MODERN “BRAINY” WOMEN.

Wairarapa Age, 20 September 1922, Page 2

MODERN “BRAINY” WOMEN.

“LITTLE USE TO A NATION.” According to the Rev. L. K. Groundstroem, a Finnish pastor who has just arrived in Australia, brainy women are of very little use to a nation. That, lhe says, has been the experience in Finland, which is usually regarded as the home of the truly emancipated woman. “The women, they study too much,” he said emphatically. “It is not good for a nation that so many of its women should be students in colleges or universities, or managing the affairs of the city. They are not learning what they should learn at college—how to be mothers and makers of homes. So much brain work is producing an unwanted type of nervous woman, and bow can a nation prosper when the majority of its women want to run the world instead of the home? “Of course, in Parliament the women—who belong mostly to the Socialist or Progressive Party, not the National Party—may do something. Goodness knows! They put through prohibition, but then it is women everywhere who advocate prohibition. Our parliamentary women also have the cause of the women and children at heart, and that may be why there is so little unemployment in Finland.”