SHOP WINDOW DISPLAYS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22058, 14 September 1933, Page 6

SHOP WINDOW DISPLAYS

TO THE EDITOR. Sib, —It is not to works of art that your fair correspondents take exception; but to “ Mum “ in her corsets in public—a somewhat different matter, as even you must agree. —I am, etc., Another Fair Correspondent. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Honi soit qui mal y peuse.—l am, etc., J. E. C. Musselburgh, September 13, to the editor. Sir, —I read with contempt the narrowminded views of “ Mum,” “ Another Disgusted One,” and “G. C.” on the subject of a certain window display in the city. That the display could have brought forth such remarks as were made in these letters is astounding. I refer especially to the foolish expression used by one of the correspondents that the display wag an insult to our sex. Such a strong comment on such a trifling matter could only come from one with lack of insight and reasoning power. “G. C.” has even gone so far a 9 to condemn our clothes lines, and describes a line hung with underwear as a disgusting spectacle. There are many persons of this type who have false ideas of modesty, but in this case I am puzzled, and would point out to the offended one that, although these articles are not seen, everybody knows that they are worn. Why should they become an object of disgust when hung upon a line to dry?—l am, etc., September 13, Common Sense, TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — I read with amusement the comments of “E. V.” and " S. C. M” on the subject of shop window displays. To describe our very respectable city as a “ gink of inquity ” will hardly be pleasing to most of your readers. The spectacle of females in bathing suits on all our beaches is surely not a subject for censure. What on earth are they to wear? Your pious correspondents would do well to read a certain well-known story about a Pharisee and a publican who went up to the temple to pray. “The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: “God, I thank Thee, that I am not as other men are.” To the pure, Sir, all things are impure. —I am, etc., Not.ite Judicabe. Dunedin, September 13. [Evidently the fact that the letter to which the above refers was “writ sarcastic” has not been generally appreciated. —Ed., O.D.T.]