Wisdom About Women.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 256, 13 October 1923, Page 12

Wisdom About Women.

Extracts from “Woman: A Vindication,” by Antony Ludovi< i (Constable). In nine oases out of ton wo could, without • qualm and without a scruple, allow our unmarried daughter to travel round the world with her so-called lover, and feel quite certain that they would both remain perfectly The healthy English “flap i )M‘i ” is courageous ami infinitely enduring. And this is tin- secret of her constant success against the highschool soul . . . Now her body knows quite well that everything is all right, and il has its tongue in its cheek the whole time. ; The rearing of women with strong male characteristics is. in fact, always an advantage to a race that wishes to produce a fine virile manhood. From the statistics it would appear that, more women than men go wrong in a childless marriage. Husbands who do not sympathise with their wives’ Jove of scandal, and who refuse to join with them in expatiating on tittle-tattle, are usually inhuman and narrow men . . These- men will expect their wives to listen hreathlesslv when they discus* sport or some other futile subject as remote as possible Iron) humanity. It is certainly in this capacity for single-minded devotion to her own offspring that, generally speaking th<» greatest beauty of woman’s character is revealed The most cursory study of any woman’s opinions about her fellow, creatures will always reveal the same fad. that they are not based at all upon the intrinsic value of people, but on tn< way people treat her. Woman are notorious for their tart and presence of mind in embarrassing situations. The only things connected with sex that last and endure where man is concerned are its responsibilities. This suiqs up the psychology of all co-respondents. They are fatuously vain, they ate criminally ignorant of female psychology and they eagerly place to their credit account their wit their good looks, intelligence. :vid their virility as so-called conquest, in which the part they have plaved is no more than that of an old horse’s leg that is - taken into a stagnant pond to catch hungry leeches with. In the Middle Ages . . . women may fte said to have enjoyed a position not only of untrammelled freedom, but of exceptional honour. The man who kills most female hearts is he w’ho can throw a rich fur round his captive and whirl her off in a sumptuous Rolls-Royce. Without sensuality we could not advance from one generation to another; without a love of the flesh and its joys human nature and the animal creation, would come to an end in half a century.

We ought not to dream . . . of Blacing8 lacing women on juries, or of making aem judges of anything except the most trivial and impersonal questions. At present the idea of the “manly” man is foolishly limited To one who loves sports of all kinds.