WOMEN’S WHIMS

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 289, 6 September 1928, Page 12

WOMEN’S WHIMS

Sir, —I read with some amusement your cabled report in Friday’s issue anent the shocking behaviour of wild women, who have forsaken the wholesome things of life for ways that are dark. Cigarettes and cocktails have, it is alleged, supplanted cocoa and chocolates 1 Can it be true? As one of the great concourse of working women, may I take up their cudgels? Cigarettes and cocktails, “how can they do it on the screw?” Certainly not out of tlie movies.

I know many women, mostly of my own class, of course, but the regular smokers are few, and as for cocktails. I think few of us pack a flask in our vanity bags. No, women as a class have too much regard for their health, and 1 am sure the majority will agree with me when I say they are more fitted for work by a cup of strength-giving cocoa than by intoxicating liquor. And the kiddies, may we expect, on the ringing of tlie school bell, to see them hurriedly finishing their “fags” before entering on the business of the day? Surely, they, at least, will remain loyal to chocolates. Alas, how many crimes have been laid at our door, my sisters, and now the ruination .of the cocoa industry. It is too much; let us leave cigarettes and cocktails to the sterner sex, who would be perfect, indeed, did God but grant them humour. —I inn, etc., “QUILLDRIVER.” Wellington. September 1.