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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Jan 10, 1911
Page
1
The piece describes Japanese professional storytellers who perform in street corners and guild halls. It notes their satirical tales, the mix of anecdote and incident, and the vedge of entertainment including war stories and banjo recitals. It also mentions earnings and yearly cycles of performances.
A scattered collection of short, old timey vignettes and jokes on marriage, cooking, love, and social manners. It features a vegetarian quip, a gold girdle purchase critique, a politician’s dinner joke, a tale of a fall downstairs, a watch pocket gag, a parrot anecdote, a tricky police line, and a humorous view of punishment for drunkenness in St. Petersburg.
The piece argues that true pleasure comes from work well done, citing Dickens and Sir Henry Hawkins. It contrasts hard, purposeful living with easy shortcuts, noting the danger of letting leisure encroach on business, and stressing that work and pleasure are interdependent for lasting happiness.
A Sydney journalist recalls a humorous exchange with an American traveler in the Orange district about grasshoppers. The Yankee exaggerates the size of Australian hoppers, claiming they are as large as the gray backs and hops that threaten a buggy, while the narrator muses on missed friendships and the value of small courtesies in daily life.
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