Her New Years Resolutions in 1937 - Social Life

<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"New Years Resolutions, with a dash of enlightened selfishness, that will make a new woman out of you." </b></div><b></b><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><b>This fine advice comes to us from the Delineator's Magazine in 1937. There is no author listed, but she was a pretty smart gal with good advice for then and now.                              </b></b></div><b></b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDqhshIAVM5ZmQTdoCqJuz46oZN4humsMFY_DQbsWvuOj75rhjVFS9zzjAw2gJiWyQ5SWG5yMo4Af8-U3quz7sNLQq37XHTY34uVlCb-3LDFrmqsModaLDo_Cbf3U9WIyysOIw78PyHc3/s1600/DelineatorJan1937-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnDqhshIAVM5ZmQTdoCqJuz46oZN4humsMFY_DQbsWvuOj75rhjVFS9zzjAw2gJiWyQ5SWG5yMo4Af8-U3quz7sNLQq37XHTY34uVlCb-3LDFrmqsModaLDo_Cbf3U9WIyysOIw78PyHc3/s1600/DelineatorJan1937-8.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">My Social Life</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><ul><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To be firm about not entertaining uninvited visiting relatives and friends who bore me. </b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To teach my maid to lie with convincing charm so I can avoid dull callers and telephone conversations.</b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To keep a list of all books borrowed from me and send postcard reminders to all borrowers. </b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To leave a dull party early, even if my hostess is counting on me as a fourth at bridge.</b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To yawn openly, start emptying ashtrays and as a last resort, slip into a negligee, and appear in the doorway rubbing cold cream into my hands, if any guests linger on after midnight on weekday nights.</b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To spend my free evening seeing "Lovers Alone" (or it's equivalent) at the movies if the local culture club meetings put me to sleep. </b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To denounce swing music as cacophonous tripe if I prefer sweet jazz and symphonies.</b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To entertain to suit myself and my budget, no matter what the crowd does.</b></li><li style="text-align: left;"><b>To remember funny stories and repeat them only if I, too, can make them sound funny.</b></li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>(More tomorrow)</b></div>

Her New Years Resolutions in 1937 - Social Life

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