WAR OF THE SEXES.
Sir, —Your correspondent, Mr. Arthur Cummings, in his rather discursive and feeble letter, recommends women to get back to "their own sphere of life" and quotes, "It is a sorry home where the cock is silent and the woman crows." He adds, "As a mere man I cannot take that silently." As a mere woman might I offer the other saying, "The cock crows loudest on his own dunghill,", and leave him there. This seems a bad time for crowing of any sort, in view of the dreadful mess masculine administration has brought upon the civilised world. Our women and girls can hold their own with any in the world. Their efficiency is never questioned when their help is needed to take more than a fair share of the unpaid and laborious work of existing organisations. The matter of moral training is far too large a question for discussion hero, but I would point out that the mothers who are being lectured and blamed for their negligence are themselves the product of a former generation brought up with very rigid ideas, some times as narrow as a knife blade. J.M.W.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 14
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194WAR OF THE SEXES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21239, 20 July 1932, Page 14
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