MAGGIE PAPAKURA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 48, 11 October 1911, Page 8

MAGGIE PAPAKURA.

SHOCKED AT ENGLISH PEOPLE

“I used to believe that the English M erc too seiious,” remarked Maggie Papakura recently in London. “Now 1 have come to fancy that they are not serious enough over a great many important things. Shall I tell you what one of them is? It is love. In Englad people laugh at love. They make jokes about it. r l hoy think that when a boy and girl love one another it is some thing to smile about. ‘Oh, yes, I love him well enough, bub I love Ids money better.’ That was a phrase that caught my ear only the other day. It scut a shudder through, my whole body. As a Maori, 1 cannot understand how it is you will make light of the most important thing in the life of every man and woman.” Maggie is also shocked at. the hyprocrisy which permits people to say one moment that they

hate each other, and the next “to throw their arms round each other’s necks, and tell all sorts of falsehoods.” Still, she is daily growing more and more fond of England and its people.