Give a Useful, Practical Gift to the Home!

December 8, 1927, Menasha Record

Menasha Furniture offers a vast variety of Christmas gifts because they ask, in another ad, why not consider a furniture store when giving gifts?  Of interest to me is the children's furniture containing nursery rhyme characters, sort of an endorsement to the idea of kids having a childhood as we now know it.  It wasn't that long before the date of this ad when children were routinely working in factories and at other jobs, foregoing school to help contribute to the family's upkeep.  And though a congressional amendment was first approved by Congress in 1924, it wasn't ratified by the required number of states until 1938 to become law.  And while that law placed limits on many forms of child labor, agricultural labor was still excluded.