PRICE OF NIGHT LIFE

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19663, 24 August 1935, Page 8

PRICE OF NIGHT LIFE

DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. LONDON, July 27. The craze for night life was criticised by Dr. Alfred Cox, general secretary of the British Health Resorts Association, in an address to the Royal Sanitary Institute Health Congress at Bournemouth, says the London correspondent of the Otago Daily Times.

“ We talk a lot about the stresses and strains of modern life, arid try hard to eonvinco ourselves that we work harder because wc make morefuss about it," be said. “ But many of these stressed are self-inflicted, and I cannot raise any sympathy for the folk who voluntarily continue a noisy and alleged strenuous city day life into an equally noisy and strenuous time to amuso themselves at night. Many can no longer amuse themselves themselves —they must have a crowd to help them to do it.

“ Fashion is a tyrant which, of course, must be obeyed, but, the human body toeing what it is, we shall have to pay the price of fashion. The price of always doing something or going on somewhere is a restless neurotic life in which an increasing number of people do not know what they want and will not be happy until they ■get it.”