. The Ladies' home journal. JAUUUlt Time was when the bleating of Jacquies cornetmade My BlueHeaven theme song preferred of the Griffins block in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At10, her big ambition was to be a stage director; her big moment, Charles Boyer. BENNY Arithmetic used to be the bane of Bennys life, his back-yard zoothe pride of it. But today, his hobbies have changed along with his current favorites are baking pies and tinkering with a new motor bike. 7ffl^/. 2<fi 00 MONTHS LATER* A new look at some old friends: on a very important birthday,the JOURNAL reintroduces its first fami
. The Ladies' home journal. JAUUUlt Time was when the bleating of Jacquies cornetmade My BlueHeaven theme song preferred of the Griffins block in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. At10, her big ambition was to be a stage director; her big moment, Charles Boyer. BENNY Arithmetic used to be the bane of Bennys life, his back-yard zoothe pride of it. But today, his hobbies have changed along with his current favorites are baking pies and tinkering with a new motor bike. 7ffl^/. 2<fi 00 MONTHS LATER* A new look at some old friends: on a very important birthday,the JOURNAL reintroduces its first family, the Aulden Griffins. by J. C. FURNAS ONE HUNDRED MONTHS AGO, theJournal went to the leafy quiet of CedarRapids, Iowa, to introduce its first chapter inthe continuing story of How America Lives. Ourfirst family was the Aulden Griffins:two parents in their middle thirties; tiro chil-dren, ten and seven. In almost every way,they weie typical Americans—fine folk tovisit in those days when America came to re-examine itself as the last stronghold of democ-racy. Like six million other families at tin-time, the Griffins made their life on about$2000 a year, owned their own home andcobbled away themselves at additions andrepairs. Mrs. Griffin did all the housework,\ ct had time to be the youngest president in the history of the Cedar Rapids If Omans Club. Time, too, for sum-mer aquaplaning ivith the kids and sharing such hobbies as the back-\ ard zoo with its monke
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