The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-19
ROE FULKERsON

The family trickled in to the dining room for Sunday morning breakfast Father raised a newspaper screen; Fred, the son, yawned as he clipped languidly his eggs; the Flappsr alone seemed alert.
 Lucy" said her mother, "I have not seen you night this week. fear my daughter, that I am losing touch with you and your affairs ard wish that you would go about moro with me, interest yourself n ny friends and let me meet yours"
 I'll do that for you. Moms," as sented the Flapper, readily
 What are your open nights this coming week?" asked her mother
 Well, Mons, l am kind If dated up this week." replied the Flapper evasively,
 You always seem to be when wish to be with you, my dear. Her mothers tone was sad.
 Now Mons, old dear, that's not fair" protested Lucy. When .yod assume that air of injured innocence and your voice gets the tone of a saxaphone at its worst. l know your feelings are sticking out all ever yoI like quills on the fretful half of broiled chicken. And, Mons, yol know I do try to live like the girls in the Ladies' Home Journal doo't you?'
 Lucy, want to meet your friends and associates. Why am I not al- lowed to do so?'
 There is no reason, Mons. Its like pulling a rabbit out osg a sulS lid. It's not fact, it just looks that way"
 Young lady" said> her father lowering his paper, "I want to de- clare myself right now. You mother Is going to meet these young men you gad about with or 1 am going to know the reason why"
 Well, Pops, if you insist will tell you" she spoke spiritedly. " ou Know 1 love Mons better than any one else in the world, but there are reasons why I don't want to chase ground with her. The best thinr there is about us both is that we look exactly alike. Mons must have begn beauty when she was my age"
 ''That kid hates herself" broke in her brother.
 Well, anyhow, sweeping ,side the small change" she waved her hand al her brother, Mons looks like me or ] look like her, as you please.
 Mons and I go some pace to- gether and meet flame of mine. He is a bird with wad of Jack that the big snake out at the zoo couldn't curl around. He gives me the once over and likewise Mons the O.O. Right there he gazes down the pea cock alley of time and 20 years away he sees me in Mons. Moma. darling you ARE beautiful. You know that, old dear, but why sweep aside the filmy veil which fitfully flaps twixt the right now and he hereafter?
 when they lamp me-, she went on. ana then turn their eyes on you its likefthe rising and falling of the curtain in one of those playe whel e za years is supposed to elapse while the slide trombone is sobping out Mother, get the hatchet, there is a tiy on baby's beam The guy who Was thinking about bungalow wlth flock of crimson rambler chickens anc plymouth rock rose climbing Up the porch on which two sunny ha,ret children are at play switches the film and begins to think in rournful numbers of a bachelor apartment with a Jap valet.
 Mons. hate to place yol in the light of horrible example or give you the title role in. that saddest If all songs, Darling, l Am Growing old but simply cannot take the FISK oI tetung the fellows know what l will look like after I have Iassed my fortieth birth and bust Gays.
 You see" the Flapper was in full voice, "a guy who falls for a skirt pictures her as one who has bathed in the Fount4 ain of Eternal Youth. He realizes that old Father Time. like a kid with a jack knife, will some day carve the initials in his face, but he expects the woman he marries to be like the laws of the Pedes and Mersians always the same. He is confident in his own mind that when he is so and reduced to pipe cleaning for exercise and Morris chair for throne, the same chicken with whom he now shimmics will come and perch bird like on the arm of his chair and chuck him under the chin with one hand and frisk his vest pocket with the other.
 The whole idea of girl chasing around with her mother is as bad as tfese Kellerman swimming suits. When You put them on you take both clothes and glamour off. Many a good girl who was kind to her moth CT and had nice hair has lost lover because he saw her in one of those swimming suits and found there was too much daylight between her knees and-.''
 Lucy" interrupted her mother. T