THE "COCKTAIL GIRL."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18297, 13 January 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE "COCKTAIL GIRL."

DOCTOR'S INDfCTMENT. "The cocktail habit among our young girls to-day is lamentable,'* said Dri Agnes Savill recently at the Institute of Hygiene in London when lecturing on ." The Dangers of Society to Health." V Many modern ; girls live-in a continual state of overwhipped, stimulating" excitement, which results in their mental and: physical: degeneration,'* ■ said the lecturer. "I know many girls who before they'are ■ twenty look : like women :of forty—worn- ; out and subject to fits of coughing-—all be- ; cause they nave acquired habits of drugging. I _ . , .; ''.Telephoning, lunching, : dance teas, theatres, theatre suppers, ; soirees—the modern/ society girl is out with!parties ofl men .and women friends all daylong, ■■■■■: " Social life overdone is responsible for ' ■'deficient sleep and, deterioration' of the eA : tiro nervous system, :It enconragifiis the pernicijmg habit of the too frequent: cigarette, the drinking of whiskies and 'sodas/ which jimpair , their livers and upset the -balance of their nervous systems, and indulgence in rich ; foods, ; which upset the : rhythm pi the body.\ ■■■"• Ohaperones are dispensed with, chastity is/thrown away, Divorce and drunkenness are a girl's chief : topic LOf , convar- / sation.,: h When she marries the, standard of her relationship to her husband, home,, and childien is not a high one. >; "I place all:the blame on the mothers I of these girls for these things