THE GIRL OF TO-DAY.

Shannon News, 24 September 1929, Page 3

THE GIRL OF TO-DAY.

CLERGYMAN AS DEFENDER. The Rev. H. W. R. Elsley, in charge of St. Michael's Church, Tokynton, Wembley, writes ,in defence of 'the modem girl in -his church magazine, "No doubt some of her is both brazen, and brainless," he says, "but it is not fair to powder all girls with the same puff. I like Mamie for her independence, her courage, her strength of character in an age when the old safeguarding conventions are dead. And down, I say, with this perpetual nagging of her because she doesn't dress as they used to thirty years ago. ■What generation ever did? Why even the clergv once came under the same strictures" for the 74th Canon of 1603, entitled, "Decency in apparel enjoined to ministers." insists "That in public they go not in their doublet and hose without coats or cassocks, and that they wear not any light-coloured stockings." "Nowadays Mamie has to earn her own living—which is not so easy as it looks. Since "fhe modern youth is more in love with his motor-cycle than with her, Mamie had to invent the pillion seat so that she could keep close behind him. -And why not? Personally I see nothing dreadful in the spectacle >of lovers loving their loves."