"PEP?"
WHAT IS IT, AND HAVE WE GOT IT?
(By "XYZ.")
! Having heard rumours that our American visitors considered Wellington girls lacking in "pep" I deteEmined to make a few inquiries. . "Pep? Waal, yes. I guess you've got pep. V' know you folks are always blaming yourselves for not having something ! Just now it's the weather. You say you're not giving us the weather you'd like to. Waal, I say right here that we didn't come to see the weather, we came to see the people, and they're sure giving us a wonderful time. You all think you're more conservative than you are. Why, this place is like Jlonto Carlo—-" I quivered with expectancy. Surely, surely we must have pep if we were like Monte Carlo! t , "The scenery is just like " Horrid Wow, wasn't it? "Pep? What is pep?" asked my next "subject." But I protested vigorously. "It's your word, you ought to know. But, tell me, what do you think of Wellington girls?" "Say! Wait till I know you better before I answer that," was the reply. "But, gee, you girla hardly ever smile, and don't y'er have any ba'ck-porche* here?" I confessed that we didn't make a specialty of them. "No," said my friend sadly, "It's an Amurican institooshun." "Waal, I tell you ona thing I've noticed here," was another reply I got "You girls when you keep a date don't bring any mad-money with you." "Any what??" ■■■'."" .;' * "Any mad-money. Mad means angry. No, not dippy. Our girls always do that, so if they get mad with their partner they've got enough to pay their own car fare home." I considered this most extraordinary, and said so, but being assured of tho custom I suggested that we were more peaceable, or trusting, or both, and in any case we would never be rude enough to quarrel with a visitor I (Neither we would, would we?)
"So? Well, that may be. Shall wo chow or glump?"
Having already chowed, we glumped. Translation: Having already eaten we danced!
But I don't know now if we have this elusive pepiness. Somehow I think we have—not an overdose—just rai-it. Sol Fine!
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1925, Page 9
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360"PEP?" Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 42, 18 August 1925, Page 9
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