Untitled

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XVI, 16 April 1898, Page 472

Ladies who are zealous for the good name of their sex will read with pleasure the testimony of a returned‘Klondyker.’ He says the place to study human nature is out on the trail. The very worst feature of this whole mad rush to Klondyke is the indisputable fact that it spoils men’s tempers. It is next to impossible to keep cheerful and brave. The men scrap and quarrel over the smallest matters—where to camp, how to carry provisions, amt so on. But women? One woman is worth fifty men out there. I have knocked around the world a great deal and it has been my experience and observation that in times of danger and distress a woman is always more courageous than a man. In sickness or in privation of any kind, women are always less complaining and more brave than men are.