CANVASSING HUMOUR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4511, 5 January 1923, Page 2

CANVASSING HUMOUR.

WOMAN’S EXPERIENCES. Discussing some of her experiences a woman canvasser in connection ■with the general election in Britain stated that she rarely found a household divided against itself so far as the votes of husband and wife were concerned (says the “Daily Mail”). “I find men much more satisfactory to deal with than women,” she said. “On the few occasions that the wife has told me, after T have seen her husband, that sheTs voting the other way to her spouse, I have often been inclined to suspect, that I myself am largely to blame for her decision. “When a man comes to the door, hears whom I represent, and then tells me hurriedly that Mr Smith is out, but Mrs Smith will see me, the inference clearly is that Mr Smit a feels Mrs Smith to be more capable of getting rid of me than he is ; and he is usually right, of course. “We are all instructed to take particular trouble to find out the way of thinking of the woman of the household, and many of our men, after probing the husband, ask him for his wife’s opinions.

“Tliis inquiry was once answered by the wife in who prusquely said that her vote was affair entirely and no concern of her husband’s. This led, of course, to the canvasser tackling her as the probable wielder of two votes.”