WHEN SUFFRAGISTS RULE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9134, 1 May 1908, Page 8

WHEN SUFFRAGISTS RULE.

SPECIALIST PREDICTS A FEMININE TYRANNY. London, April 1. “.The Psychology of the Suffragist” might have been the title of the lecture on the ‘ Psychology of Women,” which Dr. Thomas Olaye Shaw, a specialist in mental diseases, delivered recently at the Institute of Hygiene. Most of the lecture was devoted to a consideration of feminine psychology m its relation to the claim of the women to the Women are women,” he said, “and men are men, and though there are points of resemblance both m bodily and mental structure and function, there are yet such profound differences that the one muse always be a puzzle to the other. -The mental difference, however, is largely influenced by education and environment, and it possible to conceive a society in which the position of the sexes is reversed; indeed.. such a state of things did exist in the old Basque Provinces where the judges were women and woman also exercised the suffrage. , ~ “We have illustrations of the manwoman, as well as the woman-man, but these are exceptions, and the idea that women are inferior to men is absurd. . . “I see no limit to their occupations, and if. by dint of obstinacy, they do get into Parliament, they will first partiepate and then monopolise; they will, by sheer weight of numbers, bnng|aboat such social conditions that a revolution will ensue, and the men will t urn and rend them.’”