RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30153, 10 June 1963, Page 17

RANDOM REMINDER

QUESTION TIME

A woman does not always appreciate how much of her man is given to the furthering of a career. This roses and honeysuckle stuff is all right in its place, but there's usually a mortgage on the cottage. So there are times when the weary worker does not remember to pay his loved one all the small attentions the experts says she treasures. On the other hand, there are women who appreciate this situation, and who set themselves out to ease the burden of bread-winning by rising

first in the morning to make tea, having his slippers warm for him when he comes home, qtc. She knows there are more important things than dashing about with a flower gripped firmly in the fangs. We know one young charmer who has been married several years, and who has made it her custom to look after her husband in all these small details. So it was with some misgiving one morning last month, that she woke to hear him saying he would make her a cup of tea. In her first tremor of

alarm, she wondered what was on his conscience. Then she recalled it was Mother’s Day, so snuggled down to enjoy the luxury of being waited on. He was back in the bedroom a few minutes later. Where, he said, did she keep the tea? She told him, stifling a desire to giggle. From the comfort of her bed she heard delightful sounds of rattling crockery and boiling water. But then he came back wearing a puzzled frown. • “Do you,” he said, “take milk and sugar?”