American Girl Is All Right

There is no basis whatever for the Idea that anything which is worth saving, and, least of all, thu American glrl, who is the "riye, consummate flower" of the beneficeiit forces which are rolling the world orward tolhe millennium, says a writer te the Kansas City Star. She is a more perfect creature every way then she has at the beginning of the century. SI. e is more robust as to frame and fibre than were her maternal ancestors. Rhe Is the symmetrical product of a mrthod of training which educates her mind and pays respect to her physical dvelopme)it. She is not cultivated as Airs. Susan Younk Gath claims, "to th verge of idealism." She is self-relia si to a degre that was unknown to hei grandmatheis. A multitude of aatlvitles which ware formerly monopolized by men are now open1 to her, and through the oourageous assertions of httr own powers. She invades the profcssions, she masters the intricacies of business, and she filis with proflt ana satisfaction to herself and society places without number for which she was ï-egarded wholly unfltted a half century igo. She rltles, she rows, she skates, shu swims, and her capabilities stop ouly at the tbrowing of stones. It is f.he ambition and desire of the American girl of to-day, as it has been of wpmen in all ages of the world, to become the center of a domestic circle. There is not one woman in a thousand who would not prefer to marry and enjt.y thedelights of a happy home rather tfcan battle wlth the world or distinguish herself in eome public sphere. But tiie day has passed when women - at lest American women - find the full olution of their destiny, though the hjme instinct i as strong in them as ei er, and it h: not been diminished bj a familiarity with pursults outside of the housahold. The wives and mivthers of to-(Jay are just as devoted to their husbands and children as were che wives and mothers of fifty years ago, and they were American girls before they became American women. The American girl is all right.