Read the excerpt from "A Century Ride.”

"Great Scott!” he stammered, "what’s the matter? Surely ’tisn’t Mrs. Dunlop?” and he gaped at the dusty little lady, who sat on the door-step, and the wheel which lay on the roadway.

"I’m choking with thirst,” said Maude. "Get me a drink of water, and I’ll tell you,” and the Doctor bounced in for a dipper, and out to the pump for the required beverage.

"Don’t take much,” he stammered incoherently. "I’ve put a drop of whiskey in it. Now tell me, in the name of Heaven, what sent you riding across the country in this fashion?”

The Doctor’s reaction suggests that in the late 1800s in his area, it was uncommon to find women who

were athletic.
drank alcohol.
were untidy.
visited doctors.