ADVICE TO GIRLS

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3996, 12 September 1929, Page 4

ADVICE TO GIRLS

“I don’t share, with some of my generation, a horror of the modern girl,” said iSir Roger Keyes, after presenting the prizes at St. Margaret’s ‘School, Bushey (Herts), reports the London “Daily Telegraph.” “My war experiences were pretty varied, and I will always have great admiration for the girls and women who hi the hospitals and munition factories, and in other ways, gave their services most devotedly, and in many cases gave tlieir lives. After the war there was a reaction, and I must honestly confess to a feeling that the boys and girls of that next decade were rather ‘rotters.’ Then came the strike. I was not in England then, but it simply thrilled one to hear that the boys and girls were out again, willing to help their country. When you girls are 21 you will have the vote, and it behoves you to take —I will not say polities—but the welfare, of your country deeply to heart. Remember that collectively you will have a very great influence on your country. My advice to you is to fit yourselves to use the vote. It is not given to everybody to be a Florence Nightingale or an Edith Cavell, but to everybody to be a Florence unselfishness and willingness to serve and make the little world in which you live a happier place.”