THE IDEAL HUSBAND.
WOMAN’S IMPOSSIBLE QUEST.
“ Women are eager to command servants, to dominate husbands, and have men as supplicants at their footstools, but very few know anything of the glory of the star which calls men through hardships and death to Empire-building.” This statement was made by Dr Josiah Oldfield in a lecture to the Eclectic Club 'in London, on “ Can a Woman be Happy?” He defined happiness as the ascribing pursuit of a worthy and attainable ideal. Women, owing to their limitation of thought concept, their lack of imagination, and over-flow of emotion, failed to travel along any of the great highways of happiness. In place of the pursuit of knowledge, he said, women were carried away by the lower spirit of inquisitiveness. Few women knew anything of the happy, toilsome road leading to wealth. Their chances were lost by the gambling element, which bade them hope for a stroke of luck or a prize draw in the marriage market. Women lost their share of life, health, and beauty in a selfish search for a panacea for personal attractiveness. Their search was not for a means to make all women beautiful, but to make one woman especially attractive.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1292, 12 September 1922, Page 8
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