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Show COUNTRY GIRL IN THE CITY Sht Comes for Study, Business and Amusement, and Can't Ba Left Out of the Social Reckoning. She comes so generously, so eagerly, with such diverse purposes, and with such persistent, If seemingly Intermittent Intermit-tent regularity, that It Is Impossible to leave her out of any serious social reckoning, She comes to study music, medicine, millinery, art, archery, astrology, ngrl culture, stenography, sculpture, the dance and the drama, hygiene and handicrafts, osteopathy and the art of conversation, Journalism, theology, almost al-most any and everything one can lm-f.lne. lm-f.lne. Broadway, State atreet. Broad s'reet, all the grest arteries of city life and traffic continually are crowded crowd-ed with her and her fellows. She comes looking for work as well at education. And, alas, poor youngster, she also comes looking for amusement. amuse-ment. Tbe teachers of art, music, omuier-ctal omuier-ctal branches, all the thousand things she studies, welcome her eagerly. So do the more 'ided co-work -'s to who-e custom-dulled perceptions he restores a sharper edge. Many emp'oyers prefer pre-fer her services for this very reason. Socially, the normal girl from the small town Is famous for her flourish-lug. flourish-lug. Ready, piquant. Intensely alive, vitally desirous of tasting Ilia to the utmost, she comes, sees an I conquers freh social kingdoms yearly. She Is poiular and prominent iu the clubs, the churches, the schools, the social sttmes, tho work of the Voung Women's Christian association, the , trade and craft organisations all the , rich and varied life of the city. But thrt al .ornml or subnormal girl from the small town, the girl who. per- 1 haps, motherless, perhaps carelessly reared, perhaps the victim of Innocent t ignorance or sudden family disaster, faces metropolitan conditions less ably ah! that's another tale The New 1 Idea Woman's Magazine. 1 |