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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+1

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 11h

You should not pray for a husband. How do you know it would be for your happiness or your advantage, and not a hindrance?

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 1d

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 1d

Lamp chop was more memorable and has their own Wikipedia page! en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

Lamb Chop (puppet) - Wikipedia

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 1d

The origin of presenting a flitch of bacon to any man who can swear that for a year and a day he never has had a quarrel with his wife, nor wished himself unmarried since his wedding-day, dates back to the year 1211.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe! More prosaically I suspect she heard someone really posh whistling, creating a bit of cognitive dissonance with her position that it was as common as muck.

Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 2d

Probably unprintable!

Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 2d

Classics are allowed!

Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 2d

Have to love her use of “perhaps”.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 2d

Whistling is not a well-bred accomplishment in either a man or a woman. But there are rare cases of remarkable power, sweetness & delicacy in whistling & in such exceptional examples of skill & natural gift, the vulgarity of the accomplishment is excused. Perhaps you may be one of these exceptions.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 2d

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4d

Would love one of your followers to research whether he lived to a ripe old age or not!

Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4d

a man wearing a green mask is smiling and says ssssmokin .

ALT: a man wearing a green mask is smiling and says ssssmokin .

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4d

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4d

In cold countries such as Siberia, ladies may smoke a little with advantage. Here in England, tobacco is not required to preserve your vital heat, and whatever toleration may be afforded to men, women are scarcely to be excused staining their teeth and tainting their breath in so offensive a manner.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4d

Certainly you should not accept nor give invitations to young men to accompany you in your walks, unless other people be of the party, as to a picnic or someplace of recreation or exhibition.

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Liam Dutton @grynneman.bsky.social · 4d

...or passed around the office so everyone can have a bloody good laugh.

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4d

Quite.

Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 4d

We’ve all read books like that!