RUSH FOR PROGRESS

Waipa Post, Volume 36, Issue 2145, 17 April 1928, Page 2

RUSH FOR PROGRESS

SEEN THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES. (By H. R.) Progress. Progress everywhere, on land and sea and in the air. No escape anywhere. Innumerable bodies band together to improve everything. The publicspirited work ceaselessly for the common weal. Just between you and me, I am becoming awfully tired of being improved. The morning mail, for instance. Time was when I ran to the postman's summons. Now the first thing that greets my eye is: "Post Letters Early." making one all hot and bothered at the thought of that unanswered pile. Then there are all these appeals to eat more dried fruit, eat more peaches, eat more potatoes, eat more everything. I can't. Besides, just as many people are busy telling up that we all eat too much —admonishing us to eat less. Don't do this and don't do that. Do this and do that.

I am going to look for a Free Country. Somewhere where the air will not carry me lectures, or the post unpleasant reminders, wher I can walk, to the right or zigzag; where I can sun-bathe on the beach, where no one wants me to eat more than I can—or "to can what I can't." Where I can be a road hog or an irate pedestrian; where I can trump my partner's ace, and where I am never reminded that I need hair dye wrinkle eradicators, or any drastic summer bargains. Where I can be plain me. I'll let you know if I find it.