Don't You Agree?

NZ Truth, Issue 1194, 18 October 1928, Page 18

Don't You Agree?

'THAT the marriage knot of tb--1 day is a slip-knot? That a better name for our working classes would be the great unsquashed? • . . Thati .the/avcrago best -seller is an affair of peptonized passion? That all this to-do about the modern evening dress is a fuss over nothing— or next to nothing? That if, as somebody says, modern music is all the pAssions made audible, modern, dancing is. most of them made visible? - That one, product of education is the word-perfect gentleman? # That; judging by the number of times most'-of them 'marry, a screen actress' life must be just one darned ring after another? , .

IIIIIIIHIIHIIIHimiIMIIhMMHIIIIIIIIIUHIHHIIHHHIIIHHHNIIHMIIIIIIIHIIIimiIIiniIIIiIIIHIIIIIIHIIIIimi 1 - BOWSES BEAUTIES • ISNT; ,it about time some of ;OUK.proV, * gressive people .:• introduced - ;tlie little bowser-statibiv girl to New;Ze&r land society? ■ ' • ..-'■.,'' -'^ Over 'in. A Sydney town, : the. hearty eye and engines.of" the weary ■•mp'torist are refreshed simultaneously, 'by, the sight of a sweet 'young thing, m dainty linen' uniform and peaked cap, ; who handles j the hose with as much, dexterity, as aj Hollywood screen actress petting her tame boa-constrictor. Long ago, it dawned, on even tht; most darkened mind 'that women-work-ers are quite as efficient as hieh. /Ask the Sydney-returned motorist whether they aren't also, twice as courteous ahcl seventeen times as charming. ' One Wellington garage-man, ; m a wild burst of the Kruschen; feeling at its best, took on two girls at his pump station. So. far,' so excellent, but; he forgot about the natty little uniforms which add, as it were, the professional touch to the peach. - • Those who have war-time recollec- , tions of land girls and lady bus conductors will agree that tunic, cap ana | knickers are "the ideal' working garb for a! woman engaged m any sort of outdoor IMbor. Tne New Zealand station-owner Who first putfi this into practice will pi obabiy be killed m the rush, but he'll have done his Boy Scout act for I the day.