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Show It is a cheOriug feature of the now Woman movement that the athletio girl Is ooming to the front in a prompt and sprightly manner. For a long tf mo she has been the attractive horoino of fiction. Now sua is tho equally attractive heroine her-oine of fact. Hitherto it has been the English girl who has been held up as the model for tho American girl to fol low in all departments of physical cul-tnre. cul-tnre. Now tho American girl is fast demonstrating her physical superiority over her rod cheeked English cousin. All admirers of gracious, attractive, robust (Vomanhood will rejoice that the Hothouse camellias at last aro in process of being replaced by vigorous outdoor roses. The day has gone by, let us hope forever, when a school or academy or university education of the American girl meant a smattering of tho classics and modern languages, maltreatment of the piano, some Dolsarte foolishuoss of deportment and the cultivation of (rills to fit them for drawing rooms, the outcome being an artificial, languid, flaccid, pale faced creature entirely out of place anywhere outside of the society hothouse. Another creature has takes her place. Sho has as good an education as tho girl of the old times, and she has besides this the boon of health and Btrength adding to her sweet wholo-somenoss. wholo-somenoss. Chicago Tribune. |
