ABOUT WOMEN.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 12926, 17 March 1906, Page 3

ABOUT WOMEN.

It has-been left to Dr Bernard Hollander to find out a few more things about woman. It did not seem possible to discover anything new, so much having been said on what is evidently a" never-ending, subject. However, the lecturer, who is a specialist of some eminence, makes the declaration that, judging by her brain and nervous organisation, woman is not inferior to man, only dissimilar. If she had only the same .strength of impulse to exert her powers to the utmost, there is no reason why she should not excel him. This is borne out, it is affirmed, by the brilliant way a woman so often comes out of acollege or other examination. The old theory that she is necessarily at secondbest-, because her brain is five ounces lighter than a man's, is not backed up by Dr Hollander, who will not admit that this implies, as a matter of course, anv marked inferiority in intellectual power.' What he says that the respective brains are unlike, seeing that the n-ervous system is far more developed in the woman than in tue man; and that it is due to this that women are more deeply conscious of joy and sorrow, and more subject to fear. f G Tt ee^,' more keenly the emotional side "I 11 a does. And another p,ant of difference in temperament is, it is pointed out, that, when the ordinary man comes home tired, after a long day's work. Jie looks for relaxation and quiet; whereas a woman, when her day's work, which may .be equally -exhausting, is finished, is leadv ior excitement and stimulation. Some other subtle contrasts and distinctions are interesting, such as :—"A.man has pluck, a woman fortitude,; a .man is greatest in and achievement!.. a woman in self-sacrifice; - men may take the lead, but a woman guides." Many women, it is said, acquire culture at.- the expense- of •their emotional natures,, and the lecturer finally declares that, the result-of the present "universal education craze makes iteasier to obtain a woman secretary than a good cook; and that, too, at a" lower wage."