“THE HUMILIATION OF THE 4 BALL-ROOM."
A correspondent writes as .follows Your , /anid]e'' ; tracMi : fi:bm:;thb;Sydney\"Mornihg'Herald,-''. ! .b^t••: : l■Vllard^^thmk i : >.Sheuis v.thevgreatesti'ofFehder -herself.-! .Who . ..the- • ball-room ?Women I ; Awl who' are itheVcauso i of, !tKe;''nwan,':littlej -petty jealousies/amongst : t:hems'elTef/:aiid;' in;, fact, 'the;opposito!';sex?: ..!Wo&en'again.';; Arid if you will trace it down, wpiaiiV'all alpng; the' greatest • i ;offeiider.'in tho;.ball-room/, so -why consider, .i her ' humiliated ? '};;She; simply,brings '■•". these" •' conditions on. herself, and, of course, : .f o r 1 feal prizo .'selfishness, I must admit, the j alleged: nobler animal is bard,' to., beat,' r as< the.-. j article,, under notice?'seems i'l'to:-; .infer. Ho 1 | 'sblMts orily: the best partners to danco witfij but' he. is a king, ; tako him all round, to ! what: .woman; is—especially to:.hiß own- sex.- I '; There;is''too much oflthis cliqueism and- 1 ill-feeling. ' : A'ball-room-is as.holy a placo as. 'i iinywhoro, if only, wo wouldputasido all our ] ill-feeling, one' toward.! another; and. dispense : '!] MtK'.-.all selfishness, arid jthinlc'/of.vothers '.as. i ■wp.ftor.af'i ourselves'. "Why' should nno sex 1 monopolise Vail; this : . privHego : of,'asking! the '■ other to .dance ? ■/• But' this - is' only the edge i of 'tho subject. ' There is endless ! roomfor I improvement.—l! am,: etc., .: - . ] !!-.■■!•; . ; ' OBSERVER. ' i
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19090716.2.6.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 561, 16 July 1909, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
192“THE HUMILIATION OF THE 4 BALL-ROOM." Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 561, 16 July 1909, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in