Heh

[telophase]

I'm going to have to bring The Girl and Her Home, the high school home ec textbook from 1947, home to take or scan some photos of the illustrations. There's a photograph titled "Boys and Girls Setting Off on a Picnic" which features two couples heading down a dirt road surrounded by vegetation carrying a Thermos, a picnic basket, a book, a blanket, a couple of flat pillows, what is either a Sterno-type stove or a lantern, and one tennis racquet. The young men are in shirts and ties, and the young ladies are carrying their purses and wearing sweaters, skirts, and (matching) heels.

ETA: Also, in the chapter titled "Are You a Good Friend?" there's a whole section devoted to a classroom activity where you make copies of personality score cards, hand them out to everyone in the class and everyone rates everyone else ANONYMOUSLY to "encourage honesty" and "avoid hurt feelings."

Yeah, that's going to go well.

Comments

[morineko]

One racquet. The only possible game you could play with that would be some variant of baseball where you use it as a bat. But, of course, they have no ball.

[telophase]

The only other possible uses coming to mind are Not Safe for Work, pretty much. :/

[morineko]

Yup, so either that's a case of Artist Kink or Artist Fail. (Or the intersection of both sets.)

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

Wow!!

Those personality score cards sure are popular. It's a wonder there weren't secret poisonings and riots.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It may explain a lot about mid-century America.

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

A bad idea never dies! Wasn't there some tempest in a teapot not too long ago (two years?) about a similar thing---kids in a classroom being encouraged to do the kind of circle assessment that some corporations inflict on their employees?