A MAN-HATER.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 14

A MAN-HATER.

From Our Own Correspondent. London, November 3.

i That queer creature Lady Florence Dixie ; has a “ Page of Confessions" in the current i Woman at Home , the marvellously good “ six-penn’orth *’ edited by Annie S. Swan. You will be interested to know that the quality most admired in Man by the tigerhunting, self-advertising Woman is “ absence of self-conceit and affectation,” which she says is “ a rare one.” Women generally do appreciate in man that which they themselves lack, and it is hardly strange that Lady Florence Dixie, “ bein by natur contrairey," admires in males the lack of that which she possesses in abundance herself. In her own sex she admires “frankness and a dislike of humbugism.” I have a faint recollection that Lady Florence tried to humbug the world into the belief that she had been brutally assaulted by two men, but she didn’t succeed. The season season of the year she most delights in is spring, and the flower she loves best is the primrose. Her holiday resort she would make “In far away lands where man’s presence has not ravaged ” ; she has no favourite novelist, and the story she admires most is her own “ Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900,” because it alone reflects her ideas, whilst her favourite occupation is “ travelling and exploring in untrodden lands.” Lady Dixie is evidently a thorough going man-hater. One can hardly wonder at this, seeing that men for the most part have made a mock of her pretension to fame as an explorer, and continue to refuse to take her seriously on any subject.