“Pawed-over Remnant Girls”

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 80, 5 April 1938, Page 2

“Pawed-over Remnant Girls”

UNDERGRADUATE’S ATTACK “Pawed-over remnants from the bargain basement,” was wnat Mr. J. A. F. Nolan, twenty-six-year-old bachelor and undergraduate of Liverpool University, called modern good-time girls at the Universities’ Conservative Conference at Oxford. Blaming them for Britain’s slumping birth-rate, ho declared that young men could not take seriously—as v' and mothers of their children—girls who "d not eomo pure to their marriages. “The modern good-time girl makes pleasure her god and the pursuit of pleasure her religion, and is doing a grave dis-serviee to mankind,” thundered Mr. Nolan. “You cannot expect a decent young bachelor to take much interest the pawed-over remnants from the bargain basement. ” Mr. Nolan was still ablaze with fervour for his causo when a Daily Mirror representative talked to him later. “I speak from my exper -rice of young women with whom I have come in contact in business and at the University during the past few years,” he said. “Frankly, what young bachelor wants to go to church and get married to a girl when he knows that outside are twenty or thirty fellows who have had affairs with her? “You cannot respect a girl who has been too lavish with her affections. ‘ l l am a confirmed cynic so far as modern young women are concerned. I have not always been. “My cynicism has dated from about three years ago. “But I do not say that I shall never marry. I am subject to experiment. “My ideal woman is a clean living, healthy minded girl . Ith a knowledge of home life yet competent to take her place in the world of affairs, moderately attractive, but no necessarily beautiful, with common sense and an overwhelming sense of loyalty. “I have met several women with some of these attributes, but I have never had an opportunity of finding whether they possess all of them.’