WOMEN BRIDGE GAMBLERS

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4512, 2 October 1930, Page 2

WOMEN BRIDGE GAMBLERS

M IBS MELVILLE’S CRITICISM

Auckland, October 1

An onslaught upon the woman who is continually playing bridge was made by Miss E. Melville at a meeting of the Home Service Association.

“It is time the -thinking women of this country got an antidote to the bridge mania,” she said. “Any woman -who makes bridge her chief occupation must be wanting in intelligence. When in this country, where there is any amount ,of work simply crying out to be dealt with, there are women who deliberately allow themselves to be obsessed with the game, then all we can say is that they have ceased to develop their minds, for will they play without having money on the game? To my mind it is simply evidence, of national vulgarity that we cannot play games without doing this.”

As mi instance 1 of' bridge mania, Miss Melville told a, story of a woman who had had too many bridge parties for the good of her purse, so she started to economise. Unfortunately she economised upon I lie food for her household, with the resit 11 that her ladv hepl became seriously ill.

•‘To my mind that woman was absolutely primitive —a barbarian,’’ said Miss Melville.