Dora Rodrigues, a pretty girl of nineteen, whose home is in Amsterdam. arrived in Philadelphia recently after walking 15,000 miles on her way round! the world. Shg has tramped through every country in Europe and most of the States here. -She is working her way shut!) with the intention of wintering in Mexico. Her father is a diamond dealer in Amsterdam, and until site started, on her worldcircling tour two years ago she had never been out of the land of dykes and windmills. “If women only knew the charm of the highways of the world.” said Miss Rodrigues, “they would not he content to stay at home. 1 can’t see how any healthy woman can stand staying at home unless she is absoutely without imagination. Just think of the wonderful things to be seen and the strange places to he visited 1 I pity most woman, and I don’t think they should be allowed to vote, either. Their lives are too narrow.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3693, 30 November 1912, Page 7
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163Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3693, 30 November 1912, Page 7
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