THE MODERN GIRL.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 27 March 1926, Page 13

THE MODERN GIRL.

To (lie Editor of the “Timani Herald.’' Sir, —I have read with interest the filter letters in regard to the “modern gild” in your paper. I have also road the not very ennviiienig reply ol “ Experienee.” \Yliy, in all the world, this raging against the modern girl? It she is not all she should be, are her parents not to blame, and don't parents consist of men as well as women? Very wc-11 then, we'll sav that the modern girl reflects little credit on tin- present day fathers. Mother (being perhaps a modeni woman) seems to share the fate pf the daughters in inalo criticisms hurled at her head. To my millet the modern girl is a woman of many, capabilities and resources, and a great improvement on the so called domestic paragon of the \ ictorian era. As to the “.stamina” mentioned, by “Experience” as having been a characteristic of our graiulipjotliers, according to. Victorian history and liction (which is all we have to judge by) the ladies of those days were oi the “clinging” order, given to light-lacing and fainting on every possible occasion, convenient and otherwise, Girls seldom “swoon” tiiese days. Also ihe “healthy homes” (according to what we read) ,suffered from a painful lack ol ventilation, and other plain e’ean sanitary rules which all women practice in housekeeping to-day. Also I think it the I’lunket Nurses had been about in these days to give our grandmothers a few hints, it is quite possible that much of the indigestion and other .ailments tile succeeding two generations have suffered from, would have been anunknown quantity. Considering the modern girl lias had tile mistakes ol the .stuffy Victorian age behind her, it is wonderful to sec her I lie mental and physical success that she undoubtedly is.— I. am etc., TO-DAY.