FLAPPERS VICTORIOUS

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3400, 30 July 1932, Page 6

FLAPPERS VICTORIOUS

LAST BARRIER IS DRAWN NOW. The flapper with her cigarette has won another victory; this time a victory that will cause Indian colonels to glare and splutter in impotent rage. Throughout the years, the smoking rooms of Orient liners have been just as exclusively for men, as the members’ stand at the Sydney Cricket Ground, or the Union Club. The Sydney office of the line has received the following advice from London: — “In future on all ships, the smoking room is to be availabble to both sexes as a public room.” It is a revolutionary instruction, and one likely to have a mixed reception. For years these rooms have been regarded as man’s sanctuary from family cares, and something unique in sea travel, for most other companies yielded to the flapper and her cigarette without any show of resistance. But now the flapper rules the waves. Here are the views of other companies:- • P. and O.: “We have no objection to lady passengers smoking in the smoke-room.” Union Company: “We do not mind. Even if we did, we could not prevent them.” Matson Line: “They are perfectly free to smoke there.”