{"id":2458798,"date":"2020-05-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=325975"},"modified":"2020-05-24T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T19:00:00","slug":"aspen-history-bride-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/aspen-history-bride-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Aspen History: Bride School"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"21\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"812\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/history-atw-052120-1-812x1024.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/history-atw-052120-1-812x1024.jpg 812w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/history-atw-052120-1-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/history-atw-052120-1-768x968.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/history-atw-052120-1-1219x1536.jpg 1219w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/history-atw-052120-1-1625x2048.jpg 1625w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/05\/history-atw-052120-1.jpg 2031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 812px) 100vw, 812px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>One b\/w photograph of a young bride in her wedding dress, with a long train and veil, holding a bouquet of flowers. She is posed for a studio portrait; &#8220;Schumacher 1912&#8221; is written in the lower left corner.<\/strong><br \/><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"Special Sections-ATW-ATW_Body_Serif\">\u201cIs it true, or are we just dreaming a \u2018gig\u2019?\u201d questioned the Aspen Democrat-Times on May 19, 1914. \u201cWe understand a \u2018bride\u2019s\u2019 school is to be started in Aspen. According to the plans outlined each pupil will receive a six months\u2019 training in the art of being a genuine housewife. After taking a course the brides-to-be will be qualified to cater for the family should the cook walk out, locate a leak in the water pipes, mend a broken door knob or put up a shelf, scrub, wash, iron, market, give first aid to any injured member of the family, darn stockings, lay a table in the most approved fashion \u2014 and best of all \u2014 aid their husbands by preventing that frightful waste in the American households.\u201d This image shows a young bride in 1912.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"11.303082191781\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-7 pt-3 pb-4 at-4 pl-4\" readability=\"19.164371772806\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers around Aspen and Snowmass Village make the Aspen Times\u2019 work possible. 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She is posed for a studio portrait; &#8220;Schumacher 1912&#8221; is written in the lower left corner. \u201cIs it true, or are we just dreaming a \u2018gig\u2019?\u201d questioned the Aspen Democrat-Times on May 19, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 01:19:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}