SUPERFLUOUS WOMEN.

Mataura Ensign, 11 February 1916, Page 5

SUPERFLUOUS WOMEN.

Tv l m inG UP Tii l Ct XES PBOI'OSa I. TO KIM. ul'T. TTn-l c ar c too mans women. -ays an Kny ii -hj new -paper. ami whai ai'i' we ymny |n <I > > ahmit il s\ 1 1 1 1 1 llm war is over ami till- u m|e- ira 1 1 it ■ | hviliilh ma hit nl' unim'n I- -nil further imreaseel hj There wa- a -undo- m nearly 'J ,< Hl( ).< XM ) uniiii'ii helore llm war. anil mm rim imm are heiiiy kill'd a! -imli a lain i 1 1 a l mils' wmmm will lm !iT r alism. mile.,- -omel hilly 1- (Imm sml s -mm Mil's llm San I'Taimi-eo ’ A lymm n; ’ . Ami ilm problem will lm nearlv a- ple--my in (d-inians' ami I'Taime. (Icnnaiiy had a hefore-1 lm-w ar -nrphi- ul Slo.CCtl umimn, ami I - ranee m dl’>.(:()(( women, and since (onmans' and I'iaime are lining; more men than Knyland ; inn r pi In In will he corn" pond Iny 1 y -enmi-. li one mas- he permitted to take a somewhat I rn-nloit- vims m i!m -linaiimi. the lm o! Ihe lew -nisuliiy man * in llm-e eminirie- will he railn-r a happy one on aeemint ol llm emnpelinon. which wai|iiile -evere esnni lielore the war and lias- now heroine (Tan Im. I: i- u-eles-in -llyye-t lliai ilm-e won.en he killed or even thal 1r I I>ah i• s- iie henceforth expo-ed aeemdmy to the eii-tom- of Sparta and China. We ale not (piite etie'enie enmiyh ior : 1 1 a i . Inn ~o far ahn ma ni! a ria n i-m i- eoneerimd there ■mem- no rea-on why we -honld he -f|lieamiMh alter killiny a lew million mon in "ilm iniere.-i- of the nation.-." Why not kill a few million women aim. in order to even thine;- npr lint ol course a l.arye proportion of ihe name- on the ca.-n.'ii; v li-r- are i ho-e of men who are wounded and '■tippled hut whoare mn dead. Tlmrelore, -ay- the I'.nyli-li new-paper, there mii -1 he no he-itaiion mi the par: of women to marry I he-e crippled warriors. If limy cannot yet the complete article, le! lllelll he -.lli-hed won Ira y men t-. I lull a Imif is he! ler i kan no hi-eail. I n !he oipine days of peace there 1,, nainralls- a preference for nndamayed hn hands, for husband- who are -mind in wind and limh and who need m ihiiie more than llm n-na! di -. 1 p; in.a i y nroco- -e-. |!n; lip- i- m. i Pm- for fad'ml I a im; e-, Il you cannot yet a hn.hand wll 1 1 Iwo lee-, he -aH-lied ,f 1,,. ha- one. And ii he ha- no ley- at all—ordinarily a ipnle ,-erioii- - hort ••mu iny a; ha-1 lm ha- two aim-. and von will ha ve ihe -a ii- fact ion of k nowiim Iha ■ he wi ;l iml . ; ray Ia > I rmn Ihe odd wl l lion i cli.-en a imn . I’mimmher jlnii I here mn-!. He i-sai Is hj- lame nninher ol women who w ill ye; hn-haml ai all. noi even a Ira ynmii i ary hn-hand "r a hn-hand who i a lm- to pit ci a . or in's e- in -i "lion-, or with d'-i adi a hie aml I'eplaea hie pa :t -. Th'ei efore le! lie re he no !'e| llel ;; mm in . h1 - in -1 I 1 er. Lan the women lake pi.-i a- mm-h of a Inr-haml a- they can yet and make the he- • oj him. I l is holier to base only hall a hn-haml I han to he only half a wile, ami polyyams, is e ate reminded, w ron y, le-, pmsmims i- wi'miy. Tin-re canno i he any don ill a hmt I li;at . A! - o |oo|:-h, uh;c!i i- iior-r I’ll! ones', mild s n npo-e ilia: Knrepe jo-' al pre-mil wmild im! he -as iny much ahmn riyht and wrmiy wnh -mim 11 :i 1.1" I -o|. dmr- trsiny ;o ,nt e:mh other'- I liroa I; i- a linos; o- ; hmiyii a hnryiai -honld di- en , '-e on ;!m ~in proem sima l ion or Sahhath-hreaklny. And we hive a -him.w| -n-picmi tij: 11 [here will he a yreai deal of oolyyamv in Knnpe in ihe wider and n on-:. .-1 1 1 1 : 1 1 -ett-e of ;ha , u ord. Tim i .nivr'ii mn- become very i Inn In : mm- of er.-'-. a"d u hat are the Tmi Commandment- he:-,seen I : lend- f