FOR THE GIRLS

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

FOR THE GIRLS

OUR HAPPY LAND. , CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES, Dear Girls, — What a dreadful lot of horrible things seen to h.l pening lately in other countries. When we read the nl? , of the newspapers it makes one feel all creepy go on ever so peacefully, and sometimes nothing exciting happens, and yet we ought to fell happy. How awful to wake up in the monuaTaS"!* your house swimming about and your bed 'rr ir7ii_ or that you were buried up by the earth fallin. you, and these are a few of the things that laM happening quite recently while we have heee " along in the same old way, but I wonder if ,o« reJM? amount of freedom young New Zealand is ilUmid gj! parison with young people in other countries; Why, in South America, you would never dare I. to a dance without a chaperon, and ntrt -n ** to dance without a partner unless he had first mission to be allowed to do so from your father or mother. After the dance was over you would be Ju! straight back to your parents—and never nrimin 11 sit out for a nice little chat. Penwtted to They also have a custom there, which, to mv m ;~l - rather beautiful. When a girl gets married live in a big house with her husband's people, and * ' there will be also living there her husband's -HtTT"? her husband and children, and next door to von mother and father will take a house, and perhaps also HZ brother with his wife and children, and perhaps win - then another brother or aunt or cousin; when yon , 7°*T it is in batches of fifteen and sixteen people at atiZZ and you will share expense of the household together mj! have a cook and housemaid and gardener ' **" You have nothing to do all day but «ibh yourself ..I have a lovely big house; all sharing like this you can affZj it far more than one family having to pay out for one hoU alone. They are ever so happy this way—and never because there are so many to take an interest in thiT.7 and you very seldom hear of them quarrelling all the little children join in everything the W do, and stay up at night, going to bed only when thcv elders do. Of course, it is fearfully hot there, and yon rsT in the middle of the day. It is in the cool of the - you begin to «njoy things, and hardly any enlertaiaina* commences 'until 9 o'clock. Just the Hn»t we thiafc J going to bed, and on Sunday, all the theatres and cianw and dancing halls are open.

Girls' dresses are so lovely. They wear the J --|n? l rt silver and gold slippers even in the streets, 4walk only a very lHtle, and never carry a parcel on aav account, or a basket, like we do. The cook does all th* shopping. She goes down about five o'clock in the mor» ing with a big basket on her head, which she even when it is quite full, for she never wears a hit B ,|, the wealthy people wear hats; neither does she rtsj shoes or stockings-

It is so funny; the men all wear and carry umbrellas as well, even when they are on hardly ever see a poor man without his umbrella, Hal the year round he is not allowed on the tram car withe* his hat. The poor children who go to school are obfigei to wear one boot, so yon sea sometimes two children goiag along with their books with one boot each. But a boy or a man is never under any circumstances allowed without Us coat in public. 1 know a little English boy who was sank to school with a sailor blouse and knickerbockers. He about six years old, and what do you think? Why the policeman stopped him and took him back hom«. Well, 1 would love to tell you heape and *--tp about other countries, but Peter Pan is telling me I tea' much, so 1 shall have to tell you more about other a \ . » little girls in other lands another time.