IS CHIVALRY DEAD?

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XVIII, Issue XVIII, 26 October 1912, Page 10

IS CHIVALRY DEAD?

With the advent of women into many avenues of employment that used to be sacred to men has come, it appears, a less chivalrous attitude on the part of the men (says the Sydney Morning Herald). An elderly Scotch lady noticed this in a Sydney tram car recently, said Mrs Cocks at the Y.W.C.A. meeting last week. She noticed in a crowded car that a number of women were standing, and in her quiet Scotch way said: "I wonder if the days of chivalry are dying," to which a man i-.i the tram promptly replied: "No, they are quite dead." . Sir George King-Hall, referring to the subject, said that there was a danger in some countries, especially in Australia, where the open-air life was so inviting, that home ties would be weakened. It had to beremembered that upon the home lifo and training depended the courtesy and chivalry of the rising generation.