THE MANNISH GIRL.
Contrast the old poetic conception of i woman with the harsh-speaking, cigarettesmoking, tennis, and dance-mad woman of to-day; the girl who wants to be "a pal *' to a man. ... Perhaps it is all due to the influence cf the late war; perhaps the fashion' will change, and girls will cease to aspire to bo " pals " to men. and will wish again to occupy that higher office which the Creator intended them to fill.
Man and woman proceed along parallel lines of development, upon lines that never meet. Looking along those lines into the future they may appear to converge, but that is an optical illusion, to be observed on any railway track is common to parallels. In the reluctance of woman to recognise her own lines of development resides the cause of much of to-day's unrest in married life. History shows quite plainly that from the very dim beginnings of time man filled one well-defined sphere and woman another. Change there has been always, but change of detail and not of principle ca change, plus e'est la meme chose.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18456, 20 July 1923, Page 14
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182THE MANNISH GIRL. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18456, 20 July 1923, Page 14
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