The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-21
Sunday Morning Breakfast

''whoop -la!" exclaimed the Flapper from the hall.
 'Breakfast is served, Lucy" called her mother from the dining room.
 Lucy came to the Sunday morning breakfast table with the salutation, Good morning, friend family You should have lamped the sport road ster which took the red-headed Simms girl away from the house just now. I could love man who owned a roadster like that if he had hay fever the year round!
 Gee, Pops. I wish you would buy us a snappy car instead of Old Re liable! It's a good old family bus, but why not get one with some red. green or blue paint, aluminium steps instead of a running board and let's cut some automobile capers?"
 ''rhe car is perfectly good" said her father with finality.
 ''So Is old Mrs. Pool who comes here to call. but you always run from her and she would be bad last at a beauty show!" pouted the FIapper.
 Our car is built for comfort, not for speed" injected Fred. the son. .sI am not crazy about driving it up in front of the Country club"
 q want to declare myself right now" exclaimed the father You children have false standards. You are so full of this modern jazz that it is part of your dress. your speech, your manners, your whole lives.
 Just because | happen to be pros porous, you want to cut a dash in the world. I have seen too much of these newly-rich jazz people. I am going to have an old-fashioned hand spank ed family which attends church, leads . normal life and has old fashioned morals!"
 Father Is right said the Flap per, So demurely that he flashed a look of suspicion at her.
 q was thinking about the Lanham family" she explained. Every time she speaks he bites at her like a snapping turtle and every time he expresses an opinion she becomes the attorney for the defense.
 Tt is not the rich people who are the happiest." she went on. Tt Is just comfortably prosperous people like us. I guess there is more real pleasure in a father driven car like ours. with the family in the back seat. than in any Gaston- driven green car that ever drove a joy-rid- ing party up a beach tree
 There Is more real happiness in simple food and just the family pound the table than there is in that ehafing- dish -chefed stuff we get at the Country club and places like that. and fathers bills at the club nnust be very high for what we eat ns1t there.
 T guess it is fortunate we cannot afford a new car. We might get the fever for other expensive things. l know I have heard father say often enough that business is bad.
 T, for one, am going to economize had thought of getting some new summer things, but I guess I can make last years things do if l will just let out the hems of some of the skirts
 You. too. Fred might save a little more"
 She turned to her brother and the Id of the eye away from her father lowered just a suspicion.
 "Why, of course I can," readily agreed the boy. T will pay board here at home If mother would like to have me. I didn't know there was any need and she has always ob- 5sctsd and"
 why, certainly not Fred!" ex- eiaimed his mother.
 x.'I do not see why he need notr in- 1ected the Flapper. T think we all impose on Pops. If Fred paid his board and cut down on my summer frocks we might 70 to cheap motor show and trade In Old Re