This nian is mine, this hearth is mine.
That crying thing is" my babe they says T would not mind that my skirts are long But they have taken my dolls away. Merriam Griffin. in grey velvet with gathered collar of trimmed with a single band of fur Tine is carried out at the waist. ciety.
She was well brought up, eottainly, and paid her elders a becoming amount of deference, but often this took the, exaggerated form of. tongue-tied shyness. ier interests were terribly narrow—exclusively confined to the little world of home or school. And she had no general conversation.
Her appearances in society were hanipered, too, by the really appalling character of her clothes. Prewar fifteen was a gawky, self scious age at the best. Put it into! a hard straw boater, a tight high collar, a voluminous ankle-length skirt, and tie its hair back with a vast black bow giving the look of] bat's wings, and naturally all its stiffness and its inferiority complex were aggravated, It took the finishing schools alli their* time to metamorphose this: creature into a charming debutante tin the regulation twelve months al lotted to Paris or Dresden.
"Then came the War -when the flapper, both the genuine and faked article, "earned a very unenviable reputation.
"All the restraints'of parental control. var ished; schools were disored, their best staff leaving for: war work; home life was broken up. Absent fathers, overworked mothers, all the daily difficulties: of servants, food, coal, added to the mad whirl of the Zcitacist and the immature, ignorant, and emotional adolescent! was the first to be swept along into the current.
"The flapper of the War years, objectionable as she was, was more inner against than sinning.
The trouble was that traditions! fare all-potent with the young, and the bad tradition or the war flapper was hard to break.
"It has taken ten years "St much' labour, much thought and a.completely new method of teaching and training to evolve the flapper of today.
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