Jaded Girls

Southland Times, Issue 22188, 2 December 1933, Page 17

Jaded Girls

The suggestion that the common practice of running a wireless or gramophone and at the same time attempting to read or talk is leading to a chronic inability to concentrate, was made by Dr. J. F. Halls Dally, lecturing at the Institute of Hygiene in London recently. “Does modem worship of the twin gods ‘noise’ and ‘speed’ make their devotees happier and wiser than their forefathers, who in their simple lives had none of these distractions?” he asked.

While the majority of modern girls were sensible, level-headed and full of charm, Dr. Dally said, some were already blase and had no time for serious interests.

“The society girl plunges into a hectic and endless whirl of activities until she can hardly call her soul her own. Dressmaker, shopping, beauty parlour, hairdresser, whisked off to lunch by the young man of the moment, social engagements or sports, cocktails, dinner, theatre, night club, and so to bed in the small hours.

“Is it any wonder that nerves become jaded through such strenuous efforts?”