RESTLESS WAR GIRLS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 154, 25 March 1919, Page 4

RESTLESS WAR GIRLS

(By Hilda M: Love; in the "Daily Miiil.") A Base Town in prance.

Talk in (he .".Wane" mess had run on the greatest topic in France—the. After-, wards—and behind nearly every plan and dream there rhirked the desire for adventure, for new lands ami peoples, for something different from tho. old. wnye. • "I can walk back into ii/ comfortable post of i'3oo a year," announced a V.A.D. calmly, fiiigeriiiß a letter, as she spoke, ."but vhilo I'm pleased to think they want me back I just' dread the idqn. of returning. The comfort of it will cripple, im. Three hundred little gold chains will pull nio each.-time'J.sigh for the Enst, each time I ..." , ' . "Walk , back to your Uireo'lnimlredand giro tlwiiks as.you walk,-" broke iii ft voice. "Haven't yon heard of the hard times coming? Hwen't you'had enough adventure out. here?" "No, I've not," ' came, the decisive nnswer. "This hits'only just whetted my appetite for it. Iwant' to see the world before I get old. I want to travel/wmlo I can dauce and laugh, and be nhtired, and go everywhere and do everything, even if I have to scrape to do it. When I hear these liien calmly soy thnt they re going back to the Argentine, to China, or South At'ricd—remember that man v.liose job it wae to iiml water in the desert with camels and things?—l just Ion" more than ever to lauuch out and see the things I want to see, to raiso every halfpenny I've got,' risk the comfortable job, and take my chance alter--wards." . ■ .-...-•....

"It's a'dangerous time," declnred n hitherto silent lea-drinker. ■ "Hwtlessness is 'abroad. So many men and , ..women have a reluctance about going back (o the old- job or the old. conditions. .'There a just this armistice .interim; .just, the chance'of a lifetime to step out of the rut where circuinstances formerly placed one; just a glorious opportunity for snappiu" one's fingers at everyone and everything and- doing tho -thinp; one wants to do, even if it does seem risky financially. ])oes one always have to consider-wave and means-must the future always bo more important' than the present.?' _ ; "\ comfortable husband is luy.fear; declared a pretty, dark-eyed girl with an attractive mop of "dubbed" hair. 'H«s not a 'proposition' one turns down lightly in these days eitlier," sho added laughingly "but, with his' advent,, .adventure finishes! The things one wants to do with other girls, or by oneself, arc impassible. For instance, Lauvaaml 1 intend to take a caravan right through the South country and sell things, and make it pay. .No ordinarv husband is going toetond that, is he?' „ , ' "I wonder if any of us will really have the courage to launch out when we get homo, to risk comfortnnd ciipiinl, for our dreams?" queried a young "Wane. "There will be three, choice?—n comlortablo job, a comfortable husband, nnd'.advonture, pure.and simple." .( - "These three," said one of..the R"' ls as she'rose to rehirn to the'orderly .room. "Has it occurred to any of you people that'having secured the first, the other two follow with very little ingenuity?

By the latest mail news arrived of the en"««ement by Messrs. J. and N. Ttvit. ot Mr. Harry Dearth, one of tin; most popular concert and oratorio baritones in JM'gliiml. Mr. Dearth is to be supported by fv full concert company.

Tho growth of our business, is proofof our ability to produce I that soft, natural hanging costume, so much admired in Continental Models.- We have just received from England (ex Horornta) a shinmont of Winter C'ostumo Cloths in Checks and All-Wool Garba(lines. See our window display of costumes, mndo on the premises. A. J. Colonial), Ladies' Fashion Tailor and Furrier, 251 Lamljton Quay.—Advt. TDK PROHIBITION POLL. Electors in New.'Zealand to-day would liko vory much to know how the ■!! millions coinpenßtitioii is going to be paid to'tho dead, and gone liquor, interests after April 10. Tho sinking fund method will probably be employed. Payment by sinking fund simply means the payment of an even sum each year, over a given number of years, until n debt automatically cease?. Hundreds and thousands of folk to-day are paying buck lo building societies the loans on their homos or ure roijnyin,? money advanced by the Advances tn Settlors Board. Tho process is similar to that of buying an article on tho "easy terme" or "instalment" plan, of enjoying its use and convenience' yhilo.we <iro paying it off, instead of waiting until we have found Hio ready cash.' In the..ease of liquor compensation, pay men I by sinking fund, is doubly simple. The money drawn from liquor channels ami (ranei'urrcd to healthier industries will give an increased retnrn right away and payniont of the compensation will, be much onsior than the burden of koopimr the traffic and its unhealthy results. Strike out the lop lino on Thursday, April 10-' right out!—Advt.