Learn a Useful Craft
lA FEW days ago I watched a man I know screwing off an old door handle, making fresh holes for the screws of the new handle and then screwing the
whole thing into place. He worked with an ease and precision that was delightful to watch and revived in me the wish, never very far distant, that the money that had been wasted on me in my youth in a vain attempt to make me an even tolerable performer on the piano, an instrument for which I had no aptitude at all, had been spent instead on having me taught some useful craft such as cabinet making, :- bookbinding, spinning or weaving, anything in fact that would have taught me to use my hands with accuracy and precision in creating something useful and beautiful. Of course I can put in screws, I can even drive in nails without hammering my thumb my mistake, so can my husband, but we are both more or less bush carpenters and lack the ease and confidence we would have had if we had learnt something about it in our youth-(Talk by " Margaret," 2YA, December 23.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 5
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194Learn a Useful Craft New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 80, 3 January 1941, Page 5
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