Not Wanted.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLV, Issue 22, 30 November 1910, Page 61

Not Wanted.

“The type of woman not wanted is the irritable and capricious. She who considers she is ‘misunderstood by her husband; given to headaches and backaches and fits of the vapours— • Who sometimes would laugh and sometime* would cry, Thon sudden waxed wroth, and all she knew] not why who takes no interest in her house, or who has no pursuit to occupy her kas great leisure, who must be amused and. cannot amuse herself.’’ She is not wanted, you may conjecture, anywhere. 'l’he quotation comes from a medical discourse on the suitability of Europeans for life in the tropics. The tropics, it appears, particularly object to the type of woman described. Which, though natural, is a pity, for it would have been pleasant to know of some place where the type is of use. But the medical gentleman would have been more helpful to the world at large if he had told us not merely where such women are not wanted—on that point we had already considerable inf or* mation—but where they are wanted.