Talk:Good Wife's Guide

message: I cannot make any claims for the authenticity or otherwise of the text of ‘The Good Wife’s Guide’ but as the copyright holder of John Bull magazine I can confirm that the image used to illustrate the text in the widely circulated photocopied version of the article is indeed cropped from a 1957 cover of John Bull magazine.  
Larry Viner, Director, The Advertising Archives, larry@advertisingarchives.co.uk, 12th December 2006
Below is a letter I sent to "Snopes" regarding the claim the "Good Wife" article was a fake.
Regarding the article on your site, "How to Be a Good Wife".
The 'original' of this was neither a joke nor an 'urban legend'.
I cannot say exactly which book it was printed in originally, but I had a copy of it many years ago (perhaps 20+ years) It was a very old commonsense cooking / home cleaning book. I picked it up at a flea market while on holidays one year. What became of it, I haven't a clue. 
It was a book around A5 in size and maybe 3/4inch thick. I remember reading parts out to my sisters and we all had a laugh.
I don't recall it having sketches in it like the one you have shown but I do recall there being actual photos of how to correctly lay out cutlery, crockery and such.
The most surprising thing I read in it was the house cleaning routine, ie: sheets changed top to bottom to get even wear, mattress rotation every few days, all carpets and mats taken out and dust belted out of them weekly. Wooden floors wiped over (preferably daily) with kerosene...
Most cleaning products it reccommended using were removed from shop shelves ages ago. The scariest part of the book was reading the importance of scrubbing and spraying your entire house (and ALL mattresses)with DDT to keep bed-bugs and lice down!! 
That book was certainly no myth or mock up. It even smelled old and stuffy!
:)
Cheers
Susan.
QLD. Australia
I've seen variations of this in older Home Economics textbooks (before 1975), too, so it probably was not an urban legend.
In the interest of being verifiable, the reasons mentioned in favor of the hoax angle should refer to actual examples. For instance, I tried the 'high contrast' comment, but did not see the boxes (I used the image from the wiki page itself).
Moreover, lack of collaboration also goes for the hoax angle, it really doesn't go any further than hear-say. In fact, the only thing needed is a genuine copy of the original magazine. Anyone?
RMC  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.93.116.18 (talk) 22:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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