MRS. HICKSON WRITES TO HER SISTER

White Ribbon, Volume 19, Issue 7, 1 August 1947, Page 5

MRS. HICKSON WRITES TO HER SISTER

July, 1947. My Dear Winnie, — It was nice to get your letter, hut I was sorry to hear you had had ’flu. It’s not so good any time, hut in the winter, specially when it’s wet weather, it does make you feel miserable. You just hate getting tip when you are getting over it. When you are in bed and simply con t (jet up, well then you can seem to enjoy it a hit; and it seems a pity to he disturbed when you begin to feel better. Lazy—that’s how it makes me feel. Oh well, I just hope you will soon he getting over the getting better, liecause that is worse than the being really sick part. Well, what do you think about the Royal engagement? I think it’s about time we had a hit of excitement over a real happy thing like this seems to he. After so long when our only news seemed to lie about the vva r , and all the things that weren’t going to he put right whatever people said, when it was all over, it does give one a bit of a thrill to think of a Royal wedding again. Our Princess Elizabeth seems just like a happy girl, don’t you think so? And her intended looks to be* a jolly, upstanding yoijng fellow, too. It seems no time at all since she was horn, and here she is getting married. You and I were girls then, do you remember it all ? Her mother was so sweet. Did you remember seeing her at Rotorua, and how she joined in the singing of the hymn? She’s still lovely-looking, even if she has got a little more of what Lorna called ombongpwang, but we call ni-a-s. You know we all get that in time.

We have had a hit of worry at our W.C.T.U. meeting about this liquor advertising business. It seems the Prime Minister says what he did in stopping a lot of advertising was only for during the war, and he had to let everything go hack to as it was when the war got over. It’s a pity if a thing is so had that we can’t run it in war time, but have to go back to it as soon as we can. He said that if the people wanted it, he would stop it, hut they didn’t w r ant it. I’m sure I did, hut Pm only one, worse luck.

1 don’t like to see the adverts, appearing here and there again. They give me a bit of a shock when I see them. Thev must do an awful lot of harm. Our President says we ought to do something about it, hut it’s hard to kno’v wffiat. One thing she said was that if we got a magazine or paper with some liquor ad. in it. we should mark the place and send it to the office saying w*e wouldn't take it if they didn’t cut that sort of thing out. If enough of us Aid it, the'might take some notice. It's nice we got the marmalade sugar after all, isn’t it? It’s a job that looks . at one all the same. With love and be sure to get well soon. Yours loving sister, MEG.