MODERN GIRLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 482, 11 October 1928, Page 5

MODERN GIRLS

“LOOSENESS OF HABITS” W.C.T.U. DISCUSSION criticism of the tendencies of modern young women was made by Mrs. Forde in a series of startling indictments at the Women’s Christian l emperance Union’s Conference recently at Melbourne. hen we see so much immodesty, the prevailing looseness with regard to kissing and handling, the open .allurement of girls to men, the increase or smoking, especially among girls of vaunted culture, whose callousness to noble impulses it encourages, while working havoc with the nervous system so surely as to be reproduced in their children; the indulgence in alcoholic beverages is nowhere more ghastly than at the dance, the utterly false ideas of married life and its responsibilities to the next generation, largely due to picture shows and magazines from America, where many of the youths, according to Judge Lindsay, despised all Bible laws and restriction between the sexes; and when we read that no longer in Russia are any marriages registered, we may well realise the errant folly, among other things,, of not warning girls about picking up an acquaintance with strangers, especially at night, and feel discouraged, that in so few towns in New South Wales is there any work done in the way of teaching purity to the young.” After a lengthy discussion on milk by Mrs. Knight, Mrs. Lees rose. “I feel very courageous,” she said, “after your remarks that milk jug covers will not keep the germs out, in presentmg you with one I had made for you.” The presentation was made amid laughter and cheers. Mrs. Cochrane told the gathering that it had been her ambition to start; a milk bar; but she had never been! able to afford it. She made a spir- ! ited appeal to members of the union that they should be the organisers of the first milk bar in Sydney.