LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 121, 14 February 1908, Page 11

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

; MAINLY ABOUT WOMEN. ; Sir, —My (regard for 'your valuable paper prompts mo again to address its editor and to inform him of mv appreciation of his literary columns; which are born of that per- . caption- which comcs from sympathy with • the aims of othors, myself incliided.- -If there was no misery thero would bo 110 happiness, so rail' a lino of philosophy in your paper, and"-> 1 will- add, where there is leisure; to ■write thoro.is little grief.: Shakespeare says: "In the reproof of chance lies the true proof of men; tho sea being smooth, how many i' shallow boats dare sail upon her patient . breast," making their way with those of nobler v.. bulls.'';;; : _SoVui. 'liko ; manner,': if ' those 'good people -.who-will, lay; down general ;laws, .applyingl them to others; and will persist in overlooking tho 1 special circumstances: surrounding: those lives; if they could undergo the' same oxpenence; the same .. draw backs, what a different talo they would tell I ■

■ «And: now, to cntioisc . items from jour piper. Y .'Yesterday's; philosophy -rim thiis: "The very-stupidity of, some women endows v.stannclicess < which? rightly! ; .gains,them affectjon.. It. is: a-prrut ' • .rest' thatjthere is one person from .-■ Tvlionv criticism is literally impossible." ,It i? • •as.^i-'.-liavo";.-hefp«;remarked:';.\^'No.-inan:'ever: :Fell iii-MqytMwitb' a woman;.• wlioiii-:.;he; felt' to. tic wisp.rjthiiii himself.... And, as to criticising, V-h.'it; hViK n poor woman, to - defend herself. •; ■ with hut Ivrwif, if.'she is subject to.attack, «spsrsro.h ; apd• '.Vi3otracGo?if.- .'Nevertheless Shakospnave ia eminently a test in this case, - ' whin/lii?'. says: "Kiiidness in women, not their bi'.'iulooiis looks, (and .1;lvill -add, not -their ''. EtimrklinJj 'ivifc). sliall win any: love."/ • ; ■ Theh'-inccurs 'another.; paragraph'-.' oh -"Wo- ; rnen' andf.'Self-royelatioii."' Would; you, sir, dcuy;/ ; :t3'. privile2e,.. the .desire for sympatliy ? ..vToii point out, errors >01. conduct, errors 'in reasoning, and contradic- : tipns,;biii/you,fall-short When sympathy : and love are required. "Love is of man a part, 'tis-women's: whole esistenco.'' ; But- you will : .";say )Lihave';b6en'letting my judgment- get: the; . better.; 0f.i.m0,-that: I-am -"indiscreet,''.\that, i my "indiscretion is automatic," for which I , . crave':your . indulgence,'. for .."self love is not '•.' eo"'; vile'i;a''siii 'self' (Shakespeare).—l a;n, etc., - ■ * NEMO. . ' February 12i :' • Y"' ij'.■ -.V-