A fun piece! Yes, was in 5th grade in Australia, the heater, many of us had to walk through huge puddles from the train station (unavoidable, giant puddles across the entire road) our socks would hang to get next to the heater on each of those days, whether the teachers had to be there early to light the big furnace, unknown, but probably so. We did have male teachers at the other school we went to, hmm, makes one wonder what rules they had. In high school, being a math person, slide rulers were just great!! Found one as of late, from an old friend, it was another wow.

The ice-cream store bit was probably so the teachers did not see students there. The no socialization bit, and there were no frigderators then, at all. Not sure in 1915, if there were the ice boxes yet, buy ice and keep stuff so long, that was happening in the 1930’sand 40’s. So for the rules, it is a wonder we had teachers, but there were always single women, as there were single men. It is all a wow. I do agree, it would be great if the young people could read this, doing a questionnaire over the radio would be good! Just remember, it was only 100 years ago.

Maybe they could think of it as an alternative universe.

OX, K