THEN AND NOW.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2290, 16 June 1921, Page 2

THEN AND NOW.

AT a time when a doctor has given evidence in a New Zealand Court that “many nice girls smoke,” and at a time when Sydney girl footballers are pronouncing vociferously for trousers, it is almost bewildering to read some passages in the latest biography of Queen Victoria, by Mr Strachey, says the Post. Prom this it would appear that Queen Victoria "'was furious on the subject of “this mad and wicked folly of 'women’s rights,’” and on the forgetting of “every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. , . Lady ought to get a good

whipping. . . . God created men and women different —then let them remain each in their own position. . . . . Woman would become a most hateful, heartless, and disgusting luunan being were she allowed to unhex herself ”

Again: “Every bed in which Victoria slept also had at Inched at the back above the right pillow a photograph of the head and shoulders of her consort as he lay dead surrounded by a-wreath of immortelles.’’ By the Queen’s conimand her deceased husband's clothing was laid outfresh each evening upon his bed, “and this incredible rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for more than forty years.” Compare that with the modern divorce court. Tempora mutantur.