WOMEN AS STREET, COLLECTORS
AN OBJECTIONABLE REMARK. Sir.—ln a local in your paper this morning, I read a report of a meeting of the committee of Sports Bodies, ia connection with, a street collection for the Soldiers' Christmas Fund. I take very strong exception to the way in winch \women were referred to, and discussed at that meeting.. To speak of young girls as "flappers"—a most objectionable word at any time—and "flappers who know their business," seems to me hardly the way for the ohairman of a body of men who are supposed to have good intentions at heart to speak of their women supporters. Do these men mean to imply that young girls are to aot o5 decoys in the streets —if 6b, Heaven help them ( and their cause 1 I feel sure that if tho causo appeals to a man he will give as readily to the old'as the young. lam sure that what the ohairman of the Sports Bodies Christmas Gift Fund has said will probably discourage many womon from taking part in a cood work.—l am. etc., JANET FIRTH, Wellington College. Friday, September 29.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2890, 30 September 1916, Page 3
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188WOMEN AS STREET, COLLECTORS Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2890, 30 September 1916, Page 3
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