LADIES LOVE BRUTES

Evening Star, Issue 20612, 11 October 1930, Page 5

LADIES LOVE BRUTES

IKE CLUB-THE-WOMEN LEAGUE ft is unlikely that the editor avill accept any responsibility for the views contained in this article. In fact, I am quite sure that he will not, Avritos “An Ordinary Man,” in the ‘Daily Mail.’ But in justice to a too silent hut deserving minority in the world—--1 refer to men generally—space should be given to a project, long overdue, Avhich I now put forward. Briefly, it is for tho formation of a neAv Avorld-wide organisation to he known as the Club-thc-Women League —-C.W.L. for short—whoso members Avill ho pledged to go around at all times Avith a short hut nicely balanced shillelagh, prepared at once to knock on the head any womaii avlio slioavs a desire to become a champion in occupations or pursuits hitherto reserved for men. The undue prominence that women have lately attained in these directions cannot have escaped the attention of my future felloAv-members, but there are still many citadels wliicli must ho defended. For example, no woman, so far as is knoAvn, lias ever yet become: Public Executioner, Jtouge Dragon Pursuivant. Quartermaster-sergeant of the Guards, Champion of Billingsgate, Winner of the East Kent Darts League, Editor of ‘ Auntie’s Advice ’ Column, A White Hope, or Doan of St. Paul’s. The mere mention of these strongholds of masculine endeavur will, however, be enough to stimulate, in many feminine minds the desire to storm them, and it is to protect thorn and to redress the balance of Man’s Authority that the C.W.L. must be formed with* out further delay.

Another of its objects avi’H he to secure equality of treatment for crosschampions. All around ns Ave find big stories of Avomeu avlio aro Avinning open tournaments, of women avlio sAvim the Channel, of Avomen avlio wear shorts, ol Avomen barristers and bricklayers. But do Ave ever see a heading: ‘Man Brings Up Ten Children,’ or an interview’ with some masculine hero on ‘How 1 Won the World’s Knitting Championship ’ ? No, indeed ; and it Avill he tho duty of the C.W.L. to see that those men avlio can Avrest honours from Avomen — and there are plenty of them— obtain equal recognition. This, hoAvevcr, must at present remain a secondary consideration, and Avill not ho alloAvcd to divert the members from the proper use of their clubs on nil necessarv occasions.

By so doing they will indeed be conferring groat benefits oil Avomen themselves. They Avill enable them to recapture the first fine careless rapture of the Stone Age, when clubs Avcro clubs; and avlio can doubt, after reading the most popular feminine fiction of the day, that ‘My Cave Man,’ as each of our members Avill ho affectionately called, Avill supply a long unfelt AvanfP