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A bored bride takes over a ladies club, then sets out to save her husband's box factory from a trust.
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人々を幸福にすること in short
A young wife is shut out of her husband's busy life and decides to enter it. Cicily Hamilton starts with a ridiculous club and a stolen presidency. She then turns her idle energy to her husband's tobacco box factory, which is under attack by a trust, and she keeps getting in trouble with the best of motives.
What 人々を幸福にすること is about
What happens when a bored young bride, who has never run a meeting, becomes president of a ladies club by declaring herself elected? Cicily Hamilton does exactly that in the first chapter of this comedy, and the trouble she starts follows her through every page.
Thompson Buchanan wrote this New York story of marriage when American women argued over votes, work and what a wife is for. Cicily's husband Charles runs a tobacco box factory and forgets their anniversary. She decides to share his business. You get a quick, talky farce with a real question underneath: can a marriage work if only one partner has a working life?
対象読者. You will love this book if you enjoy brisk social comedy, strong-willed heroines, rows over who runs the house and the office, and a picture of New York in the days of suffragettes and trusts.
The story in 10 parts
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A bored bride seizes a club by accident
The novel opens in Cicily's drawing room, where twelve women meet to found the Civitas Society for the Uplift of Woman. Nobody knows how a club works. The bride pounds her gavel and gets only noise, until she threatens never to speak to any of them again.
The guests make a lively set. Mrs. Flynn is an English suffragette who knows the inside of almost every police station in London. Helen Johnson trades sly insults with Cicily, because Helen once tried to win Charles.
The election is pure farce. Mrs. Morton nominates Mrs. Carrington, and Helen answers by nominating Mrs. Flynn. Two women claim the office, and neither will give way. Cicily, tired of choosing, declares herself president.
Her speech has an idea inside it. Machines and servants took away women's work, so women must now find a place in the world outside the home. Idleness is what drives Cicily into action. Idle hands go looking for a purpose.
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A neglected wife calls her husband a bigamist
After the meeting Cicily tells her Aunt Emma that she is miserable and that Charles is a bigamist.
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A trust squeezes Hamilton and he names her partner
Morton and Carrington plan to crush Hamilton's factory.
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Her kindness to the workers meets a wage cut
Cicily pays from her own fortune for bathtubs, a library and a gymnasium at the factory.
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The club turns away the workers' wives
Three guests arrive early: Mrs. McMahon, a burly woman with a round red face, thin and shy Mrs. Schmidt, and Sadie Ferguson, who copies the manners of her favorite novelist's heroines.
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She lays her wedding ring on the table
Cicily spends a sleepless night and a lonely day.
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Her friends are insulted and she vows to fight
Cicily has organized the three women into a club of their own, with Mrs. McMahon as president, Sadie as secretary and Mrs. Schmidt as vice-president.
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Partnership, not worship, is the marriage she wants
The center of the book is Cicily's argument about marriage.
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Class and male pride block understanding
The workers' families give the comedy its second theme.
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Farce and quick dialogue carry the argument
Buchanan tells his story mostly through talk.
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Characters, plot and themes
Main characters
- Cicily Hamilton A twenty-year-old bride, quick and impulsive, who wants a real part in her husband's life and sets out to make people happy.
- Charles Hamilton Her husband, a twenty-six-year-old box manufacturer who loves her but is so absorbed in fighting a trust that he forgets their anniversary.
- Mrs. Delancy Cicily's aunt, kindly and conventional, who raised her and tries to keep peace between the headstrong bride and the old ways.
- Mr. Delancy Cicily's uncle, a stern old businessman who says women have no place in business and advises Charles on the wage cut.
- Morton A smooth older financier who leads the trust's push to bring the Hamilton factory under its control.
- Carrington A heavy, red-faced businessman who sold his box factory to the trust and now helps Morton press Charles.
- Mrs. McMahon A big, warm Irishwoman who nurses the sick of her block and becomes Cicily's loyal friend and the first president of the wives' club.
- Schmidt A stout, talkative German socialist who leads the workers' committee and insists that women have no place in business.
How it ends (spoiler)
Cicily tricks Morton and Carrington by claiming that the strike is won and that the factory has a fifteen-cent contract with the independents. Uncle Jim backs her bluff, and the independents' leader Johnson agrees to it. Morton offers to buy control of the factory. Charles admits his mistakes, offers to sell and take her on a second honeymoon, but she persuades him not to quit. They reconcile, and he slips the wedding ring back onto her finger.
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『人々を幸福にすること』についての質問
What is Making People Happy about?
It follows Cicily Hamilton, a young New York wife who feels shut out of her husband's life. She founds a club, helps his factory workers and tries to become his business partner while a tobacco trust threatens to ruin him.
Who is Cicily Hamilton?
She is the twenty-year-old heroine, a year married to Charles Hamilton. She is beautiful, impulsive, kind and stubborn. She wants real work and a real place in her husband's life, and she rebels against being treated as a plaything.
What does the title Making People Happy mean?
It comes from advice Cicily's Aunt Emma gives her: the best way to ease loneliness is to try to make someone else happy. Cicily takes it as her mission, first for the factory workers and then for her husband.
Is Making People Happy a true story, and when is it set?
It is a work of fiction, a comic novel set in New York in the early twentieth century. The suffragettes, the trusts, the strikes and the talk about modern wives belong to the real concerns of that time.
Is this novel easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that matters here: the story moves through short chapters and lively conversation. Funny exchanges, vivid characters such as Mrs. McMahon and Schmidt, and clear scenes make it easy to follow from the first page.
この版を引用します
Buchanan, Thompson. Making People Happy. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/making-people-happy.
Buchanan, T. (2026). Making people happy. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/making-people-happy
Buchanan, Thompson. Making People Happy. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/making-people-happy.
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publisher = {Library of Alexandria},
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}
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