Old School-When Was the Last Time You Had Milk Delivered?

Old newspapers; treasures, glistening gems, stories of our diverse social history.  Page upon page, tales of our unique humanities. Like a choose your own adventure, each page is seredipity, launching one to a new yellow brick road of discovery. 

So here's a word from our ancestorials, on benchmarking from 1 January 1931, 'The Successful Woman', sourced from 'The Queenslander', and brought to you by the month of February, 2013.

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The Successful Woman.

A SUCCESSFUL woman is not successful because she has made a career for herself in the great world or in spite of staying at home (writes Miss Storm Jameson, the well-known authoress). She may be successful inspite of her career, and because she stayed at home. But she cannot count on it either way. Success, like the kingdom of heaven, is within her or nowhere. That looks as trite and innocent as the bottle of milk left regularly on the doorsteps, and is as actually stupendous. (if you can see nothing stupendous in a milk bottle consider a moment the incredible social changes and upheavals that have resulted in the regular miracle of milk on your doorstep.)

 

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What you had milk delivered? How regular, innocent, stupendous and trite! Oh, my bad...21st century grl talk....What a happy milkman, bet you love all those dogs on the loose.  What did I hear you say? The advertising got it wrong. That bloody dog bit me last week and see my right foot, its ready to.....walk away.

 

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There is not a shred of justification for any "successful" business woman's scorn of her homekeeping sister, nor for the homekeeper's envy of the other's more obvious triumphs. No amount of going to town in trains and struggling in the competitive world can make, a dull spirit bright or turn a cowardly mind into an adventurous one.

 
 
 

 

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I see you grl with your iphone. Check above and below pictures....Piccy be taken in the 1930's with theirs...Yo grl.. Feet up.  All those peeps below. Feet down. Peep got a phone. All of them.Sardines. Bet someone smells.

 

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Adventures, like romance, are largely a matter of state of mind.

 

 

 

If you deserve them you get them.

 

Ummmm 1930's grl....See your iphone, it's got Facebook, Twitter, Google +....now and you can carry it in your pocket...My telephone in my pocket? Yes, and the whole world at your doorstep. Well, girlfriend, don't you think you deserve a smart phone? You'd have a potential audience of millions.

 

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In life, lived in city, suburb, or sheik-ridden desert [where do we find one of those-KDT ] , you always get precisely what you are asking for 

 

Ask and ye shall receive?

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 It is as easy to grow dull and narrow minded in the cause of a career as to lead a life of incredible adventure in the roaring wastes of a suburb. It entirely depends on where you wear your heart.

 

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Whether the message is delivered in a regular, stupendous, innocent trite milk bottle in 1931 or a hot smart phone in 2013. Each woman leads the life she can. The adventures are ours to discover. 

 

 

 

By the way, our female author from the 1930's this is how our milk is delivered today....

 

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A successful women is one that holds her own...She may be doing it wielding a 4 litre carton of milk, not delivered to her doorstep. She works, and is successful. No line between working outside or inside the home is warranted.

 

Original article source: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article23133534