Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 4, No. 2. March 26, 1941
The Women
The Women.
Dear "Salient,"
What we girls really want from "Salient" is something lighter and brighter in the literature line—not quite Boy advises Girl (beware of the type that try to teach you things), not quite a Fashion Preview (who hasn't heard the despairing sigh of a male settling down to being thoroughly bored by a Fashion Short?), and definitely nothing in the Aunt Daisy vein. No unmarried girl should know any of the things Aunt Daisy talks about, and to mention them in public is to have her intentions doubted immediately.
Perhaps something with a little personal human interest—Impressions of a Woolworthian Sweetseller—"I did some Really Hard Work," by A Fulltimer—"Haymaking by Sunshine"—Unaccustomed as I am, by Weir House Casanova.
Have none of the fulltimers who worked in the holidays in shops noticed the infinite patience of the female trying to match odds, ends, and accessories ? A tramp from Kirk's to Cuba Street is nothing.
Surely, surely there is some female talent in the College? (Ask the male population, not us).
Yours anxiously,
[We hope that our heartburning serial will spur you on to even greater ambitions, "Future Mother of Six."—Ed.]
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