Ladies’ Month in the Slicks

Want to please a man, snag a man, keep a man? It’s easy; read the women’s magazines. And you will be: charming, svelte, tactful, informed—and twenty-four years young forever

A month spent with the Journals which offer the American Woman Companionship in her Home—and this is as long a way to spend a month as I know of—can leave no shred of doubt that the most fortunate, the most blessed of the creatures of the earth are American men. For while American women have security, steam irons, children, mink coats, well-adjusted sex lives, the vote and color television, they also have the American man. American men, on the other hand, have security, the benefit of steam irons, children, the prestige of mink coats, well-adjusted sex lives, the vote, color television and also the American woman. This is the origin of the phrase “all this and heaven too.”

About the Author

Aloïse Buckley Heath

Aloïse Buckley Heath (1918–1967) was the sister of National Review’s founder, William F. Buckley Jr.

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Want to please a man, snag a man, keep a man? It’s easy; read the women’s magazines. And you will be: charming, svelte, tactful, informed—and twenty-four years young forever

A month spent with the Journals which offer the American Woman Companionship in her Home—and this is as long a way to spend a month as I know of—can leave no shred of doubt that the most fortunate, the most blessed of the creatures of the earth are American men. For while American women have security, steam irons, children, mink coats, well-adjusted sex lives, the vote and color television, they also have the American man. American men, on the other hand, have security, the benefit of steam irons, children, the prestige of mink coats, well-adjusted sex lives, the vote, color television and also the American woman. This is the origin of the phrase “all this and heaven too.”