The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1894-09-28
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SnlLL MEN AND LARGE WOMEN.
With Remarks on the Traits of Little
Women and Big Men.

ana the old Snowman in DlckenSS
story, "Ch0ps. the Dwarf, gave 1t as
his experience that dwarfs always fell
in love with the giantesses in a muse
um, and that this was good for the
trade. since IL prevented the propaga-
ton Of too many dwarfs, and thus
kept then. the curiositics that they
were. Nevertheless, there have been
a good many marriages between
dwarfs. General and Mrs. Tom
Thumb were both dwarfs.
General Tom married Lucia Zerati,
and neither Of them was a yard high.
Similar instances could not be multi
piled, but these marriages, like good
many other marriages among larger
people, are for show purposes, and the
dwarf husband is quite certain to be
flirting with women who are almost
big enough to swallow the little adorer
as though he were a capsule.
Giants are also likely to marry small
women, but they do not run to the
same extremes as the dwarfs do in
their love affairs. 1t is not recorded
that the celebrated Nova Scotia giant
Css had any husband, nor are museum
fat women happy in having many
adorers, except, perhaps, among pro-
fessional living SKELETONS, when the
ludicrous side Of the case makes it
impossible that the passion should be
mutual.
Now, this general rule about tall
women and short women can be said
to apply in a modified degree with re-
spcct to the feelings that women en-
terrain towards men but with a differ
cncc: for the women must wait for
what men may come to them, whereas
the men can go out in search of the
women, and consequently they have a
wider field of choice. OF course, this
is all wrong and the tendency of our
present civilization may eventually
wipe it out, and we may have women
proposing to men and regularly laying
siege to their hearts whenever it suits
them to do so. As soon as this state
OF affairs arises it will be easy to see
that women prefer big men to little
men, or vice versa. 1t is probable that
the big men will have the largest
number Of suitors, for women as a
general thing, if they like a man, like
a great deal of him.
When you like, for instance, little
women there is no use in your endeav-
oring to place your position on any
basis OF reason. If you say you like
them because they are clcyerer or more
beautiful than big women you are not
talking sense. Size has nothing to do
with brains, and if you judge beauty
by the greatest productions of art, the
prcponderancc is rather in favor of the
larger women. The Venus of Milo is
Il big woman; so are the seven virgins
surrounding the car in the painting
Of the Aurora; most Madonnas are
of medium size, not small. AS for
brains, they have no reference to
size. George Eliot was big, and so
was Queen Elizabeth, but Charlotte
BrOnte was almost a dwarf.
Harriet Martinez was small, and so
was Dolly Madison. AS for heroic
deeds, they appear to have been per-
formed by women Of medium size.
Grace Darling Is represented as being
Of medium proportions, with a ten
dency rather to be large. Florence
Nightingale was of ordinary size, with
a tendency to be small. So with Nine.
Roland and Others that could be
named.
OF curse size has little to do with
disposition. There is a prevailing
tendency, however, among large peo-
pie to be rather slow of mind, and con-
sequently rather slow to anger. Taken
as two separate classes, big women are
rather better tempered than little
women, but there are some terrible
viragoes among the big women. Fat
women are, of course, nearly always
good natured. 1t is the long, lean
women who are the worst. Female
murderers belong to this class, and it
must be added, in all fairness, some
OF the most charming women in the
"oiiu Nv ilI,iiltu w NC luIlS dllu lcdIl.
But Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut
woman who killed a dozen people, was
lean and hungry tigress, and if you
Will gotothe penitentiary you will find
that this is the prevailing type among
criminal women.
If you want a vicious, singing
creature, that has a tongue like a
needle, you must get a little woman
the smaller the better. These are the
most terrible one of all. They are
very apt to be good looking, too, of TIL,
brunette type, with dark, bright, flash,
ing eyes. When the eyes get angry
run away, If you know what is goot
for yourself. There is no use in stay
ing out In the rain II you can rul
indoors, and there is no sense in