TOO MUCH GAIETY.
: ■*> CONTROL OP YOUNG GIRLS. "It is positively sinful," declared Miss F. J. Ross, principal of Coluraba College, speaking in Dunedin, recently, "that young girls should bo allowed out night after night, sometimes without, proper guardianship, amid gay scenes and excitements, when they should be preserves every atom of strength, if not for their present, at least for their future needs. So much liberty is given to our young people nowadays that there arises a craving for pleasure, a mania for excitement. Wherever our girls are they perhaps wish to go somewhere else. This aimless discontent shows the necessity for a richer, fuller life. If the nervous system of the girl does not get the rest she requires in her early teens, how can she be anything else but nervous when she grows up to womanhood V
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16214, 27 April 1916, Page 8
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139TOO MUCH GAIETY. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16214, 27 April 1916, Page 8
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