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"  Think an overemphasis on youthful looks is just a trend of our times? Curious about how the idea of a bridal registry came about? Wonder what products people craved for convenience years ago? ? Check out the excerpts below from Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s April issue\u2026100 years ago, 75 years ago, and 50 years ago. APRIL 1913 &amp;quot;The most mischievous popular doctrine of the day is the cult of youth to which women give themselves, body and soul. To try to look girlish and to attempt to deceive people into thinking that they possess a few less years than they do, has become more than a fad with them. It is a religion on whose altars they offer up their pleasures, their comforts, their health, and even their lives.&amp;quot; \u2014From &amp;quot;The Joy of Being Fifty&amp;quot; by Elizabeth M. Gilmer April 1938 &amp;quot; &amp;#039;I would have wept,&amp;#039; this young bride told me, &amp;#039;if I hadn&amp;#039;t worked my sense of humor overtime. But could you blame me? Think of it! Three dozen service plates, four coffee makers, eleven serving trays, several enormous silver platters\u2014after a while I actually dreaded unwrapping my other gifts for fear of finding more duplications.&amp;#039;\u2026.Here&amp;#039;a solution. It&amp;#039;s an idea we had, and I think it will help many a bride enlist the cooperation of her friends, her cousins, and her uncles and her aunts\u2026We&amp;#039;ve called it &amp;#039;The Bride&amp;#039;s Hope Chest Inventory.&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s an attractive little booklet which offers a basic list of the china, glass, silver, linen, kitchen equipment, pots and pans, laundry and cleaning equipment, and other essentials the bride needs to set up housekeeping. Types, sizes, and quantities are all suggeste\u2026.The bride jots down a list of her heart&amp;#039;s desires in the space left blank for this purpose\u2026.The items remaining unchecked then serve as a source of inspiration to her friends.\u2026If a bride-to-be doesn&amp;#039;t quite know how to tell her friends about her inventory, some intimate friend would surely be glad to circulate it where it would do some good. &amp;quot;From the Desk of Katherine Fisher&amp;quot; Director, Good Housekeeping Institute APRIL 1963 &amp;quot;What follows is a list of small but important items which readers say they&amp;#039;d like to buy, but can&amp;#039;t find. Some are available here and there, but none is sold everywhere \u2022 Inside-out flannel. That is, with the warm side inside and the printed pattern outside. \u2022 Coat hangers sized for children&amp;#039;s clothes. \u2022 A lipstick-size stick deoderant. \u2022 Neckties made of spot-repellent material. \u2022 Precut sheets of household paper, such as saran and Handi-wrap. \u2022 Lightweight, attractive compacts for loose powder. \u2022 Replacement shoelaces in other than ordinary colors and types. \u2022 Replacement pockets for men&amp;#039;s work-pants made of black fabric (white tends to shed lint).&amp;quot; \u2014From &amp;quot;Speaker for the House&amp;quot; by Charlotte Montgomery "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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