For Rainy Saturdays
AT the age of 5 the average boy makes boats out of match boxes, walnut shells, and the lids of boot boxes. At the age of 50 he is still making boats, only he is using more expensive materials, to derive the same pleasure. Not every man takes to making boats as a hobby. Some of them take to making
trains or aeroplanes. Others like to fiddle with glorified Meccano sets and make engines that work -eranes and windmills and such like implements. We all knew that. But until we held an exhibition none of us knew to what quaint and fantastic uses some men turn their spare time. We didn’t know, for instance, that one man spent the rainy Saturday afternoons ffor six
years building up an exact replica of a Viennese palace -- that another had collected — with what patience one can only imagine --- 21,410 dead matches for the purpose of building a palm stand, and an almost similar number for making a miniature garage, complete with motor tractor. Beside such industry the average woman stands appalled and thinks of her little efforts with a becoming humility-(" Hobbies for Husbands." Mrs. StampTaylor, 1YA, November 19.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 5
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199For Rainy Saturdays New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 128, 5 December 1941, Page 5
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