MIGRANT BOY'S MONOCLE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18308, 16 February 1925, Page 6

MIGRANT BOY'S MONOCLE.

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SYDNEY, February 5,

A common spectacle at the Rand-wick ra^!€6) ; or at. least at the meetings thero' which attract the cream of society, is that of a woman who wears a monocle. Regardless of the fact that she is the cynosure of all eyes the ladv of the monocle without restraint' among the crowds. It is more •difficult, however to picture a Dreadnought boy—the better class of English boys who are coming out on to the land here under what is known 'as the Dreadnought scheme of misration— affecting a single eyeglass. According to one of the newspapers, a Dreadnought boy, on his arrival in. Svdnev was quite troubled in mind When "asked by a Press photographer to ioin a croup of his companions for a .photograph. He had lost his While being photographed the clung tenaciously to his bowler hat, which he claimed, was an exact replica of the bowler worn by-the Prince of Wales. "Of course, ' said this voung gentleman. "I have seen farms in England, but this afternoon I would like to go to the nearest farm in Sydney to "see a bit of Australian life." He seemed a little surprised when he was informed that he would ,have to go quite a long distance to see the Australian bush. Perhaps he had in mind the goanna and kangaroo farms, and the big estates at Circular Quay, that the diggers used to' talk of in their frivolous momenta to innocents in the Old Country.