OUR YOU NO WOMEN.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 October 1921, Page 4

OUR YOU NO WOMEN.

A 1) EEIfN GE • (Bv the I’rinccss Nusrnt Alt Muza in the “Daily Mail.") |low worthily in his article mi “Our Voting Women” Mr Stephen McKenna enters the lists in defence of the modern young man! But alas! while *'ximeiiiling the modern young man tnnn all blame for iinmanttcrlimss, Mr McKenna unkindly shifts the responsibility on to the shoulders of the modem young wonfan! M'iiat a lire..ill ul time m;r .voting women are having! They are routing in for such criticism and so much ahwse that who can wonder they endeavour to live up to it

U vuiiii;: girl. ilium reading tlmt ill!' ri'iilly smart uoiiiuii ol tu-iliiy swings Iht legs I rum tin* * 1 * 1 ■ of tlic table and receives her guests with 11 ehyret (e ill lit'i nmiitli, i mild resist tlic t•'nll > I .it it >ii to do likcw iso ! Heller to In' 1111111:111iift'ly tliiin out iil-duto ! lint | <lo not agree with .Mr .Strplieil McKenna that tin' casual manners ol out young iih'ii i-nnio I'rom as-ocin-tion with tin- modern young girl I tli ink llm girl of to-day is simply in turn.' Hth lior generation. She Is us mill'll war | rodiii las a liimil income tux and |niisnn gas. Tim extravagant manners of lintli sexes ;iv the icsiilt of r>:( ranriliiniry renditions Tito liny uns taken from school and ollii'i'. wln'i'i' lie was tiring snitldu'd. and n: ol'' into a loailrr of nmn. If In* survived lio li'iirnl that nnii li i|i‘|H'iids upon iinli v id ■in lit y and sell'-i'tinfidonre and eeu.rage and little upon convention. After meeting Dontli with a sntih', cigari'tti' in mouth, lie forgets or does not know that lie should remove the cigarette when introduced to less impel tanl people

And the girl is the same. She took 111 1 war work, threw convention tn the winds. She saerifiucd her higher edui ;i 1 i<in and eareer to war service. And now. what is she to-day? She has no carcor. she is the unwanted woman. Then let her met what compensation -lie can I’rnni amusement. She luiv lost miieli and given much The unmannerly gi rl is a ph.se a war pi'i'di'et. She will »_■'i'll l l U:i 1 1 \ he replaced hv the vast army of serious schoolgirls now ipialifving for their examinations and decrees. It is llie euniinw geiierntinn that will make good t-lie vital waste uf the war. The pre-eii t oenerat inn, the girls whose [ li\ e,s are wreeked hy the war as certain- | ly as are those of the mutilated men, may seek iorgetfiiliicss in rather hind | laughter. I>ot us leave them what plea- |

sun.* they find. Tliov are extreme perhaps; but they are a penalty of war. and thev have paid, and are paying tin* price. Who knows what aie their memories while they dance? What grim pictures do they reconstruct as there cigarette smoke curls upward? What still voice sneaks in their hearts while they greet I the world with gay. impartial familiarity? Let us leave the girl of to-day her laughter. It may hide tears. The girl of to-morrow is serious enough, poor child. f*ho knows that only hard work and first-rate qualifications will win her a career, ft is she who will have to face unemployment tb, rough trade depression and taxation. Th<* grii of to-morrow may have little time for laughter. Let us hear it whih- we can