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An American newspaper is qualifying for a monument from the housewives of the world. It has discovered, or calculated, that, in the course of a year, the average mother of four or five children makes the ’equivalent’ of 1,095 loaves of bread... 50 cakes and 750 pies. She also prepares ...

 

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