WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

Patea Mail, 28 July 1881, Page 3

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

A mil ion maidens all forlorn are languishing for sweethearts that can never “ turn-up.” If it isn’t a “ woman’s right ” to have a sweetheart, what are are woman’s rights ? There are at Home a million more males than females ; a million women who can never have husbands if they want to. Nature could not have deliberate!}' condemned a million women in the British Isles to wait for the question being popped, and never a man come to pop it. You see him waikingabout Patea in lonely selfishness, his hat covering his family. Nature abhors a vacuum, and that would be a vacuum of the heart, an aching void, a yearning for the soft solace of love’s young dream. “ Whistle and I’ll come to thee, my laddie but the laddie doesn’t whistle, even on Sundays. No use buying a new bonnet when no “ young man ” comes along. Half the the charm of goingto church is lost when there are no hiras. You bring in bills on Local Government, but none of your legislators move to insert a clause for giving Local Government to woman, in the shape of a home and a husband and the etceteras. You treat woman as if she had no fellow feeling. Her greatest fault is that she is too ang'elic. Woman is like mercy : she gives more than she receives. Men fall in battle ; they go down to the sea in ships, and some perish in the great waters ; others die prematurely because they cannot pay their debts ; but a larger number leave their cradle homes to take up sections in the wilderness, and moon away their lives without wives. Nature’s balance should be restored. Think of the girls you left behind you. Give back your million hearts, ye wanderers; and comfort those weeping maids at Home.