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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 48, 19 May 1927, Page 4

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MUNDANE MUSINGS

GEORGE—AND HIS TROUSERS! Men are peculiar creatures —at least, husbands are. Ordinary men, of course, are easy enough to deal with if you have eyelashes—and know how to use them. I wonder why husbands should be so different? I’ve been married simply ages—well, six months —and even now I don’t understand George. Who would have thought, for instance, that he would have a gnawing passion for an old pair of trousers, really a very old pair, all shiny where he sat down? When the flower man came round with a perfectly lovely chrysanthemum me if “I ’adn’t a old pair of gentleman’s trousers in exchange,” of course l searched out George’s shabbiest pair. How was I to know that George cherished them above all his earthly possessions? Y'et it seems that he did. When I told him what I’d done, you’d have thought, at least, that I’d given the man his gold watch or his cuff-links in exchange for the plant. Apparently I might have parted with anything—even the portraits of his old cricket elevens which I always thought he valued more than life—if I’d left him that moth-eaten pair of trousers! I tried all the old ways of getting round George. Before we were married, if I just looked at him sideways and quirked my eyelashes at him, he came to heel at once. Now, I might pluck my eyes out and cast them at him — it wouldn’t have the least effect. It’s a Great Truth, and I only wish I could tell all the girls who are about to marry—Eyelashes may get you a husband, but it takes more than eyelashes to manage him when vou’ve got him! says an English writer. Well, George refused to be mollified and sulked the whole evening. He never spoke all through dinner except to say that the beef wasn’t done and the pancakes were leathery. When I told him he ought to be glad his ugly old shiny trousers had bloomed into a lovely chrysanthemum, he glared! When I said how pleased he ought to be that his trousers were keeping the flower man nice and warm he snarled! When I offered to advertise for the flower man and try to get his trousers back, I regret to say he swore. And they say that women are unreasonable! Nothing I could say would '.ft the gloom from George’s brow. Life without those trousers was, apparently, no use to him. Well, we couldn’t go on like that. Something had to be done. I saw I must have hysterics. I wasn’t quite sure I could manage them, but I knew that I must try. And I don’t think I did so badly, considering George was thoroughly frightened, anyway. And by the time he had quieted me down again and given me sal volatile and smelling salts and water, and laid me on the sofa, he was my humble and apologetic slave. When eyelashes fail, sisters, try hysterics. A really artistic display will work wonders! HOME NURSING The first of a series of lectures to Auckland women on home nursing was given last evening at the St. John Ambulance Station by Dr. Tewsley, who took for his text-book the splendid little treatise on home nursing that is published by the association and written by Miss Mildred Heather-Bigg, R.R.C., the matron of the Charing Cross Hospital and Lady of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. This excellent lecture, which was the first of a course of six, dealt with the scope of nursing and the qualifications necessary to a good nurse, and then Dr. Tewsley went on to discuss the human body and its composition, the blood and its circulation and the nervous system. The choice and preparation of a sick-room was discussed, as also was the necessity of proper cleaning and dusting, lighting, ventilation and warming, while practical instruction was given in the art of roller bandaging. These lectures, for which a merely nominal fee is charged, are at all times popular, providing as they do such essentially useful and clearly given instruction in all phases of home nursing. Intending students can obtain the fullest particulars concerning them from Mr. Rattray, the secretary of the local association.