MODERN GIRLS CRITICISED.

Shannon News, 7 August 1925, Page 4

MODERN GIRLS CRITICISED.

WARNING TO THE SPORTY. AUCKLAND, August 3,., Some pertinent remarks upon tin' levity with which modern girls regard life was made by the Rev. R. G. Coats at the annual meeting of the Girls’ Friendly Society. “Girls do not take lile seriously nowadays,” said Mr Coals. “The great majority of them are not spiritual at all, although 1 think they are more so than men. They are not developing along the lines that will train them for the greatest of all parts of their lives, that of being wives and mothers. Men will play with the sort of girl they will not marry. When it comes to marriage a, man thinks quite seriously about it. He does not mind a sporting round with the type generally known as the sporty girl, but I do not think be wants to marry ber. We want to develop a type of woman who is not prudisli or gish, who still knows how to be a girl, who can still romp round and have a good time, yet deport hersell like a real woman. “It is. now customary'when a party, either public or private, is being held for a whole line of motor cars to wait outside full of young girls and boys who never ha.vc met one another before that night. I myself had an exi perience with some of these people one night. 1 got into my own car and sat down on a, young woman.” In spite of the. fact that the world only called such a girl a “sport,” concluded Mr Coats, her existence created a danger. He urged those present not to forget the spiritual side of their lives and thus counteract lhe influences at work.