Flapper Described as “Patron Saint of Chemists”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 213, 28 November 1927, Page 9

Flapper Described as “Patron Saint of Chemists”

Science Adds to Her Charms

By Cable. —Press Association. — Copyright.

Reed. 9.5'a.m. LONDON, Sunday. “rpHE Patron Saint of Chemistry” is "*■ how Dr. E. F. Armstrong, director of the British Dyestuffs Corporation, described the modern flapper at an annual gathering of chemists. He said that almost everything the flapper displayed to our admiring view was the chemist’s work. She had rings on her fingers comprising synthetic stones, and bells on her toes. Otherwise she wore synthetic leather and also mysterious underclothes which constituted one of the chemist’s greatest achievements. The very sheen of ner hair was perhaps synthe-

tic, while her face doubtless bore the lingerings or products of the Dyestuffs Corporation. NEW ZEALAND FLAPPER

The High Commissioner for New Zealand, Sir James Parr, in opening a school at Seaford, Essex, expressed the opinion that the age of flapperdom in Britain lasted from 21 years to 25 years, whereas it finished in New Zealand at 18. His experience was that girls at 21 were steadier than boys at 21. and disliked revolutionary change. The British Prime Minister, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, was rightly enfranchising women at the age of 21.—A. and N.Z.