The Feminine Bounder.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue I, 5 July 1902, Page 61

The Feminine Bounder.

It is quite a mistake to assume, as so many men are kind enough to do, that the feminine counterpart of the bounder does not exist, says a wellknown lady writer. Heaven preserve me from a crowd, for instance, in which there are a great number of middle-aged ladies intent, say, on gazing on the countenance of royalty. it nice consideration for the feelings of others is not characteristic of your “society” woman nowadays, of the kind of woman, that is, who means to push her way, by any and all means, into certain notoriety. Then there are the braggarts, both married and unmarried, ladies who leave behind them, when the door closes on their swishing petticoats, an atmosphere of tumult, of spite, and of malice. There is the woman who talks incessantly of her carriage to the lady who has —though probably better born than herself—to make her calls afoot or on top of the penny omnibus. There is the young person who talks eternally of her conquests, and who even (odious feminine trait) prates of proposals of marriage, sometimes real, sometimes mythical. This is a piece of treachery to the masculine sex (sinee no man likes it to be bruited abroad that he has been refused) which should be sternly discouraged.