Sweet Lavender
[Ee ROMANCE OF PERRUME is the rather hackneyed title of the series of recorded talks by Mrs. Dorothy Neal White now being heard from 2YA; hackneyed because, after all, it needs no Dorothy Neal White from Dunedin to tell us what the copywriters have been telling us for years. The talks which I have heard so far were, however, by no means commonplace, and eschewed any suggestion of the cloying sweetness expected from the title, though I think Mrs. White cheated a little by devoting a lot of time-at any rate in her second talk-to the Astringent Herbs. (Think how she'll wish she hadn’t if she ever gets round to The Romance of Medicine). Mrs. White produced not only interesting fancies, but interesting facts (I personally vouch for the truth of her suggestion that a drop of perfume on the upper lip is either a cure for sleeplessness or a compensation for it.) Moreover, I like these speakers who go out of their way to point out to listeners that there’s often sound medical justification for an old wives’ tale, since I regard this as another blow struck in defence of the sacred concept of Woman’s Intuition,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 8
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199Sweet Lavender New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 8
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