WOMEN’S SECRET.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16797, 22 July 1920, Page 7

WOMEN’S SECRET.

WHY THEY HIDE THEIR AGE. Why women conceal their ages was given away by Councillor Margaret Hodge in- the coure of a debate with Miss Helena Normanton, on “That only exceptional women are fitted for Parliament,” at the Women’s Freedom League roooms, High Holborn, London. “The reason is,” said Councillor Hodge, “that women are always competing for male admiration, and partly because,'nowadays, tl)c older woman has very little chance on the labour market.” (Cheers). Councillor Hodge took up the cudgels for the “exceptional” woman. They arrive at decisions quicker than men,” she explained. “The woman in Parliament must be highly intellectual, with plenty of moral character to represent a woman’s point of view. You may say, ‘Well, what about the married woman?’ The point is, more often than not the married woman may be moulded to her husband’s point of view.” Miss Normanton took as her text the “ordinary woman,” whom she defined as one “who knits jumpers and can do something to the cold mutton -on Wednesday. If exceptional women are intended for Parliament, they should be only those who are exceptional in their beauty and charm. Six would do the trick where six hundred of the others failed. Think,” added Miss Normanton amid laughter, “of the Lord Chancellor in the .grip of a Delilah. The Strangers’ Gallery would be packed.”'