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Show I 4 I AN EDITORIAL BY FLORENCE DAVIES 4 A "FLAPPER" OF YESTERDAY. Perhaps you have been thinking that the American flapper of today is the essence of a brand new rebellion against convention and old-fogyLsm. Granted that new license has been lak , on in some directions by the 1922 girl of bobbed hair, ringed ears and rouged face. But across the ocean in the most Victorian and Victorian days j there was u young thing who knew I quite as well what she wanted and when she wanted II as the slimmest and pinkest young damsel in tbe Unit i d States at this minute. She was no less than one Evelyn, who in later years was lo bear the I! lUStrlOUS name of d" Morgan, and her busy little ego must have foreseen at an early dny what demands to make that she might be fitted for a long and happy wedd-?d companionship with tbe illustrious author of "Alice-For Short," " Joseph Vance, " "When Ghost Meets Ghost.' and the other novels which proved to a delightful world of readers that a man of 68 could take up fiction writings for the first time and outdistance most of his ounger and well practiced contemporaries in the art The young Evplyn Insisted upon being be-ing an artist. When father and moth er proved equally firm agnlnst this determination, the girl painted behind a locked door, every crevice of which She had filled with putty. An innocent bag of books which she carried to Grosvenor Square bore drawing materials mate-rials in a false bottom. At las' a master was engaged to teach her the delicate art ot flower painting as practiced by 10th century young ladies. Evelyn shocked and horrified hor-rified him by making a study of male nude from a jointed lay figure. Her persistence won her entrance to Slade school, where we are told she carried all before her. Socioty prestige, which meant much to the young girl s parents, meant less than nothing to her nc?. exasperated exasperat-ed beyond endurance when they would have her attend tho queen's drawing room, she cried, ' I'll go to the drawing draw-ing room it you like, but if I go I'll kick the queen." From a "winsome imp" as one reviewer re-viewer styles her after reading her Mster's recentl) published story of "William and Evelyn d Morgan," the little English flapper grew Into a brilliant, bril-liant, talented and charming woman. She was a real helpmeet to the love-able, love-able, impracticable artial who long aft erwards turned from painting and the making of rare lustre ware t0 write of the England of 70 years ago as only Dickens had done before him |