Vottings about Town

NZ Truth, Issue 1202, 13 December 1928, Page 21

Vottings about Town

Iwiging Up Father , > [ 'T the Parents'- National Edu- * I opal Institute sound attractive fort of- thihg to'-make a small feary, of homework and humbug, [frier .'.the best.-. manner- of Stalky, jits: nave still many things to ■^ij ;;jfheir ' children . don;t teach £'&'{, $he Institute' will. ' Down iii 1 Chrisj&i&rch, Dr. John Guthrie has A been:v>flfiin^-,:.tl"« Canterbury -Women's,! ; Club\£.si«emijses with an awestruck |X crow^/^f.-'hleavy fathers- and middle!- * ; weight gammas. . I^^setting of scarlet roses and : I blu%> delphiniums, the congregation learned something about the abuse of the English language — not as "•: practised at Billingsgate, but as '.• learned and taught .unconsciously .:■ i by,»p!arerits of New Zealand. Th^ fsins '.of ' the fathers- shall be .. 1 visited; =xinv the- children.' So if little Tommyistrews his "h's" m an endless ' chairf. ■"around .the school playground, or Gertrdde' repeats exactly what lather-, said over the telephone when the "tfctfce with, a Grin produced an- - other:., wrong number, there is quite likeTy"t?6uble ahead. The importance of keeping English nine carat pure was explained by the professor, and large quantities of parents Went home with good resolutions m their hearts and the brightest and best English on their tongues. Two Winifreds WINNIE GUY, who was up m Wel- ■ ' W llngton a while ago showing us how posters are done m the best circles, shared the post of guest of honor ' at the Canterbury Women's Club with g« Madame Winnie Fraser, a musical tq lady -who wore vellunir tinted georgette . and bla,ck satin. , _ b Hailing from old New Zealand, Win- b| . nic Fraser has spent a wonderful time £ pursuing lost chords and so on m the kg i mostmusieal circles of the world. She ™ has heard the little bells tinkle out over olive groves above the Riviera, and the > big ones, boom over Vienna on a : Christinas midnight. : : -«E!ve'n, the dressing-rooms, m ' Vienna, (she says) are fitted out ; with;' pianos — to be able to play sonatas with one handwhilst doing • up ''shirt buttons with , the other ; must be something of an art, but 1 apparently the Viennese have masi tered /it. The Tyrol, Brussels and old Cologne . are rother places to which Winnie has • waved .•■!&• friendly-hand. Not the least pleasant of her experiences was to : descend, alone and rather blue, at one . city station, and see waving there a -■ New Zealand flag, inscribed with the pregnant words: "Christchurch here, please." • --. • This .belonged to an ex-citizen of the city.df weeping willows. Apparently a 3_.ittl§ New. Zealander sometimes goes a lohg: way. ' .... ... ■■• ::. •.-'. • * ■'.•■ •■ ' ■A Stitcli In Time ; Nowadays, the mere thought of sewp ing gives girls the stit9h. But just ', round aboiit these Yuletide months, the v girl who can do uncanny things with a ijj needle and a scrap or two of lace, scores I heavily the ."ready-made" young V thirigi .presents are, ..the £ banefAQf;vthe business gYrl ; s ; life —^\vhilst the and rejected Kome-girlsits I quiejjy m her. parlor and pleases every--t' body ' for about 1/6 a head.

Don t You Agree? THAT if you keep your nose to * the grindstone long enough, your children will be able to turn theirs up? . That matrimony is more than a word— it's a sentence? That modern . man goes to his club, where the primitive husband would have reached for it? That what . some wives won't realize is, gas has been replaced by electricity? That m married life differences are less dangerous than indifference? f That another sad case is that of the starving moths m modern girls' clothing?