AMAZONIANS POLITICAL.

Evening Star, Issue 8554, 29 June 1891, Page 4

AMAZONIANS POLITICAL.

TO THK EDKOJ?. Sir,—Not the dusky ladies irota &a Dahomeyan territory, whose picturesque uniform, charming anatomical proportions, coupled with their graceful marching and countermining, just now all the ragein Paris, but to those whom it is the intention in fair New Zealand flhQ\*V2 enter the arena of politics. Woman's sphere ,ia tjks past has been her home, nursing and training £sr children in the way they should grow—keeping her house tidy, find, with a beaming smile of welcome to kBF cosy hcjyie, with well cooked food, making tfefl husband's heart beat with joy. Now all is to be changed, and she i 8 to enter on the stormy sea of pirfitjcs. One often wonders whittle we are drifting. Statisticians revel in their art They toll *a there ia on an average only about one man and $n eighth to every three women. This being ao, with monogamy the law of the Usd, i|t certainly becomes a serious question how tlss surplus are )bo be provided for. In time, no desjbt, some cjey«f lady Chief Secretary will be fouad introducing a Bill to assimilate our laws to those of India regarding widows, thuß affording, of course, * narrower selection from the roattimoniaj market—a young and pretty widow being .regarded bv her own sex in the light of an obiecfcioXL' able being. In all seriousness, e£r, are we not going mad over this women's right question? Will it elevate her to maintain th* "bloom upon the peach," or lower h*r to the level of ourselves in the wangling squabble of political life? Fancy q£o wpman one vote, all and sundry! Then, again, ,&* home circle not being unanimous, sayi on a piyided Pkirt Bill, or the question of denominational education, what a position for the poor pater! The hysteria characteristic part of the question should also be a potest factor against this modern innovation. This seems to be an age of fads, political and otherwise. %a conclusion, what has the grand old Book, tt» Bible, to Bay in advocacy of the cauae ■?— l an*. £tc., Bj3£SBY, Sen, Danedin, June 27.