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The Modern Girl.

AND RACE BETTERMENT.

COLLEGES AND SPENDTH RiFTS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.! (Received S.O a.m.,1 New York, January 12. At the national conference on race betterment at Battle Creek, Michigan, Dr. Deesel bitterly condemned the modern girl’s education, stating that girls were turned out of college unlit to achieve either their livelihood or motherhood, being nervous wrecks. TUoir heads were filled with fancy information which sounded well at a club meeting, hut was utterly useless in ordering steak. Graduates possessed a penchant for fashions with the nearest approach to nudity allowed by law. Bachelors, ho affirmed, often remain bachelors because women were spendthrifts, the colleges completely failing to train the girls for life’s problems. He dreamed of an endowed chair of health in every college in the United States, where proper diet, exercise, health, and study featured.

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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 January 1914, Page 5

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141

The Modern Girl. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 January 1914, Page 5

The Modern Girl. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11, 13 January 1914, Page 5

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