LIGHT LUGGAGE
When Miss Aloha Baker, who recently arrived in New Zealand on a round-the-world tour, travelled across Africa with her sister, their luggage included a dozen or so lipsticks and three needles, and, if anything, the needles were the more treasured belongings. Miss Baker said that many of the native women with whom they came in contact could not understand why it was necessary to put lipstick and rouge on faces already obviously red. The affinity of the Cuban rhumba (music with the jungle rhythms was proved on more than one occasion, when unfriendly natives were cajoled with the travellers' ukulele: camp-fire music.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 16
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104LIGHT LUGGAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 16
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