“WOMEN EMULATE OLIVER CROMWELL.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 9

“WOMEN EMULATE OLIVER CROMWELL.”

(Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, November 8. “That women are both intolerant and intolerable,” was the motion debated by twenty-nine delegates from about a score of universities at the London School of Economics intervarsity debate last night. The voting vindicated women of the double indictment by 141 to 91, but not before the supporters of the motion had scqred a number of oratorical points. The defenders of women took the view that the alleged intolerance and intolerability of women existed only in the minds of those men who had been disappointed in love. “The women they could not win,” cried Lord Pentland (Cambridge). “I am asking the House to keep this idea at the back of their minds when they listen to the supporters of the motion. Men whose passionate protestations to women have been ignored, these men will be ignored to-nigfu.” According to an Edinburgh undergraduate women “find the eternal verities in silk stockings and the ultimate truth in crepe de chine” He divided women into three classes: Those who like their books with lots of love and no sin; those who liked their books with little love and lots of sin; and those who wore flannels. “In that wettest district, Cambridge,” declared another, “women made no effort to preserve their complexions. Like Oliver Cromwell, they trusted in God and kept their powder dry.”