THE MODERN GIRL.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5080, 26 January 1927, Page 3

THE MODERN GIRL.

MUSSOLINI AND WOMEN. “K,” writing in his column, “Obiter Dicta,” in the Christchurch Press, has a tilt at the Italian dictator’s rece,nt press utterances :— “Mussolini’s theory is that whiskers are a sign o’f decadence, and no doubt he is right. Who has ever seen whiskers on the beetle-browed and menacing person who points an arresting finger at you from the advertising pages of the American magazines as he says : ‘I can make you a forceful speaker; I can increase your will power.’ Yet the day may come, when Mussolini, old and grey and 'full df years, will wag a long beard over the fireside. It certainly will come unless the, marksmanship of Italy improves. The surprising thing is that Mussolini manages his dictatorship on a diet of milk, assisted by the policy of excluding females 'from the administration offices. Women, he says, interfere with efficiency and cause delay. This is perfectly true, but most o'f us believe, that after all there is no need for hurry. And women are so economic, too. Once it needed two sheep to clothe a woman, and now, as a man from Bradford laments, one silk-worm is enough, and not an overworked silk-worm at that.