LIFE IN WINNIPEG.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 December 1913, Page 12

LIFE IN WINNIPEG.

In writing to a Melbourne friend from her home in Winnipeg, Canada, an Australian girl says: "Domestic life here is so different from that in Australia that I am sure some of the details of now we manage will be found interesting. To begin with, almost everyone lives in flats, or 'apartments,' as they are called." In our block there are 30 of these residences, and we all have the use of a huge laundry and steam drying press, which is placed in ths basement. The rule is tlat three families take their turn each day, and the details of the arrangement are set out on the regulation board. The domestic problem is just as grea€"a puzzle here as it is all over Canada and in the United bcates. The few people who do live in private houses have to pay £2, 10b a week for van indifferent cook/However, we flat dwellers get help, when it is to be got, for less, and the installation of electricity for cooking and ironing in all the houses and flats is a- tremendous help. In fact, one might say neither duty is troublesome under these conditions. Our social life is also different, and I must say it is much slower from our Australian standards. No one .pays visits until after 5 in the afternoon, but dinmg-out is a much more frequent rorm of entertainment, for the cafes are deadly dull—no life, no brightness Indeed, there is no night life at all in Winnipeg, for the mayor will, not" permit it, and the streets are deserted by 8 o clock. There is no place for afternoon tea, and not a single thing. to do on Saturday afternoons. ( No races, the nearest golf links are 14 miles away, and it costs £200 to be a'member! Tennis can be played for only, three months [ and after, two months the grass oourte are harrowed up, but in the winter ice skating is-perfect, and everyone skates . beautifully. Burglars are an unknown , quantity, but out-of-door thieves, who are called "yeggmen,". are numerous, i Shopping is dreadfully slow and discouraging, and you can go out a. dozen times for a simple thing, and then never, nnd it. Although it is extremely cold, every comfort is provided, and even the trains and trams are heated. What I feel most is the heat of the houses, for once the radiators are set going it is inadvisable to let them cool, and then the heat becomes unbearable." ' . '