How To Get A Woman To Do What You Want!

Chronicle (Levin), 15 June 1948, Page 7

How To Get A Woman To Do What You Want!

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DUNEDIN, Juue 14. " My rc'ii 1 opinion is that llie majority of women know wlia't they wani j very wi'll, and some oi" tliem deci.-ive J Iv so, ' ' declarod .\I r. Justiee Fleining j in a statemeut at the beginning of the | •Supreme (,'ourt sitling in Dunedin tlns i K moniing when repudiating a report m j ' • '■ .'hristcluireh newspaptM* on " women 's ; • VHIltS. " Tlie paragraph to whieh NT r. Jus- i lice Fleniing took exeeption was, he saiil, a inisreport of what he had said , in ihe eourse of a reeent ease. ' ' .My roinai'ks reforred to 'suine'1 women, luit tlp> re[)nrter niis(|iioted ine • by making my reniarks refer to 'all i women ' said II is Uonour. "I do not ' (J,wish to be eited as an authoritv for j tliis libel oii women." The report to whieh exeeption was j taken said: "No woman knows what! nlie wunts until you give her what you j think slie wants, and then always j it is something tdse that slie wanted," >. said Mr. Justiee Eleming giving .jmlg- f ment in the t 'h rist »• h u rt*li Kupreme j t'ourt against a woman defendant. j "One mai) I know leads a partieularly | happy married life becanse lie always j keeps that nile in mimi. If lie wants soniething done a part ieolar wav, for | instance, he always suggests to his wife

! that it should l>e done tlie opposite. lnevitalilv, being a womna, she says that it should be done in the opposite wav ■ to what he suggests, and he, as* a loving ] and dutiful husband, of. eourse, bows to ] her opinion, and so it is done as he ( really wished it to be done." " It inay be prudent to add," said j] Mr. Justiee Fleming todav, "that the | woman mentioned in the coneluding jl portion of the paragrupli is not a relative of mine. "