THE CITY SISTER.
Sir,-Last evening I listened into a talk from 2x fi by Mary Scott, and though full of sympathy for our backblock sisters I feel impelled to state the case for the city or surburban woman. Unless we practise strict self-denial, how can we save for our holiday in the country? The lure of the shops is our daily temptation, that continual dropping that wears away the petty cash. Not so disastrous is the one day in town every month. Even if we stay home the salesman comes, or the lorry from the farm with cases of early apples and windfalls. It was a sad tale of muddy. highways Mrs. Scott had to tell, but sometimes when descending our road to town, gingerly stepping on the slippery concrete, facing and expecting any moment to be sitting or lying with a fractured skull, I long for the muddy road it used to be, and wonder what will happen when rubber heels are unprocurable.
NEAR TOWN
(Napier).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 4
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167THE CITY SISTER. New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 153, 29 May 1942, Page 4
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