CHILDREN’S PARTIES.
Berlin, Jan. 1
A strong agitation has begun in Germany against children’s parties. Both the Catholic and the Protestant clergy are denouncing the sort of parties which have I been introduced from England and tho United States, advocating a return to Puritan simplicity. Children’s parties are becoming so elaborate and expensive that even in court circles protests are raised. Then the children’s balls are said to corrupt children. A leading society woman of Berlin says : “ I have heard remarks from girls at children’s balls about the dresses of rivals and about the bearing of boys which amazed me. Children are taught the wrong side of the world at these balls and cease to be children. At a children s party with any pretension ’ • elegance wine is always served to m 'lildren, who go home semi-intoxicated - require a taste for strong drink.” German children of the better classes, especially in the cities, and of the lower classes, too, are deteriorating in a way that is attracting wide attention. The criminal statistics of the large towns show that juvenile offenders are growing more numerous.
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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 836, 10 March 1903, Page 3
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184CHILDREN’S PARTIES. Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 836, 10 March 1903, Page 3
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