The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
Fair Feminine Prodigy.

| AS the recent victorious contestant
in the midyear athletic meet between
the girls of Radcliffe college, and with
like honors won twice before. Miss
Frances Amy Perry of the senior class
has suddenly risen into leadership
among all the fair athletic prodigies of
the present-day college world.
Miss Perry. far from being a tall,
l1mbed figure. short skirted, and in
clined to masculine mannerisms, is de-
clared to be one of the most pro-
tnounced types of femininity in Rad
cliffe college. She is neither tall nor
huge. Quite to the contrary, she is
dainty in appearance, exceedingly slim
and slender. Yet. with apparently
small effort, she managed to pull down
81 points in the recent athletic meet a
| total of points over her next highest
competitor.
Besides being the champion girl
wonder in Radcliffe's athletic events
Miss Perry is likewise the leader in her
class studies; she Is a member of both
the varsity and her class basketball
teams, was last years presiden of her
class, and is this years vice preside nt.
She is also known as one of the fore
most of Radcliffe's musicians, is a
member of the mandolin club, and, in
addition to all these accomplishments,
she can WELD racket or golf mashie,
take a dozen hurdles, clear a vaulting
bar, and swim a race with the grace,
agility and adeptness of a masculine
expert.
Miss Perry, in telling how she has
achieved such enviable records on the
track and in classes, asserts that she
owes her success to the fact that she
has always been careful of her ply
sique and systematic III her exercise.
She has had a careful program laid
out which always gave just SO much
time to study and just so much time
to gymnastics.
ST think that a college girl can
make both athletics AMI her studies
count" says Miss Perry System in
everything, however. is most essential
"In some cases the college girl neg
lects her studies for athletes.
Nothing could be worse. There is,
in fact, always a happy medium of
study work and play work which can
be attained and maintained. There is
no question but that a girl who takes
active part in the sports of her college
is better fitted to make success of
her academic courses.
what is more helpful to the woman
entering upon several hours of close
and concentrating study than the. clear
eye and the clear, sound mind that en-
sues upon or or two tough hours of ex-
ertion upon the athletic field or in the
gymnasium?
Athletics, to me, is, indeed, an all
important adjunct to happiness. 1t
would, indeed, be most helpful to the
working girl If she, too, would take
part in a certain amount OF athletic
exercise. Boston Post.
The PeriIous Age.
If you would keep your boy from
going wrong, watch his habits and his
companions most closely between the
ages of II and 16. The annual report
of Judge E. 3. Porterfield, the juve-
nile judge, shows more than 80 per
cent of his child court charges go
wrong between those years.
Thirteen was the unlucky age last
year. Of the 1908 children in his
court in twelve months, 135 were Of
that age. Sixteen was the next heav-
lest age of offenders. There were 129
boys and girls of that age before the