THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19690, 6 August 1929, Page 11

THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

-!•> 1 ur. El'Cioß or Trie i-hk.sh

Wir, I am wondering why the mothers ot to-day cannot see where fins modern methixl of bringing up young w leading lis to. My iittentioi- has been drawn to a statement in tae papers that Mrs C. A. Fitter, Dominion president of the National Council of Women, has been inr\rchbi.shop Averill that he l.i all when lu- sjivs thnt "the modern girl was discrediting her sex." She say* she has great faith that the modern girl will turn out all right, and she re&U this faith on the fact that "the boys and girls wero just emerging through a difficult period, uric! had not adjusted themselves to modern conditions." Thoso are her own words. But, I say the modern conditions are bad, and that wise mothers should never have allowod the change f am not allowed to (slate what I know and have seen. Mrs Fraer hays that in England the girls are taking for chaperons, hut the Old Land Mill! retains some old Victorian mothers, who have impressed thi* op e few; and on such arguments she banes her reason. The result is that not a single modern woman knows or can pronerlv run a home. As some witty fellow Itaa said with a trousseau and a tin opener she can run the home, and her one or two children are pnnir»en*tl and spoilt, and the number of divorces is increasing at a most iilarnnnc rate. That is the resu't of modern education. T have ?nore faith m Archbishop Averill.—Yours, efc.. E.S. August 4th.