I begin with a literary piece by American author Christine Terhune Herrick who, over the course of her career, wrote over thirty books on housekeeping. I will examine her piece on New York apartment hunting using an essay by Amy Kaplan. The non-literary piece, written by C. Armstrong, will be used to expose the hypocrisies of a wealthy businessman who stole from his company. For the illustration, I will comment on a cartoon that mocks female Irish servants, and use Lester F. Ward’s article “Plutocracy and Paternalism” (1895) for additional support. Finally, in section four, an advertisement for Sozodont, a popular product of oral hygiene, will be examined and its claims for healthier teeth debunked. I will conclude by focusing on life in the expanding industrial cities after the possibilities of the frontier came to an
I begin with a literary piece by American author Christine Terhune Herrick who, over the course of her career, wrote over thirty books on housekeeping. I will examine her piece on New York apartment hunting using an essay by Amy Kaplan. The non-literary piece, written by C. Armstrong, will be used to expose the hypocrisies of a wealthy businessman who stole from his company. For the illustration, I will comment on a cartoon that mocks female Irish servants, and use Lester F. Ward’s article “Plutocracy and Paternalism” (1895) for additional support. Finally, in section four, an advertisement for Sozodont, a popular product of oral hygiene, will be examined and its claims for healthier teeth debunked. I will conclude by focusing on life in the expanding industrial cities after the possibilities of the frontier came to an