A PRESENT.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 7, 9 January 1937, Page 3 (Supplement)

A PRESENT.

GRANDMA'S IDEA. WARDROBE V. WIRELESS. (By E.S.) Grandma has a beautiful home, but furnished in the style of 30 years ago. The members of the family, who like to bring their friends there when in town, at various intervals have tried to persuade grandma to refurnish in the latest oak or walnut designs, but she always says "'Dad likes it, and it suits me." However, the other day grandma said she was going to buy herself a present and asked me to go shopping with her. On the way she confided that she was going to put out the waslistand in her bedroom and buy a nice cupboard instead. Well, after arranging to meet grandad later, we bought the cupboard. At the appointed time the shopman carried it to the footpath and started to put it in the car. Didn't grandad make a fuss! "I won't have it. I won't have that thing in the house," he almost yelled. A crowd started to gather, but grandma just whispered to the astonished shopman "Sh! It's all right. He thinks it's a wireless." A few moments later we left with grandad muttering a few swear words that we thought he had left on the farm years ago. On arriving home he refused to help us lift the cupboard in. After tea grandma and I retired to the bedroom and lifted out the beautiful old-fashioned washstand and rearranged the furniture.

Presently grandad knocked and shamefacedly said, "Well since you have bought the thing let us see how it works," and walking to the cupboard opened the door. It was too much for me. Wit'h a yell of smothered laughter I fled.

Now the family has ordered them a wireless for a belated Christinas present.