Music: Mary Lewis

A great many healthy young women from country towns have chirped and kicked, at one time or another, in the annual musical revues of Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld—so many, in fact, that the "Ex-Follies Girl" now has the weight of "Ph. D." or "Elk": it connotes membership in a sort of national oddfellows' society.

Yet it is no empty phrase, for the training which these women receive equips them to enter other professions. Some, broadening and deepening as the years pass, make excellent mothers to rich little children; others keep their figures and their...

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