The Archive · 1923

TRAVELLING STEERAGE

"Next I think we worked sorting lemons. Honestly you'd never believe how intricate and versatile Lemons can be. They are a whole department of knowledge in themselves. When we learned that lesson and got too tired of lifting pects. And life is not easy there. You wait on yourself and you live very plainly, so I shouldn't advise girls who like Shanghai to leave it for Australia.

"Could other girls repeat our experiences and get by? Of course, though I don't know that they would want to work so hard for the money they would get out of it. We were not fair examples because we had money enough for emergent cies or sickness and could have cabled home for funds if it had been necessar. We found the people kindly and while we had some amusing encounters there were no disagreeable adventures. The girls wno came out from the British Isles under government auspices have enjoyed their new venture so far as we could find out, and they have been well cared for.

"Would I advise any other girls to try it? Certainly not. It was the hairbrainedness of the thing that appealed to us. Like our patron saint, Steve Brodie, we took those heavy cases around we decid-; lots of chances, but we always got ed it was time to move along to New by and I wouldn't have missed the Zealand. I had always fancied that} experience for anything on earth." you took a ferry across, but it took a good four days to make the trip and we went steerage.

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