The Modern Girl

Te Puke Times, 13 September 1932, Page 3

The Modern Girl

rayon; J Wilson, Chinese red, black and white coat; L Tanner, bwlss organdie and coa.tee ; J Diprose; white satin with red spray ; J Whitehead, black and amber taffeta i M Angove, blue frilled georgette ; D Sykes, shell pink crepe de chene ; A Bostock, lemon and mauve organdie ; T Beeohey, Coral pink organdie ; ACheefcham, blue moußsollna de soie ; r Tlhodes. floral ninon ; M Harris, blue satin and lacei apricot crepe de chene vM. C-ivilv hea green georgette ; M Morton, pink tafteta ' M Whiteside, black georgette and lace ) D Chapman, national-blue satin v M Laurent, pink georgette ; M Jackson, white crepe de chene } E, Simpson, pink georgette \ H Bennett, ivory tar* feta; W- r Banks, lime fKG&tt Soie de-chine,

Address By Canon James

Admitting that h© was half terrified by the modern girl, Canon Percival James, as a padre of the Wellington Rotary Club, had something to say about this conundrum at the fatber-and-daughter luncheon on Tueday last,

“You hear a great deal about the modern girl,” said the padre “but "you. don’t hear about the modern boy at all. He is, apparently, the same boy he was forty years ago, and nobody wanted to change him. I will say this, however, the modern girl is verv different from the girlp we loved forty years ago. But I will not say that she is any better or more beautiful. For example, we used in those days to think that long hair was part of her beauty, a woman's crowning glory, but now-—. Well you will see it will come baok again in ten years or so. I suppose the ideal is betwixt and between the Victorian girl and the modern girl, with all her freedom.

‘‘The proper choice of parents ' is a most important thing with 1 young people,” continued the 1 padre. “With most of them it is ' rather late, and they have to ' make the best of things as they are. To theTathers I would say ; you are not half strict enough. I 1 remember reading in a paper a letter from one girl,to another, in which the one girl boasted that she had her parents ‘thoroughly cowed’ { while another admitted that her mother was a little tiresome at times, but ‘she could twist father round her little finger.’ Now that twisting process was as bad for the daughter as it was for the father, and may easily be the cause of much miserj all round. It is time that they recognised that most ancient saying :‘Honour thy father and thy mother.’ Young boys and girls expect to be told what to do, and if that is not done by parents they are disappointed. ‘‘Next thing, they have far too many good times, and far too much pocket money. Many of them; imagine that life consists of one good time after another. No pne more than myself thinks nothing :go delightful a pastime as a danpe three pr four times a year, but when it comes to three, four, five or even six times a week, well it’s a bit too thick ! Those are not really good times ; they are a hideous waste of the most glorious years of life. “Life does not end at 30 or 40. I have not even come to realise that it does not end at 50. (Laughter). These thirty years of this century have been the mostamazing years in the history of man, and I’ve no reason to doubt that the next thirty years will bo equally amazing, for which rea son I think it is horrible to see the young people frittering away the best years of thetr lives in cheap, trivial, trashy amusement, It is the ruination of after life, I will not say that the modern girl is at times selfish ; It may be she is only thoughtless, but I am , sure she could contribute much . more to family happiness than : she does, I would say to the par- • ents too, ‘Be honoured of thy son i and daughter, earn their regard, and require their obedience,”