SCHOOLGIRLS AND LIPSTICKS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 115, 5 August 1927, Page 4

SCHOOLGIRLS AND LIPSTICKS

WHAT A MISTRESS FOUND IN THE SATCHELS Germany’s older generation was shocked a few days ago by the disclosure made in a police court case at Bremen that the girls of the new generation use lipstick and powder puffs. The shock has been intensified by a discovery made in a girls’ high school in the west end of Berlin. The headmistress suddenly “rounded up” the schoolbags of her pupils m the class for girls of 15 and 16 years of age. The statistical result regarded as apnalling is as follows: Number of girls in the class, o-. Number of lipsticks, 12. Number of powder puffs, 10. On top of this discovery comes the news of a provincial revolt against the bobbed heads and short skirts of wicked Berlin. Berlin Amazons Some time ago the “Steel Helmets” —the Nationalist organisation of exsoldiers —affiliated with a women s Nationalist organisation known as the “Empress Louise.” . . One of the largest provincial branches, a few days ago, Passed a l-eaolution denouncing the bobbed heads and short skirts of their sistermembers in Berlin as “a sign of moral and un-Germanic degeneration.” The sequel is that the Berlin Amazons have seceded from the central body and formed a rival organisation of their own.