WOMAN'S WORLD

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 136, 4 March 1919, Page 3

WOMAN'S WORLD

(K —' (Continued, from page 2.) . WOMEN'S VOTE "No women won't never get into Parliament now," said Mr. I'uut. "Well—what is there to prevent thehi?" I 'askeiK "Tho women's vote, sir," lie replied decisively. "I wouldn't say at nil 'ow it might 'a,been before women 'ad the vote. If women 'ad been heiigible. for Parliament then, I believe as they might 'a got in very well; but as it is now— no, never!" He wagged his round littlo head sagely. "You mean-; —" I asked. "I mean this, sir, as do woman ain't never going to vote for no other women to be h'isted into any sort o' position o' superiority over above 'erself. That's what 1 racau. 'Tain't very easy for 'er to admit of any, man's being in that-kind o' position over 'er, but as for another woman—never! She'd sooner vote for a man every time. If women 'ad been, allowed to stand for Parliament before women were allowed to vote agin ,'em, then they might 'a got in. They're never going to got in now; you take my word for it, sir." Mr. Punt made his conclusion with great, decision. "0' course," he added, as I said nothing, but reflected a moment over his point of view, "o' course I ain't saying as.'ow 'twould 'a been right as women should 'a, been allowed to stand before. Couldn't possibly 'uvo allowed 'em to stand—or to sit, anyways—until tho Closure 'ad been invented. 'Ad Parliament a-sitting all tho year round, wo should, in that case, and not so much business done in it as tho. littlo as.is a-done now. Pity, it do often seem to me, as there ain't no sample o' the Closure been invented for 'ome use, for domestic purposes, as they calls 'cm—a kind o' Closure as you could apply in yer own parlour at 'ome." "Would you give tho women a vote for the application of that Closure too, Mr. Punt?" I asked. , "And that I would not, sir," he replied with a chuckle. "Anplies it sufficient as it is, they does, and'no law passed to that effect; but applies it ajl one way—their own -way—no sense o' justice in 'em, that's what I complain of." "Don't you think you're a little hard on them, Mr. Punt?" I 'asked. He regarded me .with .1 humorous eye. ■ "D'yer really lliink as 'ow I'm very 'ard on 'em, sir?" I did my best to leturn his look in kind. His question did not require nuy other answer. Mr. Punt knew, and I know, aud he knew what I knew, that his wife and daughter, either or both, with a little management, could turn him round their respective littlo fingers, unless the matter in discussion was one on which his view was very strongly held. In that case it was theirs to yield, as also they well' kuoiv—and yield they did; but the yieldings of Mr. Punt were as twenty in number (o a single yielding on the part of those others. "We likes to talk that way, you and me, sir, and other men too," he replied to the responsive look winch I had given him. -"It do us good when we're by ouiselves; but there—wb knows better really, and the women they knows better too; but as for women setting into Parliament now, now as women 'as got the vote, why, they won't never do that now. Before tiiey 'nd.women to vote agin 'em they might-'ave done. They won't never do it lipw."—Horace Hutchinson, in "Saturday Westminster Gazette."