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to try on. The only good mirror was in her room. So I was trying first one then the other when I was interrup- ted. I rushed down wearing the one corset but forget- ting the other. I did not think of it till she was home and in her room, and hated to face her the next morn- ing for fear of what I expected she would say. She nev- er mentioned it. Persons today have simply no idea of conditions then. Corsets must not be mentioned at all by the other sex. The owner of that store used to ha ve a big sale every winter. He actually advertised White- wear" in the paper, and still worse exposed corsets and even drawers in the show windows. I can remember considerable discussion about it, that as a young boy I was not supposed to overhear. We were supposed to believe that doctors brought babies, and I sure got shut up in a hurry when I mentioned something about babies being born. So perhaps it was indelicate to men- tion the corset I had left in her room.

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I was not the least interested in anything else, ex- cept that women had just then started to wear button back blouses. I brought one home, tried it, but no fit and I took it back. The corset I got was a poor fit, so after a time I got rid of it. So childhood influences certainly had no effect them or I would have tried on the other things in the store.

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My uncle was supposed to send me to college as mother had helped him. But he did nothing for me cept to try to get me off his hands and into jobs I was not suited for. So I went to work in a local plumbing shop, as the son of the owner was a special chum. In my last year at school I had fallen in love with a girl who would have made a splendid wife. She wrote me for a while. But she was a year older, had her way to make for herself as parents were no good. I was no prize at all with no prospects, and she dropped me for the son of a rich farmer. It had a bad and lasting ef- fect on me as I got the idea no girl wanted me, so had nothing to do with ones who might have been friendly. Her marriage turned out a big mistake. The man got no money and barely made a living. She would have done better with me. But what she would have thought of my TV ideas, which of course I did not understand at all, nor even how completely they affected my

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