Sir-In a letter published in your issue of March 28, Mrs. Helen Garrett paints a gloomy picture of New Zealand
married womanhood. Surely’ it is the mind ‘that determines one’s personality rather than the crowded hours of "things to do." Many women with heaps of leisure time on their hands could be classed as "undistinguished mediocrities," but again, many of our busiest New Zealand mothers are very intelligent women, free thinking and well informed. One can always think, even though one is peeling a humble potato or scrubbing a floor. Among the numerous hours dedicated to domestic chores surely there is always the hour to spare for reading that new book or thought-provoking magazine article, or for listening to a stimulating radio programme (with the inevitable knitting or sewing in one’s hands), Domesticity need not be soul-destroying.
GRACE
KROGH
(Nelson).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 668, 24 April 1952, Page 5
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