CHIVALBY KILLED BY WOMEN

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13235, 21 July 1906, Page 6 (Supplement)

CHIVALBY KILLED BY WOMEN

LOVE OF INDEPENDENCE CARRIED •■ .■:/:; TOO FAB, V {'^/■■r :: \: Women* have won their independence; a glance back at the history of the last ten or twenty years proves how /completelyJ and thoroughly. .But in the process,; sad to say, they have so pushed the opposite sex .away from , the politeness that,used to-be considered the due of women, from; men, that it is high time they paused in their methods and seriously considered what the world will be like when men do not deem it the least little bit ..their. 1 duty nor. their pleasure* to- offer those so charming. acts'of chivalry and politeness that us^d,to; grace existence. - ..- -■ .' It is easy,enough to see how the necessity for chivalry"has changed from the old days, when women, weaker as they are physically than men, really needed the strong right aim of a man for protection. In these days that strong right arm is not necessary; civilisation, has made danger ever less present with us. ':-:f- But that' we shall bitterly regret in - course -of": time'"the' diminution of observances of little acts of courtesy that. we are permitting to die there cannot be the slightest possible doubt. ■-■';•'•■ What true woman in the electrified tinder-, ground does not glow with satisfaction and pleasure when some man springs from his seat and offers her what he . gladly relinquishes for the sake of her sex? ;•: -,•- - Perhaps these men do not all with true alacrity abandon their - reats ; and is >it likely they will do so for women who themselves are greatly lacking in politeness, and do not even take the trouble, to thank those ' who put ; themselves to inconvenience on their! account? It is simple enough to utter the .words "Thank you," and to say that one : is ; sorry ' to have to •: deprive the giver of* the seat ; of his comfort, | but just in those few. words men find their reward. - -For, bronchial' cough*'and colds, ', Woods" Great renpenniat Care, la 6d and & 6tl per bottle.