THE MODERN YOUNG WOMAN.

Evening Star, Issue 19773, 25 January 1928, Page 2

THE MODERN YOUNG WOMAN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—The average man who has so much to say of the modern young woman is the man who has lost his rights through those young persons taking up his jobs. That was ail right between the years 1914-18, and quite a few helped the bosses over the stile; but it is now quite time those young ladies and the bosses in general gave us men our rights back again. I am quite convinced that the present state of affairs cannot go on much longer. The girl’s place in the world is home and at domestic duties, and the man should not lie forgotten as the wage-earner. Where does “Mother of Six” think New Zealand would bo if all mothers pushed their daughters into the office, workshop, or factory, swamping out the billets of men ? There may be a few who think as she does, but thank goodness not many, for T think all _ sensible mothers would like to see their daughters with a fair to good knowledge of home duties. Lastly, what sort of a mother is a girl going to be if she won’t work at homo? The girl will grow into decadence, the birth rate will suffer, and we shall have our good parliamentarians scratching their poor heads. Wo shall be unable to tax the bachelor, because all mothers of from one to six daughters will not give man the chance to work, marry, or do almost anything else—l am, etc., • A.A.H. January 25.