WOMANS SENSE OF HONOR.
"Women have no tense of honor. Of course it is possible that they deliberately deny themselves this disacl vantage in order to find favor in the Bight of men. My own idea is that, even if they have goi a sens l of honor, Vhcn they have discovered it is of no Use to tiieni." This reflection was forced 011 illFrank Richardson (as he confesses in the Pall Mall Gazette), when lie performed the part of usher at a wedding at St. George's, Hanover Square. AH ■the guests appeared with cards stating the position of their seats. "\S ith tie men I had no trouble. If I took a man,—evefci a colonel—and placed him in a bad Beat, he sat there, and didn't venture to say that the service was going to the dogs. But the women were ...... oh, so different! ''Several times I took women to their allotted places who were not p'cased with their alloted places. They immediately moved over to the* best stalls in the centre aisle. It may be that I ushered badly. But what woud be thought of a person who, having been given a dress circle sent in a theatre, insisted on occupying a stall?'
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 16 February 1907, Page 4
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205WOMANS SENSE OF HONOR. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 16 February 1907, Page 4
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