WOMEN MAKE ME TIRED

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20734, 18 February 1939, Page 5

WOMEN MAKE ME TIRED

ETHEL MANNIN’S VIEWS This is why women make me tired: They have suburban mentalities and Hollywood emotions. When they say beauty they mean some film star or other. When they break off an engagement it is all for the best, but when the man does it it is caddish. They put a commercial value on their wounded hearts and sue for breach of promise. If they want a divorce they expect their husbands to allow them to do the divorcing. When they discuss other women they are usually scandal-mongering. Their minds are cluttered up with clothes like a box-room with lumber. They don't know the difference between attractiveness and good looks, sentiment and sentimentality, pathos and bathos. They yank their skirts up to their knees for no other reason than that “skirts are worn short this season." They perch on their heads concoctions idiotic enough to make a cow jump over the moon. They pull their eyebrows out by the roots. And smell of face cream and powder and like a beauty-parlour generally. They call you “Darling." and it does not mean a thine. They smear your face all over with lipstick when they kiss you. They regard it as chic to halfundress for dinner and the theatre. They wear shoes that cause them to walk on the balls of their feet and throw their knee-joints out. They talk about a pretty jumper, a pretty girl, a pretty view, a pretty piece of music. Their idea of tragedy is a man who has done them wrong. They are cruel about other women who deviate from the moral code. They lack imagination. They cannot distinguish between thought and emotional reaction. They are the inferior sex and always ; betray it. but will never admit it They are the wives and mothers of i the men who will be killed in the i : j next war. and they dri Slothing about j j They am their own worst enemies, j Because Of that, moat cf all. M j .— LUlipUt. |