Letter to Kitty

Southland Times, Issue 25303, 5 June 1935, Page 5

Letter to Kitty

My dear Kitty, Oh, Kitty, Kitty, what have I done? If you haven’t yet read it would you please, before you go any further, read the tremendous effusion of this page written by “Readei” in reply to my last letter to you. It seems, doesn’t it, that I’ve trodden on someone’s toes. Really Kit, I thought my letter very half-hearted for, as you know, 1 have very decided and strong “feminist” views and purposely didn’t express them to the full—someday I will and then we’ll see what happens. However, “Reader” pleased me intensely for a man, wise in the ways of newspapers, once told me that it was a good sign if a journalist could stir someone sufficiently to reply to something she’d written and at long last ever hopeful Jane has, well—er—got a bite. It is cheering, too, to know that a man has read my page and, who knows, others perhaps may do the same. When first ? beheld “Reader’s” screed the thought passed through my mind that here might be food for an interesting argument, but on perusing it a second time I discovered I was not so well read as I thought and moreover that “Reader” himself could not possibly have read my letter very carefully, but rather read his own ■ meaning into it. This | grieves me sorely, of course, and I only hope that instead of under-esti-mating his intelligence I have misled him in my letter. He heads his statements “A Male’s Meanderings." Very apt, don’t you think? For meander he certainly did. Nevertheless, it is entertaining to know the opinions formed about we defenceless females, however wide of the mark they might be. Lots of love, JANE.