Mamie McFaddin Ward was a newlywed in 1920 living in her parents' home in Beaumont, Texas as she and her husband Carroll Ward established their new family. As a "housewife" living at home, Mamie's responsibilities included hosting luncheons, arranging flowers, organizing linens from her trousseau, and maintaining her appearance. The document discusses Mamie's May 1919 wedding and examines the expectations for her to set up housekeeping after marrying Carroll Ward, including deciding whether to buy, build, or be given a home by her parents and moving furniture into it.

1. A New Family at Home
Docent Exhibit Lecture
Ware Petznick
April 2008

2. On being a “housewife…at home”
A historic house museum exhibit lecture focusing on the life and expectations of Mamie
McFaddin Ward as a newlywed living in her parents’ Beaumont, Texas, home, ca. 1920.
How much could Mamie do at home?
Have luncheons when Ida wasn’t?
Arrange flowers?
Organize linens from her trousseau?
Keep up her facial routine and figure?

3. Mamie McFaddin’s trendsetting Russian
headdress and veil, May 1919… fashion
continued beyond 1921