NEW EFFORT

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 719, 19 July 1929, Page 1

NEW EFFORT

Girls Smoke Cigarettes in Tram-Car GREYBEARDS STARTLED It was on a crowded theatre car. They were modern, those two girls. First to come plunging through the small knot of men at the door was the brunette. Her eyes gazed round the compartment. Ahead of her was the “no smoking” sign. “Want a cigarette?” she called over her shoulder to her companion, the blonde. And, so the startled passengers gathered, the latter was not unwilling. The two girls lodged themselves in the smoking compartment and lighted their cigarettes. And that was that. Very mere men showed their surprise in surreptitious glances at this

new indication of the emancipation of women. It was unheard of, this new horror. Women smoking in tramcars. . . . Sage greybeards shook.they: heads in deep wonderment. Of course, they had become hardened to the sight of women smoking at public events, in restaurants, even in the street, but this was a new assault on the privileges of men. Perhaps it is a mild reply by the women of Auckland to the men who venture to smoke in non-smoking compartments. But, is Auckland to lead the way in New Zealand in this shock to the conventions? Time was when Papa brimmed with annoyance when he found his nicest daughter puffing smoke-rings. Some papas still object, but they are being won round gradually.