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Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 71, 25 March 1936, Page 15

youth Must Be Served. • 'Modern schoolgirls are no longer kept In. the school loom until they “come out.” Parents realise that half the tra ditional gaucherie of the young girl is caused by that sudden entry into an unknown world. So, I was not surprised to, see Miss Catherine and Miss Elizabeth Sinclair, the youthful daughters of Sir Archibald Sinclair, present at a reception, states an overseas writer in the Auckland Star. The chndrea of Sir John and the Hon. Lady Davidson, too, are just off to Brittany to acquire a presentable French Recent. All the same the English schoolgirl is fortunately still a simple creature and very different from her American counterpart. In the coffee room of a fashionable hotel the other evening, I met three American girls fresh from their first English term, who were about to fly alone to Paris to meet their parents. The eldest was fourteen and they spent the evening playing with a skill tnat ■was positively uncanny, a complicated form of contract bridge.