QUIET WOMEN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19236, 27 January 1926, Page 7

QUIET WOMEN.

It has been suggested that the majority >f men do not appreciate the quiot woman, but I doubt if this is really true, says a well-known writer, Most men r admi?e a quiet woman, even if in their lighter moments they appear to ignore her, After all* it is the quiet woman who is the mainstay of that great movement which has resulted in the emancipation of women from the old restricted position in which thuy lived in Victorian times. She it is who has given men confidence in her sex, and it is to the quiet woman that we go for sympathy when we are really in trouble. Writing this on my birthday and looking hack over my past life, I must confess that had it not been for two quiet women, my mother and my sister, j would have found it a hard battle to kcap on the straight path. , Those' women correspondents who imagine that tbey are ignored by the average man are quite mistaken. We ail admire their good points and the quiet courage with which they fig Jit • battles. Wo know that the quiet woman s good points are none the less real wecausa they are not showy, 1 knew a man once whom the word classed as " a real bad lot," andl certain y in his wilder moments it was difhcp.it to imagine that he had many virtues. Ho married a quiet woman, and for a time it seemed that he was going the downward road even faster than before, lhen gradually a change took place, and ultimately he admitted that, through his conviction that his wife was too good for him and the patient way sho met. misfortunes, lis had learned shame and redemption. . , That men are often attracted by the witty, impulsive,, and brilliant woman goes" without saying. But that does not prove that those very same men do not in their hearts admire the quiet woman. She appeals, I have found, to most of ton men I have thfiL ——-ovcn those whom tli© world calls " boundors."