OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 34, 10 February 1930, Page 3

OLD-FASHIONED WOMAN

NO “GALLIVANTING” GOOD OLD APPLE PIE Though she is 74, and has resided in Ilford, England, most of her life, Mrs Elizabeth Grant has never used the telephone, travelled in a motorcar, seen an aeroplane, been in a picture palace, made a journey to London. And what is more, she has no ambition to do any of these things. “I hate all this modern progress,” Mrs Grant said emphatically, in an interview. “The old days were good enough for me. If I hear an aeroplane in the sky, I feel as if I want to cover my eyes or run into the house.”

Mrs Grant dislikes the cinema just as much. One of her sons owns a picture palace in the North of England, but he has never been able to persuade her to venture a foot inside it. To all invitations to accompany her daughters to take a trip to London, she retorts, “Why should I! I’ve seen photographs of it and that’s enough.

“When I was a girl there was none of this gallivanting about in motorcars and aeroplanes,” said Mrs Grant. “From what I see of young people to-day all this progres.; does not make them any happier. We used to have to make our own amusements, and we saw to it that we were never dull.” There is one thing that Mrs Grant does like—and that is apple pie. “At least that has never changed,” she says.