MUST GIRLS HAVE CHAPERONES.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 44, 20 August 1892, Page 1 (Supplement)

MUST GIRLS HAVE CHAPERONES.

To a recent issue of the Nineteenth Century Mrs. Mona Caird contributes an able, if somewhat passionate, defence of that particular school of women whom Mrs. Lynn Liuton has designated " wild." " That lady," says Mrs. Caird, '• expresses herself with indignation agninst the mothers who allow their daughters to have a certain amount of freedom; ' they know,' she says, ' the dangers of life, and from what girls ought to be protected.' If they disregard the wisdom of experience, on whose soul lies the 6in ? A girl walking alone ia London meets with no trouble, whereas in Paris or Vienna she might run the risk of annoyance. It is clearly in the interests of everyone that those limits should be as much as possible extended. The greater number of girls who are allowed this independence the less the risk, and the less the hindrance and difficulties for all concerned. The burden on mothers of an army of daughters who cannot stir from their homes without a bodyguard is very severe. Mrs Lynn Liuton does her best to check this teudency to give more self-reliance to girls, and would throw society back upon its path towards its abandoned errors. The quarrel, in faot, between Mrs. Lynn Linton and her opponents is simply the timehonoured quarrel between yesterday and to-day, between reaction and progress, between decaying institutious and the stirrings of a new localfaith." '• 1 1 ' i

Mr. Whitelaw Reid's successor as United States Minister to Pari-- 5s Mr. T. Jeffries Coolidge, «v great-pramlaon of Thomas . Ti-ffers:n, who was third President of the United States Jefferson himself, by the way, was in 1784 elected Congress Minister Plenipotentiary to France, in addition to Adams and Franklin; next year he was appointed sole Mininter, and his residence in Europe lasted five years. Professor Theodor Meynert, the eminent specialist for mental diseases, of the University of Vienna, died suddenly on May 31.