THE WAYS OF WOMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1922, Page 7

THE WAYS OF WOMEN.

(To the Kdtror.) Sir,—l heartily endorse Mr. F. GEwington's protest to the strictures contained in the letter signed "Li> Vielle." Facts are hard things to swallow sometimes, but one requires little more than a. "cork rye" to see what is going on round him. The gradual undermining of the moral fibre, due no doubt to many causes, one of which is the present day scanty adornment of many of our —shall I Bay "ladies"? The comment is not peculiar to Auckland or New Zealand alone, for we read of the Rev. Father Vaughan at Home remarking that one time women dressed to co out. now tliev undress. Recently a priest commented in our own city thus: "From the present mode of women's attire it is becoming difficult for an honest man to remain virtuous." If our clergy and our Chief Magistrates are not privileged to attempt stem the tide of degradation, then who is? Even old Granny has caught the epidemic, exposing linnet's legs and bony breasts like Delaney's chicken. In comparison a man would display more modesty appearing outdoors in his pyjamas.—l am, etc., ARTHUR OUjMMIJTGS.