OLD MAIDS PRAISED

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1929, Page 4

OLD MAIDS PRAISED

THEIR GREAT INCREASE. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright). / LONDON, Sept. 12. The Sexqal Reform Congress dis- . cussed the subjects of Old Maids and Women’s Dress. !■ Mr R. B. Kerr had a good word lor.- . } the spinsters, the growth in the numbers of whom, he said, had been’.phenomenal throughout the world since 1 the year 11850. At present, he said, forty per cent, of the women over the ; ace of thirty arc unmarried. Never- , , theless, the world held no more precious possession than the spinsters, ..... Anv reduction in the number of spinsters would, in Mr Kerr’s.opinion, V ibe.. a step backwards. They were , the backbone of aIL of tho humanitarian gfpiVVos. He questioned, however* _ whether the world was doing its duty by them,. . .v„ Professor .J. ,0. Flugel, speaking of some of the differences in dress, said that if there was a lack of romance in men’s dress, tliere was also an absence of. the envy and jealousy, the- petty , .triumphs, defeats and spitefulness that were engendered in women over dress. One womqn o?ulcl .humiliate another to the point of bitterness by being more effectively .dressed... , Hp. added: “VS r omen’s costumes are in r.npd of a severe purging .from the /. elements of plutocracy' and of snob-, beryl’* ”Y j..- . ,