The Life Stages of Man and Woman. You will note some conventional iconography here. For example, consider the weeping willow tree at the right in each print
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Note, too, the woman's costume changes at the top of the arch, and from that point she wears wears various shades of black. What happened, do you think?
As you read this material, try to apply its observations to your character and his/her experiences. The life cycle would have been something experienced in a much more immediate way in that day than in our own. Birth, illness, and death were far more likely to occur within the confines of the house than in institutions like hospitals.
This concludes our work in Schlereth. (Well, nearly: there is still a short epilogue). It is appropriate that this chapter reviews the life cycle as experienced by Americans at the turn of the century. Note that some of the "stages" of life are as much cultural and psychological as they are biological. Adolescence, for example is an invention of the late nineteenth century. Be aware, too, that changes in medicine, nutrition, and public health are changing American's sense of what the expectations and limitations of any given age were
For Tuesday, November 291900, parts one and two
For Thursday, December 1Life's Stages
I apologize for posting this so late. I had a modem crash on me at home last Wednesday, and with no internet access I was just stuck. It really doesn't make a lot of difference to your reading schedule, as I'm planning to show the video which I had originally planned to show on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, a documentary on 1900, one of the excellent productions sponsored by PBS. The transcript for the parts I'm planning on showing are found HERE, and HERE, just in case you might not be here on Tuesday. Read the transcripts.
Read, in Schlereth, 
