IN THE DOLDRUMS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4432, 26 June 1922, Page 3

IN THE DOLDRUMS.

HARLEY STREET DOCTORS). A financial wind that gets chillier and chillier is blowing along Harley Street, that imposing but rather affrighting thoroughfare where every door bears the brass plate of a specialist in one or other pf> the many ills that flesh is heir to, The specialists are complaining bitterly of hal’d times. People, they say, cannot afford to be seriously ill nowadays, or else thsy are content with the ministrations of their family doctor, which come a good deal cheaper. This cev tainly seems a little ungrateful, for if Harley Street does cost you a little more you get a great deal extra tor your money. For instance, you get the pleasant thrill of having the door opened to you by a butler, whose dignity and impressiveness cannot be surpassed in either Belgravia or Mayfair; again, you get a period of suspenseful waiting in a most charmingly furnished ante-chamber, and, finally, you have the pleasure of being received by a very charming doctor, who is just as likely as not to tell you that you are the proud victim of quite the very latest fashionable ailment .of the moment. And all this, mind you, for a paltry three guineas. No wonder Harley Street is feeling aggrieved at the way in which peopile are neglecting it. Base ingratitude, I call It.—Overseas Daily Mail.