CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 283, 28 November 1940, Page 6

CORRESPONDENTS' VIEWS.

WOMEN'S AUXILIARY. (To the Editor.) Being- a somewhat elderly woman with her fling left far behind and * future of slippers and digestion pills, I am not entirely to blame for believing just what I read. Therefore, when I read some weeks ago that some woman had cooked up a social club for debutantes which had developed into a. scratching ]>ens for cats, well. I nodded my old grey head (it isn't what it used to 'be) and said, '-.Stuff and nonsense, wofcieirs place is in the home, etc., and so forth." I sneered (in ladylike fashion) from beneath my bonnet whenever I spotted a kliaki-clad female and once deliberately sniffed at one. But that is changed now and a soldier lassie did it. From the top of Queen Street to the bottom I had seen their smilinpr faces as they shook boxes suggestively last Friday and at the CP.O. I stood on the steps for 30 minutes watching a lassie's merry face as she waggled a heavy box through rain and shine. She had a happy grin for everyone, answered questions sensibly and didn't push that box under anybody's nose. So I toddled down those steps that afternoon and put the 10/ note hoarded for my summer hat into her 'box. just because her eyes were brown and her smile was real and pay—a real tonic to an old lnxly like me. .Such girls, if she is a general sample, are needed nowadays, and the woman who has the courage to band them all together is needed, too. THREE CHEERS.