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The "nervousness" of which you complain may be induced by certain habits.

A splendid set of captions in last Sunday’s contest. 🥇 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social =🥈 @kayemcelle.bsky.social @artbookreview.bsky.social 4th @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social Highly commended @reynardo.bsky.social and all the rest at #GirlsOwnCC well worth checking out.

Oh yes, Gerald, YES. But be quick before my acquiescence becomes morally unacceptable.

If you wilfully do so, knowing perfectly that what you desire is wrong, there can be no help for you. It would be a different matter if you momentarily yield to strong temptation.

The only mention of bonfire night I can find in @girlsown.bsky.social is within a serial entitled ‘The Shepherd’s Fairy’ with a splendid illustration of #LewesBonfire and a surprisingly unladylike enthusiasm for riot and mayhem, but a hefty dose of contemporary religious and class prejudice.

The only mention of bonfire night I can find in @girlsown.bsky.social is within a serial entitled ‘The Shepherd’s Fairy’ with a splendid illustration of #LewesBonfire and a surprisingly unladylike enthusiasm for riot and mayhem, but a hefty dose of contemporary religious and class prejudice.

[She’s being very unkindly sarcastic here, but interesting to see this description decades before OCD was a specific diagnosis.]

There is no escaping from the distress that a candid avowal of the true state of the case will occasion you both. Confess the exact truth.

If your parents were naturalised in England before your birth, you would be English without any doubt.

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

You were exceptionally amusing in response to a pretty exceptional illustration in last Sunday’s caption contest. 🥇 @ancientnmodern.bsky.social 🥈 @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social =🥉 @davidjarvis.bsky.social @erburyoldboy.bsky.social @grahambrack.bsky.social and…..

Nothing specific to Halloween from the Girl’s Own archives, so a bit of shameless 21st century fishing for compliments with my baking for grandkids’ birthday party (one has a Halloween birthday and one the day before, so never any question what their party theme will be).

Your sister does very wrong in taking a teaspoonful of eau de cologne every evening, to make (as she foolishly imagines) her eyes sparkle. She lays the foundation of being a drunkard by-and-by in so doing, and is destroying the coats of the stomach. Besides, what silly vanity she exhibits!

We do not see any originality in the plot, nor beauty in the diction, of the “novel” you sent for criticism. You could not dispose of it, and might be far more usefully employed than in writing such. We regret having to say so.

@mancunianmedic.bsky.social would you dare to tell the theatre hat chap?

These falling horses are a menace. The sun is being very irresponsible.

But we women are working on our solar energy strategy. It’ll only take man a century or so to take notice.

A defective digestion is a frequent cause of mental unrest.

The sun expends on a fine summer’s day an average of one horsepower on every 30 square feet of the earth’s surface in this latitude, or 1450 horse-power per acre. This great gift of energy is neither utilised nor stored by man at present.

Your parents are your natural protectors, not your natural enemies, as many young people seem to think.

Damn!!! Imagine her YouTube channel!

“If only to see what girls might make of themselves with proper training”

You have done very wrong in forming such a connection and intimacy with any man unknown to, and unsanctioned by, your parents. You say “my parents know nothing of my manoeuvres with him.” What can you mean by these?

What about loading the dishwasher properly?

Amongst the “best qualities in a man” we should name honour (including truth), magnanimity, courage, and a chivalrous feeling towards the other sex.

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For those of you not in the UK, just a note our clocks go back tonight so tomorrow’s caption contest might be an hour earlier your time.

You were all very amusing in last Sunday’s caption contest. 🥇 @beakmoo.bsky.social 🥈 & 4th @erburyoldboy.bsky.social 🥉 @spacexecadet.bsky.social and commiserations to several just one ❤️ behind. Plus highly commended @reynardo.bsky.social with more chuckles to be found at #GirlsOwnCC

If you always sleep well at night, you will not look old, even at forty.

We are unable to say “who invented university degrees?”

If, as you say, your admirer be a gentleman, and can never marry you, as an honest man he should give up seeing and writing to you altogether. It can lead to no good; quite the contrary.

The usual trouble in English cookery is that it is all violently done, and no time is given for any satisfactory results.

The reason that the President’s House in Washington is called “the White House” is because it was painted white.

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The witty winners of last Sunday’s caption contest are: 🥇 @beakmoo.bsky.social who noticed the uncanny resemblance to #BrianBlessed 🥈 @peakingsassy.bsky.social tsk tsk 🥉 @libmoggy.bsky.social 4th @erburyoldboy.bsky.social Highly commended @woozle-taffy.bsky.social More to amuse at #GirlsOwnCC

The best way to dispose of the children, in such a case, would be to get some good motherly woman at a distance to take them, and pay her by weekly payments. [Poor things, what is going on here?]

‘Evangeline’ will perhaps think our advice for her brother rather hard and cruel, if we say that any man having a profession now had better stick to it, especially if it offers a chance of a pension in the future. Employment is so very difficult to obtain.

All exercises causing tremendous exertion of the bodily powers are more or less dangerous; although we may not feel the effects at once, we may in after years.

“A lonely one”’s poetry is neither better nor worse than the usual kind of thing written at her age, the writing of which is a vent for feelings which most girls are too shy to express. But as for making money of it, that is quite another thing!

However, if you were to enclose a stamped, addressed envelope, and a five pound note, we may oblige.

The cause of half the bad memories in the world is a lack of attention, and a vacant, wandering mind.

There are questions connected with the subject which cannot be entered into in a public paper.

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And thanks to you all, up to the 1,000 followers mark, just need another 32,000 to equal the old days in the other place now!

You were as amusing as ever in last Sunday’s caption contest. 🥇 @spacexecadet.bsky.social 🥈 @ancientnmodern.bsky.social 🥉 @erburyoldboy.bsky.social 4th @herodotuspenguin.bsky.social and highly commended to @wolfyohare.bsky.social with even more to amuse you at #GirlsOwnCC

We are sorry to hear you have failed to pass your examination, and can only advise you to try again. We do not at all agree with your idea that “the only thing that can be done for you is to run away to London and try to get on the stage” nor do we see how that would help you.

No, Letitia, this is not a bustle, it’s my actual backside after I failed to trust to diet and exercise. Let that be a warning to you.

We advise you not to try patent remedies, but trust to diet and exercise.

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