• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I also like that they list Helen’s profession as "home girl ", which has since become a slang term itself, the original use being more or less extinct 😁

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      1 year ago

      Curious what that profession actually is, is it a wife/“homemaker”? Or a paid profession that I couldn’t find on Google? I really tried to find that phrasing but in my defense I’m drunk and also Google sucks nowadays.

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        I would guess she is simply a girl who hasn’t left home yet?

        Today she would probably be a student, but she isn’t studying anything. Maybe she plans to become a housewife rather than train for a career, as that was a viable “career path” in those days.

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        1 year ago

        I think maybe a kind of servant that work around the house as in when a fancy lady would say “You must be exhausted from all that fox trotting! I’ll have the girl run you a bath” 🤷