A SENSITIVE PLANT.
A lady correspondent of a local paper wrote this week to com* plain of " the extreme discomfit " occasioned to many women by the pipes of smokers in the tramcars. " Can't smokers deny themselves the pleasure of indulging in tobacco until they reach their homes ?" —was what this sensitive person wished to know, aad she went on to say that she had known women almost fajnt from inhaling the fumes of tobacoo i( yet silently endure it." Evidently a sense of humour is not amongst this lady's gifts, or she must assuredly have been amused at her own letter. She coolly invades the car supposed to be set aside for the use of smokers and then complains of their pipes ! Over and over again 1 have seen smokers driven out on to the 'platforms of both trams and trains to make room for ladies who have no business to enter smoking compartments a,t a.ll,
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 May 1919, Page 3
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156A SENSITIVE PLANT. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 22 May 1919, Page 3
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