RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30954, 10 January 1966, Page 18

RANDOM REMINDER

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Housewifes, in the main, are quiet creatures, housetrained. amenable to discipline, tidy, useful. They know their place, and they keep it immaculate. But cross a housewife, and you have a hussy. Perhaps it is because they are used to making all the domestic arrangements. At all events, this particular one took umbrage at the milkman. It is not quite certain what caused the contretemps; perhaps it was the introduction of the plastic

tokens. Where before it had been a simple matter to put out the bottles and leave her husband to pay the monthly bill, there was all that nonsense about buying a packet of tokens and not getting any delivery if they were not out in the right numbers. At all events, something of a feud developed between the petite and usually pleasant woman and the large, and occasionally morose milkman. Lt developed, as these things do. to a high pitch of antipathy.

So she did a dreadfu. thing. Before putting out the wretched and unwanted tokens one night, she wa' moved to attach a sman dab of glue to each of them. It was a heinous thing to do—but it worked. Well, in a way. Because it was at an entirely unearthly hour that she and her husband were woken next day, by the furious cursings and imprecations—and the loud banging of a milk bottle on the side of a tnick. There must, surely. be better ways of get--1 even.