CRITICISM.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11027, 16 March 1914, Page 4

CRITICISM.

*- (By WALT MASON.) "We're all so quick to criticise, and show where things are wrong! if someone nxikes a batch of pics, or sings a soulful song, " the pies are pretty fierce." we. say. "the song is on the blink"; it is our cheerful "'little way; it's graceful—l don't think. The housewife works about a Week to tidy uu the. flat; then hubby conies Mid starts to shriek : " Where had you hid my hat?" The windows have been nicsJy washed, the rues arc bright and clean; around the kitchen wife has sloshed with soap and gasoline. The husband doesn't notice that, but glares upon his frau ; he cannot find his darned old lint, and so kicks up a row. "You ought to have some system, Jane," he. says, "you should, by .lings'; it, always gives my leg a pain to hunt for missing things. "When mother lived " so he declares, and talks for forty miles, and Jane sits on the cellar stairs and weeps in thirteen styles. Why not improve our carping ways, and cause less sighs and tears? Why not look round for things to praise, say once in seven years?