DR. BAKE WELL IN REPLY TO MRS. NICOL'S SCOLDING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11198, 19 October 1899, Page 6

DR. BAKE WELL IN REPLY TO MRS. NICOL'S SCOLDING.

TO THE EDITOR. S)i, I shall never got over never' I am dictating these lust few lines on my dying lied, crushed and overwhelmed by Mrs E. Nicol's wrath. She wants me lynched' Sweet creature! I once asked a Scotchman —(I was going to write an intelligent Scotchman, but that would be a pleonasm, as all Scotchmen are intelligent)—l once asked a Scotchman what was his idea of Heaven. After about a minutes pause lie gravely reolied, "A bin rest, and no women." And he uttered the ast two words most emphatically. I expect ho must have been acquainted with Mrs jNicoi. Of course one does not expect either common sense or truth from a woman in a nassion, but it would be interesting to learn bv what mental proofs Mrs. E. Nicol infers that I expect sympathy from women either young or old, when the very passage she of"the kind' 5 uok expect anything The ""kindest cut of all is when she taunts me with tjie small capacity of my mind." Now surely I cannot help this. I am responsible for the employment I make of my mental capacity, but not for the "smallness" ° ' ILL " J Jf' e 1 >e, gigantic intellectual powers of Mrs. Nicol it is not my fault but my misfortune If I hid her power of scolding, I certainly should not use it to sneer at any other person who bad not the STni?'™'"" " lt " fell 1 " ""Scurrilous," "cowardly," "unmanly," scathing, untrue," "unjust," " totally unwarranted, 'deserving only of contemp, -such are somo of the flowers of and at me MrS " NiC ° ol hurls at my articleproposes to send me off to to lvnl a m T def »'of, getting somebody to lynoh me. I should bo very delighted to go to South Africa, only that 'i know my ago and infirmities would render me as useless there as the Red Cross Brigade would be.—i am, etc., in T7 , , R. H. Bakeweli, M.D, IW, Hobsdn-street; October 18, 1899.