ETHICS OF "OGLING."

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14375, 21 May 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

ETHICS OF "OGLING."

. " " •..:— »i — ; . ."■ 7.■ .>■■■.■■' ;■:.-., -.■.■- -.■■. .'■ ■. '• /r ;■:;■■■ ;;: , ;..i>";.^Bij BEAUTY MEANT TO BE. SEEN. \ ; |§ ; Quarrels rose .in a suburban train in th* | '-' Connecticut town of Greenwich the other- i- -J day when a prominent citizen objected. ,* to a gentleman "ogling" his wife. Itseems that the angry husband vas unable to control himself after the offender had "'repeatedly turned about and looked at ( her.'' He rose from his seat and shot his , '' fist in the other's face. . . :_ : -,'■; The case .never reached I 'court, but th<s''. - incident is = one of those human interest :j stories which send every American news.* paper editor into half a column of. moral- b ising. Oliver Wendell Holmes is being ,* freely quoted: "Pretty faces framed in 1 : -/' pretty bonnets are meant to be seen." f"",One writer says: "Ail males have a right to at least two, distinct looks at every ':?, comely female countenance without an ,'-_;,- , V .... infraction of the rules of courtesy ; or S"p|ffii sentiment of respect." Solemn writers ' ; are pointing out the impossibility of avoid- 1 } ], ing "distinct looks," or even "a' stare-,'. . - at the faces on Fifth' Avenue, now so ii«- '| quer.tly crowned with Chantecler hats, v m As for unwelcome "ogling," in any city rj in the world,' the simplest way to end i* ..',-j is to ignore -it." - . " _. ■'•''■\:'':^U ; • -s . . ; ; . ?