did this not because they were paranoid, […]

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Summer Time

All in all, it was a never-to-be-forgotten summer — one of those summers which come seldom into any life, but leave a rich heritage of beautiful memories in their going — one of those summers which, in a fortunate combination of delightful weather, delightful friends and delightful doing, come as near to perfection as anything […]

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Society’s Antidote

“I believe today’s world is hungering to be transformed by the spirit of femininity. What better antidote for an impersonal and violent society than warm, gentle feminine strength? What better cure for urban sprawl and trashed out country-sides than a love of beauty and a confidence in one’s ability to make things lovely? What better […]

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