"Firstborn"

New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 870, 6 April 1956, Page 17

"Firstborn"

WHAT girl wouldn’t give her eyetesth to be asked to pose for the cover of a national magazine? Yet when the photographer called on Susan Giilbert she was just too tired to move over, and as for making him a present of her eye-teeth-well, she wasn’t even promising him those when they came. That, by the way, is Susan on the cover of this issue, with Mother in her proper place, well in the background. For some months past, in fact, for the requisite number that a good baby takes to be born, Catherine Gilbert has been telling Commercial Division Women’s Hour listeners about Susan’s progress towards making her debut in the world, about her own feelings on the matter, and methods of making. that debut a real sticcess, both for baby and herself. Happy still, to trail a few clouds of glory into everyday life, Susan ‘has not objected to being made the subject of a further short series of talks which will be heard about May in Women’s Hour. But she will let Mother do all the talk-ing-about such matters as Piunket attendance, what to wear and when, food, and food again. A new series of talks by Dorothea Joblin is currently being heard from 2ZB and 3ZB on Fridays and begins next week from 4ZB and later from other Commercial stations in the Women’s Hout session. Mrs. Joblin calls her seties Essays in Understanding. Though they deal mainly with -adventure overseas, her talks describe what she learnt from the people she met in far-away places, while crossing the Atlaritic, when in the Philippines, in India, and so on, rather than simply the tourist’s eye-view of the picturesque. —