THOSE DREARY SPEECHES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19953, 23 May 1928, Page 7

THOSE DREARY SPEECHES.

AUNT ANN TO THE RESCUE. Many a man in Sydney will bless Annt Ann's aid. For Aunt Ann, although she sounds a little bit as if she belonged to the antimacassar age, will prepare after-dinner speeches for anybody who wants them. Those who have listened to the dreary harangues which are always delivered in the belief that they are gems of wit and brilliancy, will, if wisdom prevails, insist upon every speaker, whose quality is unknown, making a visit to Aunt Ann, states a Sydney exchange. The scheme is one which has met with considerable success in London, where the Universal Aunts and the Useiul Women perforin all manner of tasks for people who are unable to manage for themselves. Aunt Ann's Aid has been established by Miss Josephine O'Neill, a New Zealand presswoman, and her histcr, Miss Helen O'Neill, and should prove a boon to harassed women, just as much as to harassed men. Consider the number of bachelors who want their socks darned; the women who have been to so many committee meetings during the afternoon that they haven't time to prepare a decent dinner for the parties they have planned; the children who should have gone to the dentist, only mother was too busy; the bridge lessons which would have been taken if the teacher hadn't departed to another town; the packing that everybody hates so much to do. Aunt Ann will do any commission at any time, and she has been brave enough to say that that she will undertake to make up household weekly accounts, and check them. So that at last there may be an opportunity of discovering where the money goes.