The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-02-13
Woman Writer Looks in
Vain for "Flappers,"
Girls in Short Dresses
With Hair Done Into a
Dooyknocker PLait and
Fastened With a Bo.O Of
Ribbon.
BY MEG VILLARS.
Dear New York:


Have you no little girls!
I don't moan the tinies with short
hair cut close 20 that you can see
the napes Of their dear little necks
lis there anything moro appealing
than the nape Of . child's neck. Just
where the soft hair grows In .
pointD with frocks to their knees.
all wrapped up in CATERS and heavy
coats this cold winter weather!
They are darlings with their funny
little precocious ways and cute say
ings! ! don't think the children Of
any nation can beat American kid.
dies for smartness! They are ire
proachable. except perhaps when
they bresx loose on their skatesli
It was only this afternoon, while I
was out walking. that I realized
what have been missing In New
York; II 10 the absence OF the real
"hnpper"! I mean the young girl Of
fourteen or fifteen who has her
gowns betwixt and between. neither
ankle nor knee length: she does her
hair into . door-knocker plat and
fsstens II with bow Of ribbon; whom
she walks along with a happy-go-
lucky stride. like . young healthful
animal, tho door-knocker flaps up
and down. you know. hence the den-
milton Of the schoolgirl a. "a nap.
per-! can't SEQ her anywhere here.
except in pictures at stationers'
stores or in photographer shop
windowsl
Where 10 your little Miss New York'
FLAPPERe seeN IN PARIS NOT
FROM NEW YORK.
In Paris I've seen girls that thought
were she. They were we'll dressed.
neatly tailored. smartly but sensib!y
HATED young ladies with pretty manners
and they seem to be enjoying their
holiday trips to Paris In . way that
was most nattsring and sweet OF Thorn !
they were bright. Intelligent little girls
who cared a. much for the Louvre
museum a. for tho big Louvre" shops
opposite that celebrated palace Of the
French kinssi indeed they were alto
ssther % ,ovable that they made me
| want to visit the country that bred
them!
Now tina. am hero have regret
| fully come to tho conclusion that the
| napper- visitors to Paris must have been
little Miss washingtons, Miss Bostons.
Miss Balumores-ln fact Miss Any
rown-but-New York!
IL II that You prise hev - dearly
| that you don't let her out on the streets
or In the theatres and hetsls7 No,
don't think that 10 the reason, because
have Q very fIed idea thst no Amsrl.
can girl. however we'll behaved, would
allow herself TO he put undsr lock and
key or preserved under . glass shaded
Besides, ! discovered to-day that
where you look very oloF!y at lots OF
the little ladies you meet in ysuv I'M
equally beautiful city compare tbs
architectural beauties Of two nsishbOr-
ing buildings. one IL often hidsous, the
ether mayniAesnO Vsu suddenly realise
inst Mss New vsvk 70 piaytns games
with you-and with hsTsslf-sy pretend
Inc t. 10 what she mt
VAIN eEARcH ron REAL LITTLE
GIRLS IN NEW YORK,
Having come to this conciuslsR J
spsnsd my s1ss their widest and went
On . tour Of dtsoousEvi up Fifth avenue,
round by tbs theatres and homo down
Broadway LATHE Miss New York, how
saa you spcil ysur pretty self so2 Ifs
70 truly-rsally shamsl Now ] hava
found you out, under ysur silly, weuld-
be French ~ they-o0uid-but-oa A't'
fsshi0ns and your ridiculous msks-up
feel that yeur paysRts ought 70 b
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