ON THE CONFINES OF EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1114, 29 April 1911, Page 11

ON THE CONFINES OF EMPIRE

PRO PATRIA. The "Morning Post" contains a most interesting article by Mary Gaunt', written from the Gambia, in West Africa, "a -groat and mighty river, 10 miles wide at the mouth and 200 yards wide, 300 miles up the country, ono of tho great waterways of the<world, though the world hardly knows 6f its existence." She was at the time of writing in the Goundnut Colony, which is worked from tho capital, Bathurst, and held for the English by less than 100 white folk, French and English. On the riverboat on which she. travelled was a Frenchwoman on her way.out to join her husband, and Miss Mary Gaunt comments on the fact that while a Frenchman considers that where Tie is his wifo ought to bo, an Englishman says: "Tho place is not fit 'for a white woman." "Both views are worthy of consideration," says Miss Gaunt, "though personally I prefer the Frenchman's point of view for it is harder to cat ono's heart out in England than to endure hardships in a tropical country,. and for the nation it must be remembered that to. the oho who dares most is the chance of victory. Tropical Africa is for tho nation that can take its women alongwith it."

Miss Mary Gaunt is not alone in marking this point. ' There aro many writers in England who aro beginning to think all is not well with the women whose brothers and husbands are away in Canada, Africa, Australia, China, and India, and who year after year pursue their, unnecessary round of golf and bridge; or) worse still, do practically nothing but dress .up and pay futile calls upon ono another, (Said one fierce male writer the othor day: "They want a vote, they want to ho our equals, yet when it comes to 'making empire,' to doing some work,. to leaving England that they may ho of some use in the world, they shrug their shoulders and say: 'Really, you know, one wouldn't go to thoso places, you know. Not a soul one would know, you know.'"

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