THE UNCOMPLIMENTARY FAMILY
when one is .fond of compliments (writes the.' Australasian") one should .not expect them from .one's : own family; but, on the other hand, if one requires a brutally frank opinioiij that is tho section of the community . 'that will supply,it. Of late I.have heard several bnll-gomg girls making a moan about their mothers. . They say that just as they are starting gaily forth in their ball array, feeling festive and at peace with all men, they receive what Dick Swiveller was .wont to call " a staggerer," by being informed that " instead of . pink they should have had yellow, and that Alice should have had blue instead of .that terrible green, that spoilt the colour. of her-eyes." Ono girl smiled as she said, "Oh, 1 am quite used to my mother's parting shot. She always leans over tho banister, and wails r 'Oh, dear, dear, when will you learn.to dress with . taste?' Well, do_you know, I would quite / miss that weird little remark of mother's. I. have grown so used to it, and I know sho doesn't mean it in the least.' It is only.becauso the' poor'dear is so-anxious that I should look better than anyone'else—but to strangers, it is, I confess, a little startling."-
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 247, 11 July 1908, Page 11
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207THE UNCOMPLIMENTARY FAMILY Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 247, 11 July 1908, Page 11
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