Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Australian Homestead
She certainly does not miss the money. She and Yehudi can, it is true, earn around £2000 for one concert. But tall, handsome Lindsay Nicholas is not only a farmer, but the son of a proprietary medicine king and a near-millionaire. From this is must not be imagined that Hephzibah has retired to a life of luxury and leisure.
The Nicolas’ big, one-storey, red-roofed homestead has no servants. Sons Kronrad (11) and Marston (seven next month) make their own beds. Husband Lindsay operates the vacuum cleaner. Hephzibah does a bit of everything. Her favourite chores – cooking and making preserves.
She is devoted to her children; has ideas about education (“I’m an interfering member of the parents’ committee – I insist on a say in how my sons are taught and fed”) ; ideas about diet (“we have plenty of vegetable juice, plenty of meat and