Other People's Troubles
NE has long suspected that Dorothy Dix’s columns and other such places where pefsonal problems are aired in public are valued not so much for the guidance they give to the people con-
cerned as for the Roman holiday they provide for onlookers. Striking proof of this is given by 1ZB’s weekly session "Personal Problems," where I heard such matters arbitrated upon as (1) whether a young woman who is taken out for the evening owes her escort a few parting kisses, and'(2) how, without bullying, a woman may induce her husband to help her with the dinner dishes instead of sinking into an armchair with & pipe. The answers given were in good taste without being witty or profound. But the session operates at 2:15 p.m. on a Friday, at which hour every able-bodied young woman is in an office or factory, and every housewife shopping. Those around the house are only the aged and infirm, or the temporarily bed-ridden (as I was myself when I heard this session for the’ first time last week). A more innocent amusement could scarcely be devised for us, nor a more futile one for that matter. \
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 305, 27 April 1945, Page 12
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196Other People's Troubles New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 305, 27 April 1945, Page 12
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