As Ever Was
NEw ZEALAND’S natural phenomenon remains remarkably herself. Does anyone nowadays come upon Aunt Daisy some morning unawares? Discovering her is like opening a book by an unknown author and stumbling upon a rare character we should like to have invented ourselves. Countless indifferent mimics aspire to imitate her, but some quality of the original always eludes us. This morning it is vintage Daisy. Outside my window Wellington is bleak and grey, but a Very Nice Day with Nothing to Grumble About, she makes of that. Whisking us through a pictorial magazine she recognises familiar haunts with cries of joy, saving a positive paen for Paekakariki, as if there lay the abode of all earthly bliss. She bestows a gay warrant of fitness to govern ("they could run the country-the Junior Chamber"), finds time for a polite aside ("the Bishop’s son, you know"), momentarily loses herself among her papers whilst warding off a Dreadful Fly. Everything is said with gusto and a real delight in sharing experience. She is the buyer with a bargain or the shrewd window shopper: never merely the enthusiastic
saleswoman but always the Satisfied Customer. There lies the secret of her success.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 951, 1 November 1957, Page 23
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198As Ever Was New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 951, 1 November 1957, Page 23
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