ON BRINGING UP WOMEN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18904, 20 January 1927, Page 11

ON BRINGING UP WOMEN.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PBESS. Sir, —I was much interested in the despairing wail of "E.S." in yesterday's paper "On Bringing Up Women." I have always been.under the impression that women brought up- men,, and so far I must admit that they hare not done their job very well; but there is still plenty of time left, and everyone will agree with me that patience is our crowning virtue. Perhaps after reading this letter signed "E.S." the average man will realise that without our co-operation the world will soon come to an end, and Campbell's "Last Man" will be having the last word all to himself. The fact of the matter is that there is far more to do in the world than either sex will ever he likelv to "accomplish without the other; and understanding and sympathy between man and woman is the only real solution to any of our problems. — Yours, etc., . . D.0.M.. TO THE EDITOR Oi - THE PRESS. Sir, —I do not agree with "E.S." that the office life unfits a girl for domestic life. I know many office girls who have married, and their homes are run to perfection, and without help. On the other hand, I also know many domestic who have married, and I cannot always say the same of their homes. It is not a case of beimi fitted for or unfitted for domestic life. It's a case, of inheritance. Take a business girl with tidy domestic parents, and you will find she makes a splendid wife—that is. in the domestic line. It is born in her. But a girl born-of-untidy, thriftless parents will never make a good housekeener, not even when trained to it from, childhood. Times will ever change. Nothing can stand still, and sometimes in bettering some things we

lose others that are still precious to us,, and if we have lost the old-fashion-ed, homely woman, as "E.S." seems to think, we have also lost the old-fash-ioned father, who helped so little with his very numerous off-spring.—Yours, DOMESTIC.