STORY OF A STUPID GIRL

Opunake Times, 26 January 1934, Page 1

STORY OF A STUPID GIRL

♦ _ AMUSING ACCOUNT The Countess of Oxford and Asquith on November 28 gave an amusing l account of her schooldays when speaking- at the annual meeting of the London branch of the Independent Schools' Association, at the College of Preceptors. "You may think I am an educated woman/' Lady Oxford said. "You never made a greater mistake in your life. I am what they call a self-made woman. I have had no education. I was so backward and stupid as a girl (hat my mother said, 'You had better learn arithmetic'

"This was in Scotland, where (he schools are one hundred years in front, of you here. My mother was very upset because I could not add, subtract or learn the multiplication tables, so I went to the vilage schoolmaster to learn arithmetic.

"After a little while he said, 'Miss Maggie' (as he calLd nu, my name being Margot) 'is so ignorant and so foolish and makes so much tomfoolery in the class Ilia I we would rather have her

Lady Oxford then told .stories of her Scottish school. One concerned a squire's son who was always at the bottom of the class until one day, to the delight of his family, he came home to]). When pressed about the number of children in the class he said, ''Me ami a lassie." "'Although rav education was curiously neglected, as one grows older one learns by oneself,"' Lady Oxford said. C 'IF is very important to learn languages early, because later on it is very difticut. I started mv daughter Elizabeth (now Princess Bibe%£o) and my son Anthony from the age of five to learn languages. They learned very easily then." Science and invention never stand still. Things are always improving. Men learn by experience. New and better methods are constantly applied to everyday products. Kven to tobaccos. Some smokers swear the old brands are best, but the younger generation likes to try new and better brands if they, can be found. There's something new and better in New Zealand toasted tobaccos. ( Red Shield (Dark) and Blue Shield (Medium) are the names you order them by. The very choicest tobacco is selected for these brands. And the toasting process is an improvement on old methods. "Toasted to a turn" is the result, You will like Bed Shield (Dark) and Blue Shield (Medium). Test them in vour pipe! In 2 oz pocket tins and lib handy tins. 3