Page 6 Transcribed: clipping
Page 6 of the diary is a small clipping with some writing on one side and a picture of a clock and some incorrect mathematics on the back. I think the picture is an advertisement for one of those old pocket-watches, it has no photo it is hand drawn. I will only include the side with writing on it because I think this was the side that was clipped out. It is pretty clere if you click on it for enlargement but I will transcribe it anyway because of the quality-
Loving Attractions
It is a small thing for a son or a daughter to show loving attentions to their ageing father and mother, and yet these same tactful deeds give more pleasure to a parent’s heart than anything else in the whole world. Our parents are dependent upon us for their happiness. We can make their lives radiant with joy or gloomy with disappointment. A touch is passing, a word of endearment, a cushion or a wrap, a kiss at coming or going, a bunch of flowers, a welcome newspaper clipping, a little errand – in such trifling ways as these may a mother’s life be filled with deepest joy. Let us be a little more thoughtful, for mother’s sake. We shall be sorry for it when we come to take a last look at her loving face.
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What do you think about this?? I might be an idiot but it seems an unusual piece to be clipped out. I say this because it is not particularly well written or profound. I am surprised that it would be printed in a newspaper, and I am also surprised that it is included in this diary.
ReplyDeleteWhy do you think it was clipped out?? Perhaps the writer of the diary wrote the piece and that is why they cut it out. I also thought that perhaps the diary belonged to a minister and they wanted it for sermon fodder but I doubt it very much. Maybe they are a mother and relate to the piece.
Is there a date?
ReplyDeletenot on this one I'm afraid
ReplyDeleteI thought that perhaps the article was not the original reason for the clipping to be cut out but the picture and calculations on the back. I am not sure of the value of shillings and penny's in Australia at that time but I assume it was similar to the British who had 12 pence to a shilling and 20 shillings to a pound. This would then make the calculations correct. ie. 4 pound and 15 shillings plus 13 shillings would equal 5 pound and 8 shillings. the writer was working out whether she had enough money to buy the manicure set.
ReplyDeleteWhile deciding whether or not to buy the manicure set she sat looking at the newspaper she had cut out. Upon turning it over she read the article and thought about how much she cared for her mother and how she hadn't called by lately (anyone?) and how much her mother would appreciate it if she did. To remind herself to do these things more regularly, she cut it out and stuck it in her journal.