WOMAN AND A NEWSPAPER

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 153, 30 June 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)

WOMAN AND A NEWSPAPER

Somebody says that one who will watch a woman read a newspaper will obtain Rome new idea of the characteristics of tho gentler sex. She takes it up hurriedly and begins to scan it over rapidly, as though she were hunting for some particular item, but ehe is not. She is merely taking in the obscure paragraphs, which she half believes were put in out-of-the-way places for the sole purpose of keeping her from seeing them. As she finishes each one her countenance brightens with the comforting reflection that ehe has outwitted the editor and the whole lace of men '—for ehe cherishes a belief that the newspapers are the enemies of her sex, and editors its chief oppreeaore. She is greedy for local ne'vs, and devours it with relish. Births, marriages and deaths are always interesting , reading to her. She cares but little for printed jokes, unless they reflect ridicule, upon 1 men.. She devotes particular attention (.0 anything enclosed by quotation marks, and considers it rather better authority tlian anything first-handed. The columns in which the editor airs his opinions she rarely reade. Views are of no importance in her estimation; facts are- everything. She doesn't al- , ways care for poetry, if the paper contains any verse, but she reads it because she thinks she ought to do so. >- She reads etories and sketches and para.graphe indiscriminately, and believes every word of them. Finally, after she line read all she intends to read, she lays the paper down with an air .of disappointment and a half contemptuous gesture, which says very plainly that she thinks all newspapers failures, ami is certain that if ehe had ai chance she could make the only perfect newspaper the world has seen.