This week in history: February 20, 1925
A rental housing shortage emerges in Murray Bridge, the Hansen family has a wedding and a columnist complains about motor cars and “sporty ladies”.
From the archives of the River Murray Advocate...
Railway men’s homes
The Attorney-General, W.J. Denny, has suggested to a deputation which waited on him at Murray Bridge that the Railways Commissioners should erect houses in railway centres like Murray Bridge for railway employees.
Railway employees with families are frequently sent to Murray Bridge, and on arrival they find that there are no houses available for renting purposes, with the result that they are placed to considerable inconvenience and, frequently, additional expense through having to keep two homes going.
A man with a family is indeed lucky if he can secure furnished or unfurnished rooms in Murray Bridge, but many railway men have found it impossible to secure accommodation for their families, so intense is the shortage of houses in Murray Bridge.
Wedding bells
On Saturday, February 14 at 3pm, Miss Florence Rathmann, of Murray Bridge, was married to Victor Hansen, of Murray Bridge, in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross, which was exquisitely decorated by the bride’s friends, the colour scheme being pale pink, white and blue.
The bridegroom’s brother, Reverend J.F. Hansen, officiated the ceremony.
The bride looked charming, gowned in a graceful model of silk moracain, and wore the usual veil and orange blossoms, and carried a lovely bouquet of white dahlias and fern.
The Wedding March was played by Miss Sophie Thiele.
The things that we see and the things that we hear
The advent of the motor car has not been without its effect on some classes of young women, both single and married, who will readily accept an invitation to “come for a ride”, even from comparative strangers.
This sort of freedom has been the undoing of many a fine type of young woman who, in her thoughtlessness, has allowed her desire for excitement and change to overrun her discretion, with disastrous results to the home.
Today it has become recognised that “sporty ladies”, fond of outings, are in the market for the highest bidder for their company and charms.
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- Read more: trove.nla.gov.au.
