BACK TO VICTORIANISM

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18898, 26 June 1923, Page 7

BACK TO VICTORIANISM

CHANGING ENGLISH MANNERS. TALK OF CRINOLINES. LONDON, June 11. A leading article in the London Times discussing present-day manners says:—"We only know the foam and froth of the approaching wave of Victorianism.” The writer draws .attention to serious talk of crinolines, and remarks on the curious change in youth’s attitude toward parents. It points out that fathers are becoming more jileasant, and a fashionable affection is entertained for A ictcrian furniture and Tennyson's poems. f-ne prosperity of ‘the seventies’ seems enviable, ’ adds the writer, “where once it seemed gross, and the quiet contentment of those who enjoyed it is now regarded as a quality not to be condemned. • , Ic ? n y son * s nh'eady returning to power, wicked parents aro acquiring a halo of benevolence, and soon -our revolutionary girls of fashion will scrap their Oriental divans, and, leaning their heads against antique antimacassars, will read ‘The Idylls of the King.’ ”