RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34147, 7 May 1976, Page 18

RANDOM REMINDER

MARCH OF TIME

Daughters who go overseas and stay there for a while usuallv co re home to the nest. And when they do. nn.e tii out of 10. they are on the surface entirely dittereni people. The little girls who bid their parents tearful farewells come back as polished. elegant beauties, mature in body and intellect. And sometimes it is hard to remember . The Christchurch woman was thrilled to have her daughter back

home, after six years of travelling overseas. To the mother, the daughter had become a marvel of confidence and efficiency. And she was delighted to be “taken" to town the following day by this striking. well-groomed young woman. Habit, however, sometimes dies hard. Mother, as of yore, boarded the bus first and tendered the fares for them both . . . "One and a half to the Square, please . . There was an urgent

cri de coeur from the rear. “No, no, no Mum. I’m not a half now, you know.” Both the bus-driver and the mother dissolved in laughter as they surveyed the elegant sft Ilin of polished pulchritude. But it was nothing to the merriment of the daughter when she discovered it was her mother who was the half . . . since last they had been together, mother had joined the ranks of the senior citizens.