Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1901 — The Girl of Today. [ARTICLE]

The Girl of Today.

Little does the girl of the present day realize how much better off she is than the girl in the early part of the nineteenth century. Then she had to submit to social restrictions too numerous to mention; she was treated with scorn and contempt if she once expressed any desire to work or do anything for herself and attempts to think out a subject for herself was deemed almost a sign of ill-breeding and lack of refinement. Her life was spent in a narrow groove, and her mind was not allowed to develop to its full extent. Intercourse with the other sex was carried on under the rigid surveillance of an austere and elderly chaperon. Nowadays a woman has almost perfect freedom in whatever she cares to do. Chaperons are getting rarer and rarer, and social intimacy with men is allowed without one thinking it means aught beyond a pleasant and natural friendship.— New York Weekly. In the bakeries of La Rochefoucauld In France it is said that women enter the oyens when they are 801 degrees. The least guarded of the monarchs of Europe is the old King of Denmark. He is said to walk about the streets absolutely unattended.