"DEAR OLD SPUD."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 78, 2 April 1932, Page 9 (Supplement)

"DEAR OLD SPUD."

Urging teachers to allow girls in their schools to be natural, Dr. Ballard, an ex-inspector of London County Council schools, says that in the old days children were taught to be as unnatural as possible. He quotes a letter written by a girl at a boarding school in 1851 to her mother. It began:— "The rapidity with which time travels onwards warns me that it now becomes my duty, as well as pleasure, to transmit to" my anxious relatives news of the day appointed for our dispersion." "My daughter," says Dr. Ballard, "writes me as follows: —'Dear old Spud. S.O.S. Short of tin.'" ' i