THE MODERN MISS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 50, 22 November 1928, Page 8

THE MODERN MISS

PREFERABLE TO THE GIRL OF TWENTY YEARS AGO CLERGYMAN DEFENDS THE “FLAPPER” Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, November 21. So customary has it become for a certain section of the community to pillory the modern girl that it is extremely unusual to find anyone—except, perhaps, a courageous member of her own sex—to come forward in her defence. Yet last night she and hexways were championed with vigour, and the defender was a minister. ‘‘Some people pull a long face at the modern girl. Well, I tell you candidly I would rather have the shortskirted girl of to-day than the longskirted, wasp-waisted, and bustlestuffed old dame of the last century,” said thf Rev. C. W. Brown, of Oxford, in reply to the addresses of welcome extended to the delegates to the Methodist Synod. “If I had a vote on the question I would vote for the flapper every time. I have more faith in the bright girls of to-day’s Bible classes than in the fossilised old things of days gone by. The young men and women of to-day were reared in an atmosphere of wickedness, and the cause was the war. We became a nation of gamblers with loose morals,” said' Mr. Brown. He prefaced this statement with the remark that a glance at the illegitimacy figures in the Year Book would astound the reader, but he went on to say there was a counter-attack in progress. “This counter-attack is in the Bible class movement, and the syllabus is well worthy of the earnest thought of the young people,” he said.