RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33664, 14 October 1974, Page 24

RANDOM REMINDER

TREASURE TRUST

Marrying a woman who positively bursts with the domestic virtues may not be the good fortune of all of us. On this subject, we can not spreak from firsthand experience; but we have heard of supremelygifted housekeepers whose homes always look like advertisements from the glossy women’s magazines, whose cake and biscuit tins bulge with calories, who can put together a four-course meal of supreme quality at 10 minutes notice. We did actually meet one woman whose floors were so glossy they were almost death traps, and whose smallest, very smallest room always contained a vase of fresh flowers. We can recall a companion at school whose mother made

everyone remove their shoe's at the door and had them padding about in socks. And we were told, by one who can not lie, about a woman who even scrubbed the lamp post outside her gate. And now we can recount the unhappy tale of a lady who, if not in the super class of housekeepers, would get an A plus almost anywhere. She works, part-time, and one day recently a delivery arrived at the office which demanded that room be made for it. She suggested to the boss that she would remove unwanted material, suitable for sale, from various drawers and put the new stock in them. He knew better than to disagree, and she felt she had done a splendid job.

Glowing with satisfaction, she went home, cooked an impeccable meal, and had the washing up away so early that she felt she should run her vacuum cleaner over her bedroom. Once the carpet was done, perfectly. she realised she had time to tidy an already immaculate wardrobe. There were shoe boxes there, so she decided to take them all out and give the wardrobe the full treatment. Out came all the boxes. In went the vacuum cleaner. A pinging sound warned her something strange had been picked

up. In the privacy of her bedroom, she blushes with embarrassment. She had gathered in a coin — a 1947 half-penny.