Leap-Year Wives.

Cromwell Argus, 2 March 1908, Page 6

Leap-Year Wives.

Should Women Choose Husbands ?

\Vith leap year ahead of them, young maids and bachelors will view with mingled feelings the leap-year advice given by Dr Emil Reich. Dr Reich thinks that maidens should not fail to recognise this year their privilege of choosing husbands. In fact, he declares, ladies should always do the wociug and winning. " Women should select their mates," said Dr Reich to a newspaper representative. " The natural instincts of women are not so interfered with as those of man. In civilised countries man looses his natural instinct by the license he takes. Being less interfered with, woman's natural instinct is the stronger and its directness more clearly accentuated. Therefore, if in the strength of her unbroken natural instinct a woman chooses a special man, it is ten to one that her choice is correct. Man, by ins life, has lost the certainty of judgment, whereas a woman knows instinctively the man that will make her the best husband.

" This applies to all European women, but not to Americans. Owing to the system of co education in the States, women are sick oi men before they are twenty. It certainly cannot be denied that the American woman take 3 little or no interest in men. Not only are divorces in the States twenty*one times more frequent than in any European country, but, aF though there are several million more men in the States than women, the number of unmarried women is larger than in any other country."

A bachelor farmer at Clarksville cut and stooked and threshed 1000 sacks of oats this year and did all the w T ork single-handed until the mill drew into the paddock. Anyone up in Agricultural matters can estimate the work done. The crop ran GO bushels to the acre.—" Bruce Herald."