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Ladies' Mirror, Volume 4, Issue 8, 1 February 1926, Page 25

my long description of the various women of the different nationalities of the world. Then lend me your ear for a little while longer so that I majr sing the praises of the glorious women of New Zealand.” Here Raymond paused. “Well, it is difficult. The spirit is willing but no vocabulary is strong enough to give vent to my feelings towards them. Words just fail me, but if you can picture to yourself all the beauties,

high intellect, are ever able to conquer when mobs cannot. A conquest that brings religion peace and harmony to mankind, fostering a spirit of loyalty to their Sovereign, God and neighbour, the very foundation of lasting greatness and happiness. To be born in a heavenly country like this brings a responsibility and duty. Have no fear of the women of New Zealand disappointing the world. Her lovely daughters will

characteristics, charms energies, musical and artistic abilites that I have described in the women of all nationalities, and endow the New Zealand woman with all of these, with a richness that her fair land and climate makes possible, you will have some faint idea of my opinion of her. After searching the world for love that may light and blossom into marriage, no man could seek to find maidens more suitable for life partners and matrimony. Nature has not held back this lovely land, and does not produce such a fine race of women without a purpose. True, New Zealand might be called small in area in comparison with great continents. Nevertheless, she is destined by the hand of nature to play a great part in the world’s affairs. Not so much by military and naval strength, but by a much mightier power, -which will over-rule all the mighty clash of war. That is, her well-balanced intellectual qualities. It is ever thus. Mobs might be formidable, but a party, though small in number, but including people of

produce in the sacred tie of matrimony children who will occupy responsible positions, and as time goes on they will stand out like lighthouses, whose comforting flashes make known to the weary mariner the dangers he is to avoid in the vast ocean he is traversing. So will their conduct be like unto these luminous light-houses, a guide, a spring, a road that leads to reason commonsense and a charity and tolerance for all mankind in their religion, politics, and the multiplicity of things that are to be tolerated in a true Christian spirit. “Thus,” says Raymond, “you have right here in this Garden of Eden called New Zealand, a race of women, a mighty power to make use of what nature has been so kind to lavish upon you abundantly. Be, women, salt of the earth, with that wonderful mind that man will never fathom. Ideals, that the sacredness of women alone can understand and appieciate. Thus, by such means, raising man to his high standard which he will faithfully fulfill.