MODERN YOUTH.
May I thank "Two-Eyed" for upholding my contention that the present generation lacks the stamina of it»=v predecessors 1 The large families I mentioned had, in most cases, gaps of two or three years between each child, and I think most old men with long beards will agree with me that they were men of finer physique than are often seen now. "Movietone" speaks of Jean Batten and <1 woman wild animal tamer, but forgets that all through history there have been women here and there who could beat men at their own game. As for dirty heads, it would be strange if women with two or three children could not keep them as well as most mothers did in the past. It does not look well for the health of the country that quite young girls are too anaemic to face daylisrht without the aid of artificial colour on cheeks and lins, ZYX.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 292, 10 December 1936, Page 6
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