Women as Athletics.
Happily the women of lhe Riitish Fin pire hay.-n't .'-ot as fir as some others iv the de-pa--t!Ho'it of athletics. Tht- accompanying little pi.'f.u-.'s show how far they have got in the United States, where girls nowadays ape th-.-ir big b. others in matters of sport anil think it great form. The best friends of those whose pictures are reproduced could
not ndmit that the sports in which they are iud'i'ging aro really graceful or womanly. >io one will suggest that gill' ought not to val.-' h.evs'.'uck. bicycles, or io v, or even play ci 'ket, but it will be g ■iK-rally cdiint'ed that pi.!* should leave the harder form-- of exercise to iiu'-.i. W:ieu a girl cease..- to !>:* graceful she also ceases to possess the great charm with which nature has endowed her,
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Southland Times, Issue 19185, 24 October 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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137Women as Athletics. Southland Times, Issue 19185, 24 October 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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