"DIMPLE-KNEED VAMPIRE."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 9, Issue 591, 10 December 1920, Page 1 (Supplement)

"DIMPLE-KNEED VAMPIRE."

MODERN SAMSON IN HER CLUTCH

"A Vampire destroyed Samson, and the modern Samson, the United States, is in the dangerous deathcompelling clutch of the modern dimple-kneed, half-dressed vampire/' That is a passage from a tiery address by the leading Rabbi of Philadelphia, Dr. Krauskoph, who accused American society women of adopting style of undress for reasons not very dtferent from those for which they were adopted by professional courtesans. Young society women, he added, motored far out into the country at night, and regaled tliemand their male companions with liquor.

"The modern play/' he proceeded, is usually an exposition of nakedness that robE womanuood of the aurora of mystery that constituted its greatest charm. Americans have substituted the worship of gold for the worship of God, so that decadence aas set in, and the day of ruin is not i.ar distant."

Divorces iri this country (said the ttabbi) have increased to such an alarming extent as to excite wander whether the marriage ceremony will aot eventually be discarded. Increasing numbers turn a deaf ear to the entreaties of priests, pastor, and i-abbi, and followed the seducing strains of every form of depravity. Dr. Krauskoph predicted that the United States, like Samson, would be shorn of its strength, cast into chains, and be made the slave and sport of its enemies.