Hi, everyone!
Plum, thank you for letting know the impressive information about higher education for women. The Victorian age with a lot of aspects is full of exiting features I’ve never known…
From now, I’m going to go to kids’ school to attend a class meeting for the first time in this school year. The older daughter is the six grades, at the last of the elementary school. She doesn’t go to any cram-schools, and I’m worried about her study at school. Sometime she asks me to solve a problem in her homework, but I often can’t explain it well, especially at math.
So, talk later. I must go. Bye!
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Hi, ladies!!!
It has been wet all day, though quite warm, hasn’t it?
I stayed at home all day, and did some housework. I also wrote an email for my son’s mother-in-law, who sent us a box of dekopon oranges. She told me when I visited her in March that she was enormously surprised to see the breakfast prepared for her at a hotel while she was staying in London for taking a special music course before she got married. It consisted of only toast, butter and jam plus tea. She expected some sausages or slices of ham for the first meal of the day, but she never came across that type of breakfast, she said.
Yes, I had the same type of breakfast at my hotel, but the bread was quite tasty to me, and so I ate three slices of toast every morning with a lot of butter and orange marmalade, though I ordered eggs (actually a set of two eggs), sunny-side up, once, which cost me three pounds, almost 600 yen. Whew, expensive, isn’t it?
My daughter is expecting now, and her second baby will be born in autumn, probably by caesarean. I, however, will not go to Sydney this time due to my work in progres, and hope she will come back for delivery.
I hope everybody is well and happy, and having a good time today. I will go back to my work, my lovely friends. Bye-bye.
Hello, friends!
I'm very happy that I could finally find a nice doctor near my house.
I've been being treated my illness of rheumatism at Tosei Hospital in Seto for almost 2 years, which was rather far from my house and it takes almost half a day to get a medical exam. everytime though I appreciated that they found my desease quickly and the medicine worked well so far.
I asked the doctor to write a letter of inquiry to the hospital in my town.
Last week I went to the hospital with the letter and the doctor specialized in rheumatism checked me throughly by taking blood and X-ray of my hands.
Yesterday he explained in detail for more than 20 minutes, which surprised me because it was the first time for me to see that the doctor took much time for one patient.
I could totally understand the condition of my illness, which is now a temporary lull and I don't have to take medicine for a while, but my CCP was 10 times higher than normal person and it is no wonder if the pain occurs in the near future, so I should take care of myself by taking a good sleep and rest.
He was so kind that he promised me to take charge of my desease lest it should worsen, checking every other month, but if it hurts I can go as soon as possible.
I felt that I can rely on him and my fear of the desease was wiped out today. I gave a sigh of relief.
Hi, ladies!!!
It has been a warm and pleasant day, hasn’t it? I was out all afternoon and had a brilliant time because of this mild spring weather.
Thank you for letting us know your wonderful news, Magnolia. It is so fantastic to hear that you have got a really good and reliable doctor near you house. Proximity is a fairly important aspect of medical service, isn’t it?
Today, I would like to let you know something about laws related to marriage and divorce in Victorian years.
Do you remember that I told you 64 years of the Victorian era could be divided into three sections: first, 1837-50, second, 1851-70, and third, 1871-1901. Interestingly enough, major laws concerned with marriage and divorce also responded to these sections, one or more in each.
1839
The Infants’ Custody Act was passed, which provided for awarding the custody of children under seven to mothers: from 1873, they might gain the custody of children under 16 as well.
1857
The Matrimonial Causes Act was passed and made divorce a little easier and offered some protection for the property of divorced, separated and deserted wives. The Act had a legally separated wife given the right to keep what she earned. While a man might divorce his wife for adultery, a woman had to prove adultery aggravated by cruelty or desertion.
1870
The First Married Woman’s Property Act gave women further rights over their property. These were extended in Acts of 1874 and 1882, and women were granted rights to property whether secured before marriage or after.
It might be interesting to compare these laws with those related to marriage and divorce contained in the Meiji Civil Law of 1898, I suppose.
Tomorrow, again I will go out, all morning and afternoon, perhaps. Soon I will get ready for bed, because I got up quite early this morning and I need a good rest tonight. Ladies, night, night…
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