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Issue Details: First known date: 1922... 1922 Their Desired Haven
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'Society exists only in the minds of those below it. To them, it is a mystic organisation, greater than the Pythagoreans or Freemasons; to those above it, it is, of course, non-existent; to those in it, it is merely themselves and their friends...Society in Australia is not very highly developed. We are too materialistic; we spend too much time in sport (including politics), and in work (to pay for the sport); hence one lacks the leisure necessary for Society...It must be acknowledged that theatrical managers and restaurant keepers are making powerful efforts to encourage a better Society tone by raising their prices at frequent intervals.'

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    y separately published work icon The Home vol. 3 no. 2 (Winter) 1 June Kathleen Stenning (illustrator), 1922 Z1595971 1922 periodical issue 1922 pg. 2
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