PUBLIC OPINION.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 November 1927, Page 4

PUBLIC OPINION.

YOUTH UP FOll JUDGMENT.

“Though I am old-fashioned enough to believe that age in the main brings increase of wisdom,. I am not a contemner of youth. The only serious charge 1 bring against the young people of the present day is that they are allowing themselves to fall victims to the sterilising influences of universal mechanisation. These influences work in a multitude of subtle ways to hamper our imagination and our will to abolish romance from our lives. INIr Kipling a'ssures us that in spite of the dominance of machines, still ‘romance brings up the nine-fifteen.’ This may he true of him and of me. and of a few other old froggies. But it is true of modern youths? When one finds them bored by a voyage to the magic East, or sitting .solemnly at bridge or poker beneath the moving and sombre splendour of a tropical sunset, it is difficult to believe it.’’—l’rofessor AfeDouga.ll. in his book “Character and the Conduct, of Life.' 1

TWIX EVILS OF MODELSX CITIES. “Xoise and smoko are twin evils of modern cities. The one can be substantially abated, the other eliminated ns soon as the public bestirs itself. Many motorists are heedless about the noises tlieyl make, neither realising that they have a duty in this regard towards the general public, nor caring to observe the minor decencies of social life. A warning given by Sir William .Toynson-Tlicks last year has not produced the deterrent effect looked for. and he has now determined upon stronger measures. Tf the Home Secretary sin coeds in compelling motorists to make less noise lie will have performed a genuine public, service. Xoise is one of the great creators of frayed nerves and ifitability, and experiments ill factories have proved that, dimimiation in noise leads to a sensible increase in efficiency. What is true of the factory worker is true of the citizen.”—“Daily Hera Id.”

HAPPY WOMEN. The happiest women arc those who have taken, and laboured at. and perfected one tiling, who set out at the beginning, and made good themselves, neither prodded by relations nor assisted by iulliicnee. It may he at a profession. t imiv he just making a ready good job of marriage that, no one was living Hags over the beginning. It may he just to have loved deeply an I terribly- and then closed the door and gone on al ni " making the host of life as il is, and asking nobody’s pity. The women who do these things arc the happiest women, because they have done s.iicei king to lit", and not just >at still and lei life do things for them. The glorious i.ari of it is that the door is (here, and the kev is in ill"

hand of everyone of 11s. even if we 1.-'gin with ahs.ilut.'lv nothing.—Aliss D. Jllaek in “Tile Daily Espies.’’

WOMEX AXIS TEXXrs. Lawn humis is now played in very lntieli the same way liy both men and women ; the strokes and tactics for both sexes are identical. With f"W ext opiums women can now volley, serve overhead. and use the sum- court posit i ms as ihe sterner sex. It i- ui:lv their physical linrlad ions which prevent them playing such an intensive game as men can. According I > Air Paret. the 'merican critics women < :*n never gel the same power into their service owing to the particular wav their .shoulder Hades are made. Per the same reason, lie says, they have always found difficulty in throwing. I myself believe that the game is capable i f still greater development than we have seen. Perhaps cue dev a placer "ill rise in; with the superb te'-hn irpie of .Millie Lenglen allied to Hie great hitting powers of Aliss |!"bu Wills and hacked by the service of .Miss Eleanor (loss, who has the best delivery of any present-day woman nluverl E. Gordon. in “Hutchison's Alagaziue.”