YOUR NEIGHBOUR
HOW TO PROMOTE GOODWILL. Louisa Kay, the American expert on home problems, has offered a few suggestions for promoting goodwill with your neighbours. Neighbours, she says, are a problem no matter which social stratum you live in. Here are her ideas: (1) The finest inducement you can offer your fellow-creatures to stick to their own business is simply to stick to yours. (2) In a community of neighbours, kindliness and courtesy invariably meet with a similar response. (3) When your terrier breaks down the flowers in your neighbour’s garden, and she adopts an offensive tone in calling your attention to it, overwhelm her with courteous apologies. She is entitled to them. (4) Retaliation is sillly. It gets you nowhere, unless it is into more trouble. Dignity is more devastating than tantrums, and a sense of humour is the most precious contribution you can bring to the problem of neighbourliness. (5) If you make free of your neighbour’s houses, you must expect them to make free of yours—possibly with less restraint. If you indulge in scandalous speculation as to the private affairs of others, you must expect to come on to the dissecting table., .in your turn. ■
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 August 1938, Page 8
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