Have you ever tried this?

 

Page banner in the Australian Woman's Mirror in the 1930s

The Australian Woman's Mirror started publishing a self help column under the above heading in November 1924.

It included household hints about cooking, cleaning, washing and do-it-yourself suggestions.

The heading graphic changed several times during the years 1924 - 1954 but the essence of the column remained the same. The Australian Woman's Mirror is available via Trove.

Some ladies from Tarlee sent in a selection of hints in the 1930s using nom-de-plumes.

Perhaps you can identify the ladies listed below their hints. 

Would you take this 1933 advice from A.W.?

Here's another one from the same contributor.

In 1934 "Glenbur" provides this handy hint.

She contributed a cooking hint in 1935

Another lady styling herself "Urnie" added a hint about steaming puddings.

These were the only hints I located from Tarlee. It would probably have been a thrill to have one's hint selected from all those submitted. These women mentioned had enough money to afford a stamp even though the depression years had robbed many others of that privilege.

I used Tim Sherratt's useful tool Explore Trove's Digital Journals for searching inside magazines.

Using the search term Tarlee, I filtered the titles to find The Australian Woman's Mirror.

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2 Oct 2022, CRGalvin