THE MODERN GIRL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1934, Page 13

THE MODERN GIRL.

DECRIED IN 1800. The following paragraph has a familiar ring: — "Young women of to-day live in a perpetual round of amusement; their three rules arc to read novels, dance, and live in idleness. Twenty years ago no young woman would have ventured outside her parents' house without her mother; but now young girls go about iilone by day and night in perpetual freedom; they read the most improper books, and the foam of a poisonous philosophy falls from their lips." So has this one: — "The girl of the period is a creature who dyes her hair and paints her face, a creature whose sole idea of life is fun, whose sole aim is unbounded luxury, and whose dress- is the chief object of such thought and intelligence as she possesses. Nothing is too extravagant, nothing to exaggerated for her vitiated taste. y No one can say of the modern girl that she is tender, loving, retiring or domestic." Actually, these denunciations come from no twentieth century critic. The fii st was written in the year 1800, ajid lix; second was aimed at the skittish flapper of 50 3-ears ago. The paragraphs appear in a current issue of "The Lancet" to give point to an article asking if there is any difference between the women of 1830 and 1330.