Item 14: Miles Franklin pocket diary, 1921

[newspaper clipping]

Many are the adventures of Australians who go forth from their home. Miss Stella Miles Franklin, the author of "My Brilliant Careet" when a girl, after the campaign with the Serbs is now settled down in London, doing the work of the National Housing and Town Planning Council, 41 Russell Square, W.C.1. Their congress was attended by 700 delegates from 26 countries, and Miss Franklin had charge of 300 foreigners in a special train. A letter from her says : "Kitsibis, who is replanning Salonique and Leonpoldoupolis, who came over with the Venezelos Commission in 1918, represented Greece. Two lively Serbs, two Poles, two CzechoSlovakians, one Roumanian, and I even saw a Bulgar present. And there were tribes and tribes of Scandinavians, nearly all the Mayors in Sweden and Holland. I had the President of the Irish Government Board to wash the tea things, and an Italian gentleman whom I was driving hither and yon turned out to be the Marquis Adorno when he presented his card."

[newspaper clipping]

accident in Yorkshire. His verses show considerable promise, and are worth being printed and read.

"THE QUEST OF THE INDIES" Mr. Richard Dark has put together the history of the discovery of the Seven Seas in a very brief and tangible form (Blackwell, Oxford), primarily perhaps for the Royal Naval College in the Isle of Wight, where he is posted. The pictures are capital, showing how odd was the configuration of the world believed in from the days of Herodotus (440 B.C.), and proving that the English took no part in the glorious early discoveries. This would be an excellent book to give to a boy who is inclined to think that all the British possessions in these days come by right of discovery. He would remember that Britain almost always let others take the role of explorers, and then calmly stepped in to rule. Britain was the coloniser, and well she has played that part.

[torn newspaper clipping]

Miles Franklin.

Do you remember Miles Franklin, who made such a sensational debut in the Australian literary world with My Brilliant Career? She has long been working as a nurse of the sick soldiers in England. She sailed recently to form one of a Scotch Women's Unit to take part in the Macedonian campaign. Miss Franklin was born in Goulbourn. My Brilliant Career, which appeared about 15 years ago, ran into five editions. Since then, Miss Franklin took positions as housemaid, etc., to get local color for a novel, but, like so many authors, she has proved a one-book woman.

[torn newspaper clipping]

IN A MONTH

A young man recently smoked 1200 cigarettes in one month and wrote to the Tobacco Co. asking what they would give him for the wrappers. They replied if he would smoke 1200 more they would give him as he would require - a COFFIN.

Thousands of young men are to-day smoking themselves into the grave, causing HEART DISEASE, NERVE, STOMACH and BRAIN DISEASES. Excessive smokers early qualify for the hospital and grave.

"SMOKURE TABLETs" eradicate quickly all nicotine poison, re-strengthen the heart, brain, and nerves, and destroy the craving for tobacco in any form.

The NICOTO-MANIA TABLET CO., 10 ELIZABETH STREET, SYDNEY. Send Sixpence in Stamps for FREE SAMPLE.