[Editor: This article was included in “A Woman’s Column” (edited by Mary Gilmore), published in The Worker (Sydney, NSW), 2 January 1908.]
General notice to readers
It will be a great source of satisfaction to those conducting this department of The Worker if mothers and housekeepers will write and send us any household hints, the result of their own experience, and such as are likely to benefit others.
Names of writers will be given where desired, though not otherwise, as there are many who object to anything like the publicity of a newspaper office.
Also, we will be more than a little glad if women anywhere, or in any capacity, will correspond on subjects in regard to which they require information or explanation. We wish to make this page not only interesting in a general way, but useful as well.
Neither distance, age, nor subject need be a barrier to correspondence, as our aim is to get at the needs, the hopes and fears and desires of women. No subject is too small, no matter too large to be considered, and in every case we will do our best to meet the needs of those who write.
Let this be considered an appeal from women to women, and let every one who reads The Worker feel that she wishes, even as I wish, to make the Woman’s Page of our own paper the most representative and the very best in the Commonwealth.
If our women only will, it can be made a bond of unity, a general meeting ground and centre of interest for all women from one end of the country to the other.
Source:
The Worker (Sydney, NSW), 2 January 1908, p. 15
Editor’s notes:
This article, presumably written by Mary Gilmore, was a call for contributions from women to assist Gilmore in the successful operation of a women’s section in The Worker.
Commonwealth = the Commonwealth of Australia; the Australian nation, federated on 1 January 1901
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