QUIET WOMEN

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 17

QUIET WOMEN

ARE THEY PASSED BY? It has been suggested that the majority of men do not appreciate the quiet woman, but 1 doubt if this is really true. Most men admire a quiet woman, even if in their lighter —omeats they appear to ignore he.-. After all, it is the quiet woman .uo is the mainstay ot that great tnovennnl which has resulted in the emancipation of women from the old restricted position' in which they lived in Victorian times. She it is who has given men confidence in het sex, aud it is to the quiet woman that we go tor sympathy when we are really in trouble, states an English writer Writing this on my birthday uno looking back over my past life, I must confess that had it not been for two quiet women, my mother and my sister, I would have found it a hard battle to keep on the straight path. Those women correspondents who imagine that they are ignored by the average man are quite mistaken. We all admire then good points and the quiet courage with which thev fight life's battles. We know that the qu’et woman’s good points are none the less real because thev are not showv. [ know a man once whom the world classed as “a real bad lot,” and certainly in his wilder moments it was difficult to imagine that he bad many virtues. He married a quiet woman, and for a time, it seemed that lie was going the downward road even faster than before. Then gradually a change took place, and ultimately he admitted that, through bis conviction that his wife was too good for him and the patient way she met misfortunes, he had learned shame and redemption. 1 That men are often attracted bv tiie 1 wittv, impulsive, and brilliant woman goes without saving. But that does not prove that those verv same men do not in theit hearts admire the quiet woman. She appeals, I have found, to most of the men 1 have met—even those whom the world calls “bounders.”

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