When “Mum” Took The Matter In Hand.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19134, 29 July 1930, Page 8

When “Mum” Took The Matter In Hand.

A Woman s View

]ITRS JAMES GILES, the wife -of a would-be incendiary who wrote an all too fatherly letter inciting his son to burn down their Auckland home, is, I should say, a woman to be reckoned with. “Dad” feared she -would spoil the show, and spoil it she did. She found the letter, gave it to the police, and now has the satisfaction of knowing that her husband will be kept out of mischief for a while. The allurements of Nelson—Nelson, where the rain cometh not to spoil fires—are not for him. It may be that “Dad” thinks “Mum” is like the wife of Dickens’s bodysnatcher, whose periodic “floppings” in heaven-sent petitions for his salvation presented the danger that he might be deprived of his livelihood. For “Mum” seems resolute in her determination to save him from himself. • Many a man has found when he interferes with a woman’s peace of mind that:— The best laid schemes of mice and men Gang aft agley, And leave us nought but grief and pain For promised joy. B.E.S.