Week-end Chat

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 119, 5 June 1937, Page 10

Week-end Chat

' ' P1CTURE LOVER. ' '

"REVOLT."

' "PITTING'TIIE CAP." v

COUSIN

ROSE.

COUNTRY ANDg TOWN.

Dear Everyone, — I have an interesting mail of letters this week and many thanks to .those who sent them. Some'cf the letters are as follow: — Dear Cousin Eoso, — As X travelled up by train from the south to Hastings recently I wondered if tho oharm of the marshy parts ever ntruck my fellow travellers. In the late afternoon pa-rticularly, the light on the bulrushes, the refiections in tho water, tho early winter glow on the sharp]y-cut liilis secmed to me vvorthy of Lamorna Birch. Look aud see. It is a different type of scenerv from any other part of New Zealaud that I happen to know. — Yours.

w ijf Maybc sotne Avojucn and girl rcadcrs will give thoir views in answer to thc following lctter. It is iinportant to hcar what women who earn think about this: — Doar Cousin Roso, — Every time 1 pay tho unemploymcnt tax I revolt • against the injustiee of it. When I am out of wprk I do not draw a penny from tlie fund creatod by this tax on women 's oarnings. Only thc meu can get back from the 'fund what women as well -as men pay in. . Women should refeuse to pay at. • Tliero is no more unjuet tax than this. What do other girls think wheu they meekly hand over their tax to support meu ?- — Yours, -

£ •* - 4=^ - ' Dear Cousin Rose, — I 'was struck vvitli an address given rocently'by a man froin Ehgland. Ho said that we are too apt to be Spectators and not active agents. This is surcly the case with music. Wo turn ou Cortot or Friedmau and very beautiful it os. But at onc timi: '• hoi'ue' music gave1 a grcat deal of ' plcaeurc aud now this has -greatly - lapsed. SOnietimcs -untrained Yoicos ' 'siug with niorc appreeiation ' and ' frcshncss tliau tlie thordughly traiucd. But it is difiicult to fiud ; anyono who cau play an aecomnanimeut well. I supposo that we'sliall ncver returu ' to "singing in the home circle, but it v is_a loss in our lives fo bo contcnt •to be mere "snectators." — Yours,

■ • t- itf ■ ' . 1 thank the Waipukiiram rcader. who is eending old stockings (not yet arrived) for tho . crippicd • person in 'Napier who makes them fnto rnats. The letter says:— Dear Cousin Rose, — I had intended sendihg these stockings long be- ' foi-e' thds" for the crippled lady whom you s'aid works'them up into mats. I trust ehe is still able to u'so her - hands; it is sad to know of anyone so crippled. " ' - I trust the enclosed will be suitable. It is a consolation to be of some use to anyone. Your column in the Herald-Tribano is ' .always , very intoresting." Ho'ping fo hear other reader's opinions on Our weeklv discussion-lctters.