WANTS "FROU-FROU"
MARGOT ASQUITH MOANS THE TIMES OF YOUTH. A plea for the petticoat of old is made by Lady Oxford — the famous Margot — in discussing modern girl. "I view with grave concern the modern girls' fashions and habits and wonder whether, when she marries, she will provide the proper spirit for her home, which is the only foundation of human progress," writes Lady Oxford in an article "Then and Now." "Although drinking is more fashionable than formerly among both rich and poor, to-day's cocktail bottle and pyjama p'arties are less intoxicating, but equally noisy, dull and injurious as the champagne of my youth. "I wonder if the belief in equality of the sexes is to the advantage of the modern girl? "Lady Tree, widow of the famous actor-manager, once aslced a famous lawyer if he liked blue stockings, and the lawyer replied: 'Yes; when hidden und'ar a petticoat.' "That is an object lesson, for the modern girl who is not 'hidden under a petticoat' expresses a not sufficiently interesting self too soon, with too mucli complacency."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 296, 9 August 1932, Page 6
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