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Newspaper
Ashburton Guardian
Location
Ashburton, Canterbury, New Zealand
Date
Aug 10, 1900
Page
1
The London School Board expands household training with ten centres teaching cooking laundry and housewifery for three years. The final year adds home nursing. A new school named The Paragon Domestic opened in May with Lady Londonderry opening ceremonies and speeches praising progress.
A chaotic scene at a religious publishing shop has customers shouting requests for odd pairings like Two Letters from Hell and six Orange Girls while a boy asks how long they will be with Old Brown and Rew Jerusalem and the Two Thieves. The street name Paternoster Row frames the bustling, curious exchange.
The article notes that in Japan the poorest families often own their own houses, unlike in the United States where few in the working class own homes. It describes Tokyo as a vast city with many houses and a restrained display of wealth, suggesting the rich keep ornamentation inside rather than on street fronts.
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