The Washington herald., 1921-11-22
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the cycle of social posing. The
Flapper is dead. Long live the in
genue! She has come with her hair
In curls, punching her lips for baby
talk and trying artlessIy to be
shocked at ipconsequentials.
The Flapper has gone to the
bourne of the Gibson Girl and
Bioomered Cyclist. Her meter was
to bring gasps from the rocking
chair brigade on summer resort
verandas. She was a braxen little
huzzy in breeches who smoked
cigarettes and drank cocktails to
dizzy Brightness.
her slang was a combination Of
the Harvard campus and the Broad
way dansant- She bodied her hair.
rolled her stockings to show dim
PIED knees and shimmied with eclat.
AT tea the other afternoon saw
sprinkling of the new type Of girl
VINO has arisen natively from the
ashes OF Flapperdom. One who was
1ngenue-ing" all over the place
actually brought a spelling book
along. She was learning to read
at thirty or whereabouts. And such
q lisp.
The Flapper tapped her napless
art to disappearing heads. Her sue
cessor aims to bring back the at
mosphere of hoops and crinoline.
with eyes cast demurely down. She
Is the essence of innocence mod
ern Red Riding Hood among the
wolves
She gurgles about the Elsie books.
And II is reasonable to believe that
soon she will bring along her skip
ping rope and jack straws wherever
she Is invited. And isn't Santa an
old dear?
The truth is that courtiers. old
and young, were firing of the poses
and panoplies of the Flapper. They
were going afield for girls with
UNAFFECTED plainness. Girls who
didn't know Of the worlds wicked
ness.
Even the style in women's clothes
Is rejecting the change. Bonnets
have kiddie ribbons hanging from
the sides. Spring heel shoes and
MILDLY blouse supplant vampirish
frocks and French high heels. Eheu
fugaces.
And just the other day they gave
Riddle Party-a back-flre OF
Hollywood life-where all the
guests came in rompers and II
smacked so much OF childhood's
sweet happy days. except there were
three fist fights. one stabbing and
a movie actress fell down a flight
OF stairs and may be permanently
disabled.
New York hotels have suffered
the most serious slump they have
had for Ave years during the past
few weeks. No one is able to ex-
plain it-but travel just sloughed
on to an alarming degree. 1t re-
suited in three hotels lowering the
tariff a little but not much. They
seem determined to fight IL out on
the high tariff ground IL II takes
all winter. The casual observer
wonders IL the amazing number OF
high class American plan boarding
houses that have suddenly come
into existence has anything to do
with It. West End avenue and the
West Side Seventies and Eighties
are being flled with them. Nearly
every other private house has been
taken over.
Propaganda has turned sentiment
against the park bench unemployed
in New York. The public has sud-
denly realized that the ambitious
man, temporarily out of employ
ment, is not spending his time
loafing on park bench. He is out
hunting work. Newspapers have
dwelt upon this so persistently that
lunches and fruits are not being
carried to park bench loafers at all
these days.
She wore a faded red tam and
white shoes that were soiled with
wear. Her cheeks were red from
the biting wind sweeping over For
ty-second street from the Hudson,
And in front of a theater she fell.
'Malnutrition" the surgeon wrote,
which means starvation in her case.
And at the hospital she said: TT is
what l get for trying to be good"