THEN AND NOW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16454, 16 June 1921, Page 9

THEN AND NOW.

At n time when a. doctor lias given evidenoo in a New Zealand Court that ‘ many nice girls smoke,” and at a. time when Sydney girl footballers arc pronouncing vociferous l v for trousers, it is almost bewildering to road some passages in the latest biography of Queen Victoria, by Air Strachey. From this it would appear that Queen Victoria was furious on tho subject of "this mad and wicked folly of ‘ women's rights,’ ” and on the forgetting of “ every sense of womanly feeling and propriety. . . Lady ought to got a good whipping. . God created men and women different —then let them remain each in their own position. . AY o man would j become a most hateful, heartless, and disgusting human being were she allowed to unsex herself- . . .” Ag iin : Every bed in which Victoria slept also had attached to the back above tho right pillow a photograph of the ehead and shoulders of her consort as ho lay • dead surrounded tiy a wreath of immortelles. By the Queen's command her deceased "husband’s clothing was laid out iresh each evening upon hi* bed, ‘‘and this incredible rite was performed with scrupulous regularity for more than forty years.” Compare that with the modern divorce court. Teiapora mutantur. (“Evening. Post,” Millington).