THE MODERN GIRL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 24 March 1926, Page 12

THE MODERN GIRL.

To tlio Editor of flic “Timaru Herald.” Sir,—l . hope it is not expected that I '{should have to explain.-.ail-the sentimental bathos of it “Modern Girl.” Noir would never give me space to do it. My summing up of the “Modern Girl” is that she do.es not know anything about the subject,, and sees only skin deep. She says: “Medical men advocate .air and sunlight. bo they should, for tain and air are good, but modern women are destroying all the good of sun and air by demanding midnight pleasures, the . atmosphere of "picture shows, theatres, dance saloons, ad nauseam, and by the food they cat and feed their xoung. “Modern Gill” proves my ease. She. tells her sox to fight the mere man, and stand on her dignity—though 1 am afraid she has lost it—and she winds up by saying that the human body (female, I suppose) is a. wonderful thing. and therefore ‘'should be admired as a work of art.” Ihci logical deduction of that statement is Unit man should demand to see this wonderful, work of art in all its natural beauty! 1 can’t agree witlw that. Now we turn to “M. A. a. Black. I can’t find much to say to. blio makes one remark that is r.cw to me. •She seems to infer that it a young woman goes into business,' and gives and lakes knocks with the; male creature. it will bo a. great deterrent to divorces I, a." mere, male, .say not proven, for most of the divorces conic from that class. M.v position is this. id good can conic out ol this pi (.sent dav lifting woman out ol her sphere. She is inclined to run to extremes, ’and wants to be entirely . her own master, to do as we are doing, is jw..t the" same as putting two captains on me Kliim \ou can tdo it without trouble in the home, and that inruns brdlv managed homes and c\eiincreasing divorce M'l.at are a our ..rent leaders of sociot\ sating. Bishops of all denominations are deiloi'ing the, laxity of home 1. c. AHo cur leading doctors. Am t.iese .n.n lk -mil "ms?os? Xow we come to hcMitb* Can our women do what our grandmothers did’ They lm<l^nnum They had peaceful homcs. y A town the snonkim l ' of English country life ,0 oi IS, veam ago, and this I aver, that OU r grandmothers were fai ‘si contradiction on mam P” 11 ' 1 - ins you for ' s l laco "T7 f !- X pKR|ItNCE”