"WOMEN, MEN, AND MANNERS."

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19357, 9 July 1928, Page 8

"WOMEN, MEN, AND MANNERS."

THE AGE OP CHIVHi, RESPONSIBILITY OP WOIIft "Since the war there i slump in manners. The cry • , 1 that the age of chivalry is w for the passing of much in should be thankful," said th« H. Gibb when preaching at drew's Church last night °a Men, and Manners." A social seheme which ma,s t j. ful of men the lords of creation./ which kept tho masses in povwft bondage, could not commend iSf" this age. A system which jj! woman, education and freedom garded her more or less, as a was useless at tho present still there were phases of the j chivalry which the world was tfovj'l for losing.

Manners had so little attflntio* u to them to-day that if they tematically neglected by child*!'* they are by adults, they would dead. Real manners did not in a bowing and a scraping, phantic toadying to the rich andi»£ ful, but in an intuitive gentleneaS instinctive chivalry, in a moded* tainty of oneself, in an the charm of youth mingled with.? respect for age, and a high regartE the purity of women. 1" The preacher went on to say tyfst free and easy behaviour of a class of women had done mußhtefe courage the sense of chivalry in £ Nobody to-day wished foi wometft be bound in the trammels of torian era. No longer would on jL consent to be as insipid as a pffiS queen upon a card. Very rightljjk desired more than to be diessed hpffi fully and to bo encompassed with'Sjj observances. They longed to ehtnlg fully into life and all its varied. && ledge and activities. Bul/it imTl profound conviction of students o('2 social conditions of our time that>|u new freedom which women novpM was fraught with grave potentS for evil as well as for good. ing of mora] standards was to'be® amongst women as well as met!. If women collected any odd tance and took him to a cabattfiajjiji cars; if they shared men's flasks; if they exposed most 7 of>fe bodies to. the gaze of men; could they expect men to enshrijis;f§ within their hearts in a Women were the guardians of :t|l airy and morals of this age aa tpmj age, and if they proved uwotfntj their trust they must not if men ceased to regard with"t2j# rous rfjpect*