The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-30
FlAPPERS APLENTY AMONG
 CHINESE GIRLS, WHO DANCE
 FOX TROT AND SMOKE "FAGS
Americas Most Ultra Debutante Has Nothing the Up to-Date Maid of Fair Cathay Who No Longer Pines Behind Garden Walls.

Shanghai, China. Nov. 29-Before
 coming to China I pictured Chinese
 maidens as shy little things, without
 any personality, who drank tea from
 dainty cups in an enclosed garden,
 where the lotus blossomed and where
 a man was never, never admitted.
 My pictures of the modern maidens
 of fair Cathay were all wrong, for
 inc Chinese fiapper - and there are
 Chinese fappers-is anything but a
 retiring little girl whose life Is spent
 within the garden walls The most
 ultra American debutante has noth-
 ing on her.
 One night I went to a dinner party
 at a local jazz palace (Shanghai is
 dance mad) and to my amazement
 noticed a party of Chinese young
 men and girls. accompanied by a
 chaperone The men wore conven-
 tiona1 evening dress and the glrls' who were most attractive, tight little iacekts of brocaded satin and silk in the most exquisite of co1ors and snug fitting silken trousers, which revealed
 dainty ankles and feet encased in F'rench-heeled pumps They were smoking cigarettes, in ivory holders, with a nonchalant air and fascinating the young men with fhe most be- witching of baby vamp smiles. Large diamonds sparkled on their beauu- fully-kept hands and flashed from dangling earrings, while jade and pearl orname ents Adorned their hair Good Dancers.
 When the orchestra began a fox trot the Chinese debutantes danced off in the arms of their partners as naturally as any American girls. The girls were the daughters of wealthy Shanghai families and the men re- turned students, business men and diplomats.
 What a furor the modern Chinese | girl is creating as she laugh1ngly 1 discards the traditions of the agesi Her honorable ancestors turn over IX-it wi bobs her hair Ia Mary Garden; her i father protests in vain when she 1 hatly refuses to marry a man she has never seen and insists upon choosing | her own husband; her school teachers 1 pass rules when she cuts classeS to l go to a movie" at the heavenly bam- I boo theatre and give up in despair when she places a picture of Douglas Fairbanks on her dressing table; the local auth critics place the ban on eX- treme styles when she immodestly wears her trousers thinner and higher and her staid grandfather, armed with the savings of Confucius faints when he discovers that his bewilder- ing little granddaughter has ordered the chauffeuer from the elab ora teiy- appointed motor car and is driving down Ranking road at S5 miles an hour.
 Ministry Agitated. Even the Ministry of Education at Picking has become agitated. After
  | of revered heads the following rules | have been passed:
 i 1. No girl students shall cut their | hair short.
 l 2. No girl student over fourteen 1 years old shall attend coeducational | schools.
 g. No girl student shall leave school | to attend a motion picture theatre. | 4. No girl student shall marry with | out first getting the consent of her parents. Violation of this rule will
 result in the censuring of the admin | istration governing the schools where | these girls are studying.
 The bobbed-hair craze has just ar | rived in China. In Canton there is q | bobbed-hair society-bobbed hair be- | ing the badge of freedom from the | shack1es of the past-and thes girls
 who formerly sat hours before their | mirrors while their amahs oiled and l brushed and arranged their long, ] glossy locks now look with scorn on
 their tinid sisters who have not the courage to go in for the bob