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Arabella Kenealy leads the Modern Man to. the edge of the precipice, and shows him to what depths of physical and mental degeneracy he will descend if he does not heed her warning about Feminisni, The modern girl has become increasingly lax and decadent in tone and manner, in. dress and morale. She is nothing to be compared with the Victorian maiden, whose ennobling—influences did so much for her generation. For the most part, the faces of our handsome women "are pre-eminently Pagan—bold, sophisticated, clever; without! sweetness, Softhess, imagination. sensitiveness—in word,—without Girls brought up on modern strenuous methods skip the years between 16 and 26, at which latter age they approach the fo in constitution and temperament—"are even keen on politics, cards, finance resorts, pre-eminently of materialistic middle age." This has led to that decadent and demoralizing vogue of the flapper." "Some of our hapless little girls, in consequence of having been subjected early to rough and strenuous exertions, are more like colts or smaller-sized bullocks in their crude conformation and ungainly movements, as also in their crude wientality and manners, than they are like charming human maids."
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_, Dr-, Kenealy is horrified at the "tennis-grin" and speaks of the proverbial quarrelsomeness tennis playing women resulting from their combative habit of mind. She refers, though not by name, to a well-known girls' college which makes pre-eminently for the cult of mannishness.
"Here are seen," she says, "absorbed in fierce' contest during the exhausting heat of summer afternoons, grim-visaged- maidens Of sinewy build, hard and tough and set as working women in the forties; square shoulders, and stern loins that would do credit to ® prize-ring."
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