Compiled by CORRYNE DRAKE

Special to the Star-Tribune

Natrona County Tribune, 1909

Form-crushing - An advertisement for ladies' unmentionables: "IF YOU ARE STOUT

"If you have tried all other corsets, and they have failed to reduce your form, then why not try one of our W. B. 'REDUSO' corsets, for they show results, when all others fail. Price $3.50

"The GOSSARD is another good corset especially adapted for stout people, 'they lace in front.' Price $5.00

"… We are sole agents for these corsets …

"Richards & Cunningham Company"

House husbands - "WHEN MOTHER GOES TO WORK.

"School Established in England Where Men Are Taught to Take Care of the Home.

"… Perceiving that women are going forth more and more every year to get votes, and clerkships, and places in shops, and so on … (T)he St. Pancras School for Mothers is teaching fathers how to perform domestic duties. …

"Men are called the lords of creation, but nothing is less like a lord than a man whose wife is sick or away and who cannot afford to hire a servant. He burns the meat, and cannot find the bread knife, the baby gets the colic and he buttons Tommy's apron up wrong, and the fire goes out, and his home is a scene of woe and desolation. If that man had had lessons at St. Pancras and learned how to steer the domestic ship, probably his wife would feel more respect for him and not half so much anxiety to take the ballot out of his hands."

Casper Tribune-Herald, 1934

Uniformity - "High school girls will bedeck themselves with navy-blue serge jumper-skirts, plain white or blue ties to conform to the sailor collars of their costumes. …

"Of absorbing interest to the girls is the offering of a course in household physics, open to them in substitution for the regular course of physics, if they so desire. Household physics will embrace the study of home problems-the operation of electrical equipment and principles governing machinery, automobiles and numerous mechanisms in common, convenient usage."

Domesticity - "EMPLOYMENT NEED OF STUDENTS NOTED

"A number of girls will be financially unable to attend high school this year unless some Casper citizens come to the rescue with offers of board and room in exchange for household services. …

"About 50 or 60 girls were placed in homes last year, the arrangement proving mutually beneficial to the home-owners and the girls."

Casper Tribune-Herald, 1959

Dress code - "'Proper Dress' Stressed by Casper's School Officials

"… Slacks and shorts are out for girls. They are not required to wear uniforms but must be dressed appropriately, in good taste, in dresses.

"Boys' clothing must also be worn in good taste and belts must be worn to prevent low-hanging trousers."

Nowhere else to go - "Abandoned Mother, Child Are Housed in Jail Here

"A 22-year-old mother and her one-year-old son were comfortably set up in the Natrona County jail, … after being picked up on the highway east of Casper in the wee hours of the morning by a highway patrolman.

"Sheriff Louis Cooper said Mrs. Leroy Brown and her child will be housed in the jail until authorities can decide what to do about them. …

"Mrs. Brown had apparently slipped out of her hotel room on Center Street at about 1 a.m. … taking the child, the baby carriage, and little else.

"She was planning to walk all the way to somewhere in Nebraska. … The whereabouts of Mrs Brown's husband are unknown, and the hotel is holding her few possessions for non-payment of a rent bill for the past few days."

Casper Star-Tribune, 1984

Oppositional - "Little enthusiasm for female Jaycees

"… The Gillette chapter of the Jaycees will abide by a national organization decision to allow women to join. …

"Mike Davis, past president of the Gillette chapter, said it will change the Jaycees forever. 'The feeling of fellowship and brotherhood won't be there,' he said. 'We won't be able to do some of the things which now go on in a men's organization.'

"But there apparently won't be much of a rush among Gillette women to join the men's Jaycees.

"Gillette has a chapter of Jaycee Women, and its members oppose the change, chapter board Chairman Marcia Giblock said.

"She said if she joined the men's group, she would probably go from being an officer to being a 'nobody.'"

Understandable indignation - "Woman told can't join Rec center's noon fitness class

"Editor:

"… I am not allowed to make use of the entire gymnasium due to the fact that a men's fitness class is being held during the noon hour. …

"I went to the administration of the Rec Center and requested that I be allowed to join the men's fitness class. I was informed that I would not be allowed to join the prime-time class due to the fact that I am a woman. …

"If there is no reasonable explanation I would like to have my rights restored so that I might once again use this public facility. … APRIL PARKHURST, Casper"

"A Look Back in Time" is made possible with the help of Western History Archivist Kevin S. Anderson at the Casper College Western History Center, which is open to the public. Quotation marks surround stories as they appeared in the Casper newspapers 100, 75, 50 and 25 years ago, with their original grammar, punctuation and spelling, unless otherwise noted.