Great Falls tribune., 1922-04-15
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FLAPPERS HAVE ALWAYS FLAPPED.

! 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. .sThe
American mamma" wrote Mrs. Sher
wood, ''treats her beautiful daughter as
if she were very common piece of
/ down the stream of life, knocking all
other vessels to pieces, but escaping
injury herself
Chaperons Always Myth
Much of the modern flapper's way
wardness is attributed to a lack of
chaperonage on the part Of her mother,
| but as a matter Of fact chaperons in
| this country seem always to have been
| tionary days, we are told by Mrs. Alice
Morse Earle, in her interesting book,
Colonial Times and Good Wives
"young men escorted young girls to
dancing parties and also accompanied
| them home after the dance was finish
| ed" And although the automobile, to
| which is ascribed so much current
| iniquity, was not known in those days.
one handed driving evidently was, judg-
ing by some protests of the period.
Indeed, the modern flapper might
also herself gasp if suddenly confronted
| with the bold damsel Of the eighteenth
upon her capacity for cigarettes and
home brew, but she has not yet adopt
ed the habit prevalent among her proto-
| types of the year 1731-namely, the
delicate inhalation of snuff. That it
was accepted with equanimity on the
part of her elders is shown by the fol-
lowing letter, signed "Old Subscriber"
which was published in his favorite
journal Of May 81, 1871.
This silly trick of taking snuff is
attended with a Cocquet Air in some
young las well as older) Gentlewomen,
and such sedate Masculine one in 9TH
ers that / cannot tell which most to
complain Of, but they are equally dis
agreeable. :. As to those who take
| it for pretty action to fill up little
them; but then they must not use it
when another is speaking who ought to
be heard with too much respect to ad-
NIT 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 shew that she has the
Audacity of wellbred Woman she
offers it to the Men as well as to the
Women who sit next to her. But
since by this Time all the World knows
she has a fine hand ! am in hopes she
may give herself no further trouble
in this matter.
ION Sunday sevennight, when they
came about for the Offering, she gave
her Charity with very good Air, but
at the same Time asked the Church
warden if he would take Pinch. Pray
Sir ito 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 flappers
was also strenuously objected to in
those days. not altogether without
reason. since beauty specials were
not in a high state of perfection
then, so that numerous deaths from
poisoning resulted. Husbands were
particularly averse to having their
which aversion some amusing tales
have been written.
Thus. we are told that one lady of
high degree was accustomed to using
the cheapest white paint possible, |
which she left on for so long time
that it had to be scraped off with a
knife In another case recorded by
gossipy diarist. disgusted spouse |
chased his wife around the dinner ta-
BILE with a knife "to catche her and
wipe the paint off her face with a nap
kin because he thought it to be the !
cause of her ill health"
Besides such lurid incidents of the |
past, the case of the recent Arkansas
flapper who was expelled from school
for using a lipstick pa,es into insig- |
nificance. In fact. there is nothing like |
a long look at the past to make us
appreciate the present. with all of it's |
curiosities-even the flapper.