A PLAYFUL peek round the shops is the best possible tonic in these so very trying times. Always forget your worries, I say, if possible in some way, and what way could be more compellingly delightful than the contemplation: of just those little things which make all the difference between a house or a. flat and a home?
Such fun as I had among the gadgets which such kind, clever people are now turning out for our benefit. I can but describe but a tithe of them—- Jewelled, clastic straps to shut doors with absolutely the right, homey, soft slick: blotting-paper "pinnies" in a delicious variety of colours for the careful, wee housewife who washes up her own. precious cocktail glasses: time-saving ash-trays which clip to the chin...
And, above all, do not forget that the best possible way of having a rumour confirmed is to obtain an official denial.
I am indebted to a revered contemporary for quoting the following from Woman's Jour?
"Men have a sense of frustration because e unable to give birth to anything but This may, of course, be a whimsical remark, a little piece of cheek in the tongue., I cannot say without the context.
But, such is our progress in psychology and pollywollyology generally, that I am prepared: to fake it seriously Men, then, have only to be psycho-analyzed by an expert to be made to realise that they ate frustrated because they are not women, Then they shall fee perfectly calm and tranquil, and will give birth to no more ideas, And then women will suffer from a really magnificent sense of frustration because men produce no ideas for them to criticize.
It seems women are easier to live with as they are.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.