WOMAN’S PLACE.

Shannon News, 17 June 1921, Page 3

WOMAN’S PLACE.

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 bio-

graphy of Queen Victoria, by Mr Strachey. From this it would* appear that Queen Victoria was furious on the subect 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 human being were she allowed to unsex herself. . . Again: Every bed in which Victoria slept also had attached 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 comniand her deceased husband ; s clothing was laid out. fresh each evening upon his bed, “and this incredible rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for more than forty years.” Compare that with the modem divorce court. Tempora mutantur.— Post.