num_pages: 264
description: Few homemakers worked outside the home while Kay Reilly was growing upin Wisconsin. When she was 13, her mother accepted a job as a reporterfor their local newspaper office. During those years (1951-55) Grettaalso wrote a humorous, tongue-in-cheek weekly column that attracted manyfans.After she died in 1991, Kay ("the First Maid") chose 69 pieces from TheBottlewasher column and added an introduction, occasional footnotes andan epilogue. The result is an entertaining mini-history that brings tolife a small town and its inhabitants from another era--sure to amuseand inform readers of today.
language: English
title: The Bottlewasher: Selections from a Small-Town Newspaper Column of the Early 1950s
titlecomplete: The Bottlewasher: Selections from a Small-Town Newspaper Column of the Early 1950s
publisher: Xlibris Corp