MODERN YOUNG LADY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22807, 17 February 1936, Page 7

MODERN YOUNG LADY

INVADED BY DOMESTICITY A certain restraint has invaded the sphere of the young lady of fashion (states a writer in the Manchester Guardian). She still reddens her nails, but she disapproves of swearing, though it seems only a short time ago since she was saying pleasantly: “It’s dreadful the way I swear.” At 21 or 22 she is thinking now that her parents brought her up very badly, and she supposes it was due to the war. When she has a family she is by no means going to let them rip. She is knitting socks with some zeal, and she is taking

cookery lessons, since food is so important. Sherry has no charms for her. For one thing it is expensive. For another, look at the complexions of the people who have persisted in the cocktail habit. These, who onJy a few years ago were in her place and who laid down the law for those older and younger than they, are now relegated to the shelf, even if a lower one, and to be a drinker of quality no longer brings approval, but is rather old-fashioned. Domesticity, in short, is the keynote and that though many young women do not object to adding to their allowances where work in kinema, millinery, and the like may be obtained. Those who worked hard to be the cynical, blase women of the world are now looked upon as hardly by the early twenties. Amusements of the early twenties include the middle-day kinema for a shilling or eighteen pence,

and take your lunch. By this means it is felt that fortunes arc saved, arid any way everybody does it. But, on the whole, while their seniors repelled seriousness, the near generation is courting it, and with all the success which pertains to the fortunate age.