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Show Flapped Donel'A." With Shifters She Repudiates Organization Reputed Re-puted to Promote Promiscuous Promiscu-ous Flirtation. SUCH A SOCIETY HEEDLESS She Founded the Original for "Jazz" and Pocket Money Now Busy Pop. ,' ularlzlng "Necker" and Other r Slang Phrases. ? New Tort. Life la Just brimming over with excitement for the flapper these days. ' No sooner has the fame of one exploit ceased to be a nine days' wonder than another comes along to take its place. A few weeks ago she waa reveling in the glory reflected by her adoption of the turned-down galosh ga-losh as footwear for promenades on fair days rather than "protection for stormy weather. Now it's the activities activi-ties of the Society of Shifters that have again turned on her the spotlight of tublicity.. She denies, however, any responsibility responsi-bility for the organization which, according ac-cording to Gertrude Robinson-Smith of the Vacation association, under the name of Shifters, Is promoting "potting "pot-ting parties," and flirtations. As a matter of fact, the interest of the flapper flap-per In the Shifters is gone and when the name did mean something to her it wax not such an organization as that described by the head of the Vacation association, with a Fifth avenue headquarters head-quarters and an ornate badge. " , '' "We don't need badges or secret or any other kind of societies to have "petting parties,'" said a high-school flapper after the latest version of the , far as the flapper was concerned, the I field waa quickly exhausted. : Wall Street Adopta Shifter Idea. " But in the meantime the Shifters had expanded into Wall street Not for months had Wall street played a game that so tickled Its fancy.. The Idea of getting a fellow, to pay from $1 to $10 for a brass clip worth a fraction frac-tion of a mill appealed alike to the office boy and the head of the firm, and the "stinging" process went merrily mer-rily on. , ' ' . ,. .- . : Now, apparently, some near Ponzi has capitalized , the flapper'B idea Into a commercial proposition and has invested in-vested money in printing a by-laws and making - ornate badges in the hopes of reaping a huge profit , But the new society of Shifters interests, the flapper only in so far aa It pays a tribute to her cleverness. She is done with It " She has other and more important matters on hand, the most important, of which Just, now Is the popularizing of four new phrases, one she has adopted from the theater and three she coined herself. From the theater she has taken the phrase "I will so say," spoken . by the French father who assays American slang in Irene Bordonl's "The French . Doll." The flapper has discarded "I'll say so" and her "I will so say" is her most emphatic affirmative in classroom and Broadway, . , ' .: - The epithets she has evolved from her own lexicon are "junk," "necker" and "heavy necker." "Jnnk" Is anything any-thing she considers unimportant or unworthy un-worthy of consideration. : A "necker" la a "petter" who puts her arms around a boy's neck. A "heavy necker" Is a "petter" who hangs heavily on said neck. "Necking parties" have superseded "petting parties," t t - '' yuiyupco vi uie Dinners, -ana wno would pay for the privileges of Joining Join-ing a flirting society when one can have one of her own? That's all Junk, o far as we're concerned. Somebody may hava taken up the Idea and be trying to make a regular business of It, but we started it Just for a 'Jazz.' " Inspiration for Pocket Money. The original Shifters, she explained; formed by a group of high-school flappers, flap-pers, had no officers, by-laws or headquarters head-quarters except In the heads of Its members. It was founded, first to provide pro-vide new sources of pocket money, and secondly in the spirit of the old, familiar schoolboy game of "pass It." Her plas for a different sweater for every iay In the week and several pairs of ''last hopper" shoes (those low-heelfrf, horse and Jeather sport shoes originally designed for golfers) getting beyond the resources of the parental pocketbook, the flapper was forced tp evolve some shejne for providing pro-viding the articles Without which she felt herself debarred from association with her kind. - So she adapted the old Barnum maxim, "There'a one born every minute," min-ute," to the Innate predilection of every achoolglrl to belong to a society and wear a badge. She took a brass clip, such as used In any business office, with the characters "O. K." stamped on It and with It fastened together to-gether the two ends of the scarf she had purloined from her father's stock. This clip, worn in that way, became the official emblem of the Shifters. The badge aroused curiosity. All the girls asked the original group of founders found-ers what It signified. flt'a the Shifters' badge," they were told. "It's a new society. Everybody Is Joining Don't you want to come 'j7 You can become a member by paying pay-ing me a quarter. Then I'll give yeu a badge. That gives you the light to get is many members as you can. Girls of convincing tongues and latent la-tent aelllng ability collected as high is $12 a week for membership while :he going was good. The membership fee ranged from a quarter to as much its the traffic would bear, but was re-itricted re-itricted chiefly to the smaller sum. So |