Show nm PORTRAITS PORTRAITS' OF THE WOMEN OF 1917 i iTH I I I TH THE FLAPPeR By Winona Wilcox I Flapper will doubtless prove the most abused word In the list of ot 1917 names of ot feminine types We Ve Americans do remarkable stunts with other peoples' peoples languages We Ve change the final o 0 in kimono to an nn ana ana nna a and congratulate ourselves on improving improving improving im im- proving the ancient Japanese we pronounce pronounce pronounce pro pro- the thc first syllable of lIn lingerie as ns asif asif if it it were spelled long Ions an and feel that no Parisian could do better and wo we have alread already p misconstrued the English flapper before we have become acquainted with th the true truo type The Tho flapper originated in English society a dozen years ago She Sho Is Just becoming known in this country mainly mainly main maln- ly bp as having given a smart name to certain fashions for girls In her native land the flapper Is an honest talkative critical and very ac active active ac- ac tive tivo girl 15 or 01 16 years old She has no respect whatever for her brothers brother's opinions and she makes fun of his friends or quarrels with them And she is not the least bit sentimental sentimental sentimental senti senti- mental outwardly Probably the tho flapper flapper flapper flap flap- per does docs dream of herself as a Sleeping Beauty and of or a a. Prince Charming who has already started to search the world for her and perhaps It is because she cannot reconcile r her hel prince with the kind of young oung man she knows that she is so unnecessarily sarcastic Her indifference to the thc opposite sex makes her most Irritating to all young gentlemen She is a good she goes In for the tho game and not for tor forthe forthe the clothes an and often otten she can beat a amale amale amale male opponent She Sho takes honors in school too She Is more nearly nearh the equal of or tho the male than at any other age and she Is ve very apt to let him know it This little trait does docs not add t to her popularity with the boys but It docs does give them a a. good excuse for ridiculing for th the flapper B Because cause she never flatters Clatters any an man she is practically at war with all aU of ot the theother theother theother other sex except her father and her uncles who adore her Such Is the real flapper Persons who apply tho the word to the rouged fantastically dressed and precociously sentimental little girls who vulgarize modern Ideals of maidenhood maidenhood maiden maiden- hood are maltreating a a. very good g bit hIt of slang Its derivation doubles Its significance In the English sports sportsman's sportsmans mans man's vocabulary a n flapper Is a a. young bird unable to rise In tn flight JI ht especially a young oung wild duck The term Is almost exactly descrIptive tive of the delightfully innocent little girl who is properly a flapper It is a n. pity that the genus Is so 50 rare In AmerIca America America Amer Amer- ica When a young girl irl he begins to rouge she ceases to be a n. flapper she flapper she has learned how t to fly And isn't It the misfortune of American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican girls that they learn this this this-at at least too early |