Carolina Independent
Isn’t it about time to leave off finding fault with the young think known as the flapper and address ourselves to more serious reflections on what it is that makes this type of girl as prevalent as she is thought to be?
The flapper is as much the logical product of her home surroundings as any more sensible boy or girl is. And when you blame the flapper for whatever shortcomings are ascribed to her, it is necessary, in telling the whole story to trace her back directly to the conditions under which she grew up.
In whatever she shows a laxity or a divergence from standards set for the nonflapper type of girl, it will in all probability be found that this young lady was suite as much sinned against as she is sinning. In a home in which flapperish ideals and ways can not prevail, it would be a difficult thing indeed for any child to grow up to become what many of us believe the flapper to be. The so-called emptiness of her head no doubt indicates that whatever is necessary for the mental and moral growth of the child was somehow lacking in the flapper’s home life.
From The Carolina Independent, as reprinted on page 5 of The Norlina Headlight, April 16, 1926
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