POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25447, 19 March 1948, Page 3

POINTS FROM OTHER LETTERS

“Grandma” urges that the King and §ueen should not be shown the hristchurch railway station. “Tactfully steer them round the back way or they will think they have arrived at the most deserted outpost in the Empire,” she writes.

On “Cosmetics” “Guess” writes: “These sanctimonious old has-beens and wrinkle-faced old witches who want to 'fight it’ give me a pain in the neck. ... If it is wrong to make one’s face beautiful—or try—then surely it is wrong to wave one’s hair, or to brush and comb it”

On the same subject. “Be Wise” endorses what “Fight It” and V. Fisher write about painted lips. “If girls only knew what a sight they look,” writes “Be Wise,” “they would drop that dirty habit. What a treat it is to see girls and women how God made them, so natural in the sight of God and men.”

Defending Mr J. K. Moloney’s remarks about the intelligence of women, “Deadwood Dick” writes: “As a defender of women’s intelligence at the Round Table J. K. Moloney was ‘the verv gallant gentleman’; defending a client in a Court of law. he. I suggest, will consistently, reveal himself as a very astute advocate. After all. he won his case; and that tvas ’the job in hand.”

“A Progress Supporter” agrees with “Progress” that “Cashmere road is in a shocking and dangerous state for any children. . , . Mothers have told me their children come home tired, and.their cycles are shaken to pieces by this narrow, shingle track.”

A. E. Peach (Rangiora) asks if any reader can relate the legend of the “Headless Dragon.”' “There is one, I know, and it is reproduced on pottery or ware in the form of vases of different shapes.”

On the crisis in Czechoslovakia. “H.S." writes that in 1938 it was “fthe democracies’ which shamefully betrayed the Czechs. . . Viewing European affairs impartially, one cannot but be concerned with the unfairness of the propaganda hurled daily against Russia, frem our radios, newspapers, and magazines, thereby deliberately stirring up mass hatred, while no mention is made of the repressions and I tyranny of Fascism.”