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Work and play Leisure allows room for a fuller life. |
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Women At left, young ladies play the hankie game. In the center, Annie Oakley is a champion sharpshooter, and role model for countless young women. The bustled skirt is high fashion. | |||||||||
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Laborers Actually, they're not all working. The illustration at upper left depicts the Great Southwest Railroad Strike. The workman at right is pounding paving stones. In his straw hat. | |||||||||
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The Fashionable Set These are illustrations from a popular magazine. The caption for the scene at top left reads, 'Why do women with brains admire men who have none?' The scene at top right is a Christmas party. | |||||||||
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Writers Almost all the famous books written during the 1800s date to the period before the Civil War. Only Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain came out with important books after that. Perhaps Americans were too busy making money. | |||||||||