CITY GIRLS AND COUNTRY GIRLS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 246, 18 October 1927, Page 6

CITY GIRLS AND COUNTRY GIRLS.

I beg the indulgence of your columns to express my sincere sympathy with "City Girl and her typical city girl expressions in your issue of the loth instant. Immature age and an extremely slender knowledge of life generally, no doubt, are the reasons for her statements. To compare the country girl's lot, working in many cases from daylight till dark, constantly and with no diversion, and often in mud up to her ankles in the cowyard, and many other duties equally as hard and uncomfortable, with that of a city girl, whose daily thought and slogan, as "City Bachelor" rightly states, is "on with the dance," silk stockings, rouge and joy-riding, is equivalent to comparing a peanut with an iceberg. City girls can leave their work behind at five o'clock and during week-ends and public and yearly holidays, while Miss Country Girl has in many cases not a day to spare. Her nose is to the grindstone morning, noon and night, and often in lonely surroundings. Any city girl who does her work in an intelligent and proper way should as time goes on find the work easier. A billet calling for routine in any shape or form can, if thoughtfully and efficiently performed, be made like a new engine in a motor car. The more you work it and tune it in, the easier it runs. If routine work in city offices can truthfully be described as brain work, as " City Girl" suggests, then the employer with his organising responsibilities and with many hands dependent on his knowledge has my heartfelt sympathy. Any fool, girl or boy, can punch away at a typewriter or add up two and two and still be described as a hard worker, but I have yet to meet the sane, healthy and reliable individual whose daily work requires long hours, heavy thinking and great responsibilities who would prefer a stuffy ballroom full of giggling girls to a round on the golf links, a sail up the harbour, a dip in the sea or a brisk walk into the country. I venture to say that "City Girl" when she grows up (which for women in these modern times takes fully fifty years) will change her disjointed outlook and perhaps appreciate that in some ways " narrow-minded-ness," as she describes "City Bachelor's'' description of the country girl, is, after all, the fundamental backbone and mainstay of any home or country. ANOTHER CITY BACHELOR.