Hot Water
UT the ones that don’t grow up-who remain "fearless and outspoken" at fifty-those are really very exhausting friends. They take such a lot of looking after. You’ve just pulled them out of an argument with the butcher on the proper way to cut up meat when you have to rescue them from a policeman whom they’re telling how to control the traffic properly. They get up into terribly hot water with your children, because they have a rooted idea that young people should be advised and set right and properly brought up. I may say that they are usually people who have no children of their own; if they had-and particularly if they had a daughter or two-they would realise that it’s the elders who have to be advised and controlled and generally kept in the straight and narrow path. Meantime, they put the family’s back up most terribly and you’re between the devil and the deep sea. Oh, nothing is more capable of mixing things up badly than an unbridled desire to speak one’s own mind.-(" Between Ourselves,’ Mary Scott, 2YA, August 13.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Page 5
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186Hot Water New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 114, 29 August 1941, Page 5
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