Which part? When I was a lad, I occasionally got to beat Grandma Cain’s rugs.
How incredibly labor intensive running a household was before the advent of modernity.
One of the things I always found fascinating about the Nero Wolfe mysteries was the steady stream of tradespeople coming through Nero’s brownstone to take care of this and that.
And the office work! Archie banging off an original and six carbon copies on a manual typewriter!
We forget. Most of us alive never knew.
Which part? When I was a lad, I occasionally got to beat Grandma Cain’s rugs.
How incredibly labor intensive running a household was before the advent of modernity.
One of the things I always found fascinating about the Nero Wolfe mysteries was the steady stream of tradespeople coming through Nero’s brownstone to take care of this and that.
And the office work! Archie banging off an original and six carbon copies on a manual typewriter!