MODERN GIRLS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 17 (Supplement)

MODERN GIRLS

GERTON PIONEER’S VIEWS An estimate of the girls of to-day was recently written for the “London Evening News” by Dame Lumsden who, now in her eighty-fourth year, Is one of the three “Girton pioneers” who scored their historic, triumph m the Cambridge Tripos of 1872, the first jear women wero allowed to sit. A;? one who knew tho penlaities of being a woman in Victorian days, she. has no regrets for the times “when women submitted with apparent indifference to be classed with children and lunatics.” She discusses the modern education of girls and concludes:—“When they go out into a difficult world they may make mistakes (after all, tire the young men of modern days faultless?), but certain it is that whether as teachers, or as social workers, or in business, or in political life, or in the most important tasks of all and tho one which will come most readily to their hiands, home-making, their value to the nation will more and more prove to be above price.”