THE MODERN GIRL'S STAMINA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 14, 11 October 1907, Page 3

THE MODERN GIRL'S STAMINA.

Few men,, it is assertod,'/ could do half the things the ordinary girl does without becoming a, physical wreck in a very, short- time. To 'begin .with, a girl will play hockey all the. morning, go in energetically for;golf or tennis during the afternoon, •thoh_ danco ,-or skate'at 1 night, without turning a hair, and all this, on'much less food than a man. takes./' If she is fairly strong, sitting for a few hours in damp shoes and stockings rarely harms her, although with a man it would probably develop a.bad cold, if nothing worso. In the matter of evening dress, girls go still further. They come out from a hot ballroom or theatre without oven fastening their evening coats; or they ■ put on for'.day wear tuick tailor-mado, costumes, with the coat opening over a ; thin, transparent blouse In tho matter of dipt, a woman seldom" exorcises discretion as-to what ! is wholesome ,or suitable. l She eats what sh" fancies, for the timo - being at all events, with an unruffled digestion. A chicken mayonaiso topped over with an ice-cream is an ordinary supper for the theatre-girl;/ while ••' tho - dancer partakes of unlimited cream and other rich cakes, and drinks .coffeo, claretcup, lemonade in careless succession.

; WOMEN'S CLUBS IN PERSIA. Tho woman's clnb idea lias reached i far-away Persia. In Tabriz, a city of i i .tnirteon's'cbools. in" ttio neigEbouring ■-' villages. ,'fheso Armenian ladies raise C all the money themselves to support - the schools,, and, work very harcl in v''order to do ; so.