Sybil Bruncheon’s “Christmases Past!”… Shop 'Til You Drop!...

... and then, with just a few days of Christmas shopping left before the 25th, Mrs. Janelle Montoya was sentenced to pay the ultimate penalty for her profligate spending by the National Bureau of Beleaguered Husbands. On Christmas Eve, she was given a last meal of cucumber and watercress sandwiches and Earl Grey tea from the Bonwit Teller Ladies Luncheonette, and then, after some whispered confession to a lingerie buyer from Saks, her left leg was strapped to an old armchair with a frayed, wet extension cord, and her newly coiffed head with her favorite cloche from Lilly Daché was stuck into a floor lamp that had been on the fritz, and the switch was thrown.

Film clips of her as she jumped about and smoked were played in movie palaces all over the country to dissuade other housewives from such extravagant mischief while the Great Depression continued to rage.... Women cowered in their seats as their husbands and various "OBEY-YOUR-MAN Clubs" cheered and thumped their Old Testaments!!... (Is there a moral to this story, Ladies??... Yes! Vote!...and VOTE WISELY!).

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