WHAT IS A WOMAN OF LEISURE?

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVIIII, Issue 449, 17 November 1916, Page 3

WHAT IS A WOMAN OF LEISURE?

An American | -ijiw .-ays lliat in ivj iv In Ih" ([iH'slion, "Whal is a woman (if .I'-isiu-" V* a speaker ai a v.Lilian'- confer.'iie - ;i!iHisi'(l he: audi.■ 111 ■•• I y "kin-; some- definitions lli;it Hlii- hail ",ath"ied a! a ..nicheou a short limr I 'for-. He e ai" 1 soim- of lit.' answers t!\-cfv<-'l: - 'A woman of leisure .is any woman who nas.n'l liv.. oliiidiv.'ti.'' 'A woman who ha.s linn' io |.!ay briihi'i' ilaytinie.s. - " ' -Th<:iv is iioi!!-; slie. i< I'xtincl, ok<' Lit'" iloilo.*' ••Tin 1 woman who lias tin)" In h' alwavs Iclliny yon how busy s,h-"

"The' woman who is on ten c<>inliiittc.s; and is '('(jtiaaly nsylcos on

"Tlie only one. I know is hedrid. dell."

"Tin' liusjesi- woman in town, who aiwa.ys find-, lim... to do oil" tliiu.ir niore, and do it graciously." It. may 1. ■ lhal t-li •■ woman of leisure has no! "Ve.i (he scientific -e----cui'iiy that belongs to the. which', the dictionary assures us, is lull "recently extinct.'' Jtevearch ink- the history of ve,anan through the afi'fs may, hidee'l, show thai the. woman of leisure never was; thai she is only a niyih iia.unlin", wistful, alluring. To a dau-iilei - who asked what- is leisuiv;, a niotiieir answwed: ''lt is the .spare, time that fi. woinan has, my dear, in which, she does s,oincihin<!' else''