An amusing find

[frualeydis]

I recently bought two women's magazines from the 1930s off a swedish auction site. Today they arrived. One, "Flitiga händer", was perfectly normal, but the other one "Kvinnan och hemmet" (Woman and home) seemed a little weird - for one they used english words in some of the ads, which of course is the rule now, but you didn't find in Sweden back then and secondly when they described dresses they gave the estimated yardage in - yards. It turned out that it was a magazine in swedish, published for Swedish Americans in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Comments

[matticrafts.livejournal.com]

I've called folks in Cedar Rapids as part of my job (I work for a company that sells remanufactured cell phones). They're uniformly neat people. Also: really, really polite.

[steelweaver.livejournal.com]

You get pockets like that all over the US...but it's still weird when you run into one. I wasn't aware of the Dutch people in Michigan until a friend in MI told me.

It's funny how some people get in an uproar about non-western immigrants not abandoning their mother tongue and then turn around and do the stereotypical expat thing:)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they've heard about it and how long it was published. It was started in 1887, but I don't know how long after 1935 it existed. It apparently had readers among swedish americans also in other states.

/Eva