NO “FLAPPER” NEED APPLY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1956, 25 March 1919, Page 4

NO “FLAPPER” NEED APPLY.

BUSINESS MEN’S REVENGE

Many of the imperious “Flappers” now being demobilised from Government hotels are losing their hoi-ty-toity manner, says a London paper. Some, in fact, are on the verge of tears, for they find that business firms do not regard them with favour, and even go so far as to reject their proffered services. A shorthand-typist—still in the employ of a Government Department, stated that about half a dozen of her girl friends were discharged from a certain Ministry a very few days after the signing of the armistice.

“Ever since,” she declared, “I hey have been engaged in a fruitless search for work, and they arc quite competent workers! Unfortunately all the employers with whom they have had interviews have started off by ''asking, ‘Where were you last employed?’ Full of confidence, and with a grand air, I hoy have replied, ‘Oh, at the Ministry of So-and-So.’ ”

That- reply lias been fatal even time.

“Very sorry,’’ the employers Inm said, “but we’re not taking girh from Government offices.”

“I really believe,” continued the Government typist, “that I he* business men tire having their revenge, because they have frequently been treated in such cavalier fashion by the girl clerks in Government offices to which their business has taken them.” “I’ve seen how they behave ( u callers,” said one man, explaining why he wouldn’t engage an ex-Gov-erninent “dapper.”