WHY SMITH STAYED AT HOME.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 7

WHY SMITH STAYED AT HOME.

(By Faith Foster.) “I’m busy furnishing a flat,” declared Mrs Smith when I met her among the carpets and mattings. “What, moving” I asked. “No, furnishing a flat for Jack at the top of the house,” she said. We talked it out. She had noticed the tendency of sons to acquire “digs” of their own—whether they married or remained bachelors. So after careful consideration she had arrived at the conclusion that if a flat it must be, it should be a flat under her own roof. In this, latter day economics aided her, for flats are hard to find. So the proposal was carried unanimously, the top-floor of the large house was made into a comfortable self-contained maisonette with its own front-door, and arrangements developed exactly as if there had been no connection between the two establishments. The last I heard of the venture was most encouraging. Mother and son were seeing more of one another than would have been the case had “Smith left home.” She even whispered to me that she saw more of him now than before he “set up in his own digs.”