THE MODERN GIRL.
EDUCATION* SYSTEM CONDEMNED. LIFE'S PROBLEMS NEGLECTED. Hγ Telezraph-Press Association "Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables . New York.. January 12. At the National Conference for Raca Betterment, at Battle Creek, Michigan, Dr. Deesol bitterly condemned tho modern girls' education, stating that girls ivoro turned out of tho colleges unfit to achieve either livelihood or mothcrhool, beinc; nervous wrecks. Their heads wero filled with fancy information, sounding well at.^— rtTTj meeting, but utterly.useless An ordering a steak. graduates possessed a penchant for fashions and tho nearest approach to micVty allowed by law. Bachelors often renumed bachelors boeauso women wero ,Epew\thrifts. The colleges were cmiiplotelV failing to train girls to grapple with, life's problem?. Ho dreamt of an endowed Chair of Health in every college in tho United States, where proper diet, exercise, and health ■ study irould be featured.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 2
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137THE MODERN GIRL. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1957, 14 January 1914, Page 2
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