The New Woman

No. 4—Miss Peggy Spence-Sales. or "Perfectly Gorgeous."

I'm sorry I'm late, but I've just done a simply terrible iaw-exam. Professor Cornish asked me afterwards what I thought of it. I said. "Professor, I thought it was too perfectly foul." I suppose everything I say will be used aaginst me. I'm on my oath, am I? Well. I thought it was the heater. Don't put that in, for heaven's sake. I don't want people to think I make the same sort of ghastly jokes as Crossley. How do I feel in law classes—submerged in a sea of males? As a matter of fact I'm in the front bench. It's such a nuisance, it gives me a crick in the neck to keep looking round to see the people in the back seats. And it's so filthy having to get up at six o'clock for lectures. Wouldn't it be perfectly gorgeous if we could come up here in our dressing-gowns though?

Law students as a class? Oh! I think they're just the refuse of the debating platform. Frightfully respectable, of course—but confoundedly uninteresting, and I hate the way they always carry cases about with them. The President of the————! Ah! a block of wood . . . he'd burn so well. The Editor of "Smad"? Oh. here is a case for pity more than blame. Being Editor of "Smad" seems rather a dangerous hobby. Oh, yes, I like "Smad," but only because everybody else abuses it so dreadfully. I have discovered that pity is the strongest emotion in me. You know, my ambition at College is to attain the high standard of undergraduate womanhood laid down by Mr. Bannister in the March issue. That is why I have been six times a bridesmaid and never a bride. . . .

I'd like to be vitriolic about some of the people here, but I suppose I'd better not; and at any rate the whole place bores me to tears. It's so perfectly ghastly I'm going to talk scandal in the common room now. Thanks so much for the interview—it's been simply gorgeous saying what I think about everybody in this ghastly place.

The Editor and Committee of "Smad" wish to apologise for the appearance in the April issue of an interview entitled, "The New Woman." wherein certain references to Mr. Bannister were made, and to withdraw those references, and the interview in which they appeared. They wish to explain that the interview was intended merely as a humorous sketch and regret that some parts of it could possibly be otherwise regarded.

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The Executive of the Victoria University College Students' Association and the Editor of "Smad," hereby apologise for all statements concerning the efficiency of Messrs. White and Sons as printers, made in a personal letter written by the Editor of "Smad" to a student and published by him, and for any other statements that may have been made injurious to Messrs. White and Sons in their business as printers.

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