[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Your article of February
20th Where Are Women Going To ? " causes many of us old-fashioned mothers to think furiously. One cannot help feeling the writer's sympathies are so entirely in favour of 'sweeping away all Our old venera- tions and ideals, and replacing with the new conception 'a femininity—" freedom and independence." But there arc others, perhaps the remnants of the " rigid minded "
Era, to whom the spectacle of rivalry with the male, expressed by fat pink calves displayed knee high, the eternal cigarette, and hair dressed a la skye terrier, creates an absolute feeling of repulsion. Coupled with this, alas ! 'often goes an entire want Sf respect for either god or man. Invalids, small children, or
old age and its infirmities are things to be avoided, and the bloom and innocence of maidenhood belong to a dim and dusty past. We old ones cannot believe that this freedom and independence should be the first aim and ambition of out girlhood even in these strenuous days. If wifehood and motherhood are denied, are there still not many other sphere which need not rob our women of charm, graciousness, and above all modesty ?—priceless possessions which help to make our rough and tumble world a place where we may still find pleasant ways and paths of peace—I am, Sir, &c., II. A,
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