THE MODERN GIRL

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11784, 21 March 1924, Page 5

THE MODERN GIRL

SCATHING INDICTMENT LADY BALFOUR ASSAILS CONTEMPORARY MANNERS. “PAINTED A>|D POWDERED.” By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright (Sydney “Sun” Cable.) (Received March 20, 0.0 p.m.) LONDON, March 19. Lady Frances Balfour made th« most scathing indictment ever launched against the modern girl in the course of a debate with Miss Viola Tree, the actress. She said: “We see the young woman to-day doing everything that she possibly can to imitate the courtesan. Her face i 6 a mass of powder, her lips are daubed out of all human resemblance, and the stinking reek of her makes me long for a breath of God’s sweet air.” Lady Balfour added that she overheard two society women greeting one another in Bond street. One said: “Let’s go to Stewart’s, and have a really bilious lunch.” Miss Tree replied that with everything so free and open there is no incentive to do wrong. “Why should we ask for our ankles to be praised when we show practically the whole leg? Or why drink cocktails when they flow like water?” She insisted that modem girls were utterly natural. Lady Franoes Balfour, LL.D. and D.Litt., is the fifth daughter of the Duke of Argyll. She is the widow of the late Colonel Eustace Balfour, and has a family of five.