"You in 1905..."

Visting in "Petticoat Lane," I was prompted to take a quiz, over at "The Manor House." {sorry, I don't know how to make clickable links, as yet. }

'You in 1905...'

	You are a Housekeeper! - A Snapshot of your life as it might have been in 1905 Education You go to elementary school until you're 8 when your parents take you out to teach you themselves. Career Prospects When you're young, you work in a large house on the outskirts of the city. You start off as a housemaid, becoming a ladies maid and at the age of 30, you are taken on as a housekeeper. As housekeeper, pay is poor and work is hard. There are three meals a day to cook and you must make sure all the other chores get done: endless fires to clear and relay, grates to black lead and polish, oil lamps to be cleaned and trimmed. Leisure Time You live near enough to your family to visit them on your occasional days off. You enjoy nothing more than a bit of your mothers' cooking and catching up on gossip from your father who's a butler in a large house in the area. Living Conditions You're grateful for the security of your job and for free board and lodging, but work is often lonely and you're tired of keeping the housemaid and the scullery maid in line. Marital Relations At the age of 32 (which is late compared to your contemporaries), you marry a man who works in a shop. You move in together, but carry on working for the same family, visiting by the day. You don't see your husband very much as you're both working long hours. World War One When World War One starts the family aren't able to afford to keep you in service so you have to find a new job, doing household chores for a family three days a week. After the war your husband returns safely to the same line of business. You live into your late sixties.

Oh my!!!! -sigh- Yet another thing I have to be thankful for, come Thanksgiving. And every day, of course.

It's great fun, to play at living in earlier times. I do love it. But.... It's probably good to remember that... life was not necessarily more lovely and calm, for all, in many places, in those days. I remember, just for the purpose of being grateful, that is. I still love to play at it, in 'Blog-land.' :-)

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My 'Faux' Apple Bread is out of the oven and smells yummy. It's still too hot to see how the 'tipsy raisins' worked out, though. :-)