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AN IGNOBLE ASPIRATION

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 2, 1916

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 43, No. 18.

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AN IGNOBLE ASPIRATION

By F.

A YOUNG woman in New York aspires to the "fly-weight" boxing championship of the world, and challenges all women fighters of her weight to meet her. A press announcement says, "She is extremely clever with her hands; more so than many fighters who masquerade under the name."
What an unnatural, unwomanly challenge from one of the gentler sex! How sad to see one, the weight of whose influence should ever be on the side of sweet refinement and noble gentleness, deliberately choosing brutalizing pugilism! If the manhood of men gives itself over to prize fighting, let the womanhood of woman refuse to countenance it. F.