welcome to camp telophase

I found a book in the stacks from 1934 called Young Women Past Forty, but it turned out to be mostly boring with a side-dish of depressing cultural attitudes: the chapter on sexual deviance, where it earnestly explained that The Change tended to cause long-buried sexual deviance like (gasp!) homosexuality or exhibitionism to emerge, and also that if one is not married, then the channeling of the sexual urge towards art or religion was entirely appropriate.

And a bunch of stuff on glands, which was the trending topic in health in the 1930s.

ETA; How about a home ec book from 1950 titled Personality and Etiquette, wherein occurs a chapter on humor. One of the suggested written exercises to develop your sense of humor is to create a scrapbook of bits of humor, including (and I quote)

b. Humorous jokes or articles in the dialect of the Irish, Jewish, Negro, Scotch, Swedish, or other peoples

...Yeah.

Gosh, aren't inadvertent endless loops fun?