WHAT IS A SENSE OF HUMOUR?

Temuka Leader, Issue 7330, 7 June 1913, Page 8

WHAT IS A SENSE OF HUMOUR?

It is an old gibe against women that they have no sense of humour. They would do well not to seek to mould one on the humour displayed by a certain section of the Press and the public where women are in question. The following quotation is taken from an account in the “Westminster Gazette,” of the official inquiry into the conditions under which sub-postmasters carrv on business: — Mr. Alexander Watt, sub-postmas-ter of Pennan, Banffshire, stated that he carried on a boot and shoo business, in addition to acting as subpostmaster. The total remuneration ho received from the Post Office was £35 6s. a year, and out of that he ■had to keep an assistant. Mr. J. A. Davies: How is your assistant paid?—She is my wife. (Laughter.) Another instance of the humour in which women are said to bo lacking was displayed at the meeting held by Suffragettes on Hampstead Heath. We presume it was humour, because the “Standard” describes it as follows: A company of omnibus drivers who wore enjoying a holiday wore responsible for a fire of amusing interruptions: Why does the Government treat us women in such an underhanded and unjust manner?” asked the speaker. “Because you don’t behave yourselves,” said a driver, to the immense delight of the crowd. Another of these “amusing interruptions” of the speech of the woman in search of justice, who was facing that crowd of several hundred strong, was tho time-worn remark that “No woman knows her mind for two minutes together”-—a remark, adds the “Standard”, “that was greeted with roars of laughter.” On tho whole, we advise women to keep the humour they have.