Talks for Women
"HE decision to have a Background to the News talk fortnightly in the 2YA Women’s Session is wise, I feel, particularly if all the talks are as broad in. scope as Frank Simpson’s first onerandom thoughts occasionally channelled into homily, ranging from American scientists loitering round the North Pole on an ice floe to thoughts of our own weather men on Campbell Island, the recent discovery that the ocean bed radiates warmth, conjecture about the possible conquest of Everest. There was: plenty to lead the imagination away from the narrow world of sink, stove and sand-pit; yet it was mercifully without the personal element which brings out the green-eyed monster in me when I listen to some ex-housewife’s equally broadening travelogue. For contrast in this particular session we had a Home Science talk on "Food for Mother," which, unlike Mr. Simpson’s, was written for women by a woman. It proceeded on the doubtless warranted assumption that the moron in Mother will, unlegs checked, lead her to chronic-irritability and early grave through tea and toast for breakfast, tea and bread and butter for lunch, and a substantial afternoon tea which leaves her no appetite for dinner.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 11
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198Talks for Women New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 11
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