“EXCURSIONS INTO HELL.”
GIRLS TEMPTED BY CURIOSITY.
WILL SUFFER TO MAKE THEMSELVES ATTRACTIVE By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright.—Sydney “ Sun ” Cable. (Received May 15, 11 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. Sir Frederick Mott, speaking at a social hygienic conference at Wembley, said: “It is natural for a young woman to strive to make herself attractive. She does not hesitate at any physical discomfort or suffering to achieve this end. She pinches her feet in tight shoes, cramps her body in corsets, wears thin stockings in winter, pierces her ears, and even pierces her lips and her nose to permit attaching jewellery.” Viscount Astor said that the Anglo-Saxon race was leading the world because it had developed the idea of the same moral standard for both sexes. One could tell a nation’s spiritual outlook from the position of its women. British girls in war time showed courage, endurance and initiative without losing their modesty. It was only idleness and curiosity that tempted girls to make excursions into hell in search of new sensations.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17350, 15 May 1924, Page 7
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