Every day a lesson!
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Illustrations and genuine replies from the Girl’s Own Paper 1880-1899. (‘Girls’ at the time meant roughly age 15 to 29 years). Working back to the 33,000 followers I had in the other place! Caption contest every Sunday at 18:00 GMT
Every day a lesson!
A lack of patience with submitted verse is also desirable.
What has one to learn before becoming an editress? A thoroughly good general education, acquaintance with the best literature of your own and other countries, taste and discernment, business abilities - these are a few of the necessary qualifications. [says the modest editress].
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Oh v. good.
“Boyforts” seems to crop up in German newspapers around the beginning of the 20th century so perhaps not an English company? Though the “empire made” presumably intended to appeal to a British audience
We might contemplate divided skirts for cycling
How apt!
Indeed
If you lack confidence in conversation choose familiar subjects such as hats, bonnets and gloves.
Agree!
Excellent reminder of that classic
Another way in which girls often thoughtlessly offend against good taste is in asking questions, which will assuredly lead your acquaintances to shun you as an ill-bred, troublesome meddler.
Glad you’re recovering and spring is in the air!
Yes! And I could see it (bony shin bone in woolly tights) and never thought to look at anyone else’s !
I see him now!
Oh! He has proposed.
That is not the difficulty.
It is what he has proposed.
We hope this intimacy with the walking companion is sanctioned by your mother. If he do not propose shortly, she should put a stop to the walking, or know the reason why not on your behalf, and for your respectability sake.
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We are quite over-stocked with the "novels" our girls send to us for criticism. Perhaps you might trouble a friend.
Groan!
Inability to purchase the biggest telly in the shop is a trigger for copious male sobbing
There are tears and tears, of course
Men of strong taste and feeling for the sublime and the beautiful are thus affected to tears (not loud weeping, of course). It is perfectly natural and betokens anything but feebleness of mind.
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Earworm now!
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Sitting down. With a respectable chaperone between them in the bench b