Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-04-16

and upon her altar they sacrifice
with shameless rites whatever is
sacred to virtue or religion"
Miss Janet Richards, lecturer, re-
Gently charged that good breed
ing seems to be thing OF the past
and can only infer that mothers no
longer take the trouble to instli
into their children's minds the fine
high ideals of womanhood which
were once given to them. But as
far back in the past as 1884 we
find Mrs. Sherwood registering the
same complaint. 1.-THE American
mamma" wrote Mrs. Sherwood,
Greats her beautiful daughter as II
she were a very common piece or
Delft indeed, and as if she could
drift down the stream OF hfe
knocking all other vessels to pieces
but escaping injury herself"
Chaperoncs Always a Myth.
Much of the modern flappers
waywardness is attributed to a lack
of chaperonage on the part of her
mother, but as matter of fact
chaperones in this country seem
always to have been largely myth.
Even in revolutionary days, we
are told by Mrs, Alice Morse Earle,
in her interesting book, Colonial
Times and Good Wives" young
men escorted young girls to dane
ing parties and also accompanied
them home after the dance was
finished" And although the auto
mobile, to which Is ascribed SO
much iniquity,, was not known in
those days, one-handed driving evi-
dently was, judging by some pro-
tests Of the period.
Indeed, the modern flapper
might also herself gasp if suddenly
confronted with the bold damsel of
the eighteenth century Miss 1922
may pride herself upon her capaci-
ty for cigarettes and home brew,
but she has not yet adopted the
habit prevalent among her proto-
types of the year 1731-namely,
the delicate inhalation of snuff.
That it was not accepted with
equanimity on the part of her eld-
ers is shown by the following let
ter, signed "Old subscriber" which
was published in his favorite jour-
nal Of May 81, 1881:
This silly trick of taking snuff
Is attended with a cocquet air in
some young (as we'll as older) gen.
tlewomen, and such a sedate mas
culine one in others that l cannot
tell which most to complain of, but
they are equally disagreeable. As
to those who take 1t for pretty ac-
ton to fill up little intervals Of
discourse, / can bear with them;
but then they must not use it when
another is speaking who ought TO
be heard with too much respect to
admit of offering at that time from
hand to hand the snuff box.
But Flavilla is so far taken with
her behavior in this kind that she
pulls out her box (Which is indeed
full of good Brazile) in the middle
of the sermon, and to show that
she has the audacity of a we'll
| bred woman she offers it to the
men as we'll as to the women who
sit next to her. But since by this
time ali the world knows she has a
fine hand / am in hopes she may
give herself no future trouble in
this matter.
"On Sunday sevennight, when
they came about for the offering,
she gave her charity with a very
good air, but at the same time
asked the church warden if he
would take a pinch. Pray sir (to
the editor) think OF these things
in time. and you will oblige, Sir,
your most humble servant"
Ancient Faces Painted.
The use of cosmetics by flap
pers was also strenuously objected
to in those days, not altogether
without reason, since beauty "spe-
cials" were not in q high state of
perfection then, so that numerous
deaths from poisoning resulted.
Husbands were particularly averse
to having their wives use face
paint, concerning which aversion
some amusing tales have been writ
ten.
Thus, we are told that one lady
of high degree was accustomed to
using the cheapest white paint pos
sible, which she left on for so long
time that it had to be scraped
off with a knife. In another case
recorded by a gossipy diarlst, a
disgusted spouse chased his wife
around the dinner table with a
knife "to catch her and wipe the
paint off her face with a napkin
| because he thought it to be the
cause of her i'll health"
| Besides such lurid incidents OF
the past, the case of the recen,
Arkansas flapper who was expelled
from school for using a lipstick,
pales into insignificance. In fact
there is nothing like long look
at the past to make us appreciate
the present, with all of its curiosi-