THE WOMAN'S DAY.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 19960, 13 December 1913, Page 4

THE WOMAN'S DAY.

In an article on " Petticoat, .Government" in the " Contemporary* Mr" Laurence Housman expresses the view that woman is essentially the more civic and administrative and social of tho two sexes. From her civic, administrative, and social impulses, she has been kept for centuries artificially debarred and individualised. Man, "the destroyer, the pioneer, the fighter, the ccavenger, the nomadic, peripatetic, open-air creature, the dear, delightful cock-a-doodle-doo of the human race, who ought to be turned out every morning and1 only let in again at night— not merely from the lioniie,' but from nearly all tho indoor administrative and civ.ic employments of the world," has been trying his hand for centuries on the larger domesticity of the State, and has made a hash cf it. This is Mr. Housinan' s view, mid he says that so long as woman's sphere is small, circumscribed, individualised, cut off from the wider issues of communal life, her rule will lend to be small and directed to individual ends —it will be of a pettico-atod character. It is woman

who all down the ages ha s been submitting to petticoat government, and is now breaking away from it; and) it is mot the .woman suffragist who wishes to impose petticoat government on man, but the anti-suffragist m,an and woman who seeks to perpetuate its tyranny on both Eexes alike. :