“THE MODERN MISS.”

Shannon News, 17 August 1926, Page 3

“THE MODERN MISS.”

PROFESSOR ADMIRES HER LEGS. Another champion of the modern girl is to be found in Professor F. P. Worley (Auckland), who declared in a lecture on the relation between food and beauty that, when looking at people in the street, he

j was struck by the number of fine, healthy looking, happy young people |he passed. They were a great cr<jj (lit to the country. 1-Ie knew some J people would not agree with Mm. J (They thought that modern girls werO ■ too gay and flighty and showed too , much of their legs, but there was no reason why we should not admire beauty of limb as well as beauty ot face. Modern young people were freer and better than their ancestors. Once, when a boy broke a leg, ho heard a woman say: “He has broken a limb.” ' She could riot speak of legs. “I doubt if she could even talk of the leg of the table,” ho said. The last Minister of Education, Professor Worley added, had admired a girl’s legs in Wellington, and every sane person would do the same. Modern girls were an improvement on former generations owing to better clothing and better food, Avhich resulted in improved health.