Nursery World - 80th anniversary: Battle of the sexes

The home front Madam: I have read your new paper The Nursery World, and I am greatly impressed by the gravity of the great task you have undertaken. You have my warmest wishes for its success. Nowadays women, to all appearances, care for little else than pleasure and display - short hair and shorter skirts.

The home front

Madam: I have read your new paper The Nursery World, and I am greatly impressed by the gravity of the great task you have undertaken. You have my warmest wishes for its success. Nowadays women, to all appearances, care for little else than pleasure and display - short hair and shorter skirts.

If they can be induced by reason to return to their homes and undertake the noble responsibilities of wifehood and motherhood, you will have done a work of national importance. England will be a great country again when women adopt that motto of their grandmothers, at which they now mock, that, 'A women's place is in the home'. Yours truly, a husband and father 9 December 1925

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