JUDGE AND THE MODERN GIRL
“Only about one girl in ten can peel potatoes.” This criticism was made at Rockhampton. Queensland, by Mr Justice Brennan, commenting on a newspaper letter headed: “Wives who cannot boil water.” The majority of modern girls did not get enough sleep to enable them adequately to carry out household duties or other callings, he maintained. The luncheon which some girls took to work would he a sufficient meal for a bandicoot (an Australian insectivorous marsupial) 1 "When she comes home," Judge Brennan added, “she delves a knife into a pot of jam, puts tiie same knife into the butter, pours out a cup of cold tea, and is out again to catch the next train, Then the world wonders why she looks anaemic. There is little, if any. home life, no regular l'fe, no regular meals, and no tables set.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 7 October 1936, Page 5
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