21 APRIL 1923, Page 11

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.

Snt,—Although belonging to that class which is least interested by your recent correspondence on whether married women should work—namely, that of the unmarried male— I cannot help being considerably astonished by one particular opinion which your female correspondents seem to assume is almost axiomatic. They take it for granted that men find a woman engaged in some occupation less attractive and desirable than an idle one. This, for all I know, was true sixty years ago. As in so many other things, the reverse is to-day the case.—I am, Sir, &c., A BACHELOR.