NICE NOTIONS ABOUT MEN

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 532, 8 December 1928, Page 8

NICE NOTIONS ABOUT MEN

Sir. —• I thought we had heard the last of women’s protests against men’s manners in lifts and trams. But your correspondent “Nancy” wishes for a little more thoughtful gallantry so that she may cherish “nice notions about men.” It is far from my purpose to destroy “Nancy’s” aspirations toward noble thoughts about the opposite sex, but I would ask her to think back a few years—if she has reached that age whereat she is able to hark back that far—and search for the reason of this departed chivalry among men. If men are not treating women with that degree of consideration which they expect—and, I believe, deserve —they have themselves largely to blame. Women, by modernising their outlook, discarded a great many Old World considerations because they cramped their style in an advanced community; but it has not occurred to them that by sacrificing that dignity of poise and reserve of sex, they sacrificed also a great deal of the respect in the hearts of men—that respect which forms the basis of courtesy and gallantry. Men are only too willing, sir, to pay the deepest tribute to the gentler sex, but they cannot stand being made look foolish in doing so. Will “Nancy” think this out? GALLANT.