CLOTHES AND SENSE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 110, 11 May 1934, Page 11

CLOTHES AND SENSE

ANCIENT AND MODERN

A declaration that young people of today are much the same as young people of past generations and' that girls, nowadays are more sensibly dressed than their grandmothers was made by the Rev. J. Lawson Eobinson at the seventy-eighth anniversary service of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church on Sunday morning, states the "Ohristchurch Star."

Leading up to his defence of modern youth against the thrusts of elderly people, the preacher' referred to a. certain class of person who loved to live in the past, to the paralysis of the present, and still clung fo bygone ways and bygone fashions. "It is quite a common thing,'-' said Mr. Bobinson, "to hear elderly people say, 'I don't know what .the present generation is coining to; things were not like this when we were young. Youth was more chivalrous and maidenhood more modest.' But I am quite certain our present young people when they have left youth behind will talk in just the same way about, the young people of their day as we talk about the young people of our day. People in middle life very often forget what their youth was like. "If the customs and manners are freer today and conventions are more liberal, our young people at heart are much the same as the young people before them. They will respond to the right ideals. As far as fashions aTo concerned, I think the average young person today is more sensibly dressed than was her grandmother."

An egg should make its journeys with the round end up, according to a Ministry ot Agriculture expert. The expert says that eggs which are sent long distances with-' their points uppermost are more liable to accidents and- deterioration than those packed the other way.