A SAD SCENE.

Shannon News, 7 January 1927, Page 1

A SAD SCENE.

FLAPPER WELCOME TO 1927.' IS IT “TOO MANY PARTIES?” In the. big ring of people formed out- i side the Town Hall, Wellington, at midnight on New Year’s Eve —all ing lustily of “Auld Lang Syne”—two girls of the flapper variety were<very conspicuous. Both were obviously the worse for alcohol, and both danced an uncertain Charleston. This was the jarring note to Wellington’s welcome to the New' Year. Ne’ther gal was more than .17 years cf age; neither w r as delinite- in her movements. They hung limply about each other’s necks, and one waved a newly opened bottle of beer, wdiich fizzed delightfully over her hands and dress. They sang as they danced--the alcoholic murmurings of a drink-stimulat- ■ ed brain—and their mutual osculatory attentions wrnuld have shamed Cleopatra to ask for extra wardrobe. The eyes of two mothers would have burned in their sockets could they have gazed from the outskirts of that throng at the shameless spectacle of reckless abandon. Many hearts in the crowd felt for those mothers—possibly • sleeping a . dreamless welcome to 1927. And many . wondered if these two mothers had heard the popular song: “Too Many Parties, and Too Many Pals.”