AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WO MEN

Grey River Argus, 21 November 1912, Page 8

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT WOMEN

are they more than : men?

- Mere man is apt to regard woman from. a. pedestal of superiority "(says' a London writer). He has been taught to regard her as a member of the weaker sex— a frail^ delicate creature,to be cared for ancTsHeltered because, > according to his vieWj she is unfitted for' the Tough usages' of life. He re-: fuses to.^ recognise that she possesses; any marked fitness, powers} of endurance ,or sustained mental <ca-: ipacity. That is the view of the aver-, age man, and it is one which is^aot only unfair arid unjust to women/but which cannot be supported-by factg,.

' Indeed, there is abundant proof of woman's physical superiority over man ? to-day, .wheh- tested by length of years, the power to endure suffering and re-; sist disease, while one has only to ; study the mpdern achievements of women in literature .science, "art, and commerce to gather ample testimony to her mental capabilities. Ftirthermore, if .women are so mentally inferior to men as some would (have us believe, why do we hear such bitter complaints on all sides from "the latter because the opposite sex are competing sucessfully in' -pursuits hitherto deeind exclusive to man ?