TEMPERAMENT FIRST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22102, 4 November 1933, Page 11

TEMPERAMENT FIRST

HINTS ON CHOOSING A WIFE LONDON, October 20. There are four types of women—mannish, modish, minx, and motherly—declared the Rev. Eric Waterhouse, addressing an audience of men whom he advised to choose a wife for her temperament and not her looks. The he-woman, he said, was suffering from an inferiority complex usually due to a feeling of inferiority to her brothers and male companions. Such a girl unconsciously tried to balance her sense of inferiority by a close imitation of man. If a man admired- the he-woman type it was probably because he was by nature over-feminine. Mr Waterhouse condemned the modish type, and characterised the minx as using the privileges of her sex for her own ends. She could be charming when it suited her, but when it no longer paid out came her claws and the man got scratched. The minx was often most excitable in company, and the unhappy man meeting her in such circumstances believed her charming. But when she got a home she slumped, and her husband got the full effects. The motherly woman was the best and only type worth considering, because she understood what nature meant women to be. Consequently, she was the most natural. He had never known a really selfish woman to be the mother of a large family, or the mother of a large family who was not in some respects a line woman. Mr Waterhouse is professor of philosophy in religion in the University of London.