HIGHER PURCHASE.
= Sir.-The witty little sketch under the above title brought a lump to even my tough old throat. The house could have been ours, except that there was no canary, no tap, and no washing machine. But the floor and the range were just like that. I only wish the writer could live for only six or seven years in such a house, have five babies, and the sort of health that goes with five babies in rapid succession, have to pump and carry every drop of water required for the washing that five babies necessitate, and then write the sketch afresh. Let the kitchen floor and range look as they will, there is nothing my soul yearns for as it does for a washing machine. I would like to see Social Security Benefits include a free washing machine to mothers of five and more children. I am sure the writer of the Story was once at the unappetising crawling yearling stage also, and was the cause of the usual uninviting baby washing, too, And for that matter, history records the tale of a Woman who had to have her Child in a stable, and cradle it in a manger. She, poor soul, was not lucky enough to have a washing machine, To the mother of five, I would say, "Good luck to you! You deserve it!"
JOY
FLANAGAN
(Motupiko).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 183, 24 December 1942, Page 3
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231HIGHER PURCHASE. New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 183, 24 December 1942, Page 3
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