Lilo, those quotes were/are good enough to be saved for another week! They contain so much wisdom in so few words. Thanks for a great week.

Whenever I read about someone traveling across the USA in the late 1800's and early 1900's, I remember my mother talking about traveling from Ohio to Colorado as a young child, maybe 1908? No cars of course. Although there were trains, her father drove a wagon and did a version of "camping out". There mostly weren't roads, just tracks across the prairies, which sometimes would curve around a hill and become a small town, and sometimes the track would just disappear. Her father navigated by keeping the morning sun at his back and facing the afternoon sun. More or less. Apparently the trip was expected to take a couple weeks and actually took most of the summer. Mum said that when they reached their destination, the place seemed so very, very crowded. Probably a couple hundred people lived in town.

"it is better to have few possessions and control them rather than to be owned by your things" That one is worth embroidering and hanging on a wall, Lilo. This has been a month so far of just excellent quotes! My last husband, who is passed away now and was twenty two years my senior used to tell his friends I collected antiques.....that was why I married him. Can you even imagine the impact William Morris and Frank Lloyd Wright must have had on a society who was used to the heavy and ornate life of the Victorian era? I was looking at a family photograph of my auntie, (the oldest sibling of my father), my g'mother and my great grandmother taken sometime around the late 1920s. There was Aunt Gertie, dressed like a Flapper, G'ma in a modest chintz housedress, and g'grandmother in the street length black skirt, white full apron and high lace collar older women still clung to. It struck me then what a huge jump women took in such a very short time in dress and just about everything else.

"good breeding" means you mated with the "right" kind of person. You didn't marry anyone of lesser social standing. It literally means who you bred with. The gene pool, of course, got quite small. Some of the right breeding produced not too bright people and in the case of the men they often seemed to be weak in the chin department and were commonly referred to as "chinless wonders":) They were sent off to boarding school at a tender age (poor kids) then the boys went on to Eton or Harrow and then to Oxford or Cambridge for the brighter offspring - the rest of the "correctly" bred males often went into the army. Usually a Guards Regiment. Things have changed, I'm pleased to say. Interesting week you've giving us, Josh:)