Show MRS LYNN MNTOJPS IDEA From Temple Bar Have you any distaste for rich people taking up literature and making It a sort of amusing profession Mrs Lynn Lmton Not at all provided they do not do the hackwork which would take bread from others Writing is near ly all Individual especially book and magazine writing and one person alone can do that particular thing In that particular par-ticular way so that rich or poor the work stands on Its own merit but I do think that opening milliners or flower shops for the fun of the thing is disgraceful dis-graceful as Is all paid business work undertaken by rich women for mere idleness idle-ness at home and Inability to find occupation occu-pation of a more suitable kind I have always been a very strong Liberal Lib-eral in all my life in everything but I have changed during the last few years for I now see that emancipated women are not domesticated and I listen In horror hor-ror to the unnatural sentiments concerning concern-ing marriage and maternity as well as to the mental corruption of girls advocated advo-cated by the advanced section mental corruption under the guise of knowledge Purity of morals and laxity of manners man-ners are as Impossible to mix as oil and water We shall go down in the ranks or nations If women ever come to rule us if womans purity Is even openly regarded re-garded as It Is now as a mere conven tional bugbear created for their own convenience con-venience by men |