EVE TO-DAY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 79, 13 January 1928, Page 7

EVE TO-DAY.

BISHOP FINDS PRAISE. ' The Bishop of Newcastle (Bishop Stephen) thinks that underneath her powdered chin there is little wrong with the modern flapper. Addressing the students of the Church of England Grammar School for rrirls at the annual concert in the Cathedral Parish Hall, the bishop said some very encouraging things about the pre-sent-day girl. ' ' , “How many daughters had Ever the bishop asked the girls. He told them there were three. M information on the subject, he said, woidd be given shortly in a book by Bishop Barnes entitled ‘Who's Who Among Anthropoid Ages.’ Dr. Stephen detailed' a conversation between Eve* and her daughters at afternoon tea. This is how it went: “My dears, 1 don’t like your habits. I never behaved so when I was young. ,You wear your hair too short Mine reaches below my knees. You out yours as soon as it reaches your waist. Your fur coats are too short. My* best rabbitskin covers my feet. Yours shows the ankles. . “You are too fond of going out at night to see club-swinging and stonethrowing. Your dear father and I always spent evenings at home while he wrote his famous book on names of animals. , ... “You are too free and easy with men, and call them by their Christian names at once. It was months after we were married before I called vour dear father anything but Mr Adlam; and I don’t like to see you putting powder on your face.” . “Then the eldest daughter interrupted,” continued the bishop. “Dear mother, we love you very much, but iye think you are rather old-fashioned. Even in your young days you were not perfect. We heard about trouble coming to you because you spoke to someone in the garden to whom you bad not been introduced. And if you did use a little powder -lour nose would not be so shiny.. You forget, mother dear, that times have changed * you can , t expect us to be just like you ” , , , The bishop said that the same sort of conversation had been going on ever .since. The younger generation, he said, did things which shocked older people and made them think the young people were heading to destruction. “The trouble is,” said the bishop, “that distinctions are not dir awn between the important and the unimportant things.”