ROBBING THE HOME.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 794, 18 April 1910, Page 3

ROBBING THE HOME.

Lady Prances Balfour, speaking at" . a meeting in Scotland lately, . stated that * thero was ait idea prevalent that every woman had a male relative to look over'.'her interests,; but as there ; were .two; million • more women in this .country, and as. for , various reasons male relatives' were. not always forthcoming, it was obvious that these women must support . themselves, and it. was only, lack of imagination, so prominent ;in the male intellect, that perpetually told women that they , must stay at home while they .had to go out and., work' for;,themselves.-'""' . ' When' they heard men complaining that women had usurped places to which men thought they,had a right, they must recollect that men had taken' 'into their hands a large number of industries which were the great; supn port of women. Men were tho first set of robbers. It was now realised that women must be trained whether |tO fulfil tho duties of homo life or othw.duties to which, they were called.- Itl was a fact, however, that the training! agencies for women were managed far more economically than the training agencies for men. Ouo way to helff the young' women of the country was to make them citizens of tho' country. They -could not but be a menace; and) 'an anxiety to' the State,, while they were handicapped- in. the struggle for life, which was becoming daily mors and ' more . complicated by its higher civilisation and ■ greator expensiveness, i

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