N.Z. Wives ‘Cook From Scratch9

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31006, 11 March 1966, Page 2

N.Z. Wives ‘Cook From Scratch 9

American men like New Zealand wives because they can cook from scratch and do not have to use cake mixes, according to a former Christchurch girl, Miss Paddianne East, who is married to Captain T. Jowers, a flight instructor in the United States Air Force.

Mrs Jowers, who will spend five months in Christchurch with her parents, said she had never been able to master the art of making successful cakes from cake mixes. “They turn out like puddings,” she said. Mrs Jowers added that the three things about New Zealand she really missed were truly fresh vegetables, and New Zealand’s baking powder and custards. ‘There is nothing like them in America,” she said. Mrs Jowers has been married eight years. During that time she has lived in six different places in the United States. “I don't mind moving as I love to travel,” she said. Mrs Jowers considers that a girl married to a man in the forces, if she wants to make a success of her marriage, has to be very much in love with her husband, be adaptable, especially to the initial loneliness of living in a strange country, and must love to travel. However, all the work needed to make a happy marwas worth it. “Ameri-

. can men are very good to their wives, and they have all . the conveniences to make life • easier,” she said. One thing Mrs Jowers misses is not having a ■ clothesline. “We are not allowed to have them. In- • stead clothes are dried in a ■ dryer,” she said. ! With Mrs Jowers are her I two daughters, Kerrianne, ■ aged seven, who was born in ■ Honolulu, and Michelle aged ' four, who was born in Christchurch during her mother’s • last visit. Mrs Jowers has noticed many changes since her last I visit. “Christchurch has gone • terribly modern, and 1 think ■ your fashions are six months ahead of ours,” she said. On her return to America, l Mrs Jowers will rejoin her > husband at Dover, Delaware, ■ where the family expects to i remain for about two years. • When her husband retires ■ from the Air Force in about i six years, the family ■wants ; to return to New Zealand to live. “I like America, but I : do not think I would want to ■ live there indefinitely.” said • Mrs Jowers