THE MODERN GIRL

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10905, 3 September 1932, Page 2

THE MODERN GIRL

CANON JAIMES ON LIFE AM HAPPINESS.

Admitting that he was half fasc: ated, and half terrified by the e? ern girl, Canon Percival James,); padre of the Rotary Club, bad attiring to say about this conuntai! the father-and-daughter lunched!; Wellington this week. “You hear a great deal about* modern girl,” said the padre, ‘'x you don’t hear about the mods boy at all. He is, same boy as he was forty ot £ years ago, and nobody wanted change him. I will say this, k ever, that the modern girl is veryf ferent from the girls we loved (r years ago.. ..But I will not say she is any better or more beaoft For example, we used in those d) to think that long hair was pm her beauty, a woman’s croc glory, but now . Well ( yoin see it will come back again to. years or so. I suppose the ideal betwixt and between the Yictcrj girl and the modern girl, wltL her freedom. “The proper choice of parent*a most important thing with; , people," continued the padre.'."* most of them it is rather late, * they have to make the best otM as they are. To the fathers Iv® say you are not half strict oooS I remember reading in a paper a e ter from one girl to another, which the one girl boasted thats had her parents ‘thoroughly eov* while another admitted thatA mother was a little tiresome at hue ‘she could twist father row’ little finger.’ Now, that twlsthP cess was as bad for the it was for the father, and may be the cause of much misery round. It is time that they r& nised that most ancient saying, our thy father and thy Young boys and girls expert l told what to do and whatnotand if that is not done 1 by W they are disappointed. ■■ “Next thing, they have f ar many good times, and far pocket money. Many of them ine that life consists of one time after another. No one s : than myself thinks nothing- 1 * lightful a pastime as a dance or four times a year, but * ' comes to three, four, five or er times a week, it’s a hit too Those are not really good tim«. are a hideous waste of theme* - ions years of life. a “Life does not end at 30 oMhave even come to realise does not end at 50. (Wj These thirty years of this have been the most amazing the history of man, and on to doubt that the next thm. ~ will be equally as amasDe': which reason I think it «> to see the young people away the best years of l ' ie,r cheap, trivial, trashy a ® It is the ruination of after E sS “ ‘Service before self’ « 3 > of the Rotary Club. neglect his duly to his they not the right to you not taught it to me. say to the young people-. i j thy father and thy m °“ ie „ il . es i * help to bring untold bWV the home. I will not say ..i modern girl is at times s* may be she is only lam sure she could con n $ more to family happing does. I would say to gos too, ‘Be honoured of tw daughter; earn their rega. ,i quire their obedience.’