22 Nov 1918
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Newspaper
Benalla Standard
Location
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
Date
Nov 22, 1918
Page
1
A historical pamphlet urges girls to shape national future through hygiene, education, homemaking, and careful choice of partners. It lists ten conduct rules emphasizing health, cooking, child care, and moral standards, with an emphasis on education and domestic responsibility.
A collage of snippets from a bygone paper shows gossip humor about love, dancing, and fashion with street humor and editorial quips. It includes a mock German marriage notice, a caretaker resisting stripping a placard, and light exchanges about awkward social scenes and a continental holiday.
A fragment advises careful handling of a book, urging readers to avoid bending pages marking or damaging leaves. It suggests using a proper bookmark rather than turning corners, and to rest the book flat when reading to protect its binding and appearance.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe spoke of growing old gracefully and finding joy in life. The piece highlights aging with curiosity, shared interests, reading, botany, and social service as remedies for melancholy, noting wisdom from Phillips Brooks and Rabbi Ben Ezra.
A string of comic vignettes shows a debt collector failing to shake memory, a doctor’s trousers shortened by family members in a cascade of hemming, and a lodger’s breakfast interrupted by a hungry cat. Each tale ends with humorous misfortune and quick domestic mishaps.
A vintage essay urges girls to value knowledge over mere wit, insisting a love of learning and diligent study build a lasting education. It contrasts playful youth with practical effort, warning against wasting time on trivial diversions and stressing preparation for future need.
An essay on marriage harmony and shared effort. It warns that wives and husbands must yield, cooperate, and support each other to build a joyful home. The tale of a bride who cannot pull a line over a roof illustrates joint action as the path to lasting happiness.
The piece notes how absentee family members broaden outlook when letters and travel reading connect distant towns to home. It urges regular, heartfelt correspondence, recalling voices from lejos and distant places to combat provincialism through ongoing ties.
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