A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 4 January 1930, Page 9

A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW.

our release. We are accustomed to hear engineers like Mr J. R. Templin tell us that this is an electrical age; but we would like them to know that women appreciate the significance of the thing that engineers and scientists have brought to pass. Without electricity women would still be bound—bound to the drudgery of a thousand petty tasks that try the body and wear the temper. Through long days of toil and unremitting patience these men have found for us a way of escape. Edison tells us that he worked over one year, twenty hours a day, Sunday and all, to perfect a detail in one of his inventions. We might flatter ourselves unduly did we think that our release was their primary motive, but they must have been conscious that in serving science they served the world. And wherein lies their reward? Perchance they may find in their domestic circles an increased degree of that bloom on a woman which Barrie calls charm. B.E.S.