LADIES’ LIFE.

Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 222, 13 December 1926, Page 2

LADIES’ LIFE.

BEAUTY COMPETITION'S “CONDUCTIVE TO IMMODESTY.” SYDNEY, Nov. 24 The beauty competitions organised by a section of the press and other publicity mediums came in for strong denunciation at a gathering of clergymen at Armidale this week. Dr. (Wentworth-Shields, Anglican Bishop of Armidale, ' said that surf queens were riot more objectionable than others, but it was z ridiculous to fete, advertise, and offer such extravagant rewards to a pretty girl. “In my opinion we should never offer prizes for the gifts and graces which nature has given her,” he said. “For these she deserves nothing, and the advertising of them is sheer vulgarity.” The Roman Catholic Bishop of Armidale, Dr. O’Connor, said: —“These competitions to me are an abomination. Australian,British and Irish people have always been modest, and it is most regrettable that there should be a distinct move to depart from this happy characteristic!. I think it is horrible to see girls parading with but j a bit of cloth, and displaying fat legs, ■ This immodesty cannot end in anything but destruction of morals.” The Rev, A. M. Stevenson. (Presbycertain: —“I do not think that there is anything to bo said in favour of such competitions. They would seem to me to be highly conductive to immodesty. Those who are responsible for them are doing a grave injury to our social life” The Rev. J. Williams (Methodist) said: —“It is gratifying to find at least some sections pf the press taking a stand against the epidemic of beauty shows, and assuming the guardianship of public morals. Utterances from the pulpit on such, matters are too often dismissed with the sneering cry of ‘’Wowser.’ A newspaper is surely dead to all journalistic ideals when, to send up its circulation and squeeze out bigger profits, it will pander to the prurient by daily displays in its pages of semi-nude women. It is time a protest against this sort of thing was heard and the film censor had his hands strengthened in suppressing the like on the screen.” The Rev. E. J. Rogers (Baptist) remarked :— 11 Newspapers which indulge in this sort of thing are playing the game low down. They interfere with the power of the press, and, in fact drag its name in the mud. It seems that they have been unable to catch the fancy of the public by the quality of the news they disseminate, and are obliged to pander to the taste of those who like this sort of thing. I think it is wrong.” NURSES “DON’TS” f The ideal nurse will soon, arrive if nurses follow the advice given to them in the course of a lecture by Dr. George Steel-Perkins at the Central Hall, ’Westminster. The doctor gave them a long list of things they should not do, including:— Don’t lose your sleep just to go to matinees, theatres, or picture-houses. Don’t have one creaking shoe, or worse still, two creaking shoes. Don’t be untidy; look as clean and pretty as you can. Don’t go near your patient smelling of smoke necessary “don’t” now-a- . days. 1 ’JII Don’t doze in an easy chair in a position in which you may snore., Don’t be too high and mighty. Don’t chatter. Don’t talk to your patients about awful cases you have had. Don’t say “dear” to any male patients over eighteen. They don’t like it. Don’t think you are scrubbing a floor whm you are washing a patient. Don’t at feeding time, stand over a patient as if you were watching an animal at the zoo. “Gentleness always becomes a nurse,” added the doctoi" “and patients are grateful for it. PERSONAL NOTES Miss Molly Ward, a young actress engaged in a minor capacity in the rcvbe, “R.5.V.P.,” at the Vaudeville Theatre, Strand, London, achieved the feat of learning the whole of the leading woman’s part in one day, and playing, singing and dancing it at the evening performance. Miss Mimi Crawford, whom Miss Ward temporarily replaced, fainted on the stage at the end of a performance. The infant Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke and Duchess of York, actually is one life nearer to the throne than was Queen Victoria at the time of her birth. The latter was only fourth

in the Royal line, through the death of her father and George 111. subsequently brought her two lives nearer the. succession. The new Princess is taking the name of her mother as did Queen Victoria, though in Queen Victoria’s case it was only after a fanfijy dispute. The Duke of Kent decided to name her Alexandria, after the Emperor Alcs andcr of Russia, and the Prince regent, annoyed that she was not to be named Georgina, after himself, said: “Then give her mother’s name also.” So Victoria was added at .the christening font.