AND THE KITCHEN SINK?

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27612, 19 March 1955, Page 6

AND THE KITCHEN SINK?

. [By WHIM WHAM) An insidious way of inducing people to have liquor in their homes was the broadcasting of recipes containing alcoholic liquors and also the publication of such recipes in the “New Zealand Listener.” This was the feeling of delegates to the Dominion convention of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. . . . A protest will be made to the Government.—News item.

Honour, as always, to whom Honour is due: On this Occasion, to the W.C.T.U. Ladies, by Us Jokers you deserve to be saluted. Though in your Ranks we’re scarcely eligible to be recruited. Having the Misfortune neither to be Women nor famous For our personal Temperance (yes, you may blame us) And Christian if at All according to our own flickering and smoky little Lights. We admire if we can’t emulate these strenuous Flights Into the upper Altitudes of Temperance Thinking— We look up, Ladies, In the odd Moments we take off from Drinking, To those chaste if chilly Heights upon which you ponder The culinary Uses of Alcohol—Ah, yonder Where you cast upon our Kitchens those bright admonishing Eyes, Upon the tainted Trifles, the lurking Menace of Mince Pies, The Soups that insidiously intoxicate, the harmless Fish Ball even, turned into a subtly depraving Dish! The little Wife in her Kitchen with her dainty Oven-cloth May be a Borgia unawares, a Brewer of Hell-broth— Oh shun the Cooking Sherry, the Flavouring of Rum, From which who knows what calami- ; tous Results may come! Ban, ban those Recipes, whether broadcast or printed, Wherein such Practices are propagated or even hinted At! Ban likewise those Songs on which we frown, Little Brown Jugs and Taverns in the Town! Anything to oblige, Ladies! But you’ll excuse Us for thinking you a Trifle intemperate in your Views. .