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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 196, 19 August 1899, Page 4

mHE AUCKLAND GIRLS Have lately been having rather a "rough time"-at the hands of some unknown scribe—possibly a bit of a Pharisee, . undoubtedly ... • ■ AN IMPORTED ARTICLE— and as the case for the po^ girls has been treated with a more or less apathetic lndifferencft craves permission to take up the cudgels on their behalf for one brief minute. He is also an imported article, and mainly on this account he ventures to express an opinion on the subject. It may be said that because he derives his existence from the Auckland Girls, their Mothers, Sisters, Cousins, and Aunts, that he is more or less prejudiced in his opinions, but he is content to let that idea pass for what it is worth. ■■•?■•• JEEDALE has spent nearly 30 years in.the' Old Country, and nearly two years in New Zealand, and he asserts, without fear of contradiction, that, notwithstanding her environ, ment and the many disadvantages under which undoubtedly the New Zealand Gir,l lives, she is quite equal, and in many instances superior, to her Sisters who enjoy the many advantages of the Old Country. Taking her in the aggregate, she may be a wee bit.slangy, fond of enjoyment, aria inclined to be racy, but the climate and conditions of life here are all conducive to this, and with these things taken Into consideration it is hard to see that she is othe* than a splendid specimen of a TYPICAL ENGLISHWOMAN. The charge of being a man-hunter is too ridiculous. Woman has always the worst of it in this deal, and it is necessarily a Girl's most important business in life to marry a man who will brine; her as near perfect happiness an d comfort as is possible in this imperfect world of ours. Man-hunt-ing Is the same the wide world over—no more accentuated In New Zealand than In the Old World^-Rnd It must bereinembered that man-hunting'Girls are the exception and not the rule. "The description also of the Auckland Girls' home life is surely overdrawn. They certainly spend mnre time out of doors thnn their Sisters at Home, but their home life 1r just as perfect: and the description of the way In which their servants are fronted Is almost too ludicrous to deserve remark. It is a well-known fnct thnt servants nre better treated In every respect, and enloy far more Independence In the colonies than nt Home: their wages are hotter, tlieir liberty much nnrt Instead of belntr treated as the scribe Insists, as Inhabitants of a lower strnta. they enloy an infinitely superior position to their Sisters at Home. THE SUBJECT is a large one. and could be enlarged on ad lnfinltum, but JREDALE thinks he has written quite sufficient to fill his usual half column, and at the same time champion the cause of THE AUCKLAND GIRLS in a very modest manner. AT THE SAME TIME , TREDALE WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT HIS GREAT WINTER SALE IS STILL IN PROGRESS. THE SLIGHT REMAINDER OF THE WINTER STOCK IN EVERY DEPARTMENT IS BEING LITERALLY SWEPT AWAY AT ANY PRICE IT WILL BRING. THE BARGAINS DURING THE COMING WEEK WILL BE EVEN MORE DRASTIC THAN DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF THE GREAT WINTER SALE. T«EDALE piMEDiATE! FpQM pAIN , KEPHADYNE (Cachets). FOR HEADACHE & ~ALWA"YS~SAFE~ & "EFPECTUAT. PRICE-ONE SHILLING PER BOX. AICKIN. Chemist, Auckland. Fox's Serge Suit and extra Trousers to measure.—Dalton's Sale, Qaeen-street.