SOCIETY AND DRESS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144083, 30 April 1913, Page 5

SOCIETY AND DRESS.

Mr. Fred R. Smith has been lollin'' the people of Melbourne that he would sooner see bis sons dead than married to society women. That seems a trill.' drastic to the unprejudiced outsider, says the Sydney Sun. There are probably good and bad-society women ; it seems impossible that society, t hound ins political enemies accuse it of consisting of monopolists, could have cornered all the vicious ladies of'the community. ff it,had it would .scarcely he attractive to so many people. _ Nobody would want to butt into a faction that did not possess a single woman wovill marrying. The, woman in society is probably just as bad and as good as the woman outside society. Those few people privileged to Uiuny all grades realise that there is very little difference between the, morals of nay two of them. However, society is quite capable of looking alter itself, and ns the great marts of the public arc not of it, they don’t care much -what Mr. Smith says so long as it is .picturesque. But when lie pne:; on to Say tint women should bo taught to be modest—"how to dress so that they would not attract men’a attention,’; he is treading cm very dan-

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