Show MAKING THE GIRL OF TODAY it Is not so many years ago says D A walley in the pilgrim for september that tho education of a girl in tho united states meant simply mind crowding as far as the school teacher was concerned the three Rs were drilled into the young edca in company with a halt dozen other studies to bo increased as womanhood approached until many a day miss carried her dozen books to and from school each a different branch in construction all to be acquired from between tho pages even ten years ago it a girl with good red blood in her body happened to kick at a football or throw a hand ball it Is a question if the average teacher would not raise her hands in horror at such impropriety but what a change has come over educators side by side with the advertisements of groups of young soldiers handling rides cannon and or athletes garbed in sweaters arc pictures of seminaries and academies not with views of girls reading or doing other work but on tho golf field tho tennis court or pulling away at the sculls in obedience to the commands of the natty coxswain who garbed in her tasty white flannels occupies the stern scat of tho pretty cutter the fact Is that pictures of this kind frequently appear to the up to date father and mother far more than the other sort something more than mind filling anil that tho wise teacher gives as much caro to body as to the brain yes such has been the movement in favor 0 phyll cal training as t Is called that IM growth haa been wonderful within tho last few years the girls school which does not provide exer aises of some sort tor stretching the muscles and quickening the flow ot blood is likely to lose its popularity book learning la no longer the main idea ot the girl of today for she has a chance to get close to nature to see the real not the imitation in becoming acquainted with plant life the habits of animals and insects even in the study of geology in short it may bo said that some of what we branches have been call necessary of much of their monotony and repulsiveness by getting rid of books at least to a certain extent in obtaining a knowledge of them |