MAIDEN AUNTS
Sir,-Has "Sister of a Maiden Aunt" ever read Punch? Now, aunts are not glamorous creatures, as very often their features tend to be elderly caricatures of your own, y Aunts use egti-de-cologne and live in’rather out-of-the-way places, and wear pointed white shoes with laces tied in a neat bow. But aunts are kind and quite resigned to the fact that you. will, not 0 ‘pear ’ them. for years. © s and then bring them your tears, Ny ce) Although at your tender age as you resent their neglect of the Stage, their inability to differentiate: pefiveen jazz and swing, _. a and their poor reactions to Bing, the day. will dawn .when’ they- will ris up like tocks, — sheltering you with wate long imprime frocks and cornflowered hats worn at such hopeless slants- am your nigh forgotten, soon rememberéd) ‘aunts. : , —
DISILLUSIONED NEPHEW
(Wanganui)_
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 337, 7 December 1945, Page 5
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