WHY SHE CHANGES HER MIND

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 16

WHY SHE CHANGES HER MIND

“It is a woman’s privilege to change her mind” is a remark often expressed by an amused but exasperated husband when at the eleventh hour his wife decides against some project on which they had previously mutually agreed, but nine times out of ten he will be saying later, “What a good thing we rejected that idea.”. If a woman changes her mind more often than does her husband it is not because she is mote influenced by “moods,” but because her thoughts travel a little further than do his (states George Hereward n» the “Daily Mail”). Being an impulsive creature she will often on first thoughts express an opinion; she does not, however, lack the courage to modify or even to coii tradict her previous remarks, if necessary. • . Man, on the contrary, has acquired a reputation for solidity by the tenacity with which he clings to wrong ideas. Women realise more fully that true strong-mindedness lies not in forming an opinion and keeping to it right or wrong, but in keeping to it only.as long as it is tenable; that which is right to-dav may be wrong to-morrow.

It is typical of our times that tilings are moving so quickly that it is necessary constantly to revise one’s opinions on almost every aspect of life, so that the masculine sex, with its rigidity of mind, is at a disadvantage as compared with the more versatile sex. Even in comparatively small matters a woman will change hei mind manv times before making a decision, and then the decision mav not be final; before deciding on a new drers she may change her mind as often as the chanieleon changes colour; not, as her. husband thinks, through mere feminine canricionsness, but because she has seen subtle signs of future changes in the world of fashion. ' , Changing one’s mind requires thought, so that the man who says that he never alters his views usually means that he never thinks.

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