WOMEN CRIMINALS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 11, 23 December 1911, Page 2

WOMEN CRIMINALS.

CLEVERER TH NN HEX. Maitre Henri Robert, who is giving a seiies of society lectures ci femininity in Paris, almost shockedhis hearers when, at his last lecture, on women criminals, he stated thai these did not differ voiy perceptibly [ front their sisters. There was an’ excited nutter in the audience, aw. 1 , i Maitie Henri Robert had to explain.; which, of cci’.rsc, he did with hi; [ usual eloquence. [ NVlmn driven to defend themselves. | he said, female culprits showed far: more vivacity .and spirit than male| prisoners. Man had invented logic. [ which, as we all know, turns out io; be sheer nonsense in practical life. ’ NVomcn do not care for logic. Theydefend themselves beter withoui it. Man is hampered by a terrible; quality, that of sequence. He can-! not get the sequence of ideas and [ things out of his head. NVomen can [ do tety well without it. and sue-; coed much better. Their ideas take; to flight when necessary, anti tha . is a more radical solution. | Xowhere have we a better or-jor- j tunity than it; the A " :: ■ Comir.. hesays, of the wonderful pewer ii'id i practical utility of the fcm.’- lc nni-d. I It is capricious. mutable. subtle, paradoxical, and most disconcerting. I just when man would want it to bo [ the contrary. The woman succeeds. [ She is independent of reality, am! I can even afford to ignore the truth. | She is an adept in the art of replying aside from the question. She; can triumphantiy dodge any attempt at logic. As an example, we have that of a lady who wore a big ha’ at a theatre. A gentleman, with hi r ~ wife and. litile daughter, were sit ting in a stall behind and could not: see. He very politely suggested the. removal of the hat. The lady turned round, and. looking with daggers in I’lt-r eves at the daughter, she replied: "Nou ought to know tliat ihiplay is not for little gir!<.” The whole feminine ‘-old is in iliat ’von ought to know.”