FRIVOLOUS QUESTIONS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19858, 31 January 1928, Page 5

FRIVOLOUS QUESTIONS.

One way in which we ahould all show charity to each other in these difficult, complex <3ays is by refraining from making unnecessary requests. Some people go abont asking small favours. At least they seem small to them, no doubt, but to the woman who is burdened by a number of tbem .they loom larger. Almost always some point of delicacy is involved in these prettily put demands on one's time and ingenuity. The business woman is asked to obtain some small but special information from her employer or from the head of a department. * It is the sort of thing that can be done, but that cannot be done at any moment, or in any mood of the man questioned. Tho outsider never realises this. She may want or may temporarily believe that she wants advice on an investment, on a house, or a school for her children; she may foe for a while enthusiastic on behalf of a friend who want:? a post (or thinks she wants one); she may wish to "wangle" free seats for a theatre or some publicity for a novel —there is no end to her possible requirements, but she never sees they can possibly be wearisome to a busy woman or that the discovery that they were merely frivolous can be positively maddening.