NOTHING NEW

Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1928, Page 3

NOTHING NEW

Speaking recently as the guest of the Institute of Journalists the Archbishop of Canterbury asked whether habits waxed and waned in cycles. He contrasted the reserve and almost prudish reticence that existed in the days of his youth with the outspokenness and freedom of criticism and thought to-da.v. But if they went a little farther hack than those early days of his. there would he revealed an age in which there was even less reticence and still more outspokenness. Sucli considerations made one wonder whether the cycle idea was not the most dominant feature in history. Let them take for instance, the habits, appearances and garb of the people. If the ladies present! would pardon him. he had a peculiar prejudice against shingled heads for ladies. He was reading only a few days ago a record of the time Archbishop Laud, anil he tame upon this curious and startling statement made by Prvnne: “Our English gentle women are now grown so past shame and grace and modesty ns to clip their ban like men.” So apparently, they were not the first sufferers from the loss of the beautiful things they used to admire in the adornment of ladies heads.