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  2. A PAGE FOR WOMEN NOTICES.

    I know a gully which would set a miser's heart a-beating, for from end to end it is lined with purest gold. Weeks ago the warm weather drove the wattles from our bush, ...

    Article : 601 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,154 words
  4. WOMEN AND IMMIGRATION.

    Women, who have been agitating for months for a more rigorous examination of prospective immigrants, will be glad to see their case so greatly strengthened by the paper ...

    Article : 425 words
  5. PUCK'S GIRDLE.

    I'll put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes.—"Midsummer Nights Dream." Her Excellency Lady Denman, who is deeply interested in all kinds of women's work, has ...

    Article : 1,135 words
  6. UNDER A VERANDAH.

    An old woman, walking carefully, with a stick. "Yes, m'm, rainin' hard, ain't it. I think I'll wait. Oh. yes, I've got the pension; don't know what I'd do without it. No. ...

    Article : 981 words
  7. MAKING THE BEST OF THINGS.

    There is an Optimist Club in Sydney, and facetious scoffers pretend to believe that the smiles of its members pervade the atmosphere as the grin of the Cheshire cat did in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 736 words
  8. THE MISSIONARY BOX.

    The little meeting-house, usually so plain and quiet, was gay with a hundred colours at one end of the room. Forms, chairs, and tables were all covered by a bewildering array ...

    Article : 771 words
  9. MELBOURNE NOTES.

    Before Miss Vida Goldstein's departure to England she suggested a congress to the Ladies' Old Collegians' Association. The idea has been adopted, and proceedings will ...

    Article : 549 words
  10. MAKING A HOME.

    Before Jack and I were married, we mapped out a home for ourselves, and then started on a pllgrimago of househunting. We tried all the different suburbs, and at last succeeded in ...

    Article : 595 words
  11. THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE.

    The large number of friends who thronged to the Town Hall last Saturday night to welcome their old favourite, Hetty Holroyd, under her new name of Esta D'Argo, were ...

    Article : 718 words
  12. "IN AFFECTIONATE REMEMBRANCE."

    "I cannot remember the birthdays of all my children," said Louise Taplin, matron of the Ashfield Infants' Home, "so I celebrate them all on my own natal day." And this ...

    Article : 676 words
  13. OUR ENEMY THE FLY.

    The house fly and the mischief it does formed the subject of one of the papers at the Medical Congress, and in the discussion which followed all were agreed that ...

    Article : 635 words
  14. WAGES BOARD AND EMIGRATION.

    Pythla's article on the new Wages Board for domestic servants in the "Herald" of July 5 affords matter for thought in England, as well as in Australia. The writer puts ...

    Article : 395 words
  15. A NICE REGARD FOR OTHERS' FEELINGS.

    In justice to the Public school teachers, let me say that many a child gets its only training in self-restraint, gentleness in speaking, and manners generally—from them. ...

    Article : 229 words
  16. HUMANE DRESS.

    For some time a considerable number of women have declined to deck themselves in ospreys, aigrettes, or the skins of animals. But manufacturers, who surely must be the ...

    Article : 177 words
  17. CORRESPONDENCE.

    A.G.—September 10, 1887, feil on a Saturday. ...

    Article : 11 words
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