UNNECESSARY DUTIES.
Not too much leisure, but too little, is the complaint of the average middTeclasa woman. Her time is taken up, frittered away, with a hundred and one things that do not want doing, and that she does not want to do. Set these against the real Joy of a feal leisure Aour. The book you want to read,.against tea with» woman yon do not want to talk to; time to enjoy your garden,, against the mistaken idea that it is your duty to walk round the shops. Shopping steals countless hours. Forethought and method can reduce household shopping to one expedition a week, and save money on it. Who really wants callers dropping in? The old-fashioned plan of a weekly a day/» on which you disposed of all the well-intentioned bores at a sitting, had its points as" a leisuresaving plan (says a writer in an exchange). If there are ■children, why, yon must 1 get leisure somewhere to enjoy them and to let them enjoy you., A disconsolate five-year-old, repulsed from some urgent confidence, bewailed sadly: "What is the use of a mummy who's always busyt" Our lives bloom in leisure. There would be no daffodils if the bulbs didn't ait still a bit.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 24
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207UNNECESSARY DUTIES. Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 154, 2 July 1927, Page 24
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