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Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!  Can you believe we are  finally  on Pamphlet 8?  We are beginning Chapter 16 "Removing the Obstacles to Marriage."   "The objections of judgment always stand between desire and action. Those objections must be overcome before you can get him to act upon his desire to marry." We discuss two barriers to marriage and how to remove them. His biggest fear is usually that he cannot earn enough to support a wife.  (Our book about newlyweds Bettina and Bob, A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband , also had great advice on this front).  "If she imagines that the fear of being unable to support a wife is the obstacle, she must proceed to remove it. This is not to be done, of course, by boldly coming out into the open and showing him that he can.  That wouldn't be lady-like, at least before the proposal.  But the following method is both lady-like and effective." We also discuss  How Most Men Propose  and believ...

Hello, Beautiful Homemakers! We are actually finishing up Pamphlet 7 today of the original 1922 Fascinating Womanhood pamphlets!  YAY!    In this video I cover the last quarter of Chapter XV  Arousing Worship, Adoration, and Love.  The Qualities in Woman that Inspire Love in Man  Subtitles are: Your Next Step What You DO to Sustain Worship:  "Many a girl, in this way, has transformed a man from an apparently thoughtless, careless, selfish, and ignoble man into a true and noble one..."   When Men Slip: "You must be immensely disappointed at his temporary lapse, but your faith in the ultimate nobility of his nature must be unshaken."   Two Results of Your Plan How to Turn Worship Into Love:   "She becomes, for him, the one woman in all the world - the purest, the best, the gentlest, and the Loveliest in every other way."  Look at this headstone I uncovered: (literally - I uncovered it from a mound of dirt and leaves - and yes, my hea...

 Hello, Beautiful Homemakers! Let me give you a preview of today's lesson.  I saw a scenario once in a tourist town - the man wanted pie, and the woman wanted ice cream.  Instead of being a FW, she became a shrew.  She started belittling the man's taste, his weight, she began mocking him, blah, blah, blah.  Whereas all she would have had to do to get her own way, would have been to .... do what we cover in today's lesson!    We are continuing in Pamphlet 7, Chapter 15, Arousing Worship, Adoration, and Love .  How were our great-great-grandmothers were so successful in capturing the hearts of men? "They knew how to place themselves on a pedestal and keep themselves there. They knew how to look sincere, and yet drop their eyes, how to be animated and yet seem timid, how to blush, how to lay a hand ever so lightly on a man's coat sleeve, how to shake hands with an eager beginning and before the clasp was scarcely begun shyly to draw the hand...

 Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!    We are in the middle of Chapter XV Arousing Worship, Adoration, and Love, of Pamphlet 7 of the original 1922 Fascinating Womanhood pamphlets.  This video starts with "The Story of a Stenographer" and her date taking her to supper at the Roof Garden. As she is looking around with interest at the crowd that was drinking, "the man naturally thought that she was wavering, that the contagious irresponsibility had affected her, and proceeded to wobble her pedestal; he was intensely interested, to tell the truth, in learning if she was the refined and idealistic woman she seemed." I got halfway through the subsection "How She Won Out" before I started telling stories of how I fell off my pedestal at work, on my first date with my now husband, and other stories, and I ran out of time, so we will finish this subsection in FW 7.6. I tell what my husband thought of me not drinking alcohol, and how he came to stop imbibing as well. Peo...

Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!   We are delving into the middle of Chapter XV "Arousing Worship, Adoration, and Love."  We will cover  The Test of Every Man's Love; The Qualities that Arouse Worship; Where Nature Steps In;  and  How You Become the Mystery.   I mention quite a few things in this video, and I mention these 2 videos:  Jacob Whelan "Why I gave up on getting married and starting a Family"   and the Mr. Reagan channel telling about "Passport Bros" - men finding wives in other countries because they cannot stand what American women have become.  The name of the video is Man Keeping, and I didn't even go into what that means.  Remember how for decades women have told men to be softer and more emotionally available? We talked about that recently.  Turns out, women actually hate soft, emotionally fragile men.  Who knew? 😂 (Oh, right,  we  did.)  Well man keeping has to do with women now complaining abo...

Good morning beautiful homemakers! Today I offer you an 8 page story written by Grace Livingston Hill's aunt Isabella Alden and mother Marcia Livingston.  Both sisters wrote several short stories together, and longer stories on their own.  Both had a profound impact on Grace and encouraged her in her writing. I found this story in the book: Grace Livingston Hill Collection No. 4.  Despondent at the thought of having to leave her husband behind in the city during the hot summer months, Faith Vincent wants to try her hand at housekeeping in the outskirts of the city. Her husband doesn't see how she could possibly cook over a hot stove and take care of a crying baby at the same time, due to her delicate constitution. Will Faith find a home to rent within their meager budget? If so, how will she get their meals?  Or will she and the baby be sent to her husband's aunt and uncle on a distant farm? How does she know what is the right thing to do? I hope yo...

 Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!   Chapter XV of the original 1922 Fascinating Womanhood pamphlets, number 7 of 8 total, is entitled Arousing Worship, Adoration, and Love . The opening paragraph talks about one of the most powerful influences that draws people together being the fascination of secrets shared.   Of course, we are talking about confidences regarding aspirations and the like, not "bad" or unwholesome secrets, but ideas, joys, sorrows, encouragements, and discouragements that have fallen upon your life and his life, and how you have discussed these together.   If you have met his confidences with comfort, appreciation, sympathy, and applause , then he will continue to want to confide in you. I discuss the old movie "Dad" with Ted Danson, and a Twilight Zone episode from Season 1, episode 36, entitled A World of His Own.     The majority of movies today move too fast to adoration and love, and skip the other necessary steps that nee...