"Bravo! Ladies " 



competence. I wonder for what length of time would 

 the carping critic run his own household ! He would 

 probably be unable to balance the family budget for 

 one week ! to say nothing of the tact necessary when 

 dealing with servants and tradesmen. Before the end 

 of a fortnight he would probably be crawling on his 

 hands and knees to the nearest hotel for a decent meal. 



If the parliaments of the world were run half so well 

 as the average household, life might be different for 

 many. If the voice of woman, of the mother, was 

 heard a little more often in the government of nations, 

 it might bring some stability to a crazy world. Men 

 have had the handling of world affairs entirely to them- 

 selves and have succeeded in making a pretty bungle 

 of their work, and personally, I would rather listen to 

 a cosmetic-plastered face talking bread-and-butter com- 

 mon sense than to a clean-shaven, bemedalled-chested, 

 bungling war-lord talking patriotic piffle. 



As a further argument in favour of women's compe- 

 tence, it may be no harm to mention that ladies act as 

 judges in several of the classes for hunters at Dublin 

 Show. 



Some of them are shrewd judges of horses, and most 

 of them are shrewd judges of things that are far more 

 important ! 



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