New Britain herald., 1928-09-10
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whether girl would be nsulted if you offered her cg sret offended if you didn't.
 Soldiers everywhere had been mustered out Of serv. ice and women still feting them Doughboys walked where angels feared to tread and gobs were household pets It einently respectable for nice girls to scrape acquaintance with men in uniform The marines had become social ons Everywhere the exservce man sitting pretty Unless, of course he happened to b. incapacitated, looking for job.
 Club women beginning to get excited, and talk reforms For crime wave hit the country And the girls going crazy. They rolled their stock ngs and checked their corses when then went to dancs Eventually they discarded them altogether but that was Cosmetics sprang into favor and women began to make up like Jezebels.
 "The evils of the war; became sort of slogan. Pso- pie talked desparngy of the youth of the land and persons were interviewed what they thought of tho Modern Girl. Desiring to be broadmnded they euloxised her, not knowing what it was all about And meantime, she went from bad to worse.
 Someone had coined the word Flapper And tho Flap pers little sisters to the War Brides took to dressing acy alike They coored skirts of homespun fayed sweaters that they called spons. Fatsoed shoes-evey one, until then had high heels And larys hats with fiat clapped the sides of their heads They cut their har and called Castle Clips for Irene Castle who had lost her after ever and what she had left short of necessity.
 Brothers of the ex-serice men began to grow up They were for the most part deadent lot their dec encies emphasized by contrast They called Paror Snakes Cake Eaters and Lounge Lizards At first they went in for skimpy pnchbacked suits with high waist lines They cultivated carriage that vasd the popular Debutante Souch and became Dancing Fools with long hair When the Prince of Wales visited America, they changed their sartorial effects, and embraced basyy models
 Girls became independent Married women, who had found work flor the duration of the war; discovered that trpled the family budgets Younger girls went to work Daughters of the very best families" entered business colleges Commercial schools becar1e smart, and work ing knowledge of shorthand ranked conversational French
  their maiden Miss Brown when che became legally speaking, Mrs Smith, remained Miss Brown Plain gold bands grew simmer and about the time the jewellers had succeeded in popularzing platinum, wedding rings were
 There was much discussion about Free Love:
 Tad became involved in an affair" The girl threat ened suit and Mrs: Thone had nervous breakdown The Young Thornes became the talk of the town Everyone knew about sybils ndsereons but her parents. They to her for alienation of philandeng Vans affections
 sybil had laughed when she heard about it
 Ihey have to prove very specific things in suit llke that" she said "and may be egg, but I'm not THAT kind of an egg"
 People knew of Colonel Bxby's inf.tu.tion But they knew, too that Sybil, when he kissed her one night colonel told it himself, in his cups.
 To be sure, Sybil was doing any manner of foolish things One day she took out . marriage license with Bunny Paxton The intentions printed that evening in the papers and when reporters called at Tones place on Beacon H for pictures and story, Sybil met them calmly.
 There's nothing to it." she announced. 'The crowd drinking, and they dared me- I'm awfuly sorry and ashamed But truly, it only bet'
 Of course the papers played up. There front page stores and headlines with Sybils remarkable state ment in red ink Mrs. Thone wept and Mr. Thorne raved Even Tad showed considerable concern
 "There some things" he told his sister, that de- cent people draw the line at."
 And for three days he treated her with cold disdan
 Then there was the party where Trixie Bele from the Midnight Foes, impersonated stauary in the nude The newspapers obtained the of those present" and To- Sybil Thorne's led all the rest
 Loyalty Tad defended her to their parents
 She's all right he said. She's only acting crazy Grief has turned her head little, think"
 Sorrow should make woman finer," reminded his father, sterny Its only ncke girls who take to such Syb has,"
 People will start talking first thing we know" vail ed Mrs. Thorne in her innocence.
 At heart, Sybi was thoroughly miserable.
 I think, she told Tad, "that God really meant me to be good girl I've made such awful bunsle trying to be bad"
 Girls of her old crowd had become the Younger Mar red Set few years later they were the Younger Di- vorced Set Tad and Sybil were drifting apart. day And stretching himself aziy, he retorted good na- turedly:
 You are making bit of fool of yoursef old girl Why don't you marry Craig Newhal?"
 People that summer had come to regard young New hall Sybs particular property Most girls would have been delighted at the assumption for Craig probably he most eligible bachelor in Boston. Either because hs exceptionally clever because of his ieproachahle social connections he had been admitted following his graduation from Harvard to membership in the finest legal firm in the city