“THE FOOL OF A MAN”

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 86, 10 January 1928, Page 16

“THE FOOL OF A MAN”

£l5 DOLLS AS PRESENTS LADY BALFOUR ON WOMEN’S WORK “Women have done great things, and are doing great things, but I almost despaired' of them when I read in the papers of large dressed dolls, ranging from £5 to £l5, for women, 1 ’ said Lady Frances Balfour at a meeting of the Society for Promoting the Training of Women (states the “Westminster Gazette”). “Can you wonder that Socialism is rife to-day, with such examples as this?” she asked. i

“It is almost inconceivable that people can spend large sums of money on things like dolls for grown-ups when there is so much good and amusement that can be done with money. I expect that it is not so much the woman who squanders money in this way, but the fool of a man who will give her a £l5 doll as a present. So do not go on groaning about the flappers, because I am quite sure it is not they who are buying £l5 dolls. J Women “--More Careful,” “Women, on the whole, are far more careful and economical than men, not only in money, but also in other things, For instance, I cannot bear to waste half a sheet of paper, and I know most women cannot, but most men would not trouble about it/’ When she was young the “dear old thing” who taught her told ■ her that all she was fit for was to be a stablewoman, but as that profession was not considered suitable for a woman in those days, she was not allowed to go in for it. “Nowadays anyone can be a stablewoman, kennelmaid, or anything they like, instead of being just ornamental, and only existing to amuse men, as they Were supposed to do sixty odd years ago.” Lady Lawrence said that she was still old-fashioned enough to think that the essential work for women was the home, the looking after of children, and the cooking of food. “My opinion is that it is a very easy thing to catch a husband, but terribly difficult to keep him, and keep him happy.”