GOOD LUCK, GIRL GUIDES!

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3041, 27 May 1926, Page 2

GOOD LUCK, GIRL GUIDES!

ONE cannot but heartily recommend and encourage such movements as the Girls’ Guides to provide worth-while relaxation for our young women and in fact any other form of recreation which will develop their physical and moral well-being as a counter-attraction to some of the demoralising forms of night entertainments which are recorded in different, parts of the Dominion. Attention has been drawn in the press to “carryings on” at country dances where young women are invited by male companions at intervals, to retire and partake of a “spot” in the waiting motor cars. The sequels to some of these happenings have brought parental sorrow and disgrace to many homes. Unfortunately this sort, of thing seems to be on Iho increase in this country, and any movement for its elimination should receive whole-hearted support. It may be considered smart and modern by certain girls to indulge in border-line “tlutterings,” but is it not a fact that at the same time the gate is opened to a wider license and a searing of sex reverence? Let it not be thought that we would deprive any young woman of healthy recreation and social intercourse. Far from it. Have parents on the other hand lost the art of winning the companionship and confidence of their children? Anyhow, good luck to the girl guides or any other movement which will help to develop all that is good and gracious in the mothers of the luture.