WOMAN'S INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 78, 2 April 1928, Page 6

WOMAN'S INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY.

"S.G." is a priceless boon to his Eex if he really believes that women are the onlv illogical creatures on this earth. I've met men but I daresay ''S.G."' would not credit it. I think that quotation from Dora Russell is odious. Is it not rather egoistical for one human to criticise another's right to exist! The authoress thinks middle-class ladies are* superfluous, but such people have some mission in life, and perhaps it is to offset with their calm complaisance the effect of temperamental artists like Dora Russell and Co., who mav be accomplished, brilliant and intellectual—but never restful. What a world it would be comprised entirely of artistic genius! It makes niv head swim to think of it. I say thank heaven for the middle-class ladies with orderly minds who exact respect (which is their due) from the omnipotent male in railway carriages. All men are free to make their mark, while countless women who were cut out for literary or artistic careers hare sacrificed ambition for the clinging touch of baby lingers. And the mother who rears a line family in the right way and keeps the sea of matrimony well oiled has both brains and intellect, which your professor, who invents something to revolutionise the world one day and spends the next day looking for his spectacles, might envy. So if man has the monopoly (I said "if") small credit to him, for he lacks in most instances the patience, tact, intuition, charity of heart and self-sacrificial lovo which God gives to mothers to enable them to successfully manage the lords of creation and their ingenious offspring. I am afraid this tirade against man the wonderful will bore "5.G.." but I must fly now, for I hear my particular male genius hunting for a stud, and unless I point out the essential little nuisance right under his inquiring nose my best bedroom will in live minutes' time resemble nothing so much as the wreck of the Hesperus. MOTHER EVE.