LEAP YEAR WIVES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 384, 29 February 1908, Page 2

LEAP YEAR WIVES.

With leap year ahead of them, young maids and bachelors will view with mingled feelings, the leap year advice given by Dr Emil Reich. The doctor. thinks that maidens should not fail to exercise this year their privilege of choosing husbands. In fact, he declares, ladies should always do the wooing and winning. “ Women should select their mates,” said Dr Reich to a newspaper representative. “ The natural instincts of woman are not so interfered with as those of man. In civilised countries man loses his natural instinct by the license he takes. Being less interfered with, woman’s natural instinct is the stronger, and its directn ss more clearly accentuated. Theiefore, it in the strength of her unbroken natural instinct, a woman chooses a special man, it is ten to one that her choice is correct. Man, by his life, has lost the certainty of judgment, whereas a woman knows ii sliuclively the man that will make her the best husband. This applies to all European women, but not to Americans. Owing to the system of co-education in the States, women are sick of men betore they are 20. It certainly cannot be denied that the American woman takes little or no interest in men. Not only are divorces in the States 21 times mo e i’cquent than in, any European country, but, although there are several million more men in the States than women, the number of unmarried women is larger than in any other country.”