December 3, 2025 • 7 mins
Ever wonder if life was really better back in the day? This week on The Jubal Show, we dive into a viral 1918 article where a married woman gives jaw-dropping advice to young wives, from staying near the broom to keeping a cheerful disposition at all times. Tune in for hilarious reactions, surprising insights, and a wild look at how drastically marriage expectations have changed over a century.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The world today has gone to ah, she double hockey
sticks in a handbasket. I tell you, oh, no, why
in my day things were so much better. These days
you got everybody with their faces stuffed into their phones,
watching people dance on the talk talk. Technology has ruined society.
Why back in my day there were no phones. We
(00:22):
had telegrams, and it took seven months to get you one.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh didn't know my mom.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Had passed away for a full year, and I was
fine with it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh, it was great back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
In the day. All these kids, they spend their time
talking about self care and protecting your inner peace, and
they're trying to be their own boss and make their
own money and make their own way in life. It
was so much better when I was a kid. Nobody
talked about feelings, and all of us were perfectly fine
slaving away at a job for low wages while the
company we worked for got rich.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We were stressed out, tired, overworked, and full up, full
of bottled up feelings that our societal standards told us
were wrong to express, and we loved it. That's how
a lot of people feel that it was better back
in the day. It's the jewbal show.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, I wonder if thought. No, there's a new level
of stress.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
If you think things were better back in the day,
wait till you hear an article that's gone viral from
nineteen eighteen. It's written by one married woman giving marriage
advice to young ladies. Thanks over and next, and you
can see if you still agree it was better back
in the day. That's right after this. It's the double show.
Do you think that life was better back in the day,
it's the jewbile show. We'll see if you agree in
(01:32):
just a second, because an article has gone viral from
nineteen eighteen from a married woman giving advice to young
ladies on marriage.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh yay, Jesus different back then, so they.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Say life was a lot different back in the day,
back in nineteen eighteen, things were definitely different. And let's
go over the article that's gone viral with some people
saying it should go back to this. Other people are saying,
thank goodness that it's not nineteen eighteen. Men. Yeah, mostly
like everything all in there.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Just feed me and clothe me and bathe me. Woman.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, let's go over this article from nineteen eighteen from
a woman giving marriage advice to young ladies on domestic
life and Duty Duty says, embrace your role at home, eh,
before the war. A woman's place is firmly declared to
be within the home, adjacent to the stove, and never
more than twelve paces from a broom. For this is
(02:30):
from nineteen eighteen. The woman you think the young lady's
advice on marriage, So never more than twelve spaces from
a broom lady's I kind of get that, though not now.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Sorry, we're about to go at it right now. Not now, please,
I'd hit somebody with the broom.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But back then, I mean, if your man's at war,
like fighting a war, you feel like you gotta do
something to help something, So i'd at least keep the
house clean.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Get back to the broom.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, I guess we are officially fourteen steps away from
the room. You've crossed the perimeter of where you should be.
Either carry the broom with you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Or back up.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
A patriotic it says, also says a patriotic duty women
should become kitchen soldiers, conserving meat, wheat, fats, and sugar.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh okay, my thing is if you put me in
the kitchen, I'll go to the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I can't like, make sure your health is going to
be good for the next five years. You'll probably like,
there's no chance that you're gonna say alive past one
year if I'm in the kitchen all day because I'm
not cooking anything great and let's be honest, shacken nuggets again, yating,
You may just be going down sooner than you think.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So you'll stay in the kitchen as long as you're
in the will Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Another thing from this article that's gone viral from a
woman from nineteen eighteen who published an article to young
ladies on marriage, said to maintain a cheerful disposition. A
cheerful wife is considered essential to national morale.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh see, that's how much power women have.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Always smile at all times, even during thunderstorms. It sings
softly while sweeping. It's all about sweeping in the room.
I've noticed.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No vacuums.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's why I ensure that no man returning for war
encounter a frown, a sigh, or laundry on a chair.
You know how angry I'd be if I was at
war and I came home and I saw some laundry
on a chair.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I would go right back into action, like sorry, sweetheart,
I was sweeping. My room was far away. I couldn't
get to the laundry.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I saw less carnage in Korea, believing thick up that laundry.
This is ridiculous. From going over an article from nineteen
eighteen from a woman giving advice to young ladies on marriage,
it also said, choose a man for his utility, not
his looks.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, it's so much better back in the day I were.
Every morning I look up and look in the mirror.
I feel that way.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I feel like we're starting to lean in that direction, though,
because what are you going to do for me?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Like, if you're not going to be like cool and hot,
what can you do?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He says, make sure that your man has the ability
to light a fire under any weather condition.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh, I like that that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I would definitely be single in nineteen eighteen. There's nobody
that will want me.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Guys's rules were different too.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Owns a toolbox containing at least one real hammer. Yes,
I would still say that. I would appreciate that now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean, yeah, but I have my own hammer, so
why don't need yours? Me too, But it's better to
have you know that you know how that he can
use it.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I just moved into a new apartment and I put
everything up with the stickham things that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
My daughter told me about on the command strips.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, but everything with the command strips about a week.
Everything's gonna fall down.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Right now, but next week and talk hanging off, it's
a sleep. Also, everything you just hear it fall.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Also in this article of nineteen eighteen, from a Woman
to Young Women on marriage, it says expect very little
advice from nine eighteen. Husbands are lazy, selfish, and prone
to wandering thoughts. Therefore, expectations should be lower than the
(06:14):
root seller a man eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Exactly our what she's saying. Hey, man, she was protecting
her peace at all kinds. He she knew her power
and she used it.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's with a broom. You wish to marry him, you
must remain merry and simply feed the brute.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Stop it really feed the brute means.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Basically, yeah, keep him happy.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Wow. So basically that's from nineteen eighteen on how to
become a real wife.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
They say that is what they say, but that's the opposite.
What do you mean if you want me to be happy?
Don't keep me in the kitchen. I don't want to
be near a broom. We're going to order an eye
robot down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Listen. If we divide our tasks, yeah, then I'm okay
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't think there was any dividing tasks in nineteen eighteen. No,
not at all. When people say the world is better,
is better back in the day, I look at this
stuff and I'm like, what could you could hire a
robot to clean your house? Now I'm back in for you, and.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You gotta worry about other stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
If allly thing I had to worry about was keeping
the floor clean, I might sleep a little.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Leaner means putting in an application via nights and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's just stress, stressed out.
The world today has gone to ah, she double hockey
sticks in a handbasket. I tell you, oh, no, why
in my day things were so much better. These days
you got everybody with their faces stuffed into their phones,
watching people dance on the talk talk. Technology has ruined society.
Why back in my day there were no phones. We
(00:22):
had telegrams, and it took seven months to get you one.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Oh didn't know my mom.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Had passed away for a full year, and I was
fine with it.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Oh, it was great back.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
In the day. All these kids, they spend their time
talking about self care and protecting your inner peace, and
they're trying to be their own boss and make their
own money and make their own way in life. It
was so much better when I was a kid. Nobody
talked about feelings, and all of us were perfectly fine
slaving away at a job for low wages while the
company we worked for got rich.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
We were stressed out, tired, overworked, and full up, full
of bottled up feelings that our societal standards told us
were wrong to express, and we loved it. That's how
a lot of people feel that it was better back
in the day. It's the jewbal show.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, I wonder if thought. No, there's a new level
of stress.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
If you think things were better back in the day,
wait till you hear an article that's gone viral from
nineteen eighteen. It's written by one married woman giving marriage
advice to young ladies. Thanks over and next, and you
can see if you still agree it was better back
in the day. That's right after this. It's the double show.
Do you think that life was better back in the day,
it's the jewbile show. We'll see if you agree in
(01:32):
just a second, because an article has gone viral from
nineteen eighteen from a married woman giving advice to young
ladies on marriage.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh yay, Jesus different back then, so they.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Say life was a lot different back in the day,
back in nineteen eighteen, things were definitely different. And let's
go over the article that's gone viral with some people
saying it should go back to this. Other people are saying,
thank goodness that it's not nineteen eighteen. Men. Yeah, mostly
like everything all in there.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Just feed me and clothe me and bathe me. Woman.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, let's go over this article from nineteen eighteen from
a woman giving marriage advice to young ladies on domestic
life and Duty Duty says, embrace your role at home, eh,
before the war. A woman's place is firmly declared to
be within the home, adjacent to the stove, and never
more than twelve paces from a broom. For this is
(02:30):
from nineteen eighteen. The woman you think the young lady's
advice on marriage, So never more than twelve spaces from
a broom lady's I kind of get that, though not now.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Sorry, we're about to go at it right now. Not now, please,
I'd hit somebody with the broom.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
But back then, I mean, if your man's at war,
like fighting a war, you feel like you gotta do
something to help something, So i'd at least keep the
house clean.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Get back to the broom.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Yeah, I guess we are officially fourteen steps away from
the room. You've crossed the perimeter of where you should be.
Either carry the broom with you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Or back up.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
A patriotic it says, also says a patriotic duty women
should become kitchen soldiers, conserving meat, wheat, fats, and sugar.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
Oh okay, my thing is if you put me in
the kitchen, I'll go to the kitchen.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
That's fine.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
I can't like, make sure your health is going to
be good for the next five years. You'll probably like,
there's no chance that you're gonna say alive past one
year if I'm in the kitchen all day because I'm
not cooking anything great and let's be honest, shacken nuggets again, yating,
You may just be going down sooner than you think.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
So you'll stay in the kitchen as long as you're
in the will Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Another thing from this article that's gone viral from a
woman from nineteen eighteen who published an article to young
ladies on marriage, said to maintain a cheerful disposition. A
cheerful wife is considered essential to national morale.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Oh see, that's how much power women have.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Always smile at all times, even during thunderstorms. It sings
softly while sweeping. It's all about sweeping in the room.
I've noticed.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
No vacuums.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
That's why I ensure that no man returning for war
encounter a frown, a sigh, or laundry on a chair.
You know how angry I'd be if I was at
war and I came home and I saw some laundry
on a chair.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I would go right back into action, like sorry, sweetheart,
I was sweeping. My room was far away. I couldn't
get to the laundry.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
I saw less carnage in Korea, believing thick up that laundry.
This is ridiculous. From going over an article from nineteen
eighteen from a woman giving advice to young ladies on marriage,
it also said, choose a man for his utility, not
his looks.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Yeah, it's so much better back in the day I were.
Every morning I look up and look in the mirror.
I feel that way.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I feel like we're starting to lean in that direction, though,
because what are you going to do for me?
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Like, if you're not going to be like cool and hot,
what can you do?
Speaker 1 (05:08):
He says, make sure that your man has the ability
to light a fire under any weather condition.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh, I like that that.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
I would definitely be single in nineteen eighteen. There's nobody
that will want me.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Guys's rules were different too.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Owns a toolbox containing at least one real hammer. Yes,
I would still say that. I would appreciate that now.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
I mean, yeah, but I have my own hammer, so
why don't need yours? Me too, But it's better to
have you know that you know how that he can
use it.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
I just moved into a new apartment and I put
everything up with the stickham things that.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
My daughter told me about on the command strips.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah, but everything with the command strips about a week.
Everything's gonna fall down.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Right now, but next week and talk hanging off, it's
a sleep. Also, everything you just hear it fall.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Also in this article of nineteen eighteen, from a Woman
to Young Women on marriage, it says expect very little
advice from nine eighteen. Husbands are lazy, selfish, and prone
to wandering thoughts. Therefore, expectations should be lower than the
(06:14):
root seller a man eighteen.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Exactly our what she's saying. Hey, man, she was protecting
her peace at all kinds. He she knew her power
and she used it.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
It's with a broom. You wish to marry him, you
must remain merry and simply feed the brute.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Stop it really feed the brute means.
Speaker 5 (06:34):
Basically, yeah, keep him happy.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Wow. So basically that's from nineteen eighteen on how to
become a real wife.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Happy wife, happy life.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
They say that is what they say, but that's the opposite.
What do you mean if you want me to be happy?
Don't keep me in the kitchen. I don't want to
be near a broom. We're going to order an eye
robot down the street.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Listen. If we divide our tasks, yeah, then I'm okay
with it.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't think there was any dividing tasks in nineteen eighteen. No,
not at all. When people say the world is better,
is better back in the day, I look at this
stuff and I'm like, what could you could hire a
robot to clean your house? Now I'm back in for you, and.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You gotta worry about other stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
If allly thing I had to worry about was keeping
the floor clean, I might sleep a little.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Leaner means putting in an application via nights and eighteen.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
It's just stress, stressed out.
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