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New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10450, 1 December 1919, Page 9

Tho papers proclaim that the an fashions promise a perfect riot of col violent scarlets, greens, yellows, purples! Knowing i their want of limits in th< which may h» Miss to the wi.,... .. misery to the unhap'ry behohlers. T wilt rit the prospect of tho I-on.lon s in the coming months, says n L< paper. Greene that make von fc though your mouth was full of : veilows that remind you of the f minting screech of a knife on a •iliite; scarlets which male you lon H»v HarVem night—these «u havp with us for some i stand, all of then_ _._ .. . One thousand pisf London before tho

; Tt does not please Sir Eric G-eddeii, Minister for Transport, to see- flappers in. Government offices. He objects to- tho • lbw-noekcd blouse.;, "flashy"..- drcssea. I gossip in corridors and organised ..tea s parties So, o« he" has nousi for thena i tho staff at the offices of the newly- : formed Ministry will be .sedate in "man- • tier and almost'sombrely'attired""There , J are only two flappers,"- who" ~wef*" r£. , commended for transfer' from another • department. "Although their ages are only seventeen," a woman weretary ia reported in the "Daily Express" ns saying, "they are not n- bit 'flapperish' Thev are staid young things, good, hard workers, and not over fond of tea or jumpers, and they are never found goosipiim " The earliest bicycle was introduced In Paris in ISC3. cal>:J a velocipede, or popularly "a bone-shaker." Tho skin of the whale is in places as' much as two feet thicks Spain has fewer daily papers than any other European country. Milk consumed, .woe Hy--in --London amounts to over CO.OOO gallons. "Pn, will you give mo a good lickinft rislrt nowp" "WTiy this, Lemuel?" "I'm going to sneak off and go swimming, a "d I don't want to be bothered with a future"