MODERN GIRLS’ WAYS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19813, 3 December 1919, Page 9

MODERN GIRLS’ WAYS.

♦ LAXITY OF .MORALS ALLF.GED. Breaching at tho anniversary service of tile (Inis' Friendly Society, at Hi haul's C.itlirdva! ("tales " The Times 'A. the Bi.-ltop of Edinburgh said tint the most experienced worker present, who could remember twenty-five or thirty years ago. would at once, agren that the present outlook tor girls, had changed in a remarkable, degree. Every a.vnute of knowledge, both for bad as well as good, was open to girls almost irom their infancy. Tiieii naturi! curiosity was unduly stimulated, oven in tender years, by what they saw and heard. Their modestv was coarsened as they grew up by what they read in suggestive stories, and their sense of delicacy was hardened by sights they saw m homes where privacy was unknown. Our kind mm completed tho mischief that Juul boon begun, even before (hey were ten yearn of ago and. cnnvdeu together us they were in large schools evil was readily communicated and Virtue was honeycombed with vice even before it was known. Tin-; widespread laxity of morals u ; ,s combim-d villi a distressing independence.