THE "SPECTATOR'S" ALLEGED UNFAIRNESS TO WOMEN.
[To mg EDITOR OF THE "SmicrArou." J SrE,—I am sickened by the want of chivalry often displayed by writers in the Spectator,—for instance, in "The Antiseptics of Conduct" in your issue of May 27th. The constant and wearisome reiteration of the Spectator's pet sneer at women— viz., that they have no sense of humour—has in it one saving touch of humour in the fact that the writer of all these articles on social and other topics is so conspicuously devoid of humour himself. I have smiled at times at the platitudes and banalities into which an otherwise intelligent man is betrayed by this very lack of the sense of humour. This protest, I am aware, will be useless, as to some minds these ridiculous comparisons between the sexes, with covert sneers Sir, &c., H. S. RICHAB.DSON. ifoyallon Grange, °Word, Co. Down.
P.S.—The sense of humour is, of course, purely a matter of mental endowment quite irrespective of sex. .1 have met more women with a sense of humour than men.
•• [The "articles on social and other topice " are by no means all written by one writer. It happens, however, that the paper in question was from the pen of a woman. Nothing is more likely to cause confusion than the attempt to penetrate behind the veil of anonymity which hides, and as we are firmly convinced rightly bides, the writers of newspaper articles.—En. Spectator.]
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