Travelling by Proxy
ROBABLY the housewife who yearns to travel is not as common as she used to be, since travel is no longer a carefree sequence of folder collecting, deck cabin, and luxury hotel. So we are glad to have someone as sensitive and sensible as Miss Joan Airey to do our travelling for us, and present us with the results in three neatly arranged 15minute packages. Her talks on the British Industries Fair, heard from 2YA on Tuesday mornings, are refreshingly practical. Her first talk, on Fashions at the ‘British Industries Fair, possibly — appealed more to the essential Eve, but Martha had a good innings in Things to Come. What woman can fail to respond to the idea of "scrubbing brushes in gay colours to tone with your kitchen"? (If such there be, go, mark her well, She’s why the Home Aids’ ranks don’t swell.) Miss Airey’s final talk, "Science to the Rescue" will probably find us all waiting like Andromeda for the Perseus who will save us from the monster of domesticity. For a monster remains a monster even though its scales ‘be of plastic and its breath radio-active.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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192Travelling by Proxy New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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