MODERN FLAPPER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 November 1927, Page 6

MODERN FLAPPER

A DOCTOR’S DESCRIPTION PATRON SAINT OF CHEMISTRY. CHEMISTS’ ACHIEVEMENT. (Received 28. 8.20 a.m.) London, November 27. “The Patron Saint of Chemistry. ’ is how Dr. E. F. Armstrong, director of tlie British Dyestuffs Corporation, described the modern flapper at the annual gathering of chemists. The doctor said that almost everything the flapper displayed to our admiring view was chemists’ work She had rings on her fingers comprising synthetic stones, and bells on her toes, otherwise synthetic leather, also mysterious underclothes, which constituted one of the chemists’ greatest achievements. The very sheen of her hair was, perhaps, synthetic. while her face doubtless bore fingerings or products of the Dyestuffs Corporation.—(A.P.A, and “Sun” cable.) THE AGE OF “FLAPPERDOM." SIR JAMES PARR'S VIEWS. (Received 28, 8.20 a.m.) London, November 27. Sir James Parr, opening a school at Seaford, Essex, expressed 1 the opinion that the age of “flapperdom” in Britain lasted to 21 or 2o years, whereas it finished in New Zealand at 18. His experience was that girls at 21 years of age wore steadier than boys at 21. and disliked revolutionary change.. Mr Baldwin was rightly enfranchising women at the age of 21.—(A.P.A. and “Sun ” cable.)