The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-22
FLAPPER SETS
 NEW LINGO PAGE LANGUAGE DESCRIBED
By JACK CARB,RRY
q. N. S. Special Correspondent

q. N. s. Special Correspondent.) Kansas City, Mo-, July 22 - Thrill partiesi
 Police here claim the discovery of this latest form Of nappers amuse- ment.
 The revelation. they say, was made by Miss Marion Miller 14. bobbed. Hsping ttf1ipperanto" who confessed that she and others of "her set'' were just simply on the verge Of distrac- tion from boredom until they discov- cred this substitute for the kicks of life," which long since had faded from the ''sin jaunts" and --petr1ng parties" of recent months.
 The thrill party. Miss Miller ex- plains from her cell in the county jail, is quite common.
 Marion Was Wooed.
 The bobbed -haired miss is under charge of being the inspiration for a career of crime engaged in by five youths who sought to win her heart if not her hand-by their banditry. "All five wanted to slip me a hand cuff" Miss Miller told Lieut.. R. E. L. James in charge of juvenile crime here.
 'But to understand the confession of the bandit queen one needs a new dictionary Lieutenant James says. 'I have discovered the meaning ,f part of the new language used by the f1apper," the lieutenant says, re- vealing his discovery.
 
 Handcuff-an engagement ring
 More Transactions.
 "Dimbox-a taxicao.
 Static c- conversation that means nothing.
 "Oilcan-an imposter.
 Boob tickler-tfe g1rI who enter tains her fathers customers.
 ''Ritz-stuck uo.
 Alarm c1ock-a chaperon.
 ''Flat tire-the youth who takes his girl for a jitney ride.
 Fire alarm-a divorced woman.
 Strike ke-breaker-the young woman who goes with her frienus steady while the best friend has a mad on.
 ''F7orty- -Niner'' Defined.
 "Forty-nfner-a young man pros- pecting for a rich wife.
 Apple sauce-1attery.
 Dropping the pilot-getting a di- vorce.
 Flush monev-father's allowance. Corn shredder-a poor dancer. And the entire language is filled with Just such as that" Lieutenant James says.
 But. to return to Miss rMtller's de- scription of the thrill parties. "A girl can't be a flat tire, particu- larly when five men want to slip her a handcuff. If we sit around with our alarm clock always near there's nothing left in life.
 Jazz is "On Can"
 Jazz is the oil can now. So are betting parties. A girl gets the same thrill out of playing boob ticker to the borish pastimes society has in- vented for us.
 "All we get at the clubs and gin jaunts any more is lot of static. And so we have invented the thrill party-it's wonderful.
 we do all sorts of things.
 "One I posed as a fire alarm - divorced woman, you know. and went
  too thrilling, but I can't tell more. "The thing I got arrested for was just too sweet.
 Went After Real Kick"
 "The five boys who wanted to play sweet daddy to my loving mamma role rented a dimbox and we set out to get a real kick.
 ''I was short of hush money, any apple sauce the corn shredders of my set handed out that I suggested stag ing little holdup-just for thrill. 'sMy boy friends heId up three gas- oline filling stations just to give me a, kick-it was wonderful.''
 Miss Miller told Lieutenant James "a1l the girls were doing it now" "One just can't be bored forever" she explained.
 Police lay much of the juvenile crime to the thrill party"
 Delinquency Increases
 Judge E. E. Porterfield. presiding over Juveni1ne Court here, estimates the delinquency increase among Kansas City girls at 30 per cent. in the last year.
 "I am shocked and afraid" the judge said.
 Little girls have always gone down in history and rhyme as Sugar and spice and everything nice,' while the boys were rats and snails and puppy dogs tails.'
 "But now girls are made of raughtiness and cosmetics" Judge Porterfie1d said from the bench here. The judge blamed short skirts, gay mothers and minimizing fathers. Mothers of today do not know the lives their daughters lead-if they did half of them would be in their graves" the court said. UA AFsr