ADVENTURE.

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

ADVENTURE.

FOR THOSE WHO SEEK. The world is full of women who are always complaining that their, lives are dull. They read in the papers about other women who have strange adventures in all sorts of countries and they watch enviously at the pictures the wild escapades of the film heroines and their exciting encounters with matadors, Bheiks and other strong, silent men, and they sigh because nothing like that ever happens to them. The people who think that adventures are only to be found in strange places and among strauge people will always have dull lives, ior they will miss all the little everyday excitements that are the salt of life to more adaptable folk, states a writer in an exchange. There are some people who are always having adventures, though their circumstances are apparently unfavourable. H they go out ior a morning's shopping they come back full of stories of the queer, funny, tragic things that they have seen, and they can extract as much interest out of a bus ride into town as less observant people would find in a voyage to India. They live every moment of their lives and, though they may never travel a hundred miles from home, they certainly never complain of dullness or lack of variety. They are always looking for adventures, and they are always finding them. Sometimes women settle so deeply into a groove that they cannot see over the sides of it and the future seems as drab and uninteresting as the past, but it is nearly always their own fault if they stay in it. Very few women are so tightly bound by circumstances that they cannot alter them at all. If you cannot change your job, you can join a new tennis club and meet a totally new set of people, or go to a different place for lunch, or travel to the office by bus instead of train—anything for a change. Even if your are married and have a young family, you can probably pack some new hobby into your spare moments, or at least take the children by a different route for their afternoon walk. The best of these everyday adventures is that you can go on having them, if you are the right sort of person, even when you have left youth far behind you. The people who wander all over the world in pursuit of wild and thrilling exploits have to settle down some day, and their old age must sometimes seem very quiet and dull in comparison with their exciting youth.