MOTHERHOOD AND WOMANHOOD.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCIII, Issue 10652, 13 May 1895, Page 3

MOTHERHOOD AND WOMANHOOD.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir.,—l listened with pleasure to Dr Lomkx - Smith’s lecture yesterday afternoon, and I think it is very good of him to give us the course ha proposes. I think that in one part ol! Ma lecture failed to see tho point of 'the argument, and did not take n wide enough view of_ the matter. Ho said something to this. _ effect s—- " Women whoso intellects are highly cultivated are not likely, to ba tho mo thorn of many children; ” in fact, that it .9 impossible that they should be, and it certainly seemed to me that he deplored this (to him proven) fact. Now we all know that tho whole world is a congested Inborn: market. People trend ono° on the other to secure a day’s work far pay. We also have not got to “ream the wide world” to find parents who, though loving their children, shako their bond at numbers and ponder tho future of those children very anxiously. Well, now, what do I deduce from oil this ? Why that n-wonderful ordering of thiaga is visible. Nature tends remedy for the over-population of this world. There is no doubt that women are showing a moat extraordinary anxiety to develop their mental powers to the uttermoat ; the delights of the intellectual life open out before them; they aspire to everything. This has all com© about in a perfectly natural way. I must inform you that Dr Lomes-Smith did not tel), ua that the few children of the intellectual moths* would ba in say way inferior, mentally or physically, to the children of the uncultivated or stupid woman, only that they would be fewer in number. I ngk you to publish this letter, _ because I hope that wo may get a very interesting reply from Dr Lomax-Smith.—l am, &c., 1 M.0.T.W.1.