THE TRUTH ABOUT GIRLS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18910, 7 January 1925, Page 5

THE TRUTH ABOUT GIRLS.

"The most surprising thing about the modern girl is that she is so oldfashioned." So writes Mr/Robert Magill in an English journal. "When Adam came homo from the first allotment with the first backache, Eve, after bewailing the fact iiiat servants were so hard to get hold of, said: 'I really don't know wliat girls are coming to. They were never like it, in my young days.'

"Let us take the counts in the indictment against this dangerous animal. Her greatest crime, the one that keeps ladies of title awake at night, is. her irreverence towards her elders. But seeing what a mess her elders have mado of what might have been a perfectly good world, you can hardly blame her. To continue, she smokes, bet.s, and talks slang, but all these she learnt from man. She drinks cocktails, lets strange men talk to her, wears short skirts and paints her face. "But did the demure V:ictorian damsel never take a little eau-de-Cologne for the spasms ? Were glad-eyes unknown in Ancient Greece? Did the Puritan maiden wear a bonnet with strings because it kept the' rain off, or because it made the Puritan young man's heart skip two beats in the same bar ? There' is no Latin term for 'lip-stick,' nevertheless they have been discovered in Roman remains. , .

"The modern girl is just the right type of girl to fit the age that has produced wireless, aeroplanes and traffic problems.'. She is not an angel, thank Heaven! We don't have to be careful not to step on her wings in 3 fox-trot'. But beneath her' shingled hair she is the same fayre ladyo for whom we slew the dragons in the skin of a sabre-toothed tiger to make a summer frock in the dawn of the world. She is the girl who smiled bravely through her tears when she said 'Chserio' tous as wo caught the leave train at Viotoria, and she is the girl who pats us on. the back now "'and tells us that we shall, soon get a job. "In forty years' time the girl of today- will shake her shingled grey Hair and say: 'Ah, me! These modern girls —the forward hussies—l never did ' "