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...York is the capital of flappers, the home ot a girlhood robbed of everything but an empty sophistication...
...story is of Mildred Gleason, an American girl, whose whole being revolts against the monotony of dreary, uneventful missionary existence in Japan. She has passed into her late twenties--that fearsome betwixt and between age--with no friend of her own age near, for her girlhood lover disappeared twelve years before--in the last "Tiger Year." Asano, her old manservant, tells Mildred-san that the smoke-cloud Tiger which glowers over Fuji, caused his going, just as this year it will bring her "wild strange things." Thus when she meets a stranger, Hale, and falls in love, Asano sees...
Harper's: "The Courtship of a Careful Man," by E. S. Martin '77; "The Evolution of Girlhood," by H. T. Finck '76; "The Fairyland of Geometry," by S. Newcomb...
...Advocate has wisely decided to include within its province verse, not burlesque enough to be fit for the Lampoon, but yet of a light character. This especial poem, for instance, will be read with much more interest by the students, for whom this paper is meant, than will "The Girlhood of Beatrice," by Blair Fortesque, which attempts too much...
...Vassar girls have a peculiar phraseology of their own, as I noticed when I went to their annual "Phil" on Friday evening by invitation of a tempting "cousin." In addition to the ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males...