Which Reminds Me

Maybe it was the summer of 1970 when, I remember that while my cousins were doing other things, I spent some time reading through my grandmother's collection of Reader's Digest magazines, which was fairly complete starting from about 1929. Interesting how the 1930s had a different tone and then the 1940s were mostly about the war and then onward to the 1950s and 1960s. Of course nowadays it is a slick formula packaged to perfection seemingly almost without the aid of human hands. But a hundred years ago there were other preoccupations, some of which are perennial and others which will never return.