STICKY SENTIMENTS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11767, 14 October 1932, Page 4

STICKY SENTIMENTS

PASSING OP CONVERSATION LOLLIES. Myra M. Cambell writes thus in tho Sydney Morning Herald:— ■Shortly after the charming Valentine of our grandmothers’ day had died a- natural death, the versatile conversation lollio came into existence. A. cheaper, commoner medium of expression than its graceful predecessor, it yet hud its uses and was much patronised by bashful but sentimental youths, who frequently found themselves tongue-tied when in tLo presence of their divinities. “Sticky Sentiment!" some may say! But what woman. who once experienced it, can. ever forget the thrill of having one of these sweet offerings surreptitiously transferred from a moist, boy ish palm to her own—the delicious secrecy of slipping it into her pocket unseen —die rapture of talcing it out, when at last alone, and reading such words as “1 love you!” or “Won't you be -Mine!’* No wonder she feels a vague regret for “'day that is dead" —with its now obsolete conversational lozenge—the nearest substitute for which now seems to be the new ••'Talkie" biscuit. But reading the breezy, up-to-date sentences on these modern little message-bear-ers, one is more than ever struck by the vast ditference between the ‘Then’ and the ‘Now’: ‘Have you a car:-’ ‘l. adirfircy your cheek,’ 'Let’s make Whoopee!’ “Do say something,’ Til toddle along?’ ‘Try t-o be good.' Such were the match-phrases I deciphered, with a smile, on a plate of these- crisp little biscuits recently. ft is not; only the Turkish women who are easting aside their veils! in these days of mixed bathing, biking in shorts, etc., it seems that womankind is everywhere 8 recklessly flinging away tho veil of mystery which once added so much to its charm in the museuliiie eye.