Useful About the House
OME men are what is known as useful. Others are referred to as useless about the house. The useless . ones are just shrewd husbands who have discovered that a reputation for uselessness saves wear and tear on brain and muscle. But the value of the useful ones depends on what form their usefulness takes. One of
the most notorious of the useful species is the domestic fixer. I don’t mean the man who actually fixes things, but rather the optimist who unvaryingly says " Leave it to me, I'll fix it." The hall-mark of the fixer is that ' everything he fixes is in a bigger fix after he fixes it than it was before it was fixed. But, if there is one quality a household fixer possesses above all others, it is
courage. We are proud to say this for haven’t we all been fixers in some degree in our day; that is, before we learnt that it is cheaper in the long run to get a plumber to fix the gas than to get a doctor to fix us after we have fixed the gas. But the fixer, in his heyday, will tackle anything from a choked sink
toa strangled bath.-
("The Man About the House."
Ken
Alexander
2YA, January 17.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 137, 6 February 1942, Page 5
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215Useful About the House New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 137, 6 February 1942, Page 5
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