WOMEN MUST GET SQUARE DEAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18311, 12 November 1927, Page 1

WOMEN MUST GET SQUARE DEAL.

PROPER FOOD AND GOOD HOUSING ESSENTIAL. (Written for the “ Star ” by Dr. H. T. J. Thacker). Oar Mothers, Our Wives, Otrr Sweethearts. The splendid appearance made by our women folk during this week has shown how they can rise to an occasion and fit themselves for any niche that is left for them. Our mothers are our greatest asset and no true man can place any woman above his mother. She has filled her job from all eras, she has been the burden carrier, the food-supplier, the guide, philosopher, friend and lover of all time. To-day she has ceased to be a beast of burden, and her wisdom, care and foresight is largely sought. If the flapper girl is boisterous man has encouraged her to be so. If she is mea'gre in her attire, if she powder puffs, putties and polishes she does so to please man, and eventually her own man. God, through nature, placed woman in charge of our commissariat, right from the one-celled ovum, through the evolutionary episodes of fish, reptile, bird and mammal she has always been in charge of the “ tucker menu,” and her own personal canteen breast milk has yet to be beaten as a solo food. The breasts get the first choice of arterial blood; they are those nearest the heart, and the breasts are the most anterior pair and have handy those loving arm supports, which are human only—surely a Divine providence. All other suckers are born able to walk, or where not the loving mother lies on the prone position and the younglets help themselves. The Dividing Line. Is it, then, any indignity to say that of all God s beasts man and woman are the best? The question only is what is the dividing line, what is the dividing feature, how does the human differ from the beast? Most surely it was an added quota that was put in when God made man and woman. It was then He put something of Himself into them—His own image was Ilis holy spirit, that ever pervading subconscious vibration frequency we call conscience, which when stained we feel guilty, hide and, like poor Eve, feel unclad. Millions of years ago God made this man, and at succeeding epochs He sends types to let thinking humans see what He expects from them. His supermen are of all time, and Christ our Saviour the greatest and most Divine. A Tribute to Woman. “It takes a hundred men to make an encampment, but one woman can make a home. I not only admire woman as the most beautiful object ever create'd, but I reverence her as the redeeming glory of humanitv, the sanctuary of all the virtues, the pledge of all perfect qualities of heart and head. It is not just nor right to lay the sins of men at the feet of women. It is because women are so much better than men that faults are considered greater. A man’s desire is the foundation of his love, but a woman’s desire is born of her love. The one thing in this world that is constant, the one peak that arises above all clouds, the one window' in which the light forever burns, the one star that darkness cannot quench is woman's love. It rises to the greatest heights, it sinks to the lowest depths. It forgives the most cruel injuries. It is perennial of life and grows in every climate. Neither coldness nor neglect, harshness nor cruelty can extinguish it. A woman’s love is the real love that subdues the earth: the love that has wrought all miracles of art; that gives us music all the way from the cradle song to the grand closing symphony that bears the soul away on wings of fire. A love that is greater than power, sweeter than life and stronger than death.”— R. G. Ingersoll. Feeding the Baby. Woman is our guiding star, our nurse, our inspiration, our type, our text, our universal provider. So be it then, man should work and hand over to women the outcome of his work and his health, his line so that she may provide a living to eat, a comfort to enjoy, a home to rest and sane recreation. Woman’s brain is like sound and light and colour. It can tune to any frequenev vibration, but above all else she should have full control of your foods and diet menus. God meant that when he placed those loving arms as adjacent supports for the w’eakling babe’s suction vacuum apparatus. A babe has a special suction pad muscle in cither of its cheeks and when used on its mofher s breast there never comes mouth breathing, adenoids, tonsils, indrawn ear drums, toothless jaws and ugly goitres. To get humanlets to Fuck dummies and rubber teated bottles the coaxer starter sugar is used on the rubber and in the dope there is no humanised milk. It is merely a concoction fed through a viscous contraption, a laziness, and side-stepping flaw that takes the human back to the highway of Evolution towards the beast type. If you feed a baby like a beast little wonder it later an becomes an uncontrolled beast that is out all the time *to beat the band”—beg, borrow, or steal. The sweat of the 'brow principle is as necessary to a human babe as to a human adult. Train up a babe in the way it should go and when it is old it will not depart from it. There is only one pacing strap or hobble on woman’s conduct and that is “modesty.” If a woman is modest she will always be moral. And she will always be modest if man supplies her %ith all physical wants, care and sympathy, bousing, fresh foods and good clothing. Man in all his engagements can do this. Does try? Is he not most often enough to dine home on Sunday and eat club or city rations most other days? Think of it, you male human. Are you giving your women folk at home a square deal, or are you encouraging her to have a suap tea for you of fried fish and chips, sliced ham and tea ? She is just as good as you are and your equal in any balance. The ideal home will put the greedy, selfish golfer’s muscle energy into fresh grown vegetables and fruit and the homeless aspro bridge fiend back to her nurse jobs end fresh food menus. The woman who uses her best arterial blood to golf, to bridge and candy feed needs must neglect her baby jobs, her breast and food supplies. She gets breast cancer, womb cancer, gallstones, “bally chocolate stones.” Fat, myxodematious, adipose tissue, fourteen-pound stones of it, to lug. carry and harness into shape and figure till she is scrapped by blood pressure. Double chins and saddle bags do not, come by radio —they arc real and like fat oxen are cultivated'. In all the soul, the spirit of God, is just, the same. It. is there and cannot he changed. Like the diamond “Truth,” it is inimitable. and the antipon dopers are merely actor machines to go west and be cremated by fire or bacterial dissolution. If we can groom feed and house our Limericks, Koharas, and Great Bingens, our sheep, our dogs, our cats, our mag-

pies, surely we can give our God-given souls a decent deal and housing free from infection and disease? Significance of Growth. Growth is always one of the signs of health in j'oung animals and children. Thig does not mean that retarded growth is always a sign of ill health. There are periods in the individual’s life* and certain times of the year when slower growth may be normal. For the child to be led to believe that he is ill, simply because he is growing less rapidly, is a serious mistake. This is particularly so if the health examination records show no physical defects, or underlying causes of ill health.

Anatomic Traits. Other anatomical traits, such as the colour or size of the eye, the profile of the face, or shape of the pelvis, are, like height, determined mainly by original nature. The growth of weight, while it shows a curve similar to that of height, except that it is more irregular, is more susceptible to environmental factors than is the development of most anatomical traits. An after noon of violent exercise may reduce weight somewhat, without perceptibly affecting height. Malnutrition and most forms of illness have less effect on height than on weight. But here again, given a normal life, weight is largely an expression of native constitution; that is, if many children were given identical amounts and kinds of food, exercise and sleep, and were free from disease, they would still attain different weights.