The English Housewife
} "Most of all, the English housewife deserves praise. It is she who has had to battle with the hundred and one restrictions and shortcomings of daily life, and after nine years of it she is exceptionally cheerful about it all. I’ve been to many homes, and although the hostess has always apologised, and sometimes complained, about shortages, I’ve seen her cope with them most efficiently. Her meals have been frugal but dainty, and it is to her more than anybody else that the credit is due for England remaining the same. Her cheerfulness does not allow a visitor to see that England has changed."--Begum IkramUllah giving BBC listeners her impressions of London. a
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 517, 20 May 1949, Page 21
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116The English Housewife New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 517, 20 May 1949, Page 21
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