tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81211619801855214852024-03-13T13:12:18.466-07:00CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO?writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-81715550187389671392015-11-11T09:45:00.000-08:002015-11-11T09:49:58.150-08:00A BIRTHDAY GIFT TO READERS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Rosetta was born on November 18, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois. In 2006 she passed away at the ripe old age of nearly 97 years old, but her stories and humor live on in her memoir <a href="http://amzn.to/1p6okO1" target="_blank">"Can We Come in and Laugh, Too?"</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>To celebrate her birthday, from Thursday, NOVEMBER 19 through NOVEMBER 23 you can DOWNLOAD A FREE KINDLE COPY of her book and enjoy her memories of growing up as the youngest of ten children in a zany Latvian immigrant family in the early 1900s. What they didn't have in money, they made up for in humor. She recalls how neighbors would knock at their door and ask, "Can we come in and laugh, too?"</i></b></span><br />
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-36621957684174430752015-07-23T11:41:00.000-07:002015-07-23T11:41:31.152-07:00TIMES, THEY ARE "A-CHANGIN'"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fast forward to 2006, the year Rosetta passed away nearing her 97th birthday. Ford's concept car that year would have amazed her. It was the Refl3x, </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">a technological showcase that included solar panel-powered headlights, integrated child seat, baby cam with a monitor mounted on the dash, inflatable rear safety belts, and an interior quieted by ground rubber taken from Nike athletic shoe <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Shoe">outsoles</a>. It also featured an advanced <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Diesel-electric">diesel</a>-<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Hybrid vehicle">electric hybrid engine</a> with new-generation <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" title="Lithium ion batteries">lithium ion batteries</a> that help deliver up to 65 miles per US gallon. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A production version of the Reflex design was not announced. It makes one wonder what happened to these great ideas since we are still oil and energy dependent upon other nations.</span></span><br />
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-58311672725281090852015-01-09T09:48:00.000-08:002015-01-09T09:48:32.020-08:00The Great Comet of 1910 was sighted on January 12, 1910. Rosetta was 2 months old. Moments in history.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">The comet brightened rather suddenly, and was initially visible from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_hemisphere" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Southern hemisphere">southern hemisphere</a> only. A number of individuals claimed "discovery", but the comet is thought to have been first spotted by diamond miners in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvaal_Colony" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Transvaal Colony">Transvaal</a> before dawn on January 12, 1910, by which time it was already a prominent naked-eye object of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Apparent magnitude">apparent magnitude</a> −1.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">The first person to study the comet properly was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Scotland">Scottish</a> astronomer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._A._Innes" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Robert T. A. Innes">Robert T. A. Innes</a> at the Transvaal Observatory in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Johannesburg">Johannesburg</a> on January 17, after having been alerted two days earlier by the editor of a Johannesburg newspaper.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;">The comet reached <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;" title="Perihelion">perihelion</a> (<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid or comet where[& when] it is nearest to the sun. </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">on January 17 and was at that time visible in daylight with the unaided eye; following perihelion, it declined in brightness but became a spectacular sight from the</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_hemisphere" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 22.3999996185303px; text-decoration: none;" title="Northern hemisphere">northern hemisphere</a><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">in the evening twilight, its noticeably curved tail reaching up to 50 degrees by early February.</span></span></span></div>
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-43693147513917158582014-12-27T17:29:00.001-08:002014-12-27T17:29:45.770-08:00Manhattan Bridge opened to traffic December 31, 1909. Rosetta was about a month-and-a-half old.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1909, the day the Manhattan Bridge. a suspension
bridge that crosses the East River in New
York City, connecting Lower Manhattan at Canal Street with Brooklyn at the
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York City Mayor<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration: none;">George Brinton McClellan, Jr.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">, who was on the last day of his term of office,
rode in the first automobile of a motorcade from Manhattan to Brooklyn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn
and the Williamsburg bridges. It has four vehicle lanes
on the upper level, split between two roadways. The lower level has three
lanes, four </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">su</span>bway tracks, a walkway and a bikeway. The
upper level, originally used for streetcars,
has two lanes in each direction, and the lower level is one-way and has three
lanes in peak direction. The bridge once carried New York State Route 27 and later was
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-17153168475482854512014-12-15T11:03:00.002-08:002014-12-15T11:03:29.992-08:00ROSETTA'S 9TH BIRTHDAY IN 1918 - ALSO LATVIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rosetta's parents were immigrants from Friedrichstadt </span><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 22px;">a town in Latvia on the left bank of the Daugava River about 80 km southeast of Riga. So it is interesting to me that the Republic of Latvia was proclaimed on November 18,1918, Rosetta's 9th birthday, and that date became a key date in history. Finally after long years of oppression Latvians took the steps to proclaim their country. Every year there is a military parade in Riga and other celebrations. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;">The revolution in 1905 was the first sign of
Latvian national awaking and the thought of breaking from Russia. Although the main force in the revolution was Latvian
social democrats, the whole revolution was made against foreign oppression. The
attacks on German mansions and calls for Latvian autonomy had national
character. The next crucial point was the First World War. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In 1915, the German
army invaded Latvian territory. 567 000 people fled Latvia to Russia. Had Matilda and Eli Schwartz not immigrated to the United States in the late 1800's, before starting a family, they might have been among those refugees. It was a
catastrophic situation when half of Latvian population left their homeland.
Nationally minded refugees organized self-support committees in all Russia.
Only Jewish refugees were more organized than Latvians. The German army stopped
near Riga and stayed there until 1917. To fight Germans Latvians organized
national rifleman regiments. Latvians gathered under the Russian banner to protect
their land. This was a birth of the Latvian national military.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Rosetta was 6 years old the year the German army invaded the area where her parents lived in Latvia. By then the Schwartz's were secure in their home in Chicago. It is unknown whether close relatives had remained in Latvia and were part of the mass exodus, or worse yet, were murdered. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rosetta was the youngest of their ten children, and wh</span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ile the family didn't have much money, and they did have two priceless things. LAUGHTER AND FREEDOM </span></span></div>
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-25565388017791259432014-12-12T11:08:00.000-08:002014-12-12T11:08:57.333-08:00ROSETTA WAS 5 YEARS OLD IN 1914. WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">Most often we don't stop to think about all the advances made in the past century and this one. If Rosetta were still living, she would be 105 years old, but she left us as she neared her 97th birthday.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">Let's go back 100 years. What happened in 1914, the year she was 5 years old?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">— The Ford Motor Co.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> increased wages </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">from $2.40 for a 9-hour day to $5 for an 8-hour day. Ford went on to sell 248,000 cars the same year.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">— In Washington, DC, the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">first stone</span> of the Lincoln Memorial was put into place.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">IMAGINE THIS!</span></b></div>
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-43579708128307895912014-12-07T12:21:00.001-08:002014-12-07T12:21:41.531-08:00What happened on December 7, 1931? Rosetta was 22 years old.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="color: white;">In 2000 she was 91 years old and still dancing. </span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'DejaVu Serif'; font-size: 16px;">That strike was a bitter one and pitted the strikers against not only their employers and the local authorities, but also their own union.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I</span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">n September, 1910, 17 young women </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">made history in the Pilsen neighborhood when they abandoned their sewing machines and walked out of Shop No. 5 at 18th and Halsted Streets of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, then the largest clothing manufacturer in the nation. All that the women wanted were improved working conditions and better wages, but by initiating a strike that would last for four months and eventually involve some 40,000 workers, the group sent reverberations throughout the garment industry and laid the groundwork for the formation of a second major union in the industry.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: black;">The clothing industry, according to historian N. Sue Weiler, was then Chicago`s biggest employer, bigger even than the city`s famed stockyards. Hart, Schaffner & Marx, headquartered in the garment district centered around South Franklin and West Van Buren Streets, parceled out contract work to mostly immigrant workers, half of them women, in its 48 shops.</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In December some 20,000 striking workers marched from West Jackson and South Ashland Boulevards for a rally at the Cubs ballpark, which was then on the West Side. It was almost a festive affair, as the workers marched to the beat of the Marseillaise, which they sang over and over in Yiddish, Polish, Italian, Bohemian and Lithuanian.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As the strike dragged on, tensions intensified. Companies hired private detectives to protect their nonstriking workers from ``agitators.`` Some shops gave firearms to their employees and even instructed them to shoot strikers who interfered with nonstriking employees. While escorting two teenage workers home, Tony Yacullo, a private detective employed by a downtown tailor, allegedly shot Charles Lazinskas, a striking workman, through the heart. Less than two weeks later, Frank Nagreckis, another worker on strike, was killed by a police officer. The strike also proved fatal to three </span><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">other persons: a delivery boy, a bystander and a Hart, Schaffner & Marx guard.</span></span></b></div>
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-85302487200765492162014-04-18T00:04:00.002-07:002014-04-18T00:04:48.848-07:00TIMES WERE SO DIFFERENT DURUNG ROSETTA'S FIRST YEAR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;">ROSETTA SCHWARTZ, whose story is told in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-We-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1397803942" target="_blank">"CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO?"</a> was born November 18, 1909</span></b><b style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b></div>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u><b>WHAT WAS IT LIKE IN 1910? </b></u></span></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/images/travel10.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img align="right" alt="Traveling in the 1910s by taxi, ice truck and chauffeur" border="0" height="289" hspace="10" src="http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/images/travel10.gif" vspace="10" width="289" /></a><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Children were hired to work in factories, mills, and mines for long
hours in unsafe and unhealthy conditions. Though efforts to pass
a federal law proved unsuccessful, by the middle of this decade every
state had <a href="http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/whaples.childlabor">passed
a minimum age law.</a> A commission found that up to 20% of
the children living in cities were undernourished, <a href="http://www.lectlaw.com/files/edu02.htm">education</a> took
second place to hunger and while children worked, only one-third
enrolled in elementary school and less than 10% graduated from high
school. The <a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aap/timelin3.html">status of the
Negro</a> worsened. Skilled negro workers were barred from the<a href="http://www.aflcio.org/"> AF of L</a>. Women were
also striving for equality.The first <a href="http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/suffrage/home.htm">suffrage</a>
parade was held in 1910 - the <a href="http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/woman-suffrage/">19th
amendment </a>finally ratified in 1919. </span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ROSETTA MANAGED TO GET A TWO-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION AND SELF- EDUCATED THE REST OF HER LONG LIFE---NEARLY 97 YEARS!</span></span></b></div>
writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-196862073907238232014-03-26T10:16:00.000-07:002014-03-26T10:16:09.215-07:00ON MARCH 26, 1910 ROSETTA WAS 4 MONTHS OLD!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How interesting to realize that when Rosetta Schwartz was 4 months old the Wright Brothers were just beginning to instruct aspiring pilots how to fly their newfangled invention - the aeroplane!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"><span>The <b>Wright Flying School,</b> also known as the <b>Wright School of Aviation</b>, was operated by the <a href="http://www.ask.com/wiki/Wright_Company?qsrc=3044" title="Wright Company">Wright Company</a> from 1910 to 1916 and trained 119 individuals to fly Wright airplanes.</span></sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"><span>When she moved to California from Chicago in 1953 she flew aboard a propeller plane. The trip took over 8 hours and the few people who flew got very dressed up to travel. For women it was a hat and gloves. For men, suit an tie.</span></sup></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-41"><span>Now we zip all over the world in relatively few hours, often wearing comfortable sweats. Particularly when flying to far-away destinations like Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa and more. Something unthought of in Rosetta's day when those places could only be reached by ship.</span></sup></span></span><br />
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-35822655668606330362013-10-03T17:41:00.002-07:002013-10-03T17:42:08.006-07:00You can still download the Kindle editon of Can We Come in and Laugh, Too? FREE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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September 7, 1909, readers of the <i>New York Times</i> awakened to a stunning
front-page headline: "Peary Discovers the North Pole After Eight Trials in
23 Years." The North Pole was one of the last remaining laurels of earthly
exploration, a prize for which countless explorers from many nations had
suffered and died for 300 years. And here was the American explorer Robert E.
Peary sending word from Indian Harbour, Labrador, that he had reached the pole
in April 1909, one hundred and four years ago this month. The <i>Times</i>
story alone would have been astounding. But it wasn't alone.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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earlier, the <i>New York Herald</i> had printed its own front-page headline:
"The North Pole is Discovered by Dr. Frederick A. Cook." Cook, an
American explorer who had seemingly returned from the dead after more than a
year in the Arctic, claimed to have reached the pole in April 1908—a full year
before Peary.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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who read the two headlines would know that the North Pole could be
"discovered" only once. The question then was: Who had done it?</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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Read more:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_589230139"> </a><span style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;"><a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Cook-vs-Peary.html#ixzz2fXORAanI"><span style="color: white; mso-themecolor: background1;">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Cook-vs-Peary.html#ixzz2fXORAanI</span></a>
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-29593475976392581142013-06-21T07:07:00.000-07:002013-06-21T07:11:18.958-07:00#3 IN FREE KINDLE MEMOIRS - #9 IN FREE HUMOR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1920s - Rosetta is in the middle of the second row</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This isn't a mystery, but Rosetta was the inspiration for 80 year-old Flossie, the Silver Sisters' mother, in the Silver Sisters Mysteries. The only crime here would be if you don't download a copy while it is still FREE.<br /><br />I edited this book and this morning woke up to a nice surprise. Here are the rankings for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1371739386&sr=8-1"><b>"CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO?"</b> </a>in the FREE Kindle store at 6:30am PST:<br />PLEASE HELP PUSH IT TO #1 AND THE TOP 100 in FREE Kindle</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <b>Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #820 Free in Kindle Store </b><br /> #3 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Biographies & Memoirs > Memoirs<br /> #9 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Humor & Entertainment > Humor<br /><br /><b>THE FREE OFFER ENDS AT MIDNIGHT.</b></span></span></div>
writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-31053507568020759132013-06-20T16:48:00.002-07:002013-06-20T16:51:19.008-07:00CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO? now at #7 in FREE Kindle Memoirs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Rosetta in 2004 at 95</b></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Rosetta in 1923 at 23</b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49">June 20, 2013 4:43pm PST</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49">The latest figures on the FREE OFFERING of the KINDLE EDITION of <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1371739386&sr=8-1">CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO? </a></b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49">PLEASE SHARE it with friends and help drive it </span><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49">to </span></span></span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49"> #1 </span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49">Amazon Best Sellers Rank:<b> #1
,719</b> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49">Free in Kindle Store<b>
#7
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="share-body" id="yui-gen49">Just imagine all of the things Rosetta saw in her lifetime. From the horseless carriage to supersonic jets. She lived through many historic milestones and talks about many of them in her book. Remember this isn't a joke book. It is a charming collection of life experiences from an ordinary woman with the extraordinary talent of finding the humor in even the worst situations and inspiring others to believe in themselves.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today is the first day of the TWO DAY FREE OFFER for the Kindle edition of Rosetta Schwartz's charming memoir <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1371739386&sr=8-1">CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO?</a> She was the youngest of ten children, born into a zany immigrant family in 1909, and throughout her long life (almost 97 years) she was an ordinary woman with the extraordinary ability to make people believe in themselves---and no matter how bad things got, she always got through it with humor. When she was a child, there was so much laughter in her family, neighbors knocked at the door to ask if they could come in and laugh too. It is currently at #25 in Kindle Store Memoirs. </span></span></div>
writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-52062410152829281612013-06-05T18:23:00.000-07:002013-06-05T18:34:16.197-07:001910 - THE LAST YEAR OF GIBSON GIRL POPULARITY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Typical Gibson Girl outfit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The "horrible" hobble skirt</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you are following this blog or have read Rosetta's memoir written at age 80, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1363138945&sr=1-1&keywords=can+we+come+in+and+laugh">CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO?</a> you know we're now following milestones during the years of her life. If you don't have a copy of this endearing book, it is available in Kindle and paperback editions.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">On November 18, 1910, Rosetta was one-year-old . </span></b></div>
The <a href="http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/beauties/beauties-overview.html">Gibson
Girl </a>was in the last year of its popularity because women had begun to turn their thoughts toward more comfort in 1910, but many made a bad choice when they quickly fell for the hobble skirt.
Imagine trying to walk with speed and balance practically bound at the knees.<br />
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Fabrics became lighter, colors brighter, and styles looser. Shockingly, lowered necklines became popular, spurring sales of cold cream
and lemon extract.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">1910-Rosetta's sister Jean and her husband</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Many other fashion trends were introduced that year, like the sack, the sheath, oriental costumes, harem
trousers, and the Hellenic tunic. Head gear and furs were also popular. Rosetta's sister Jean was about 19 then and probably would have loved to indulge herself with trendy clothing, but they were a poor family and every penny counted.<br />
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<b>D</b>uring the 1910s, Rosetta's older brothers would have worn tweed jackets and striped blazers. The wealthier business men wore striped trousers, a morning coat and starched white shirt. Some wore top hats and frock coats.<br />
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So how about little Rosetta? Well, although the most radical changes were in women's wear, from 1910 to 1919 kids'
fashion was characterized by more clothing designed specifically for children than ever seen in history. Take the sailor suit for boys for instance. By 1910, the sailor suits we see in old movies were predominantly worn by younger boys as their main
outfit. They might even have had a fancier sailor suit for special occasions, but
believe it or not, this was what many wore until adolescence. <br />
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Imagine how someone of that era would have reacted to seeing the teens of today. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rosetta was born in Chicago, Illinois on November 18, 1909. Just three
months before she entered this world, the first race was held at the
Indianapolis Motor Speedway, now the home of the world's most famous motor
racing competition, the Indianapolis 500.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was built on 328 acres of farmland five miles northwest of Indianapolis, <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/indiana">Indiana</a> by local businessmen
as a testing facility for Indiana's growing </span></span><nobr><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-race-is-held-at-the-indianapolis-motor-speedway" id="FALINK_1_0_0">automobile industry</a></span></span></nobr><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. The idea was that occasional
races at the track would pit cars from different manufacturers against each
other. After seeing what these cars could do, spectators would presumably head
down to the showroom of their choice to get a closer look.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You have to remember that cars were not very prevalent at that time, so this
was an innovative venture to promote those newfangled motor cars. The
rectangular two-and-a-half-mile track linked four turns, each exactly 440 yards
from start to finish, by two long and two short straight sections. In that
first five-mile race on August 19, 1909, 12,000 spectators watched Austrian engineer
Louis Schwitzer win with an average speed of 57.4 miles per hour. For the day,
that was real speed. The track's surface of crushed rock and tar proved a
disaster because it broke up in a number of places and caused the deaths of two
drivers, two mechanics and two spectators.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The surface was soon replaced with 3.2 million <a href="http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/first-race-is-held-at-the-indianapolis-motor-speedway" id="FALINK_2_0_1"><nobr>paving bricks</nobr></a>, laid in a bed of sand and
fixed with mortar. Dubbed "The Brickyard," the speedway reopened in
December 1909, just after Rosetta was born. Her parents were too poor to even
think of owning a motorcar and wondered if this fad would catch on.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> In 1911, because of low attendance the track's owners made a
crucial decision: Instead of shorter races, they resolved to focus on a single,
longer event each year, for a much larger prize. That May 30 marked the debut of
the Indy 500--a grueling 500-mile race that was an immediate hit with audiences
and drew press attention from all over the country. Driver Ray Haroun won the
purse of $14,250, with an average speed of 74.59 mph and a total time of 6
hours and 42 minutes. In those days, that was a fortune.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rosetta, like many women of her era, never learned to drive. The thought of
women racecar drivers was thought to be as ridiculous as putting a man on the
moon. Well, both happened.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In her book, <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1363138945&sr=1-1&keywords=can+we+come+in+and+laugh">"Can We Come In and Laugh, Too?"</a></b> Rosetta spins tales of what it was like growing up as the youngest of ten children in a zany family and the former Charleston Champ takes you through the Jazz Era, World War II and more. Paperback and Kindle</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My sister Edna was an excellent secretary and when she left a
job she always wound up with a better one. Edna and I worked just a couple of
blocks away from each other in the downtown section of Chicago. The work week
was five and a half days and when we were finished on Saturday afternoon, we met
at a cafeteria across the street from Swartchild. We had some lunch and then
went shopping in the department stores. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1920s PAJAMA PARTY - ROSETTA AND HER </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Rosetta is in the third row in the middle. If some of the women look "stoned" it is</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> because in those days if anyone's eyes were closed, the photographer painted in the eyes--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With meager earnings, we couldn’t afford much of a
wardrobe singularly, so we decided to buy our dresses together. Edna was five
feet tall, and I am five foot-two. Edna was heavier than me, so what she took
up in width I took up in
height. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She tried a dress on first and if it looked good on her, then I tried on
the same dress. If it
looked good on both of us, we split the cost. I earned all of eighteen dollars a
week, and Edna earned more. I don't know how much more, but both of us contributed
half of our pay to the household. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We couldn't go on wild shopping sprees, but little by
little we managed to increase our wardrobe. We checked with each other in the
evenings, figured out which dress each of us wanted to wear to work the next
day, and that way there wasn’t any squabbling in the morning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Saturday evening came, we got<i> </i>together with<i> </i>our
girlfriends and went dancing. We always went in a group. Since we all lived in
the same area, it was safer
that way. There were dances every weekend in<i> </i>the better hotels and
the big bands sure played up a storm. We
had lots of good times in those days. I guess we were pretty innocent,
but we lived for those weekend dances. I became a champion Charleston dancer.</span></div>
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This photo was taken many years ago in Chicago when Rosetta was a new mother. And that kid in her arms--well, that's me.<br />
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It's funny but at one time she told me I was born a bit late in her life because she had a stillborn little girl at least five years before I made my debut. The doctors said she wouldn't be able to have more children, but lo and behold, I guess I just wouldn't take no for an answer. Not only that, but I was followed by my sister Phyllice.<br />
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This is one of those stories that isn't in her book. Apparently I was supposed to be born in Detroit, but that was where that first child died. The baby was full term, but her umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck and they didn't discover it soon enough. Somewhere near the end of her term with me she panicked, worried that something would be wrong with me, too, and fled back to Chicago. I was born at 5 minutes after midnight and the hospital certificate says August 25 but my official birth certificate says August 26. The funny part of it is as dementia took hold when Rosetta was in her 90s and I asked about that first baby, she had no recollection of ever having any children besides my sister and me. I guess the mind has a way of wiping out unpleasant things as it moves toward 100. She made it until nearly 97.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVU43dbNQHW2CiV2lnAuheH9ottyhgcJX8XDnGSYieaD0gyoNpkH9lKIvxE3kiLGC0KQl2PL5ZTe9rMcGXpI-pWskeXivcxkrgBwKaTyAgYCT6bm50IOprMPocAmprO88Oo0rWV5g8qqfq/s1600/CAN+WE+COME+IN+AND+LAUGH+NEW-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVU43dbNQHW2CiV2lnAuheH9ottyhgcJX8XDnGSYieaD0gyoNpkH9lKIvxE3kiLGC0KQl2PL5ZTe9rMcGXpI-pWskeXivcxkrgBwKaTyAgYCT6bm50IOprMPocAmprO88Oo0rWV5g8qqfq/s320/CAN+WE+COME+IN+AND+LAUGH+NEW-1.jpg" width="210" /></a>If you didn't get a copy of her funny and sometimes heart-tugging memoir, <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1363138945&sr=1-1&keywords=can+we+come+in+and+laugh"><span style="color: #ead1dc;">CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO?</span> </a></b></span><i> </i>the Kindle edition will be FREE at Amazon on March 14-15 and 16. Tell your friends, too, and remember a book makes a great gift. Think about Mother's Day which is not too far in the future, now.<br />
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MORGAN ST. JAMES<br />
Rosetta's Daughter<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rosetta's sister-in-law Lillian and best friend Rose in the early 1950's.</td></tr>
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For as long as I can remember, Halloween was always a special time for Rosetta and her friends and relatives. It was a chance to dress up in outrageous costumes and play tricks on each other.<br />
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During my childhood and teen years, my family's love dressing for in costumes was shared by aunts, uncles, cousins and friends--they all jumped at the chance. Combined with my father's love of putting costumes together with whatever was at hand, it must have passed through the generations. My three children Scott, Jakki and Jason and my sister Phyllice's son Ross all inherited the talent and urge to dress in costumes. One of my sister's favorite photos taken during the time she lived in Alaska is of her dressed as the Good Witch of the North in a lovely dress and garland wreath with hiking boots sprayed with gold paint. Yes, it was for Halloween, not a casual, around-the-house outfit.<br />
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Rosetta joined right in and although she usually put something together that was guaranteed to produce laughter, she wasn't always delighted with the costumes my father created. Like the time he decided to dress up as Baby New Years for a party at our apartment. Everyone had to stifle giggles when this overweight man with a black "5 o'clock shadow" pranced into the room dressed in a strategically arranged bed sheet, sporting a banner from shoulder to waist proclaiming that he was the new baby for 1951. Belly bouncing, he gaily went from one guest to another touching them with a makeshift wand and wishing them a wonderful new year.<br />
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Yes, Rosetta had helped with his getup and managed not to "spill the beans" to the guests so his appearance could have full impact, but as a twelve-year-old hiding in the shadows I could tell she wasn't all that pleased. That was a lot of exposed skin for 1951! She never said a word, though. She supported my father in whatever he chose to do and when it involved laughter it was all the better.<br />
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Rosetta's book,<span style="color: yellow;"> <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1362434704&sr=1-1"><b>Can We Come In and Laugh, Too?</b></a></i>,</span> has delighted thousands with the stories about her zany family's antics dating back as far to her childhood in the early 1900s. It is available in paperback at multiple online booksellers for $9.99 and the Kindle edition is just $2.99 on Amazon.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>"This book is funny, sincere and delightful." </i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Logan's Library</span></span></span><br />
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MORGAN ST. JAMES<br />
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-66577228821223001942012-11-29T15:20:00.000-08:002012-11-29T15:20:04.500-08:00DO YOU KNOW THE ORIGIN OF "WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS"?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So many things that we take for granted these days happened at the beginning of the 1900s when Rosetta was a young girl. We will be taking these trips down memory lane with her on this blog.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 1889 Joy Morton acquired the Onondaga Salt Company and renamed it Joy Morton & Company. In 1910 they changed the name to the Morton Salt Company.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In those days, when the weather was humid salt would cake and be hard to pour. However, by 1911 the newly named Morton Salt Company came up with a major advance—the addition of an additive that prevented caking, made their product free-flowing in any weather, and therefore highly competitive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Joy Morton's son Sterling, decided upon an image of a young girl. Her umbrella was carefully held in one hand, but the blue package of salt was not so carefully held. Despite the rain, salt poured from the package in the soon-to-become iconic image. The picture told the story: Morton Salt was clump-free, regardless of the weather or storage conditions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The slogan "When It Rains It Pours®", adapted from an old slogan "it never rains, but it pours," and the Morton Salt Umbrella Girl made its official debut on the blue package of table salt in 1914. Of course, a girl must keep up with the fashions and the image changed many times through the years, but the slogan is still used in general conversation today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Rosetta's memoir,<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-We-Come-Laugh-Too/dp/1475149476/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354231019&sr=8-1&keywords=can+we+come+in+and+laugh+too"> <span style="color: yellow;">"CAN WE COME IN AND LAUGH, TOO"</span> </a>makes a wonderful gift during the holiday season.</b></span></div>
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writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-80460398313364645502012-09-10T12:21:00.001-07:002012-09-10T12:25:33.047-07:00The family loved going to Rosetta's brother's Camp Ojibwa in Eagle River, Wisconsin<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is amazing how well-known it became and how many celebrities acknowledged it. Even the Alan Sherman song, "Camp Granada" was inspired by Al's camp. You see, Sherman was one of his counselors, but how do you rhyme with Ojibwa?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At one time baseball's famous Leo Durocher left a game to spend two days at the camp, but the Chicago Tribune found out and did a cartoon with him wearing a Camp Ojibwa tee-shirt.</span><br />
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<ul><div style="cursor: default;"><input name="q14" type="radio" value="Leo called Jack Brickhouse a mental midget on the "Tenth Inning" show" /> Leo called Jack Brickhouse a mental midget on the "Tenth Inning" show</div><div style="cursor: default;"><input name="q14" type="radio" value="Leo left a game and went up to Camp Ojibwa" /> Leo left a game and went up to Camp Ojibwa</div><div style="cursor: default;"><input name="q14" type="radio" value="Leo punched home plate umpire Harry Wendelstedt while arguing balls and strikes" /> Leo punched home plate umpire Harry Wendelstedt while arguing balls and strikes</div><div style="cursor: default;"><input name="q14" type="radio" value="Leo won his 1000th career game as a manager" /> Leo won his 1000th career game as a manager</div></ul></td></tr>
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rosetta's daughter Phyllice lived in Alaska many years, and lo and behold she mentioned Camp Ojibwa to a friend in Juneau and it turned out he was a former camper. As for me, one of my ex-husband's business associates had an uncle who was an original investor in the camp. What a small world.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If the name Camp Ojibwa sounds familiar, please post a comment. Rosetta and her brother Al were very close and he watched out for his "little sister" her entire life. Here is an excerpt from <b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-We-Come-Laugh-Too/dp/1475149476/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1346535241&sr=8-1">Can We Come In and Laugh, Too?</a></b> where Rosetta introduces her brother Al. This section in the book tells the story of how the camp came to be.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~<span style="font-size: large;">Morgan St. James, Rosetta's daughter</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>EXCERPT:</b></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="FIRSTLETTERChar"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 120%;">A</span></span><span class="st">l was the most successful of my brothers. Still in his early teens, he was too young to enlist in World War I, but heard that a person could make lots of money by working in the shipyards and help the war effort at the same time. He traveled to Detroit by himself and got a job in the shipyards there. It was true. By the time he was ready to come back to Chicago, he had saved up a few thousand dollars which was a fortune in those days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He returned home and told my parents to ask for anything they wanted. As it turned out, the only thing they wanted was a pair of tickets to the Jewish synagogue for the High Holy Days. With the money that was left, he bought a horse and cart and launched his first business—delivering ice for iceboxes. We didn’t have electric refrigerators back then. Big cakes of ice were placed in heavily insulated ice boxes to keep our food from spoiling.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My brother said that he learned at a very young age what he had a talent for—making money.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I say in my main story, the business he loved the most was owning a boys’ camp. He opened Camp Ojibwa in Eagle River, Wisconsin in 1928 and it became famous worldwide. For the rest of his life wherever he went it seemed someone recognized Al. Even in Europe. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The book is available in paperback and Kindle. Get your own copy for inspiration and laughs.</span></span></div><div class="NormalJUSTIFIED"><span class="st"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI07awEzz4SZELOLvbybNQkVDcjN66kHmSykQcXXmHULFKESE9R4F1kiYLuot3RFNWG1PvBk9Mp75jwr3-fFN_neN_a69d_8MYOxK_MPMTiIetSQj6lgXtQ5kaMHAQKZ9P6YLp0F8jkUO2/s1600/QR+CODE+SM+-+CAN+WE+COME+IN+AND+LAUGH%252C+TOO.jpg" /> </span></div></div>writerstricksofthetrade.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02083070198778528841noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8121161980185521485.post-15212758455812704352012-09-01T14:28:00.004-07:002012-09-01T14:54:31.332-07:00Rosetta's oldest sister Jean was a cover girl in the early 1900s<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Note: Jean was the oldest of ten children, and Rosetta, her baby sister was the youngest. Here is Rosetta's memory of her sister Jean, beautiful both inside and outside.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She was a very beautiful girl with jet black hair and pretty soon people at the company noticed her good looks and approached her. They wanted to make her a cover girl. She accepted and was on a magazine cover, but didn’t stay with the company very long. Jean wanted to better herself, and was </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">offered a job with Cameron Dental Lab, a dental laboratory that manufactured all kinds of dental equipment.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So once again she became a model in addition to her job of working on the assembly line. They got away with highway robbery, because neither of those companies ever paid her an extra dime for being their model, but it was fun for her to see her photo in print.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although she loved geography, my mother hadn't traveled much until I began to take her on trips whenever I could in the 1980s. I wanted every birthday to be special for her.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She questioned why that was necessary, and I came up with some BS excuse because I had a very special lunch planned for her. Little did she know that we were flying from Los Angeles to San Francisco for lunch at Fisherman's Wharf. I knew she loved Chinatown, too, so after that I planned to go from the Wharf to Chinatown, do some shopping, finish with and early sushi dinner at Yamato's Restaurant on California Street in Chinatown, then fly back to L.A. </span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yes, I know sushi and Yamato's are Japanese, but the restaurant actually was in Chinatown right across from a McDonald's restaurant I'd decorated. Because I made several trips to San Francisco related to decorating McDonald's restaurants back then, I'd become friends with the sushi chef. No matter how much time went by between visits, he always greeted me as "Decorator Lady from McDonald's" and made special dishes for me. I thought she would enjoy that.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In her circle of friends it would have been a rare occurrence for someone to fly to San Francisco just for lunch and I knew she'd really have something to talk about at the Senior Center. Tears filled her eyes and she told me how special I'd made her birthdays. Her 75th was a weekend spent in Las Vegas with VIP treatment from the general manager of the Flamingo Hotel, 76 was New Orleans where she was up on stage dancing with the club owner (see the chapter in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Can-Come-Laugh-Too-ebook/dp/B007TF9K46/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1344450032&sr=8-1">"Can We Come In and Laugh, Too?"</a> for that story).</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We caught a cab to the Wharf and walked around, watched the seals and walruses on their platform in the bay, peeked in shops and generally had a great time. Then it was time for our Crab Louis at Alioto's on the world renowned Fisherman's Wharf. I joked that the restaurant was almost as old as she was--not quite, but almost. Mom was born in 1909 and Alioto's had opened in 1925. She was in "seventh heaven." With lunch finished, we walked to the cablecar stop and I helped her hop on a cablecar, Destination: Chinatown.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After an afternoon of walking around--she was a great walker, better at 78 than me at 48--we went to Yamato's where I hoped my friend the chef would offer his normal greeting. The minute we appeared in the entrance he called out, "Greetings pretty decorator lady from McDonalds. And, who this beautiful lady?" (referring to Rosetta). I introduced her as my mother and he raved about how much he liked making special dishes for me. Mom was beaming.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We had the agent check other airlines and found we could buy tickets </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">for a flight that was leaving shortly </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">on the old commuter airline Air Cal. Mom and I hustled to their terminal only to discover a long line waiting to check in or buy tickets. We begged people to let us through the line so we could buy tickets for the flight in time to board it. Mom smiled sweetly as I pleaded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rosetta, Edna and Jean were known as the "Three Graces." They worked together to serve all of these people like a finely oiled machine--each with their specific chore. From preparation through the dishes, they never allowed other family members to help. Even after Rosetta, Edna and Jean moved to California, the routine for family dinners, although smaller now--maybe around 20 people--persisted. This continued until the trio ranged in age from Rosetta (about 75 at the time) to Edna (around 79) and Jean approaching 90. The younger family members were always told to "sit and enjoy."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">From the time the dinner guests arrived it was non-stop fun, with jokes and pranks bantered around like tennis balls. Each tried to top the other. One time they decided to stage a mock rendition of the old TV show "This is Your Life," with MC Ralph Edwards. Edna put on one of her husband's suits, a fedora and drew a mustache with eyebrow pencil. Rosetta made what was supposed to be the "book of life" for their mother, Mathilda. They sat Mathilda in an armchair and one-by-one Edna read the names of her brothers from the book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In turn, they stood in front of Mathilda and related some funny incident from her life. Poor Mathilda was completely bewildered by this and sat there saying, "What's going on?" in Yiddish as she didn't speak much English. </span><br />
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