MAGNIFICENT WOMEN.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 December 1917, Page 8

MAGNIFICENT WOMEN.

WIVES FOR TIIE DOMINION,?; OMINOUS NEWS FOB AUSTRALASIAN GIRLS. I "I hear a lot of. talk around about reBottling your men 'after the war; what Nabout resettling your women? Seems to me that's going to be quite as big a problem and just as important, though nobody appeals to be worrying over it." The speaker was an overseas officer with the ribbon on hi.; tunic, and I,here was an earnestness in his voice which compelled attention, says the Daily Mail: "Here in the Old Country," lie , continued, "you're got magnificent women. I've knocked around quite a lot in Various countries, and never seen the equal of them anywhere else. Some 'good-lookers' they are, sure enough. Why, right bore in London you've-more real pretty girls to the square mile than any other city can show, and you don t, value them half as much as "you ought. s '•Although we overseas chaps are only shot in here for a few days' leave, at a lime, we can see that much. And though we admire your girls tremendously, we don't liavr a chance of telling them so. The sort we would most like, to become acquainted with there's no opportunity of our making friends with. We have, perforce, to admire them and pass on. You Old Country folk don't appear to understand that moat .of the overseas troops -wjho come among you just yearn to make friends with the nice people ■,vht>m they see floating all round them in the streets and don't know how to do it. '■' Ami to my way of thinking, you do not value' your -splepdid women half enough. I wish you would send some of them out to the Dominions. Believe me, there's thousands of quarter-sections in Canada that would be turned into real gardens of Eden for the lonesome Adains working them, by the'presence of one.of the Eves whom you pay so poorly and work so hard in England. The same thing is true of Australian lack-blocks •Hid elsewhere. "They are great, they are wonderful, are these handsome English girls; quite a feast for the eye to look upon. And you overwork them, underpay them, and seem to regard them as if they were of no account at all, instead of being a priceless posesssion. Perhaps it is because I am only a 'raw colonial.' but to mv mind the whole tiling's a shame, and I don't understand it.' 1