PICS VIII: 10% LARGER THAN PICS VII

[The Johnny]

dat fibbonachi 

[Doktor Howl]

[Doktor Howl]

[Reginald Ret]

Is this real?!

[Cain]

I'm suspicious, personally.

While I wouldn't be surprised of many of these being expectations of a female teacher, Googling reveals this as, simultaneously, a Ohio, Texas and Utah contract, and having been passed down by at least 20 people's grandmothers.

[Demolition Squid]

The smoking one is what made me go 

Wasn't smoking considered to be good for your health around that time?

[Bruno]

Yeah, but it wasn't ladylike.

[Cain]

Edward Bernays did his infamous American Tabacco Company advertising work (aimed at getting more women smoking) in the 1920s.  However, it probably didn't filter down out of the big cities into the countryside until cinema became more popular in those areas, in the 30s and 40s.

[Doktor Howl]

I'm suspicious, personally.

While I wouldn't be surprised of many of these being expectations of a female teacher, Googling reveals this as, simultaneously, a Ohio, Texas and Utah contract, and having been passed down by at least 20 people's grandmothers.

I figured it was crap.  It's still horrormirthy.

[Cain]

Oh, absolutely.  And of course, for many boarding staff in particular, not a whole lot has changed.

I can't have guests around, for example. not that I'd want to show them this horroshow or the shithole I call a flat.  And in theory I cannot drink while off duty either, in case there is a fire (in practice, I ignore this provision entirely).

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

While many of the clauses are realistic for the era, petticoats were way out of fashion. This looks to me like a reprint of rules from an earlier year.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

[Trivial]

[President Television]

Discordia in a nutshell:

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