KIPLING'S AMAZING VIEW.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1308, 11 December 1911, Page 9

KIPLING'S AMAZING VIEW.

PLUS "THE VAMPIRE.'? ■ Perhaps.if Mr. Budyard Kipling were to spend .the next three years in New Zealand he might change his opinion in. . regard, to women having the franchise, According to a poem of his, published in the "Morning l'ost," he does not tliink they should liavo it, and Eomcwhat savagely states his reasons for that opinion. Mr. Sidney Low replies to Mr. Ivipiiug in tho "Standard," and verses from each poem aro ouo'-ed below:—

She is wedded to convictions—in default of grosser ties, " Her contentions are her children, Heaven help him who denies!— Ho' will meet no cool discussion, but the instant, white-hot, wild Wakened female of tho species' warring as for spouse and child—'

Unprovoked and awful. charges—even as the -shc-becr fights, ■ Speech that drips, corrodes, and poisons--cven so the cobra bites, Scientific vivisection of one nerve till it is raw And the victim writhes in anguish—like tho Jesuit with the squaw.

So it conies that Man the coward, when he gathers to confer With his fellow bravw in council, does not leave a pla:e for her Where, at war with Life and Conscience, ho uplifts his erring hands To some God of Abstract Justice—which no woman .understands.' - ".

Mr. Low replies in vctsc. . His lengthy poem includes tho following verses;— .

When tho Soul of Man awakened, when the Woman that God gave, Stood revealed his wife and sweetheart, not his chattel or his slave, Then ho formed his own conception of what Woman ought to be, And ho made a-.Piaster Image, and. he told her it was She.

For tho Woman as God made her wasn't good.enough for Man; Ho invented largo improvements upon Nature's cruder plan; And he mado that image nice and white, and put it on the shelf, ■Where ho kept assorted virtues that he did not want himself.

Bnt tho woman aa Man mado her scarcely suits our modern notions, Within her nicely guarded instincts and her primitive emotions; Wo have dropped the weaker vessel and tho tame domestic pet. ....... .

And our taste finds something wanting -. in that saint-liko statuette. So our literary gentlemen havo touched it up afresh, And havo changed tho plaster image to a Demon, of tho Flesh, Half Mother-Fiend, half Maenad; lest tho generations fail, "Armed and engined," fanged and poisoned for the hunting of the male;

With the morals of the hen-coop, with the Jungle's codo of law.

As described by ' Eudyard Kipling- after (some way after) Shaw. . . 'Tis no doubt a graceful fancy; but the woman Time has made Doesn't recognise the likeness so ingeniously portrayed.

And Man knows it, Mr. Poet! Knows your singular ideal Does not bear the least resemblance to tho Woman that is real; Knows that Woman is not-', fiend, nor saint, nor mixture of tho two But au average human being—most remarkably like you.

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