30 Apr 1912
Page 1
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Apr 30, 1912
Page
1
A mature housewife reflects on the old-fashioned husband who stayed home on holidays to paint or repair, meddled in household affairs but treated his wife as more than an unpaid servant. She argues steadiness and thrift reduced financial risk, and longs for more such husbands.
A commercial traveller from northern England, delayed in a small Scottish town, misses the last train south. He asks the hotel boot to wake him at six. At six the porter bursts into the room and shouts a grim wake up call, awakening the sleeper from dream with a deep, sepulchral voice. The piece recalls the terror of the sudden summons.
An Irish contractor visits San Francisco with his father a rural elder. They tour the Presidio and see soldiers quarters a cook camp and a sunlit sunset. The old man is amazed by the city then recalls home as they share a school treat and grace joke about butter at sea.
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