Strictly confidential (for young girls)

Description:

This is a good-girl conduct book written by a single woman, and it is unintentionally hilarious. I have a copy, left by some late in-laws. Published in 1944, Miss Hustad lectures girls about manners, dress, makeup, behavior, and how to stay sexually pure. While it is not exactly bad advice, none of it would go over too well with girls of today. Very readable and amusing, though. A chance to see how some teachers/educators viewed life and girls at that particular time. KH

subjects: Conduct of life,  Girls,  Sex instruction,  chastity,  girls conduct,  good manners,  instruction

People: no

Places: Miss Hustad thinks travel broadens the mind--several countries mentioned

Times: World War II in America