THE CURIOSITY OF WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 2

THE CURIOSITY OF WOMEN

“I see that Mdllc. Irene Curie Jias just given a lecture on the ‘Alpha Rays of Polonium’ to an audience of learned professors,” 1 remarked to Vera. “Yes, and she is pretty, too,” Vera said. “What has that to do with the case? I asked. “If she was very plain it would be more understandable. Most pretty girls are iust content with being pretty.” “I can’t believe that of you,” I said. "You have keen curiosity. What dp you do with it ? You might even make a great discovery or invent something wonderful. We don’t utilise feminine curiosity. It is wasted in trivialities. Yet physiologists say that the brain of woman is potentially as capable as that of man.”

"Most women,” said Vera, “are indifferent to things that interest men deeply. For instance, at an exhibition men will crowd around a new machine but women pass by. It is personal matters that interest women. That is why women novelists are so subjective.” “There is little doubt,” I continued, “that women discovered the art of cooking, and one authority states that they were the first brewers of beer. Maria Kunica added to the discoveries of astronomy in 1650 and Margaret l-.iich '.iiscmeted a comet in 1702. Eight comets weie discovered by C,-rohm» HcreJiel. After I De. Joss of her distinguished husband. Mme. Curie continued ins import.mt research'':-. "Vn’t sue that women have no mechanical aptitude. What, of Mr.;. Montgomery, who invented a new locomotive wheel, and Mme. Rozel-Lerouge, who designed a machine (or washing streets? Murv Kies, an American, designed a machine to weave straw with a woof of silk thread. These arc a few among many instances oi the utilisation of feminine curiosity, H is your turn next, Ycl a."—(January Moitimer, in the "Daily Mail.")