MANNERS AND MORALS

Timaru Herald, Volume C, Issue 15290, 6 March 1914, Page 7

MANNERS AND MORALS

LADIES' SCANTY COSTUMES. "SHOCKING AND DISGRACEFUL." Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright. MELBOURNE, March 5. The Australian Women's Conference resolved that all members of the ciation refrain from the prevailing fashion of indecorous attire. The mover of the resolution, in a warm condemnation of the prevailing fashions, said it was dreadful to see in the trains and the trains women who had lost all sense of decency and modesty. She was surprised that the Government had not taken action. If the unfortunate class of women wore such costumes the police would arrest them. It was degenerating to respectable women to see others wearing insufficient clothing to cover the body. She saw a window display of tango underskirts being viewed by more men than women. A delegate interjected: "Like their cheek." . Another speaker argued that women should take action to prevent such displays of indecency. They were shocking and disgraceful. PREFER OPEN AIR TO CHURCH. SYDNEY, March 5. Statistics showed that 40,000 persons availed themselves of a recently afforded opportunity of travelling by train during church hours on Sunday night. The Commissioner turned down a protest by the Evangelical Council against the experiment. NEW ZEALAND'S WEAKNESSES. Peb Phess Association. _ GISBORNE, March 5. lne Women's Christian Temperance Union Congress opened this morning. lfye presidential address was deliveredby Mrs Don, Dunedin, who dealt with many topical subjects in the way of amusements and pleasures. She showed that the increasing tendency for week-end trips threatened to become a serious menace to the sanctity or the Lord's Day. Referring to picture shows she urged that a responsible body should be created in New Zealand to supervise the fijns, many of the pictures now shown creating an unwholesome appetite leading to wholesale moral decrepitude. The State should make provision for the detention of mental defectVes. It was appalling to think that girls who should be under restraint are mothers of children, and in one case under notice last year a defective was the mother of eight children who were now supported by the State. /She urged the conference to to endeavour to eradicate the gambling evil.