Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1910 — The Modern Girl. [ARTICLE]

The Modern Girl.

"If anybody doubts the emancipation of the modern girl just let him walk down some street where sporting bulletins are shown between 4 and 5 o’clock in the afternoon and be will mighty soon be convinced,” said the New York man with the red mustache. “There are mobs of women abroad at that time who seem almost as deeply interested in baseball and racing news as the men. Nice, proper looking girls they are, too. They do not hang around the corner where the men congregate, but slide off into a&gtationery or confectionery store near by where they can loaf around and peep out every few seconds to see how the game Is going. “There is one Broadway drug store that has become the favorite haunt of these althletlc young women. Every day a squad of them comes trooping in for the ostensible purpose of guzzling soda water, but in reality to learn whether the Cubs are beating the Giants or whether a favor ite horse-is getting to the post on time. Strange to say, they do not do much talking—for women. Their education in outdoor sports has had a sobering effect, and when they do talk their remarks are almost ’TTfiljV* l enough to be made by a man.” ~'' l[