WOMEN VERSUS MEN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21647, 18 May 1932, Page 12

WOMEN VERSUS MEN

CHANGE OF A CENTURY MR JUSTICE M'CARDIE’S VIEWS. (EfeoM Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, April 7, ' Ati a dinner of the Arts Theatre Club* the subject “ Who Gets the Best Out or Life, 1 Man or Woman? ’ was discussed, and several well-known people gave their ° P Mra Elinor Glyn thought that men had much the greater chances in life, because of thejr unique opportunity in having been the loijcls of creation from the time one of them gave up one of Ins ribs. Mr Justice M'Cardie, after the speakers had finished, said: “I am onlv summing up, but I confess that the whole secret of life is to be found in about three things—(l) happiness, which you and 1 have all been waiting through the years for, and are waiting for D ,°'Y! S 2 > the sense of achievement \ and . (3) the sense of fulfilment. If you don’t get one ot those three things I don’t think any one of us vtill get ‘tile best out of life. ' Could such a debate as this have been possible: in the year 1832? Mark the transcendent change; 1832 when the woman 'had no right to vote, the mere creature* of the male; 1932 the man the mere cmiture of the woman, ihe change was transcendent, and when one debated this question one might remember me time and', the place. ~ , In war the great names were those of men, but even in literature, from Sophocles to Virgil right down to the present day, this sphere belonged to men. The world of sculpture from Miehaelangclo to Rodin belonged to men. In the world of art fnom Titian to Rembrandt, and from Velasquez and Manet this belonged to men. Women, however, in that they formed the-majority of the electorate, were able to shape the destiny of England, and therefore able to sway the destiny of the Empire.