THE RATTLE OF THE SEXES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 303, 23 December 1898, Page 7

THE RATTLE OF THE SEXES.

. The new woman :; not gallant. She 3, aS laid that poor creature called ?L n low in the dust. She has taken ~j S w ork, his manners, even his cigars : jjjshat.his coat, and looked with a fur t j Te glance at other items of his clothing. And yet she is not con.tent. She must tell the world of her triumphß- She po-nts to her vanQuislied enemy, and then to herself. ■gad then she crows. This is ungalJant towards a fallen foe! But who doubts her capabilities? 4f1%0 doubts that she has high ideals 'of life? Why, she has hundreds of the2>. She starts with one in the. jnorning, and if she finds it does not Work well out for her own advantage, this poor ideal is sent about its busijpss, aud a new one adopted. And so on, tiH dewy sleep shuts up the sweet eves, and the low plaintive voice is ftear' no more. Vet we love the r.ew woman. And vhv? Well,becausethewOrldhas made a i_::und forward since her advent. Everything has improved. Look at the moral tone of the world. Ladies tell us tha. men won't ;.ow propose. This, must be owingsto his new sense of culture and refinement! Perhaps lie has become a little dazed with this brilliancy on the part of women, and ,may be afraid that he is not ■rt-orthy of such a being. Or perhap is may be waiting till th;_ women, if not the world, imp/ • .. little more and are. able, with the help of a sandglass, to boil an egg correctly; or can, with the aid of a few books and D ir.'hematical instruments, cook a

CilOp. Bv.t we cr.nnot rloubt that J.e world has been mightily improved by the B ew woman. To ~o would be tc coubt her own word. Why, of late our very houses seem, even on their outside, to be wreathe 1 in smiles This is most, noticeable in the evening or when it is dark. But enter if you wish to see ?inprh-.:ss! Think of* eating" a dinner cooked by the latest developments cf science, and punctual to the fraction of a second. The very cat is purring- with delig-ht. and can be easily heard —that is. ■when the newwema is net speaking. Is .t any wonder that the 'gudeman" Jeaves his sho. . just inside the door? At present, however, the new woman is wrestling with a mighty problem. It is one in dynamics. Man is a force, but far too much diffused. and not under proper control. If she could only get him into a cylinder, so to speak, all might be well: she could then stand in bloomer costume and pull the lewrs as she liked. Bui the.evil is,, man won't go in! He generally gives her a wide berth. She has argued with nim, aud tried tc educate him, and crowed occasionally, but all in vain. Man is still at large. This almost makes her wVep, a thing she has seldom done since the day, now long ago. when she found out she could not lick her big- brother. HOPE.