And apropos of marriage I learn for the first time that South Australia maintains an official Matrimonial Commissioner. He—or might it be she?—in a recent report has been scarifying the goings on of married businessmen and their typists, which he (or she?) says are the cause of trouble in half the South Australian marriages that go wrong.
Of course the secretary of the Women Clerks and Secretaries'
Association in London, which has over 2,000 members, has been interviewed, and hotly denies that such scandals occur here. They may happen but so rarely as not to be worth notice. Typists are out to earn their living; they also want to get married;.and they know that to be mixed up with a married man is the best way to spoil all chance of that, One may believe it. With a fairly wide acquaintance with London offices and typists I would say unhesitatingly that the latter are perfect ladies. - That ninety-nine per cent of businessmen are unconsciously run by their secretaries is another matter, merely pointing to the superior mental endowment of the female sex.
There is no flirtation in it, merely maternal instinct moved to pity for 4 the helplessness of man.
But I shall be interested to hear what the young women of South Australia do with that Matrimonial Commissioner.
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