THE MODERN GIRL.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1126, 13 May 1911, Page 10

THE MODERN GIRL.

SCHOPENHAUER CENSURED,

Before a fashionable attendance, the distinguished prolate, Monsignor Henry 8010 delivered a lecture: recently in Paris on "Tho Young Girls of To-day. Franco, ho said, wns passing through a crisis which particularly affected the young girls of tho nation, and whatever tho outcomo might be, in their delicate hands lay the secrets of tho mysterious future. , , Between tho girl of 1900 nnd her sister of 1910 a e.ynt pult lay. .The modern girl was distinguished by an intoiißo appetite for intellectual culture. Sho wished to study everything, and she indeed learned a great deal—enough to have mado her grandmother very apprehensive. JloiiF-ignor 8010 was not quite convinced that tho change was altogether for tho better. Ho did not like young girl authors or students any more than lie liked those, who nourished themselves on tho garbage of cheap novels while making skirts which wore trousers in disguise or hats which might serve for sentry boxes. His sympathy was reserved for tho young girls who wished to breathe a higher atmosphere, and who' refused to consider the domains of art, science, and literature as closed to them. . Tho young girl of to-day deserved to ho enrminigrd in her aspintiohs towards intellectual culture, nnd Mmisignor 8010 roundly censured Schopenhauer for his definition of woman as "an aninial witlt long hair and a short mind," and his declaration that her rending ought to bo confined to prayer and cookery books,