Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-04-18

of fact chaperons in this country seem al
ways to have been largely a myth. Even in
pre-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 dancing parties
and also accompanied them home after the
dance was finished" And although the
automobile to which is ascribed so much cur
rent iniquity, was not known in those days,
! one-handed driving evidently was, Judging
by some protests of the period.
Indeed, the modern flapper might also
herself gasp IL suddenly confronted with the
bold damsel Of the eighteenth century. Miss
1922 may pride herself upon her capacity
for cigarettes and home brew, but she has
not yet adopted the habit prevalent among
her prototypes of the year 1731-namely,
the delicate inhalation Of snuff. That it was
not accepted with eQuanimity on the part of
her elders is shown by the following letter,
signed "Old Subscriber" which was published
in his faverite journal of May 81, 1871.
"This silly trick of taking snuff is attended
with a Coquet Air in some young Gas we'll
as older) Gentlewomen, and such a sedate
Masculine one in others that / cannot tell
which most to complain of, but they are
equally disagreeable. AS to those who
take it for pretty action to fill up little Inter-
walls 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 well-bred
Woman she offers it to the Men as well as
to the Women who sit next to her. But since
by this Tine all the World knows she has
fine hand am in hopes she may give her
self no further trouble in this matter.
ION Sunday seven-night 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 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 perfec-
ton then, so that numerous deaths from
larly averse to having their wives use face
paint, concerning which aversion some anus
ing 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 knife. In another case recorded by
a gossipy diarist, disguised spouse chased
his wife around the dinner table with a
knife ''to catch her and wipe the paint off
her face with 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 recent Arkansas flapper who
was expelled from school for using 1ipstick,
pales into insignifcance. In fact, there is
nothing like long look at the past to make
us appreciate the present, with all of it's
curiosities-even the flapper.