With Thanks To Mother!
No people deserve greater consideration this Christmas than the mothers and the housewives. If they live in the. country, Christmas means little respite from the thousand and one jobs to be done around the farm. The men may not be doing a full day’s work on Christmas Day, but cows have to be milked and there is little chance for, a lie in. Besides, the children will be up at first light investigating their stockings or pillow-cases, and a bedlam of noise—tin whistles, trumpets, and excited chatter and laughter--will make a stay in bed practically impossible. But the country mother has one advantage over her urban counterpart: she has her household supplies on the spot. The town housewife has been dreading Christmas Eve for weeks past. She has been planning her Friday campaign as carefully as the generals planned their D-Day. How much bread should she get? Would one fowl and a shoulder of lamb be enough meat? Would the peas be fresh, the strawberries not too dear, and the bananas ripe? Had anything been omitted from the list? From all over the city the army of housewives will be converging to-day on the shopping centres, baskets and bags swinging lightly on their arms and determined, if careworn, expressions on their faces. First the bread queue—half an hour’s wait, a jostle with other determined shoppers, with
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 5
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With Thanks To Mother!
Otago Daily Times, Issue 26963, 24 December 1948, Page 5
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