Beautiful Homemakers

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...

Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!  I've used a static picture in this video so that you can work around the house while listening.  However, there is so much information covered, that I wanted to give you some highlights you can refer back to instead of trying to remember it all.  There is  a lot more mentioned in the video than in my highlights.   We are finishing up Chapter 14, Undermining the Man's Reserve , today!  This is part 2 to the last video.  We cover:   Five Methods of Procedure: 1) a friendly interest in him - what he thinks, does, and stands for; 2) look for the manly things in his character which you can appreciate and do it; 3) Contrast femininity with bold and daring masculinity; 4) In your treatment of others, show that you have a naturally sympathetic and appreciative character; and 5) Impress him with the fact that you never betray a confidence, and that you hold sacred the thoughts and feelings of others. Why Johnny Holds Bac...

Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!   We are finally in Pamphlet 7 of 8 of the original 1922 Fascinating Womanhood pamphlets! Fascinating Womanhood or The Art of Attracting Men A practical course of lessons in the underlying principles by which women attract men - leading to the proposal and culminating in marriage.  In eight parts The Psychology Press, University City, Saint Louis, 1922  Part Seven has two chapters:  14: Undermining the Man's Reserve, and  15. Arousing Worship, Adoration, and Love Chapter 14 "Undermining the Man's Reserve" details the story that began in Pamphlet 1 of how Miss Innocent overcame Johnny's cautiousness, hesitancy, and wall of reserve, resulting in him letting down his guard and letting HER in to his heart (video 1 of 2). The most important sentence in Undermining the Man's Reserve is "Meantime, there are two things you must do - the first is to keep him from backsliding, from retreating again into his shell of reserve; the s...

Hello, Beautiful Homemakers! I hurt my back this week and was unable to finish this week's video.  I'm finally on the mend, so expect one next week.  I had hoped to post something before this weekly e-mail sends on Saturday morning with Mailchimp, but it's not going to happen. If you are interested in continuing to receive this blog with my video updates, please sign up with Follow.it.  (Mailchimp is eliminating their free service on June 1st.  So you will be receiving an e-mail from both services until June 1.)  There is a new subscription box for Follow.It on my website. ✅ Or you may click this link:   Sign up here for future posts. Thank you! If it doesn't work, please do try again.  Sometimes it is slow, and sometimes it works immediately, people have been telling me. Let me know if you cannot sign up at this link, or on the website.   NOTE that, instead of a weekly e-mail, you will receive a notification the day after I post, at the t...

Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!  We are continuing chapter 13 of pamphlet 6 of the original 1922 Fascinating Womanhood pamphlets.     We had just discussed Mistakes That Drive Men Away and I want to delve into the last paragraph a bit more.  Let me recap the most relevant point: If he discovers that you are naturally appreciative of others, then he will not fear that you will ridicule him or show contempt when he confides his ideals and ambitions to you.  "If, on the contrary, he suspects that you are naturally critical and scornful , with an eye open for every fault you can find in those around you, he will be afraid to expose his own intimate feelings to your criticism and contempt." HOW are we going to to avoid the mistake of constant criticism? First, we have to decide what type of wife we are going to be.  Am I going to be the kind of wife that builds him up, or tears him down?  Proverbs 14:1 tells us that "The wise woman builds her hous...

Hello, Beautiful Homemakers!  We are in the middle of chapter 13 of the sixth pamphlet of the original Fascinating Womanhood pamphlets.  This subsection is called "What the Man Wants You to Appreciate."   Listen not so much to what the man is saying when he is showing off to you what he knows, but admire the man himself.   "Many girls at this point make the mistake of appreciating the wrong thing, admiring what is SAID, instead of the MAN who says it." He wants to be admired as a MAN.   "If you can't see anything manly in him - then he won't see anything womanly in you!" I mention the Masculine Virtues / Admirable Traits List found in the Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood book Chapter 4.  Here is a screenshot on how to get to that list.  On the left side of my blog, visit the link "Secrets of Fascinating Womanhood synopsis" link, and then scroll down in that post until you get to Chapter 4. Here is the link , just in case you can't fi...