Female Suffrage.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2061, 29 April 1887, Page 2

Female Suffrage.

To the Editor of the Standard. Sie, —Can you wonder at a woman waxing wroth and using a few epithets of a strong character when “ A Husband ” writes such abuse of our sex in the columns of a newspaper P He has quoted for the edification of your readers the mental capacity of his wife and asks what women know about Acts of Parliament. 1 wonder if “A Husband ” could tell us much about Protection or Frectmdo that would bo edifying to your readers, or about any of the many Acts of Parliament. I doubt if there are many mm who know much about them, notwithstanding that they are continually cai'ed upon to read up in on! r to lit themsehes for their various duties. Why, sir, f have heard some of the Justices of the Peace spoken of in a most contemptuous manner because they were so ignorant of the law and because there was a lack of honest judgment in their decisions. If “ A Husband ”is going to particularise curtain matters and throw out insinuations that women know nothing about them, i will, with your permission, Mr Editor, do the same, and show such men as your correspondent that they are wise only in their own conceits. I will, if A Husband ” will come forward and vindicate his own character for learning, find a school girl in the 4th Standard, whom 1 will pit against him at a public entertainment for goneral knowledge. There is no reason for him to talk so flippantly about women “losing their heads" and “ baring only one idea.” Let him mention any subject upon which woman is mentally inferior to man and I feel sure theto are many of my sex in the Wairarapa who will take up the gauntlet. But bo is a miserable bus* baud after all. A man who would publish the shortcomings of his wife to the world to justify a rash statement of his own is a mean and heartless creature and beneath contempt, were it not that his slanders need ret futing. Apologising Mr Editor, for being so troublesome to you. 1 am, &c., E.S.T.