Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1914-11-17

when the frost is on the pumpkin
is the time when the pretty girl looks
her best, says Hebe in the Baltimore
American. Why should this not be
so, since crisp winds bring the blood
to the cheeks, the sparkle to the eye?
Ruby lips look redder, FURNISHED
tresses CLEAN like silk, the proud
foot almost spurns the ground as
Miss Young America goes on her way
rejoicing There may be war in Eu-
rope, but in the blessed country of
the Stars and Stripes there are the
piping times of peace and it is au-
tumn and football is here. Thanks
giving not so far away.
THE bright black eye, the melting
blue
| cannot choose between the two!"
No less a parsonage than Oliver
Wendell Holmes penned the forego-
ing lines, and if he could have at
tended some of our modern glorious
autumnal sports he would have vowed
more enthusiastically that choice
were impossible.
j Outdoor sports bring out outdoo"
people, men and maids who love fresh
air, nipping winds, bright blue skies,
such things as cold plunges, cross
country hikes, campfres and all other
joys of the same nature Such a
crowd is bound to be composed of
ruddy-cheeked individuals, sound and
strong, fresh and vigorous, abound in
vitality and good spirits.
The football girl then is the best of
her sex-or, it might be well to say,
among the best. She is a lover of
fair play, of whole-hearted sport, she
is healthy young woman and her
good looks do not belle her.
"Blest health! You, Beauty's year
Breaks into Spring for thee, for only
thee!"
The outdoor sport of autumn in
Americas whether that sport be golf,
football, cross-country hiking, motor
ing, or tennis, stands for health and
health means strength, sound nerves,
good digestion, and these things
mean beauty.
Yet at the same time this hearty
creature had lost none of her fiminin-
ity. She does not faint at the sight of
blood, to be sure, nor does she always
scream at a mouse in the near vicinity.
She is not given in any degree to tears
nor does she pretend that she has but
scant appetite at meal times. These
things she may not do, yet she has not
lost to the slightest degree any of thar
delicious and fascinating charm which
is associated with all that is feminine
If this statement is doubted, ask any
of the SWANS who are never very far
distant from her and they will confess
very ruefully that the glance of her
eye is irresistible, her voice music it.
self, her very way all that is charming,
and also fatal to mans peace of mind.
1t is also to be noted that because
she is wide-awake she is not so easily
cajoled as the languid indoor girl of
more sedate habits. She is apt to laugh
very heartily at some woeful tale of
love and is not above a roguish glance
when Prince Charming would fain as
sure her that he will assuredly die if
she does hot smile upon him.
Altogether she is a witch, a siren, a
provoking nymph who is rarely corner
ed, still more rarely ensnared by the
soft Establishments of folly and fiirta-
ton.
Such a girl looks we'll to all things
which mean health and beauty. She is
not the young woman who dresses SO
foolishly that she walks abroad or sits
upon the stand at the football game,
red of nose, watery of eye, blue of lip.
Not She In the first place of course
her circulation is vigorous, thanks to
her morning cool bath or shower; and
in the second, she keeps her weather
eye open and can tell to nicely when