A build-it-yourself, wire-it-yourself, modular dollhouse toy for encouraging little girls to play more in the realm of engineering, math, science, and architecture from an early age. Found thanks to the wonders of Pinterest.
I strongly suspect it's the idyllic stories handed down, in opposition to the grim hard work of a farm (especially a farm run entirely by women, who have to do all the staggering amounts of manual labor themselves.) My grandmother thought the height of riches was an indoor toilet at the end of the hall of single apartments, when she was in her twenties.
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Date: 2012-06-20 11:48 pm (UTC)