ARE MEN SHYER THAN WOMEN?

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 308, 2 November 1910, Page 2

ARE MEN SHYER THAN WOMEN?

In spits of the supposed superiority of man, it must be acknowledged that he is socially a shyer creature than woman. The immense amount of assurance distinguishing the feminine sex in society must be the cause af wonder and admiration to the other. For instance, the blushing maladroitness of the flapper is a trifle compared to. the purple awkwardness of the hobbledehoy, Then, a party of well-dressed women of a certain maturity of age is encircled with an atmosphere of awe which bears witness to their consciousness of power and superiority. For a complete stranger to enter among them requires a bravery of which mere man, unless driven by absolute necessity, is often incapable. The chill aloofness, the icy demeanour which freezes the blood and reduces the conversation to monosyllables, are certainly enough to alarm anyone ; but a woman can disguise her tremors much more thoroughly than a man.

I have known the head of a house and his two sons bolt precipitately put of the room when they saw two callers approaching the front door, while their womenfolk sat firm. Yet the elder son had faced lions in Africa, the younger had climbed the Matterhorn, and the father was a member of Parliament.—"Black and White."