WOMAN’S PLACE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16846, 23 September 1922, Page 18

WOMAN’S PLACE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —I noticed in your issue of Friday’s “ Star ” the wee faint pipe oP one 11 Home Sweet Home ” as to woman’s place, which I think is the purest, concentrated and impertinent | arrogance I have ever read. ‘ ‘ Home ! Sweet Home” has evidently been horn | in the wrong age—his time was during i the time of the Roman Empire. Then ! woman was looked upon as no more than a slave, and numbered with man'; goods and chattels. Tt is that attitude of the male mind as displayed by * Home Sweet Home” which is responsible for woman's position socially and | politically. All down the ages it has hedged her in with conventions and restrictions and “ thou shalt nots.” In fact, it is not very long since the male mind, after long and heated discussion, decided to allow woman to have a soul. Evidently “ Home Sweet Home ” has not arrived at that decision yet. I am not a supporter, sir. of the political party which I think the lady in question would represent if elected, but. if woman is to our laws, surely by all logical reasoning she has a moral light to take her place in the legislative halls of our country, and have a aav in the making of those laws. One woman more or less would not make a great deal of difference to a Parliament already pretty full of old women. I think if “ Home Sweet Home ” would 100 karound the world and note the tragic chaos of the political position the world over brought about by man’s government, he must come to the conclusion that woman could not do worse. I am. etc., BOLSHEVIK.