MEN AND WOMEN.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19312, 17 May 1928, Page 11

MEN AND WOMEN.

r ' TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRKSS. one who failed to gain pittance to hear a gifted speaker, |p>« read with interest Miss Maude U L'j lectures, and in this one that if every woman in the Sh Empire who suffered through Z war who lost a husband, a sou, „ a man whom she might havennit%a t- % were to determine that there □d never be another wax, there ZI T would be another war—she „ nV63 to be one of the greatest sav,Vs of society this generation has Joduced. She preaches love, and withJut love we perish, whether it be in the Home, in the Government or m TCmtiire. Jjov© creutcsj dc~ if we thought kindly townrds other nations, that kindness w.nld rebound in love to ourselves. After reading two letters appearing in your column by "E S. on the degeneration of woman, 1 am glad it Jial been given to a woman to preach 4i, i s ; great, message. Your correspondent "would have the louli of woman submerged in the life mj'character of the man she was fortimate • or unfortunate enough to mar ry, Miss Hoyden tries to lift the idullof woman above her surroundings, ' infusing her with a greater love which far and wide. Kb. education for the unrest and demoralisation, of woman, for her objection to filling the role "Mother Nature" designed for her; but he forgets that nature is so generous that if not curbed and controlled, we would be sffarming like flies round_ a cesspool. According to economists, the birthrate of New Zealand and England will remain almost stationary for many years from now on. Aocording to Dean Inge, France is the finest country in the world to live m, yet her: birthrate has been practically ] Btationary for a generation. To my mind, the question of having . a family is entirely the business of a man and his wife, and only becomes the business of the State when that State is •prepared to compensate a, couple for the extra cost of rearing and educating a family. "E.S." claims that woman is a glorious animal when she remains in her proper sphere, but we Wionld wisli that man was less 01 an animal and, more of a human being in keeping with a life that education and civilisation has raised lnm to. Yours;, etc.,. _ T ,J MOTHER OF SIX. . May 16th, 1928.