A DOCTOR'S SPEECH.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1618, 4 December 1905, Page 2

A DOCTOR'S SPEECH.

j Some months ago the Ohn’sSoburch I Physical Culture Society announced in its season’s programme three lectures to men by Dr Thacker. Two of these were : delivered, the third was never giveD, the reason being that the character of the first two lectures aroused so much public disapproval that the Physical Culture Society announced that the third lecture would not take place, as tbe tone of the first two was not in sympathy with their aims, j After the second lecture Dr Thacker was I severely tak v ea to tiFk by the Lyttelton I Times for the eharac'pr of his lecture. Oo Friday night, in tbo course of a speech at a I physical culturo meeting, Dr Thacker made a violent attack on the Christchurch newspapers, whioh, he said, had not troated him fairly. Dr Thacker also at i tacked the Women’s Institute, and for tbe ( same reason, Datneiy, that it had passed a i resolution condemning bis publio utter- j abess before the Physical Culture Society, j He said that tbe Women’s Institute con- v

aisled of a lot of “broody hens." They were persons who, like a broody hen, would sit ou a China egg for weeks, and bring forth nothing, and would all the time prevent respectable bcos from getting to the nest, They were a “ thorn in the flesh ” to all tbe decent mothers and wives in the eommunity. Most of tbe members of the Women’s Ins'.ituta bad never been young womeD, pot true youpg women. Altogether the Women’o Institute was a most unsafe guide for the young women of tbe oommunity, and he warned I all those present against being misled by 1 jts teaohinge, ■ - 5