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Well, first of all, they were very busy! My grandmother was 11 in 1916, and she told me once that even though they had a maid they were constantly doing stuff -- cooking from scratch, sewing, putting up preserves. Automobiles were just becoming known, so many would have had horses to watch out for -- and many more people still worked on the farm. Hours in industrial employment were long, and the work week was six days rather than five.
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