“Did the Students of 1898 Spoon?”

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
2 min readJun 2, 2011

The 1920s wisdom of Dr. Eliza Taylor Ransom.

But wait, what is spooning? Unfortunately, she doesn’t clarify. Because it can’t just be … spooning? Whatever it is, it may solve divorce.

Dr. Ransom also speaks on the benefit of revealing clothes, and, sort of vampirically, on the beauty of a man’s neck.

Take off your collar, man, and teach us how to spoon.

[Found at Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library and passed along by Kim. Thanks, Kim!]

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com