Modern Flapper Defended

Rev. Almer Pennewell, pastor of the Covenant Church, Evanston Illinois:

"Flapperism is not a disease, but a diversion," he said. "Bobbed hair, short skirts and knickerbockers are not signs of sin, but a declaration of independence. The girls are a jolly lot, and they will give us the finest generation of women the world has ever known.

"We are passing from the man age into the age of culture, the woman's age. That is why the flapper exists today. The new age will not be one ruled by women but one in which their influence will be felt. Girls in the past have been pretty little birds in the cages of husky beasts of burden."

["Minister Defends Flapper,"New York Times, May 23, 1922.]