BRINGING UP WOMEN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18916, 3 February 1927, Page 13

BRINGING UP WOMEN.

TO THB CDITOB 0V TUB PBESS. Sir, So "E.S." has condemned me for taking up a neutral attitude in this discussion, and has labelled mo a pedantic, theoretical man. Evidently "E.S." takes this life very seriously, and perhaps ho (or she) is right in taking this subject rather more seriously than I appeared to from my letter. No, I am not a man, and tho neutrality waa because I know so much behind the scenes, as it were, that were I to say too much, I feared I might shock sensitive readers. His one word of summing-up—-"immorality"—has got what I had left to the imagination, but perhaps it is as well ha got my point. Bring up women to think on broad, modern, but still idealistic lines, and you cannot go far wrong. It is rather desirable to avoid sex conflict, siuce neither is perfect without the other, and to remember that ultra-modernism must be bnlanced by a solid leavening of age-old fundamental for life's guidance. When a new type is needed, doubtless it will be evolved without our interference, but until it is, what always has applied will continue to do so.—Yours, etc., NEUTRAL. TO THI COITOB Of TBB MtSS Sir,—"D.C.M." has brought forth some wonderful ideas. She says it is the greatest mistake for any woman to have a child if she does not want one. That evidently means that she is wiser than Nature. Has she not learnt that if she thwarts or obstructs Nature she will suffer later on in many ways! Let her go and ask her doctor. The real truth is, the modern woman is fast losing the power to procreate, and the worst part of it is, she prides herself on the fact. What a sorry look out for this young nation. As I have said before, the modern life is killing the vitality of the nation, and the "D.C. M.'s" are doing all they can in their crass iguorance to bring it about. They wish to override the laws of Nature; personal desires are to stand first and Nature may go bang. She advises me to read a certain book. I can give her better advice than that. She must read less, as she has not power to digest it. Weak heads like "D.C.M. V should keep away from strong stuff, and give what little minds they possess to home duties. They should mind that "a little knowledgo is a dangerous thing," and that having passed the sixth standard does not constitute knowledge. If N a . turc has got so low and feebie in their constitutions, that'is a sign of deoadencL. It is nothing to brag about. We hive the proof all round us. Hardly a soul to-dav but has had to call on the doctois; hospitals in all directions; nurses by the thousands. You cannot pick up a paper, but you see fresh calls for help, some new disease has got us, women are having great trouble in childbirth, babies won't live. This was not so in my time. Mothers made no trouble. What is the cause of it all? The answer is too much self-indulgence, too much interference with Nature, too late marriages, and saving the weaklings, and too much brain work for the women. Their brains are not made to stand the strain. All tells in the end. But I fear it is the same old tale,

"Convince a woman against her will, she's ( of the same opinion still." If the "D.C.M.'s" can't see daylight now. I am finished.—Yours, etc, E.S.