A DEADLY WEAPON

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 15, 8 April 1927, Page 14

A DEADLY WEAPON

POOR MAN DEFENCELESS A DOCTOR’S TESTIMONY Though a woman’s tongue is only three inches long she can, when bad-tempered, kill with it a man six feet high. Dr. Bernard Hollander quoted this saying in an address before the ethnological Society, London, in which 11 compared man with woman. Otne points from his speech were: — . Man is more determined, enterpri - ing, passionate and energetic: \vom«i is more receptive, tranquil, affectiona and constant. That is why man m^** 1 a better surgeon, woman a bet nurse. Man begs with words, worn' with glances and tenderness. The average woman is frequent*, very generous in her actions, cut always in her feelings. A man ni< like or dislike certain persons or ov ject; a woman is given to extreme • Women seldom tell a real tintt • for they first persuade themselves ' what they are about to say 1S ' truth. A woman will sometimes e fess her sins, but rarely admit j faults. h*j A man in love is in a hurry. | rushes through all the consec tu phases of emotion as if he wante have done with them. Woman to linger on each step. rAn ,- n Man loves little and often; .. 1 °™ rl . much and rarely. Woman will fice her whole existence on the ~ of love; a man will sometimes saenne^ the woman he loves like lus \ery to gratify his ambition. , ve3 So long as woman loves she continuously, but man has lucid vals.