BROADENING MODERNITY

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1930, Page 9

BROADENING MODERNITY

AN OUTSPOKEN CRITICISM “KIPPERING” ON THE LIDO SANDS. CONTRAST WITH VICTORIAN ERA. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. / London, Sept. 10. Mr. E. F. Benson, the writer of “Dodo,” in an outspoken criticism on the modern woman in his memories, published by Longmans to-day entitled “As We Were,” says: —• “Lip-sticking in public, the kippering of arms, legs, bosom and back on die sands of the Lido, and inability to remain in one place more than a week were not the habits of a great lady in Victorian and Edwardian times. Great ladies at least possessed dignity. They had not any push, because there was no one to push. They did not want their daily doings mirrored in the papers. “The professional beauties of tho Edwardian era liked their photographs in the shop windows, but not the great ladies. To-day society had so broadened out that it had become quite flat. King Edward when Prince of Wales was the chief cause of the break-up of the mid-Victorian social tradition of frozen dignity, With all its reticences and repressions.”