MODERN WOMAN

Evening Star, Issue 20586, 11 September 1930, Page 11

MODERN WOMAN

E. F. BENSON'S VIEWS OUTSPOKEN CRITICISM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 10, (Received September 11, at 12.10 p.m.) Mr E. F. Benson (the well-known novelist), in an outspoken criticism on modern women in his memoirs, published by Longmans to-day, entitled ‘ As We Were,’ says that lipsticking in public, the kippering of arms, legs, bosom, and back on the sands of the Lido, .md the inability to remain m one place for more than a week were not the habits of a great lady in the: Victorian and Edwardian, times. . Those great ladies at least possessed dignity. They had not any push because there was no one to push. They did not want their daily doings mirrpred ,in the papers. The professional beauties of the Edwardian era liked their photo--graphs in the shop windows, but not so the great ladies Of to-day. Society had so broadened out that it had become quite flat. . , King Edward, when Prince of Wales, was the chief cause of the break, up of the mid-Victorian social tradition of frozen dignity, with, all its reticences and repressions ' . : ■.