Sir,-Sometimes your leading articles annoy me, and this week was one of them. I was fiot atnused by your supposed to be amusing remarks about the Grace Kelly wedding. Just because it is a very smiall country does fot make Prince Rainer III any less a prince. There was a lot of publicity about our own Royal wedding too, and perhaps you thought the same about that, but did not like to say so. All women loved feading about
our Royal wedding, in every little detail, the satme as we all loved feading about’ the Kelly wedding; pethaps more so, oh account of the terrific rofhance attached. It may surprise you to learn that a lot of people knew before the wedding that the pedple 6f Motiaco ate called Monegasques. Another thing, you sneer at the Casino, sayiiig that. gambling is their main contribution to the work and welfare of mankind. Have you forgotten that the people of Monaco as 4 whole aré brifiging up families, even as you atid I, and no doubt there ate butchers, bakers, and candlestick makérs there, earning a living, leading good lives, perhaps helping each other, and being charitable, quite apart from any gambling. To my mind, our T.A.B. is a far more cold-blooded way of contributing to the country’s finances than the colourful Casitio at Monte Carlo, but because we have the T.A.B. in our midst it does not méan that it is our sole contribution to the work and Welfate of mankind. A wothan who is bringing up a family, and doing her housework, and looking after her husband in an efficient manner, is leading the life she was intended to live, no matter what her countty. A previous leader of youts about men wearing pyjamas, when you threw Dr. Marie Stopes into the discafd because of her views, also annoyed me. Pyjamas are much more: sditable wear for women than they are for men, from reasons of health, as Dr. Stopes meant, and hundreds of years ago Eastern women wore pyjamas, and men wore togas, and nightshifts. In An , nightshirts are coming in and ate much more
comfortable. —
JUST A HOUSEWIFE
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 877, 25 May 1956, Page 5
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