LEAVE IT TO THE WOMEN

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 200, 23 August 1919, Page 17

LEAVE IT TO THE WOMEN

. I The strawberry situation, says one o i our fawning scribes, must be left to tb ; women. With their -well-known power of organisation it will quickly be solvec For the benefit of those who did no know that there was a strawberry situa ! tion. says the San Fraaeisco ""Argonaut in romnifininr upon This itc-m of intelli ■ pence —one cannot know everything—i I may be said that strawberries are sole I only before 10 a.m. After that timi they CO to the packers. H women wil 1 ronibine in a refusal 1 o buy strawberries at any hour the wicked dealers tril quickly be brought to their senses Thank Cod for the women. I'.ut it seem* u> us. says the "Arcro nau;.." thai we remember something about an etre boycott in Xew York som« Three or four years ago. The womo.r were ;>> m>l tie that. too. and they did settle ii. with the result that the "egg king" made a fortune and retired tc Florida. The moment some sort, oi social distinction was attached to the cervine of egg*, the women bought them more greedily than ever. Egg luncheons find e<r<r dinners became the order of the day. Women refused to buy egg-s from their own procers and then burned furtively around the corner and bought them elsewhere. The newspapers printed daily account* of the magnificent ega boycott, and of the publicspirited women who had banished eggs from their menus, and about 90 per cent of the public-spirited women were seekins distinction by menus that eonta-inctl nothing but eggs. AY omen who had never before oaten eccs. who were made sick by ecsrs. now ate nothing else. They had to. It was a. fashionable duty. -And the arch-criminal who bad inspired this extraordinary boycott., n.he "eec: king," publicly announced that it had made hi? fortune and that he would retire from business until the public-spirited women should boycott something else and so tempt him to the acquisition of a fewmillion more. I'nder these circumstance? we may hope that women will not boycott strawberries. We do not want an exclusive diet of strawberries.