THE MODERN GIRL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19806, 29 November 1927, Page 11

THE MODERN GIRL.

DEBT OWED TO CHEMISTRY. SIR JAMES PARR'S VIEWS. A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON, Nov. 27. At the annual gathering of chemists, Dr. E. F. Armstrong, a director of the British Dyestutfs Corporation, described the modern "flapper" as "the patron saint of chemistry." He said almost everything the "flapper" displayed to their admiring view was the work of the chemist. She had "rings on her fingers which had synthetic stones, and bells on her toes, otherwise synthetic leather. Her mysterious artificial silk underclothes constituted one of the greatest achievements of the chemist. The very sheen of her hair was perhaps synthetic, while her face doubtless bore traces of the products of the Dyestuffs Corporation.

The High Commissioner for Now Zealand, Sir James Parr, in opening a school at Seaford, Essex, expressed the opinion that the ago of "flapperdom" 'in Britain lasted up to the ages of 21 to 25, whereas it finished in New Zealand at 18. His experience was that girls of 21 were steadier than boys of 21, and that they disliked revolutionary change. The Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin, was, he thought, rightly intending to give the vote to women at the age of 21.