Filia Loquax, Mater Loquacior
HERE is only one Aunt Daisy, and Barbara is her prophet. It has taken us some time to come to this conclusion, and during Aunt Daisy's visit to ' America we were tempted to embrace the heresy that there were two Aunt Daisies. Certainly woman was seldom so blessed in her deputy as Aunt Daisy in Barbara. The Morning Session, as conducted by Barbara,\is a good one. Years of familiarity have trained her in the use of the vox perpetua, and there is the same zest for her subject, the same sense of caring about ‘those mothholes in the musquash and wetas in the woodpile. We prophesy. that in time Barbara will have as much claim as her mother to being regarded as the Dorothy Dix of affairs of the hearth, but meanwhile her youth is against her. She is the preduct of this age of hurry and bustle, she has a place to get to and a plan for getting there. And, being young, she has less of that bubbling exuberance, that Miranda-like faculty for perpetual and joyous acclamation of the commonplace which we associate with Aunt Daisy’s Morning Session. Now that Aunt Daisy herself has taken over again we realise that there can be only one Aunt Daisy.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 10
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213Filia Loquax, Mater Loquacior New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 384, 1 November 1946, Page 10
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