To Do List

"She wants to, you know, dear--your mother always wants to see you, [...] But look at her list---just for this morning!" the secretary continued, handing over a tall morocco-framed tablet, on which was inscribed, in the colourless secretarial hand:  

"7.30 Mental uplift. 7.45 Breakfast.  8. Psycho-analysis. 8.15 See cook. 8.30 Silent Meditation. 8.45 Facial Massage. 9. Man with Persian Miniatures. 9.15 Correspondence. 9.30 Manicure. 9.45 Eurythmic exercises. 10. Hair waved. 10.15 Sit for bus. 10.30 Receive Mothers' Day deputation. 11. Dancing lesson.  11.30 Birth Control committee at Mrs. --------"

----Edith Wharton, Twilight Sleep (1927)

 Taken from the very first page of Wharton's novel, Mrs. Manford's busy day typifies modernity.  The "birth control committee"meeting sounds especially fun, which is why I have created an entirely new category here on The Bee Dance just for this one element of this fictional to-do list.  For other interesting to-do lists, see the To Do List blog, which "celebrates the world of the overlooked and the mundane."