SOCIETY WOMEN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1091, 1 May 1913, Page 4

SOCIETY WOMEN.

DENOUNCED BY EVANGELIST.

Melbourne, April 18

Mr Fred B. Smith threw a bombshell into a Toorak in his addres to women at the Town Hall,

He said that he had two sons, and he would sooner receive a cable message announcing their deaths than a cable message stating that they were to be married to society women. Society was what the average morality of women had made it. If the standard were low, society would strike that level. Giddy young men who fell into the social trap were the hardest to save. Society had got into such a state that it was regarded as incomplete without bridge, whist and a booby prize. Shame on them ! And the Turkey trot. That was permitted by women, not by men. Did they ever think where that trot came from ? It was from the Turkish house of ill-fame. There was need for a women’s forward movement, because women had so much to do with the moulding of man’s destiny. If they asked him what sin was the most likely one to impede the progress of the Anglo-Saxon race he would say impurity. A revival was needed to teach what it meant to be modest —how to dress so that women would not attract men’s attention in the street. Modesty dressed itself close up to the neck. Ir was a scandal the way young girls walked the streets of Melbourne, If it were not for Christianity probably not one of them would be present in the ball that afternoon: they would probably be shut in a cell to serve the viciousness of man. He was travelling in India, and while there showed a photograph of his wife, sons and daughters to an Indian professor. ,l What!” exclaimed the professor ; “do you allow the women to be taken with the men ?” That, Mr Smith emphasised, showed the feeling towards women in some countries. Women owed their liberty, their all, practically to Christianity.