WAR’S LITTLE WORRIES.
A minor problem, says an exchange —but these minor problems are often the very dickens to solve —of women doing men’s work during the war is the point of etiquette, or chivalry, that it raises. I read that when the schools came home for the holidays the sight was seen of a girl district messenger conducting a cress town a hulking schoolboy and carrying his bag for him. The sting is in the implication of the “hulking.'’ But, if a woman porter opens your carriage-door for you must the male passenger carry his traps and fetch his taxi? And if a “lady-help” offers to run your household vice Jemima gone munitioning, must father carry the coals? And if a woman-barber shouts “Next!” must you offer her the chair and kneel or squat among the clippings beside her? Because if the chivalrous male should do any or all of these then what are the devoted war-workers paid for?
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1688, 20 March 1917, Page 4
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160WAR’S LITTLE WORRIES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1688, 20 March 1917, Page 4
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