"WOMAN GOVERNS."

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8524, 17 January 1906, Page 2

"WOMAN GOVERNS."

♦ AMUSING APHORISMS. " In America the woman governs the man absolutely," said Dr Emil Reich, at Westbourne Park Institute, London, on, November 29. "In a certain sense, the last man that came to Amerioa was Christopher Columbus. i "The American woman lives for what she calls ' a good time/ Her interest is not man, nor what is noblest in man — paternity. Her ambition is to study spiritualism, then Buddhism, then wireless telegraphy, and then the novels of Marie Corelli. " What characterises the French woman is that absolute assertion of her energy, not so much of her will — .for she is easily yielding. The German woman is a combination of the English and French, but in Prussia the greatest worker is the new woman, who is no woman. "In Ireland woman is as beautiful as she is dangerous; she is attractive, with a certain primness. She is the making of Ireland, which is one of the things you do not read in the newspapers. The Russian woman knows fifteen languages * she can play all instruments' ; she has read eveiybhing — but ehe is not a woman. "It is not a protective tariff that will save you," continued Dr Reich, "it is the woman and the man. Keep off that empire ; give it its needs, but remember that it will never have the men it requires unless they have been influenced by great mothers and great wives — by the really new women." Among Dr Reich's other aphorisms were the following : — Nations differ in nothing more than in their women. You will never know -what a woman is unless you suffer very much. Women do not love Napoleons; they love mere middle-olass mediocrities. What makes a prophet is only one thing — that he is absurd. Men who want to found empires do not want, the higher development of j woman. ' No man is a man before forty. Most men are not men at sixty. You will in vain search history for a great man who has not been influenced bj* a great woman.