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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2033, 25 September 1919, Page 4

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THE MAN’S AND THE

WOMAN’S

Mr W. L. George, in -his novel “The Making of the English,” gives Ihe following conception of the creed of the English hoy:— “I believe in the gentlemen of England. I believe that I must shave every morning, and . every morning take a bath; and have my clothes made Io order, in such wise that no man shall look at them twice. I believe in the church, the army, the navy, and the law, and faithfully hold it to be my duty to maintain my caste if fate has ('ailed me to walk in life other than these. I believe that 1 must have club. I believe that I must not drink to excess nor lie at teetotaller, I believe in my father’s politics. I believe that 1 must not tell lies, nor cheat at cards, nor apply the letter of the law in games. I believe that I must perjureMiyself to save a woman’s reputation, even if she ha's none; and respect all women except those who are not respectable, for they arc outlawed. 1 believe that j. must hold my feeiings in chock, feel shame rvlien they master me, and yield to them only in secret, because I am a gentleman of England.” Mr George outlines feminine postulates, which are not so succinct as those which he proscribes tor the bo vs:

“I believe I must 101 l the truth, obey my parents and love them. I must coniform to I lie rules of. my caste, Isold such ideas as. d allows its women, and respect, in order, my father, my eldest brother, my mother, and my sisters. I muse be hind to my grandmother, to my other relatives, to friends and servants — that is. he hind to those whom I do not: respect. I believe in the Almighty as stated in the creed 1 have been taught to profess.' I believe that painr and false hair arc smtul. I believe in courtesy and good cdothes, which must be neither much ahead of nor much behind the fashion, and such as benefit my age. I believe in baths and clean linen. 1 believe that I must like, in order, music, books, and pictures, but my liking for them must not lie hysterical; also I must sec to it that all my reading be not light. I believe in love, and that, in the name of love, provided my conscience tell me it is holy, I may transgress certain-of my rules. I believe that love must be pure and noble, steadfast and true; I believe that it comes but once in life, and that it must be sacrificed if it threatens the eventual happiness of the loved one. I believe that 1 must not tell the loved one that 1 love him, but must await Ids pleasure. J. believe that 1 must wait for success, for love, for death, and that I must not complain, in the waiting. I believe that I must listen, not speak; obey, not command; respond, not exact. Aiy hie is not my own: I believe that my business is to find its master/’