NO DIGNITY NOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1074, 11 September 1930, Page 9

NO DIGNITY NOW

SOCIETY HAS SUFFERED AT WOMAN’S HAND AUTHOR’S INDICTMENT Reed. 11.35 a.m. LONDON, Wednesday Mr. E. F. Benson, the writer of “Dodo,” writes an outspoken criticism of the modern woman in his memories, which were published today. “Entitled as we are to do so,” he says, “the lip-sticking in public, the display of arms, legs, bosom and back on the sands at the Lido and tho inability to remain in one place for more than a week, were not the habits of the great lady in Victorian and Edwardian times. “These great ladies at least possessed dignity. They had no ‘push’ because there was no one to push. They did not want their daily doings mirrored in the papers. “The professional beauties of the Edwardian era liked their photographs in shop windows, but not the great ladies. “Today society has so broadened out that it has become quite flat. King Edward, when Prince of Wales, was the chief cause of the break up of the Victorian social tradition of frozen dignity, with all its reticences and repressions. He beckoned In a quantity of lively, gay young persons.”