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Show I , A LESSON IN FLAPPER GEOGRAPHY . 1 : : Bf if rf 5M - - J LL' "iddcc west. J Gnu ic Ar jtr' -0 "" : r. v. i F. Seatt Fitigorsld clasaifias American flappers according t. thair locality. WriterJEalksj About Girls He Sees By jnti oIMYiCM VTCW TfOKK. April ! "Al A for th fir I of th allddl Wat " F. Hrott Fltxrerald Inhaled dplr and pat.B4d bofor ho roltaatr a cloud of c1;arott amok and a ihower of burning adjnctlvt. "8h 1 unattractlv. alflah. nob-blnh. nob-blnh. efotlirtlcal, utterly rACli, talk with an ua"ly accent and In har heart , know that ah would feel mnr at horn In a k Itch an than In a ballroom." Th author who haa l-oen hailed aa tho Interpreter of Amerlran youth hatted hatt-ed for a moment. Kttia-ernld. frankly Jood looklrg. th hero of half a hun-red hun-red proms, the reallatlc reporter of parlor fight and pet inaj part lea, plunger, ahead Into his analyata of -4h areat American flapper. Ktlino KABft Ht RXt "Thr la much of th unrouthnes or the pioneer left In the Middle Western flapper," continued Flt-ger-alri. "Hhe lacks the aortal grace of entertaining men. Her Idea is to get everything and glv nothing. "There la In her a respr-t for th primitive feminine talents; ahe would really make a rood cook but her family haa made money in the last generation and there la no excuse for her to go Into the kitchen. Khe doesn't know what she wants to do." Fltsgerald should know. Ho was born In HI. I'aul. Furthermore, hla Judgment carries authority. For critics agree the author nf "This Bide of Paradise" Para-dise" and "The Beautiful and Dammed" understands women flappers, at least. I.Ai ne aOt'THKBSRB". Th Rnutherji flrl ta easily the moat attractive type In America." continued Fltsgerald, with a wave of hfa cigarette. "Next the s;lri from the Knst. At the bottom of the list th Middle Western flapper." "Hasn't ahe any good points?" I aaked rather hopefully. "Yea. 8h has her health," ha admitted. ad-mitted. "Now for the ftouthern rlrl." Here Fltsgerald became enthusiastic. "First of all. remember that I married a rtouthern girl. A characteristic Is that she retain and develops her ability to entertan anen. The Middle Western girl lacks thle utterly. With the sophisticated so-phisticated Kastern girl It Is a give-and-take proposition. "No matter how poor a Rout hern girl i may be. and many of them are very foor, she keeps up her soclnl actlvltVs. n New York, when a girl's family loses its money, ahe drops out of the running. This Is not true of the SUtith "Tin you Imagine a New York girl hsvlng a good time at a prom when she knows that she' Is not so well or so expensively dressed as tha other girls? let "K Y not THFRK TOt TIIS1 "Now In the Youth, the girts, because be-cause nf their tradition of before-the-war culturemost of which is false and their senes of old-world courtesy, rnow how to enjoy themselves despite inanrlal embarrassment. "K Houthern girl will slip Into 'a simple muslin or organdie frock, go to a dance, entertain men on a rickety old porch, have a thoroughly good time and make no attempt to conceal her poverty. In fact she will even boast of It. "I remember one Houthern girl who delighted a crowd of young people by telling them of the efforts she made to prevent a mild from unpacking her trunk whn she went to visit wealthy friends. Bhe knew that the maid would be shocked to discover that Bhe had placed cardboard la the bottoms of bar worn-out shoes." |