A MISCHIEVOUS WOMAN.

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 13210, 29 September 1915, Page 6

A MISCHIEVOUS WOMAN.

Sir, —When opening my mail to-day I found I was the recipient of a typewritten documeht to which was attach, ed a white feather. Some demented person —a female of course —is makhig a practice of sending these out. As a matter of fact, sir, it is some little time since I enlisted, and I have not yet been called up. However, I do not wish to treat this subject from a personal point of view, though naturally enough my feelings were anything but agreeable at the gratuitous insult.

The point is this: The typewritten sheet was evidently a thought out affair. It had taken some little time to prepare and it was a carbon copy. The idiot of the feminine gender who takes this form of venting her spite is a greater coward than the deliberate shirker. She stays at home—little she knows of the gruesomeness she is anxious to send men .to —and takes advantage of a cowardly anonymity to vent her malicious beastliness. I am, I hope, a respecter of womankind, but the female in Palmerston who is doing this thing is no woman. Had she a single attribute of womanliness she would be employing her time in useful work—helping our. wounded —instead of, as she is undoubtedly doing, getting the backs up of many chaps who are ready to go. I am. etc., THE FEATHERED.