Letters to the Editor #1

Times of London, 4th October 1951.

Dear Sir,

I observe that the ladies of this country have an undue amount of time on their hands. I further observe that this abundance of time leads them to engage in activities of a questionable nature and of bafflingly little consequence.

That the fairer sex should direct their energies to worthwhile pursuits - indeed, that they are capable of genuine contributions beyond the realms of cooking, cleaning and haberdashery - is one of the great progressive steps of our time. Thus, we grant our unwed daughters take employment in the civil service, and play audience to discussions of politics and the sciences.

Sir, it is not working. Too many of our young ladies can be readily observed engaged in public giddiness, witless prattle, and inscrutable giggling.

They must be given more to do. Perhaps they should be made to read the lesser Classics, or engage in formal education until marriage. A change must be made, before the country is filled with contrivances, ephemera, and pointless confections of a distaff bent. Melodramatic "soap" operas, gossip-filled journals, and captioned portraits of slumbering housepets - these and other sufferances await us in unbearable measure, should we fail to act decisively.

Yours etcetera,

J. Charles Wimblethorpe, Esq.