MODERN MINXES.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13823, 20 September 1913, Page 2

MODERN MINXES.

i Notes on the disappearance of the "flapper" in England a-nd the rise* of a generation of modern minxes, confident, brazen, and eager to startlo their men friends by their openness of ! speech," by a British lady have furnished the American press with a con- [ genial topic. The subject has received increased impetus from pulpitr denuniaatjoatl tlie American mother, who is accused of abdicating her authority by permitting her daughters to make up and dress in an amazingly extravagant fashion. "We arc. living to-day in America," exclaimed the Right Rev. Monsignor P. O'Hara, to an audience of Brooklyn mothers, "in a pandemonium of powder, a riot of rogue, and moral anarchy of dress." This and other phillippies have brought into the field a number of literary defenders of the powder puff. A writer in the "New York Tribune" argues that "powder on tho feminine face is the agency through which itt natural beauties are coaxed •to their highest state of attractiveness, just as the diamond is cut and polished so that its fifes, ' may shinO; forth in splendour. Moreover, it exercises a psychological as Well as a physical function, as it testified by tho lines: — Then powder your nose, powder your nose, , For history shows that a certain repose ■ Is acquired by the lady who powders her nose." It is contended that there is nothing 'anore immoral than a &hiny nose. Complaint of the manners, behavipur, and the dress of young girls of to-day simply mean, in tlie opinion, of a, ft%w York writer, that the "English girl has become like her American .siter—a splendid, reliable young person, possessing individuality of mind, and amply able to take care of her I young sweet self."