Modern Brides
By Bessie Saunders Spencer
Priscilla has an attic
And automatic grill;
Rebecca has a trailer
With chintzes for a frill.
Amelia has a hallway
With curtains for a door
And enters by the exit
To two rooms – twelve-by-four.
Louella has a basement
With cretonne camouflage;
Cornelia has a silo;
And Rose, a new garage.
But they are much too happy
To sit around and pout –
They try to make these remnants
The homes they dreamed about.
(1947)
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Another one about conquering house envy!
Isn’t that something? In this case, the housing shorting for newlyweds as the boys came home from the service maybe gives more legitimacy. I’ve read about couples desperate for ANYthing — even that 4×12 hallway — as a place to set up housekeeping and not have to wait for, possibly, years for a real house to come available.
Oh yeah, that’s what I was figuring too. Plenty of couples did set up housekeeping in an attic or a garage! Makes our sad little newlywed apartment look pretty good.
My aunt and uncle lived in a quonset hut when they were first married in the 1950’s.
Well, there you go — the poem brought to life in Lisa’s family history.
We were married in 1960. Our first home was a fourplex where we lived for a few months until we discovered the whole area was crawling with cockroaches. Then we moved into a log cabin built in 1848, which had an added room plus a bathroom. We could lay in bed at night and look outside through the missing chinks in the log walls. Then we moved to an old granary which had been a few rooms added to make a home. We didn’t care but now I can’t believe we lived in those places.
~100 years ago my great-grandfather and his little family lived in a tent. In eastern Idaho. In the winter. How our standards have changed!