WOMAN v. MAN.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14667, 16 May 1913, Page 9

WOMAN v. MAN.

HER " W.ANT OF ORIGINALITY."

(srficUn to "the tkess.' , )

WELLINGTON, May 15,

Miss Si. E. Richmond, Epcaking at tho Frco Kindergarten Union, said j woman can novel* touch man in his own j -vrallc. "I don't believe, Tvhon all is said nnd donc 3 that Mrs Pankhorst would make ns good a Prime Minister as Mr Asquith or AJr Balfonr. If you consider tho pathetic want of originality in women, it is. quite startling. AVhy, oven our garments aro invented by man. Man dictates the very shapo of our hats. Man qua trade organiser docs this, and man qua mero man growls at us for wearing such abominations. Man invents the cradles for our babies, and their go-carts, and even the socks and shoes for their littlo feet. I don't blame man for all this. I simply admire him, but I should like to see women as a sex turning their minds to those subjects in Tvhich they aro fitted by Nature to excel man. eubjeets lo which in the main they are still indifferent—health, education, charitable .lid, the problem of poverty, the need of individual thrift* and competency, the adequate control of environment. These matters, are somewhat at a standstill, waiting for our sex to take them up in a serious spirit."