A MOTHER'S LAMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10239, 22 December 1894, Page 6

A MOTHER'S LAMENT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —The richly deserved cestigo.tion administered to Mr J»mes Allen by au •' Ex-High Scbool Girl," which appeared in Wednesday's Time*, is very opportune. The lords of creation are putting on too many airs at the present time. Only lately an old bachelor in proposing the l;oast of the ladies at a public banquet took the aetiuiment, "The Fair. Hay their vhtnos exc-eed the magnitude oE thrie skirts, while ik-iir faults a.ra still smaller than their bnimete." T»as sort of " bosh" uttered at a public ins^tinc when a number of viumai-ried men r.vn prt-.-eul;, doer, more harm to our sex than you may iiragine. lam the mother of two raurriag&ble daughters, ?.nd have spared )».o paius, no co;.r., no amount of careful trailing, bo oi&ke them eligible as good wives, neither of whom has hid au offer that a mother for a moment could have entertained. It does appear to me that at the presesit time thooe jjirls who are carefully reared and whoso morals and ganeral conduct are founded upon rcligioua principles have a very Blender chance of comfortably and happily settling down i» life. Young men oecra to prefer the girls who are fast in conversation, loud in drens, wbo scoff, s.t religion, and siy the Rev. Mr M'Neill is a blatant raountcbink. However unpleasant or indelicate the truth rnfty be, coming from a woman, it is plain that marriage iv our community is voted a bore—is atmoss repudiated. It ia with all pain and Homo shame I declare it as my belief that an openly-recognised anti-matrimonial elemenb pervades our society. Go whare I will, ths mother's eye has this social cruel wrong intruded upon her. As appajtrances go at present my girls seem condemned to live and die imeßtablished, or be given away at last to people who can neither understand nor appreciate the care and trouble bentoived upon thnra to make them worthy helpmates for worthy mon.— I »m., &c, December 21. Elizabeth Corns.

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