The Washington times., 1922-03-03
.'FLAPPERS' NOT
BAD S.PA|NTED,
BISHOP ASSERTS
Episcopal PreIate Comes to
Defense Of Bobbed-Haired,
Short-Skirted Girls.
BY MILDRED NORRIS.
BY International News Service.

BY International News Service.
NEW YORK, March 3.-Bishop
Thomas F. Gailor. senior bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal Church Of
America, today took up the cudge!
for the flapper.
In an interview he declared the
modern girl is not so bad as she is
painted speaking both literally and
fIgllratiVcly.
As for the modern woman
According 20 Bishop Gaiior.
woman had refermers het up over
the things they did TO their laces
and the way they wore their skir:a
even in the days when Meih1Seiah
was @ boy. :.
New Mystery Every Day."
woman is a new mystery every
day." said the bishop.
But she has not changed
through the centuries. The woman
Of today is no different from the
woman Of our grandmothers' day.
or from the woman who lived be-
fore Christianity.
Read Matthew Arnold's transla-
ton of the Fourth Idyn OF The
ocritus, who lived 400 years before
Christ. You find there two women
conversing while they dress for q
concert. They talk dress and Dis
cuss ways to humor and wheedle
their husbands exactly in the same
way as women do today. They
might be New York women Of
1922.
NO" continued the bishop,
women are the same as they ever
were. You can't change them and
you can't lay down general rules
for their conduct"
In Defense OF Flappers.
Speaking Of the flapper. the
church leader said:
1T is silly to charge mere kids
with deep. dark immoral emotions
and motives. There Is nothing
wicked about a girl who bobs her
lair. II she wants to do 1t. why
shouldn't she? Perhaps it is more
becoming Ito her than long hair.
You ddpmarvel at the amount OF
paint you see on girls faces. Why,
l often wonder how some of them
open their mouths without cracking
their faces.
But I never worry about the
foibles of the young. Girls rouge
and wear short skirts because II Is
the fashion. People are like sheep
about following fashions. Young
people are so. When I was In col
iese II was a fad for time for the
boys to wear mustaches, and we all
wore them. Then some one cut his
off. and we all followed suit.
IF II were the fashion to go
around with shoes unlaced, all the
girls would he doing y.
Our ycunC people OF today are
as good - young people ever were
CritGciT, education.
Bishop Cato. avraSuei J's pre-.
rnr day system OF education, dectsi
ing UT arisHieu, one Of The 'tfou
/ 6ies'' WIKI America
! "%oI ~ less Educated Inan tneY
were twenty years ago." he said.
| why, / get letters from big bust
ness men whose spelling shocks me.
Observation-Disclosures the trou'
BILE. There's too much specialization
| in education nowadays. Mere boys
are educated only for the special pro-
LESSONS they are to follow and do
not get the education that gives
man culture and breadth of vision.
That's because we live in an age
of systematic We are systemat-
izing everything. Efficiency, erIscl-
ency-as II human beings were ma
chimes. Human beings are not ma
| chimes and you can't make them ma
ehine>.
Living On Our Nerves"
I'VE are living on our nerves in
America" Bishop Gailor continued.
Tn NO country in the world do peo-
pie go in for amusement with such
ferocity as we do in America. we
have been living on our nerves FOR
years.
America is intoxicated with the
notion of get there Look at the
young people who every morning
pour into the factories and OFFICE
buildings of this great city. They
are ali imbued with the make good
spirit. We hear too much OF the
make good spirit 1T encourages
materialism."
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