Evening star., 1922-07-02
A Page for Girls: Flappers and Otherwise
: Conducted by Helen H. Feter.
T is funny how different nations
will see the same thing from

TT is funny how different nations
will see the same thing from
different angles. and what Will
be a Joke to one group of people
will be a very serious proposition TO
another group. So it is with the
problem of fappers. Somehow. Mer-
ME England and the states. in spite
of the many common ties that oino
them together, can rarely see joke
in the same thing. In America the
fapper is taken unusually seriously
right now. while in England she is
taken more or less in the nature or
a Joke when she is considered at all.
Miss Frances G.. knowleS-Fosler. a
fellow of the Royal Geographic So
ciety and a well known British au-
thor and journalist. who was IN
Washington recently on short VISIT,
says that in England the tiapper is
not considered particular type. but
rather a temporary period in the llte
of nearly every English girl me
flapper, with her bobbed hair. snort
skirts and odd dress fads, is merely
a chrysalis stage. from which within
a few years the social butterfly or
business bee will emerge. Evidently.
the happer period is of much shorter
duration for the English girl than the
american one. IOT III Tue SihitS'
States many girls in their twentles
dress and act like flappers.
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"The British fiapper is. I believe.
the original fiapper.' said Miss
Knowles-Foster BY that l mean
the young girl at the green goslins
age. who is rather lanky and is
neither a little girl nor poised
young lady. Our fiappers do not
paint their faces so much as your
flappers do. | wonder why"
1t was suggested that possibly the
much ia TX ed-of English complexion
might have something to do with this
phase of the problem. but Miss
KnowleS-Foster shook her head. and
admitted that she had seen some very
good American CompleNions, ana
didn't doubt for moment that II
concealing rouge and powder were
washed off one could find many more
in, America.
what struck me one of the very
oldest things about Your American
f1appers." said Miss knowies-Foster.
when | was in New York city, was
the way that they wear their eye
brows. They don't do that in Eng
land. Why. | even saw a sign in
New York hairdresser's shop which
read to the effect that eyebrows
would be plucked without additional
charge when the customer had bobbed
hair trimmed and curled or had a
shampoo. / really can't understand
why these peculiarly plucked eye
brows should have become so fash
ionable in America. Personally. L
can't see any charm or reason for
such a fashion,"
Miss Knowles Foster herself is a
most charming woman. She has the
traditional British complexion and
delightfully."- curly red hair and whim-
steal gray eyes. Her voice is very low
and her mannerisms are all daintily
feminine. surprisingly SO to one who
had heard of some of her many un-
usual accomplishments before meet
ing her. Besides belonging to the r.
g: S. and being secretary of the So
ciaty of Women Journalists of Lon
don. Miss Knowles-Foster under
stands most thoroughly all the
mechanismS of an automobile. and
can practically rebuild a machine
without any assistance.
She learned this useful trade, so
unusual a one for a woman to know
during the war. when she discovered
that while there were many women
who could take mems places as
chauffeurs, this really relieved only
limited number of men. because
machine 1t was necessary to have
man to fix it. So she turned her
energies into this less snowy and
much-needed channel. and interested
other women in doing so. After the
war her interest in mechanics devel-
oped a new turn. and she became in
terested in nautical machinery and
purchased yacht. which she has
"skippered' most successfully
Miss Knowles Foster evidently did
not devote even her early teens to
Tapping, for she completed one of her
most successful books, The Witch
of knaresboro.' when she was only
fourteen years old. She has Travelled
extensively, and is quite a linguist