THE SHOCKER SHOCKED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 59, 10 March 1923, Page 19

THE SHOCKER SHOCKED.

BERLIN DISGUSTS FEMINIST. CITY LACKS MORALS. After shocking London and Paris wi'h her knickerbockers, Jane Burr, an American feminist, was so shocked by Berlin that she locked her bifurcated garments In an obscure closet on the fourth floor of the pension building and Is going to leave them there until she departs from here, writes the Berlin correspondent of tie "New York herald." "I broke up a lifelong friendship by appearing in London and Paris In knickerbockers, bnt I told them all I had decided to Bpend the rest of my life doing every day Just as I pleased. Then I came 10 Berlin and wore them for two days while trying to find a room—well, you wouldn't believe what happened." Miss Burr looked effeminate In a fur coat, Parisian hat, modest woollen stockings, and walking shoes as she told this to "The New York Herald" correspondent. "I don't believe there are any morals hero at all," she continued In discussing her views of Berlin. "I have been with artist friends to a dozen places where we saw terrible types who repeatedly insulted ua and our escorts. There doesn't seem to be any sex problem here in the least. Vice in London and Paris does not compare with the vice here." Miss Burr added that Sweden wns the only country she had seen where the problem of so-called morals had been solved not so much by laws as by the will of the people themselves, especially with regard to divorce and illegitimate children. Miss Burr is in Germany to study the feminist movement and other social problems, but she says she is disappointed to find that so Uttie progress has been made In the Independence of women In a country where thirty-six women sit in the national law-making body. "The war has not made a whit of difference in the status of women here," :ihe said. "No matter how lnteil.gent they are they occupy the same relative position to man—that of inferiority. I think the whole country has taken Itself too seriously to profit by the world changes." Miss Burr expects to make a trip around tbe world after returning to. Paris, where she says she will again don knickerbockers, her favourite travelling costume.