 In "The Old Sogning Woman" Eleonora used the dialect of her mother's birthplace.Ethel, a native of the Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago, set her monologue "The New Bookcase" in a store on Milwaukee Avenue, one of the area's busiest commercial streets, while mentioning the locally published "Skandinaven".A magazine article from 1924 relates how Ethel drew upon an incident in real life for her sketch "A Norwegian Woman At The Telephone"