N. Z. GIRLS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 11 October 1922, Page 2

N. Z. GIRLS

ARE AUSTRALIANS MOKE ATTRACTIVE? SEXES TOO EQUAL HERE A visitor from Sydney, who noticed in the newspapers lately the reference tiie Rev. Gray Dixon made to the more attractive appc-aranco of tile Australian girls compared with their New /calami sisters, states that the dominion men are themselves to blame for the comparison being made, because it is a fact that the lank, free-speaking Australian who will hardly speak six words to one of his intimates without putting in a swear word or two, in the _ presence of his women folk is different, man. As an instance of this he said it was quite the rule in Australia that whenever a girl got into a j lift all the men who happened to be. there when she entered it immediately took off their hats and stood cap in hand till she got out at the floor at which she wished to alight. It was a slight act of courtesy to the. gentler sex, and thev fully appreciated it, for it, was reflected in their general con--1 duct. There was too much of an apparent equality among the sexes in ' New Zealand, 'hut they could never get ,'awav from the fact as once stated by ' Mr Austen Chamberlain in the British House of -.Commons, “that man was man. and woman was woman, and no Act of Parliament would ever make them any different.” In some respects he thought that'the New Zealand girls were out on their, own because they wore able. to turn their hands to almost anything, and especially was this true on some of the farms in the country he had visited. He thought the women who were pioneering with their young husbands in the hackblocks of the country were veiy resourceful women, and had a culture of their own; but ho was thinking more particularly of the city girls who strove with men for places on the tramcars and gangways of the ferry boats, who would gain in men’s estimation if they hesitated a little and allowed some gallant young men the chance of doing some of the elbowing for them Men liked to put women on a pedestal, but only if it were done with the consent of both> parties. .-■■■