FAIR PLAY.
TO THE ED [TOIL Sir,— The "Old Practical" and "Polly Plum" controversy is already long enough, but 1 hope you will kindly excuse my adding one line. So far as I can see, the case stands thus: "Polly Plum' 1 wiofco a paper called "What can she do ?" about widows, and widows only, mark you. To thia she challenged " Ok! Practical "to reply. In hi* ie t >ly, he treated the inquiry as referring to all women ; an error for whioh I feel surprised "P. P." did not pull him up pretty smartly. Wo will let that pass. In refer* j ence to the sex generally ho says, " Let them marry ;" and, in her reply, "P. P." merely reminds him that it is very possible many would prefer marrying to being governesses, if they had the chance ; and, although he himself proposed their mairying, he at once fie-fies the idea of their being willing to do so as very shocking. Hang me, if I can see either sense or reason in this It should either be wise and right and proper for women to with to be wives, or ib should be quite the thing for them to take up with some business or profession, without any reference to the masculine sex, regarding marriage only as a possibility. "Polly Plum" advocates the latter way. It would be hard to explain -what "Old Practical" advocates. — I am, &c, Fair Play.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4224, 27 February 1871, Page 3
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