“WHACK INTO THEM”
PROFESSOR ADVISES STICK FOR MODERN WOMEN. LONDON, November 28. “Bring back the stick and whack it into them.” Thus counselled Professor H. E. Armstrong, the famous eighty-five-year-old Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at the City and Guilds College, South Kensington, in an interview in which he discussed modem woman. “The women are worse than the men,” he declared, “and they want more whacking—they want a stick to whack them back into their homes.” The professor, who was married in 1877, has seven children and fourteen grandchildren. He believes in brighter costumes for men (because they lead to brighter intellects), and he has put his theory into practice by appearing at important public dinners in a yellow waistcoat with one blue and one red lapel. “If you make a fool of yourself in this world you get noticed, and become an important person at once,” he explained.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19669, 11 December 1933, Page 10
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