PEKES OR BABIES
WOMEN AND DOGS. Mr George Josephs, London, who has been visiting Sydney, has made some very caustic comments about Mayfair matrons who think that, having babies is “too, too, utterly utter . . . “They keep Pekineses instead,” he said, “and take them out as sort of accessory wear, like handbags . • .” Mr Josephs knows one prominent society woman who has six Pokes, all different colours. She chooses them for outings to match her furs. The little Fidos have a male nurse and the weekly upkeep is about £2O.
Mr Josephs says that London’s new fire-side game for winter nights is word squares. You make a square — each his own —and fill it in with 25 squares like a crossword puzzle,, five across and five down. You take it-in turns to call a letter and everyone puts it down in a square—no changing once it is on paper —and when the complement is called, points are given for words formed across and down.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 April 1938, Page 5
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