THE MODERN GIRL
SCATHING INDICTMENT (Rec. March 20. 5.5 p.m.) London, March 19. Lady Frances Balfour made the most scathing indictment ever launched against the modern girl in the course of a debate with Miss JV lola Tree, the actress. She said: “AAe see the young woman to-day doing everything that she possibly cap to imitate the courtesan. Her face is a mass of powder, her lips arc daubed out of all hvinan resemblance, and the stinking reek of her makes mo long for a breath of God’s sweet air.” Lady Balfour added that she overheard two society women greeting one another in Bond Street. One said: “.Let’s go to Stewart’s, and have a really bilious lunch.” Miss Tree replied that with everything so free and open there is no incentive to do wrong? “AVhy should we ask for our ankles to bo praised when wo show practically tho whole leg? Or whv drink cocktails when they flow like water?” She insisted that modern girls were utterly natural.—Sydney “Sun” Cables. [Lady Frances Balfour, LL.D, and D.Litt. - , is the fifth daughter of the Duke of Argyll, and the widow of the lite Colonel Eustace Balfour, and has a family of five.]
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 152, 21 March 1924, Page 8
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