GIRLS SEVENTY YEARS AGO

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21569, 15 February 1932, Page 8

GIRLS SEVENTY YEARS AGO

“ The girls of to-day are rather fond of talking of the fine times they have, but I doubt very much whether they enjoy themselves more than, or even as much as, I and my two sisters did so long ago,” says Lady Loch, who with her twin sister, the Dowager Countess of Lytton, is 90 years old. “ Modern girls probably think it is rather smart to smoke —but my twin sister and I smoked when we were about 12 years old. Our uncle, Lord Clarendon, who had seen women smoke in Spain, used to give his daughters cigarettes, and they would pass some on to us now and again. I continued to smoke when I married—which was before I was 20. I remember that I wore a crinoline, and a bonnet with a ‘ curtain.’ We went to the Isle of Man after the marriage, for my husband was Governor, and there I soon gained a reputation for being * fast ’ — because I dared to walk out alone in the snow carrying a walking stick.” Lady Loch adds that girls were as pretty 70 years ago as they are to-day, “And they never used lipstick, >nor did they dream of plucking their eyebrows.”