TEMPERAMENT FIRST

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 2

TEMPERAMENT FIRST

CHOOSING A WIFE PROFESSOR’S HINTS LONDON, October 20. There are four.types of w,onion mannish, modish, minx and motherly declared Rev. Eric Waterhouse, addressing an audience of men whom he advised to choose a wife for her temperament and not her looks. The lie-woman, he said, was suffering from an inferiority complex usually, due to a feeling of inferiority to her brothers and male companions. Such a gjrl unconsciously tried to balance her sense of inferiority by a close imitation oi' man. If a man admired the lie-woman type it was probably because he was by nature over-feminine. Mr. Waterhouse condemned the .modish type,, and clumictqrised the minx as using the privileges of her sex for .her own ends. She could lie charming when it suited her, but when it no longer, paid out .canto lujr 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 type was tho best and only type worth considering, liecause she understood wliat nature ■ meant women to be. Consequently, she was the most natural. He had ncvcjr known a really selfish woman vo 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.