RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31152, 31 August 1966, Page 28

RANDOM REMINDER

FLY BY NIGHTS

The impetuosity of youth Is extremely useful to older people, for it gives them something more to talk about. Impetuosity may be a failing. But often it is a delight, for if the impetuous person makes mistakes through haste, he can just as often make friends, because he has behaved naturally. Impetuosity takes many forms, and is seen in very many different guises. One of the strangest of which we have ever heard was displayed by an entirely admirable young woman who was well advanced in her nursing studies. It is widely recognised that nurses are not given a falsa sense of their value

to the community by being grossly overpaid. But this one had saved some money, possibly through her devotion to her studies. And at her hospital, she had two particular nursing friends. The three of them were inseparable. One for all, all for one, and so forth. One morning in the mail, our heroine received a letter from Sydney. In it was an invitation for her and her friends to attend a twenty-first birthday party. In Sydney. It seemed a little unfortunate that the party should be held that very evening. It was, rather obviously, one of those invitations sent by a writer who immediately crossed the recipient’s

name off the list of prospective guests. But she did not know her nurse. Over lunch, this impetuous Nightingale decided to fly. She further decided to take her friends with her. She had the money ... if they were willing. They were. That evening, they flew to Sydney and caused, of course, a sensation by arriving at the party. It was a superb advertisement for the quality of trans-Tasman air traffic that the three nurses reported for duty next day. as fresh as if they had spent their night tucked up in their little beds, with matron watching over them, instead of winging their way acrosi the sea. ’