Show I 1 HOW OPINIONS DIFFER by JEAN NEWTON i ta AAr fAA barf aalf A Arf AAr fAAi SAT A SOME time ago this column spoke on what you would miss by not being a woman about which I 1 have had a letter from a reader severely calling me down recalling briefly what we said and beginning with the less important but not least pleasurable advantages which we leave on men we spoke of every comans womans heritage to be a thing of beauty that Is a joy forever and so to see the light of admiration in the eyes of men and other women and children we spoke of every worn anns heritage ot homage of her en of the gallantry of men then the substantial joy of being a moth er of the ecstacy of feeding a child at your breast of the most exhilarating thing about being a woman the needs we fill the needs of child and man to whom we give give give growing in the giving and here Is the letter from a read er taking issue with the above and roundly calling us your arguments sound very fine on paper but are they really true in facts I 1 was a business girl for many years then married the average man had several children and am now a widow both my fattier annu hus band were good men I 1 am good looking as the average woman but never get many thrills from seeing the light of admiration la the e yes of either As tor homage since so many worn en go to business I 1 don t see that any of them get much homage and I 1 am sure not from their husbands As for your farst baby a mother soon finds out it means a lot of lost vitality to her and sometimes more of her strength than she can spare it sounds good but life looks quite dit farent after the baby comes espe dally to the girl with small means and that Is the average woman while the little mother tries to leep up her courage many of them them selves again self supporting women As for the supreme ecstacy of alie child drinking sustenance at your breast it may be to some mothers but god did not create us all alike and some mothers find it very nerve racking it can get on ones nerves deiy much and the tugging always irritated roe then son mention looking into the ees of the man who needs you el I 1 know many men but most of them are looking into alie newspaper news piper instead of in their wives eyes and when one would suppose they did have time to look into your eyes they always seem to have something more important to do at least it seems more important to them I 1 too wish I 1 had been born a man and am not the only one who sees the mans lot Is by far the more free and happy life I 1 should like to hear some other mothers opinion so should I 1 also like to know what other mothers think about it the readers assumption that I 1 ara describing the enthusiasm of a few women who presumably get all the breaks without taking into nc count the life of the average woman Is erroneous it Is the average woman in whom we are interested but either the average woman or the average man are afraid of life and bring to their lot nothing of enthusiasm and the gay spirit we can hardly expect either of then to be satisfied with the pan to which they were born no matter what our breaks man or woman to get the most out of life requires something of joyous courage and some enthusiasm to start oft with gl en tint few women get such bad breads eliat they can be utterly without realization of the joyous prerogatives of being a woman what do lou all say by the bell syndicate ino |