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Show The Athletic Girl. It is a cheering feature of the txevf woman movement that the aihletio girl is coming to the front in a prompt and Bprightly manner. For a long time she has been the attractive heroine of fiction. Now sh3 is the equally attractive heroine her-oine of fact. Hitherto it ha3 been the English girl who has been held up as the model for the American girl to fob low in all departments of physical culture. cul-ture. Now the American girl is fast demonstrating her physical superiority over her red cheeked English cousin. All admirers of gracious, attractive, robust womanhood will rejoice that the hothouse camellias at last are 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 the classics and modern languages, maltreatment of the piano, some Delsarte foolishness of deportment and the cultivation of frills 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. She has as good an education as the girl of the old times, and she has besides this tho boon of health and strength adding to her sweet whole-someness. whole-someness. Chicago Tribune. |