Harry Kopua, of Tokomaru, enlivens this cold wet season with one of the most interesting matrimonial advertisements I have seen, says a correspondent; “Good cook and housekeeper essentml. Widows barred. Homely spinster oi right age, musical preferred (own piano, a consideration). No jazzin cr smoking, giddy flapper wanted. Girl about 30, loving home life and fireside is what I want. Good furnished house and considerate treatment for the right sort.’’ Here is what in some circles is called a “catch.” “Good furnished house and considerate treatment”— what more could a woman wish for? I here are many who marry but do not get so. much. They marry what they think is a lover, and find thev have got only an overparticular and expensive boarder. You will also observe that Mr. Kopua considers that a woman of 30 is still a girl. Good for him. We have travelled a. long way since the days when a girl was an old maid on the shelf at 2o. —Exchange. WAKE UP—FRESH ! Take Marshall’s Fospherine. It’s great when you can jump out of bed as if you really enjoyed getting up. It shows you’re enjoying life — that your nerves are sound, that you sleep well. Marshall’s Fospherine makes natural sleep a niatter_of course, for it feeds your nerves with the vitalising elements so many modern foods lack. Treat yourself to a short course—loo doses of Marshall ’s Fospherine in the J six-sided carton for 2/6. , —22
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 18 July 1924, Page 7
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