Mundane Musings

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 312, 24 March 1928, Page 19

Mundane Musings

Slave Sweethearts You see her everywhere, by the wayside, waiting: about outside liis place of business, catching cold outside theatres. You see her hanging on to “his” arm, and frankly adoring whatever he may say. Men may lik© the soft little clinging woman, but if she hopes to keep her lover, she must possess a backbone somewhere. The other day, waiting in a draughty railway station beside a bookstall, I saw a girl. She was standing in utter desolation, shivering. As I turned over some books, she was suddenly accosted by a young man who said in jaunty way: “Sorry I’m late. Been waiting long?” “Half an hour.” she replied. “But it doesn’t matter now you’ve come.” She smiled at him. They went off together amiably. Probably next time, she’ll have to wait an hour, and the time after that, he won’t turn up at all! You know, quite candidly, men nowadays very often possess the most appalling manners toward women in general, and it’s all our own fault. We put up with their offhand ways, their lordly fashion of expecting us to bow down and worship, because, to be frank, there are two million more women than men these days. But it’s all wrong somehow. A girl who tamely waits for a man ill-bled enough to ask her to meet him in a draughty station, and then turns up unpardonably late, is not only cheapening her sex, but her own value in his have known girls who go to a party, and dance only with him. When he does his duty to others, his liuneee sits, a weary wallflower, obviously waiting his further pleasure. When another girl would dance and appear to enjoy herself with other men allow one to take her home, and (presumably) forget all about her faithless fiance, the slave girl does nothing but sit about, fahe rc proaches him bitterly perhaps later on or, worse still, pathetically tiles to ignore’ his neglect. Being tactful with men like that -_ ~ verv we il but one can overdo it. Love you see. to a man. is only part of liis* life. To the girl, it fills her life to the exclusion of everything else But she doesn’t see that sometimes tiiis very absorption m her man ii fatal to her own future happiness. What man. I ask you. wants to marry a door-mat? _ A NOVELTY LAMPSHADE - noveltv is the “manAn .. a , n n e?fmS This consists of the 2“"" o a f a mandarin, complete with nguie 01 t carved in wood pig-tail.andlt P holds over liis and gafly P paper sunshade. This head a ; "hade to a small globe placed beneath it. and the e^ectric^ire - ‘development of the now ,,ip!ted lampshade which ren among o lighting fixtures, though > with coloured “atefby a “cracked” pottery jar.