PLUNKET COLLECTION.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir.—The writer bad a most peculiar experience (or set of experiences) yesterday during the collection for the Plunkct Society. On asking five separate young collectors how they n eie progressing, he was informed by each of them (in diftereut parts oi the city) that “the men were very good, but the women simply would not contribute.” Two of the five added that the attitude of some of the women was almost rude. Now this is a peculuu thing. All my informants were single girls with no personal interest in babies as yet, so presumably they were performing a duty in aid of their married sisters: and, since men are not given to having babies, it seems, to say the least, more than graceless behaviour on the part of the chief future beneficiaries from the day’s activities. I have seeTi with my own eyes the hopeless manner of most of the fair sex on collection days, but surely, in this instance, they might have banded together for once and endeavoured to change their demeanour, even if they felt disinclined to open their purses.— I am. etc., Unimpressed. October 6.
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Evening Star, Issue 21845, 8 October 1934, Page 14
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