London, Sept. 8. a relaxation from the hea weight topics of the day the papers are devoting a certain. amount of space to the consideration of the characteristics of the modern girl. It is not altogether the choice of a topic for the "silly season" although, naturally enough, the period of the year has helped, but it is rather due to the painfully analytical amount of introspection with which we all seem afflicted since the war. Woman is a factor with whom we must all reckon nowadays. In our business she is a keen competitor and the young seem able to match themselves with those of the male sex of their own age. She elbows us out in all talks of life and she claims everything as a right which was once accorded as a favour. We have: e-cognized this in polities; we have now to'face it in the home.
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