Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-03-02
Women Resent
Certain Terms
Applied by Men
old Hem and Chicken We're
Vicious Epithets, but FLAP
per- Is Worse.
By JULIA C. HENDERSON.


Applying outrageous names to women
By the opposite sex has seemed to be a
custom for ages past.
Among some OF the earliest names was
that Of 'hag," which means "a repulsive
OF vicious old woman" to which none OF
is will subscribe. Then not so many
years ago chicken" seemed to be the
name applied, especially to the younger
set. and as that means nothing more
harmful than child, We shall have TO pass
that by without too much complaint, but
when it comes to "Old hen" an appella-
ton of derision to the older women,
while amusing, it becomes unbearable
to those who have passed the so-called
chicken" period. Women and girls did
not vince much when called birds.
But where did the still later generation
get the word "vamp" as applied to girls,
and perhaps to some older women who
would feign girlhOod? 1t is without
question an abbreviation Of vampire
which means zone who lives upon 9TH
ers." but even that cannot be generally
applied. a recent news note says, the
modern vampire is nothing much more
than an imaginative improvement on the
bright eyed girl Of the old fashioned
church bazaar who used to sell you a
dimes worth Of homemade bu5terscOtch
for SIPS.
But when the word "fapper" was i'm
ported from England to this country Il
seemed almost too much to bear Many
cannot see its bearing and many are as
vet whispering around, asking its mean
Ing. fearful that they viii expose their
ignorance.
In fact, no one seems to know definitely
lust what ii does mean, yet the hap
Der" is the constant subject Of the news
papers. and of young men who tax
glibly of femininity in such uncalled tol
form One wonders what is to come
next. for with these hOrrid applications,
added TO the criticism OF the style OF
woman's dress which men have ever made
A TRADE against. il is wonderful if 1t Is
to be ever so. II this be the case some
think that there should be retaliation
in some form Oh other. but others deem
il wise to ignore II all, and II the stronger
sex. the ones who lay claim to bigger
better brains. choose to go so lar rs 10
coin words without meaning to apply 70
those who should mean more than all
else in the world TO them, let them rack
their brains still further. 1t will not
change women's attitude toward them.
though all viii admit that some Of the
names are hard to stand under. 1t all
savors of disrespect-which is always
hard to bear.
Miss Eleanor Adams, president OF OK
ford College, oxford, Ohio. in recent
conference OF deans of women held IN
Chicago says in defense of the modern
girl The socially grotesque features OF
today are no worse than those OF other
times" I am very optimistic about the
modern girl she viii be a much more
Intelligent mother than her own mother
was. Inc modern girl has developed
initiative. Her surplus energy expeuds
itself in &dical opinions, extreme dress
and restlessness. She is puzzled little
about what 10 do with what she learns
in college, but we are striving to train
her. not so much for leadership as for
o. service
II is the belief of those who know her
hest that the "vamp" and "happer" OF to-
dav viii develop and make the fine
splendid wives and mothers o. tomOr-
row. The names that men give VIII not
live. therefore let hem have no concern
but pass them By as one OF mems
vagaries.