THIS IS THE LIFE!

Shannon News, 18 November 1924, Page 2

THIS IS THE LIFE!

COUNTRY GIRLS liIKE CITY. The Plight of the girl-in the country tow*! was graphically put by Dr. Harvey Sutton, in his evidence before the New States Commission in Sydney*; "Life to the girl in the country town," said the doctor, "becomes very irksome. There is. too much Mother Grundy in the township; everybody . knows everybody; and the neighbours are watching the girl all the time. The: only thing the girl can do to escape these irritations is to get out —and the girl promptly gets out to the city» where she can do as she likes. In the rural areas the conditions are.even worse for the young girl. She becomes nothing less than a drudge in the house. The house has a minimum, of comfort; no water is laid on; the cooking has to be done under a galvanised iron roof; she lives in what is only a shed; the sanitary arrangements are often shocking; and the old man won't spend any money on the house. Well, she simply gets out."