A GOOD WORD.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 10436, 6 January 1927, Page 3

A GOOD WORD.

FOR THE MODERN GIRL. A writer in an English newspaper expresses the opinion that the sexes are changing places and that women are filling the dominant position formerly taken by men. As an instance, lie refers to a woman's garments as being almost mastiiline ; her hair is cut like a man’s; and far too many smoke cigarettes and drink in a manner that would be out of place in the aieage wellgoverned youth. The writer tells of bow, in a South Coast town one morning, he could not help noticing that when the weather was bad it made no difference to the fine, strapping girls who used to bathe before breakfast. “They risked their lives,” be said, “in dangerous seas, and when they came ashore they scarcely dried themselves. They casually like a cigarette, and then strolled home to breakfast, while they discussed with one another what horses to back that day.” But, so far as the men were concerned, the only ones who went to bathe were (says the writer) those who had reached middle age.