MODERN WOMAN’S DRESS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1920, Page 3

MODERN WOMAN’S DRESS.

MR HERBERT BOOTH’S

CRITICISM

AUCKLAND,, .June 14

Modern woman’s dress came in for some scathing remarks at the flown Hall yesterday by Mi; Herbert Booth. “Many women tip-day only think of their bodies as filings to hang clothes 1)C declared, “ and inaipy a girl, ha ; s passed to her. gtjavp because, of the false pride that made'her p# i.HT hoefo: and her dress first «,»f )dl iff life. One minute a day to their souls; an hour to 1-ioii; bodies—thuf is hpw modern women live. The way some Christian women diets to-day is enough to make our ddar, pmehem/ted mtjfliers turn in their graves.” Describing in detail a costume which lie had recently seen in a Queen street window, the preacher went on to state that women had now got to the same stage in regard to their dross as that of the women of Rome and Greece, “ when God opened the sluice gates of hell and destruction.”' It was high time some society were formed to make a feature of the protest against this present day immorality of dross and fashion. 1 wonder whether you ever stop to think where you are getting to in all your modern ways of excitement and lust for pleasure?” he exclaimed. “All this concentration on amusement, theatres, pictures, football —compare it with the scanty thought given to the good things of life, things that' conduce to the good of the home, of the family, of the Church, the upbuilding of the nation. How much thought is given-nowadays to these things ? In the rush of a wor\d gone crazy, utterly crazy, after pleas.uie and self-indulgence, how many- do wo find praying in the House of God? It is an awful thing to think of, yet alter six years of' unparalleled suffering and agony, such as the world has never known before, there is not one moment in the. world’s history when it has been so uterlv given over to pleasure, so intoxicated with the mad lust for excitement, as it is to-day.”