One of these days I'll get the colors and fonts all good on my pages. I am having tons of fun with the goodies Pioneer has provided here - more than I thought (because it's easier than I thought). Thanks, Pioneer!
Here is Jean Shrimpton -
She was a famous model in the 1960's. At that time, the "look" was the no-lipstick look. Twiggy (http://www.twiggylawson.co.uk/photogallery.html) had the look down, too. Twiggy used to paint on lower eyelashes, as well. Most fashion-conscious females wore the no-lipstick look and is why I look strange in some gallery images. (Haven't seen some of those for awhile!) At the model school, they insisted that we wear false eyelashes, too. I guess it looks okay in photos and in shows but those things feel awful and really just remind me of having a caterpillar over yer eye.
Modeling school was a weird thing. It could make a gawky geeky kid look poised and prettier, but I think it did a great disservice. At the adolescent stage, when we need to grow emotionally and boost self-esteem with effort and accomplishment in spiritual and intellectual and social realms, it focused only on physical appearance. The propaganda was "it doesn't matter how you feel, they only see how you look and there is only the first time". That puts alot of importance on a very fleeting thing. I'm sure it's no shocker that one of the instructors had an affair with a model's dad, similar to Gabrielle on "Desperate Housewives". If I had a daughter, I would not have her in modeling school, or I would be sure she spent time in other pursuits and had balance in her life. And I insist anyone can look great with make-up, the right lighting, and a good photographer.
When I go to Lucy's blog my computer always crashes. So I'm going to suggest some old movies here for her search.
No Time For Sergeants with Andy Griffith, Any Marx Brothers, The Road to __wherever, Rio, etc.____ with Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and Dorothy Lamour, Francis the Talking Mule, What's Up Doc? with Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand, and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World with a cast that is just awesome, are some good comedies!
Film Noir - D.O.A. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042369/)
Everything else makes me cry too much so I just keep it to comedies or mysteries.
PORTRAIT OF A GOOD HUSBAND
In 1773, a woman wrote this up, obviously after lots of thought, to give to someone who had hinted about becoming serious. Some qualities would include "one who shall feel my griefs, and endeavour to redress them, and participate with me my joys; and who shall be willing to gratify my reasonable inclinations." "May he love to see his table furnished with the good things of providence, and not only with the necessaries of life, but sometimes with the comforts and delicacies as his income may allow."
"May his cabinet (library) be ever free for my perusal and improvement; and may he not be too tenacious of the money key, for surely she to whom he gives his heart may reasonably think she may have access to his treasures, and he fear no want." She wouldn't accept jealousy, "that bane to conjugal affection"; or to husbandly reprimand in public, or to a double standard of behavior". "Let a mantle of love be drawn over my imperfections, and let them not be adminiverted on in company, but told me in private with all that tenderness and faithfulness that becomes a husband and a Christian, and may he in every point set me an example worthy of imitation."
"May he be indeed a father to my fatherless children. ... May he look on the inheritance of their deceased father as sacred, never to be converted to his own use or in any way to augment his own estate," "that he be kind and tender, which will bind them to obedience, while the reverse conduct ... would excite in them not a filial but a slavish fear."
"May he be willing that I should be kind to his servants, knowing that we have our master in heaven. May he have a happy talent at governing, and let severity be his strange work. Let each that has an immortal soul be dealt with as a rational creature, and not be treated as the brutal creation."
Finally, she turned to the world outside the family. The man she married must be "one whose heart is open to the cries of the poor and needy, and is kind to the evil and unthankful, thereby imitating the divine pattern who causes his rain to fall on the just and the unjust ..." Then figuring someone might say the above was too demanding, "I once knew a dear man that was possessed of all these accomplishments so far as he had opportunity to shew them ... and sweet to me is the memory of that just man."
These are taken from a book "The Way of Duty - A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel, Jr. The woman was Mary Fish, descended from the Mayflower's Priscilla Alden. Mary was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Fish and Rebecca Fish. The man who fit this "Portrait" was Gold Selleck Silliman, who was a widower. He was a "freeman" and a Brig. General of George Washington's. They married and had 2 sons, Benjamin Silliman (Yale geologist, scientist) and Gold Selleck Silliman Jr.
There isn't much to say after that. How many still match up?
