Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-11

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What's the matter with her being tall?"
well. 1 tell you 1 don: like tall women.
that's all there is about it, and / suppose
there Is no use in trying to account for
it,"
And 1t Is a fact that this man never meets
tall woman. II he can help it, never walks
with one or talks with one. and swears
positively that he will never marry one
1nasmuch as he is a bachelor close on to fifty
years old. it is highly probable that he will
keep this promise. and may exceed his con-
tract by not marrying at all.
1t Is a strange thing about the size of
women. Mankind may be said generally
TO be divided into two classes-those that
Ike short women and those that like tall
women. There Is another small faction
that don't like any women. but 1t need not
be taken into account. because there are so
few people belonging to it,
| III You are a bachelor you will probably
| find that the different women you have been
II, ILL., love with and have proposed to have
been or moderately uniform height. There
| nave been few inches of difference be-
| tween them, but not foot. They were tall
women or they were short women. They
| were not tall women and short women
| NOW, that Is a general rule but there are
exceptions to it, and the exceptions rather
prove IT, You may remember your love at
| fairs thus. The first girl who refused vo,,
| was a tall blonde, the second was a shCrt
brunette the third. fourth and fifth were
al tail. Whom are you in love with now
why. another tall girl Which one of the
girls who rejected you did you care for the
| least! Why the short brunette, and Won
may be able to tell yourself that YOU pro
Posei TO her by accident or because circum-
| stances SO placed You that Won conceIved
IL TO be proper that you should propose ana
were very happy at being rejected
small Men and Zig Women.
you doubt the rule still. stop and re-
Meet upon the various men of YOUR ac
quaintance who have married twice II
wire No 1 was short depend upon 1t that
wife No. is short, too.
| II mas always been said that small men
ioVe Dig women. and vice versa. and the
old Snowman in Dickens story. "Chops.
the Dwarf" gave It as his experience that
dwarfs always fell in love with the giant
| ei'SeS IN museum, and that this was good
Tor the trade. since 1t prevented the propa-
| gation or too many dwarfs. and thus kept
| them the curiosites that they were Never
| theiess, there have been q good many mar
| riaSes between dwarfs. Gen. and Mrs Tom
Thumb were both dwarfs. Gen. Tot mar
| ried Lucia Ierati, and neither Of them was
| a yard high. Similar instances could he
| multiplied, but these marriages, like a good
| many other marriages among larger peo-
! rle. are for show purposes and the dwarf
| husband Is quite certain to be flirting with
| women who are almost big enough to swal-
low the little adorer as though he were a
| capsule.
Giants also are likely to marry small wo-
| men, but they do not run to the same eN-
| tremes 'as the dwarfs do in their love af-
| fairs. 1t Is not recorded that the celebrated
| Nova Scotia gianteSS had any husband. nor
are museum fat women happy In having
| many adorers, except, perhaps. among pro-
| fessional living skeletons, when the ludi-
| crous side of the case makes 1t impossible
that the passion should be mutual.
| Now, this general rule about tall women
and short women can be said to apply in
modified degree with respect to the feelings
| that women entertain toward men, but with
| difference; for the women must wait for
| what men may come to them. whereas the
| n en- can go out in search of the women. and
| consequently they have wider field of
| choice. or course, this is all wrong. and
| the tendency of our present civilization may
| eventually wipe 1t out, and shall then
| have women proposing to men and reSu-
| larly laying siege to their hearts whenever
| II suits them to do So AS soon as this
state of affairs arrives 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 larger number of
| suitors for women, as a general thing, if
| they like a man. like a great deal of him.
| Matter of Preference.
| When you like. for instance, little women
| there is no use in your endeavoring to place
YOUR position on any basis of reason. Ii
you say you like them because they are
cleverer or moro beautiful than big women
|
| ing to do with brains, and as for beauty, If
you Judge it by the greatest productions of
| art you will find the preponderance Is
| rather in favor of the larger women The
Venus of Milo is a big woman. so is the
| Nedici, 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 q dwarf. Harriet Martineau was
| small and 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 tendency rather to be
large. Florence Nightingale was of ord-
nary size, with tendency to be small. SO
it'll Madame Roland and others that could
| be named.
| Women who have been famous because
men loved them frantically and braved a
| great deal for them have usually been large
l. Cleopatra was above the medium height; so
was Lady Hamilton, whom Lord Nelson loved
| SO guiltily; 80 was the wicked Aspasia; SO
was Mary Shelley. For terms of endear-
| rent. however, woman is little. The
sense of protective devotion of men seems
to require this. Whoever heard of man
addressing his wife My dear big wife,
Disposition and Size.
| OF course size has little to do with dis
| position. There is a prevailing tendency.
| however. among large people to be rather
|
| to anger Taken as two separate classes
| big women 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 fair
| ness, some of the most charming women in
| the world are inclined to be long and lean.
! But Mrs. Sherman, the Connecticut woman
who killed dozen people. was a lean and
| hungry tigress, and II you will go to the
| 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 q little woman-the smaller the better.
| These are the most terrible ones OF all.
| They very apt to be good locking, too,
| Of the brunette type, with dark, bright,
| flashing eyes When the eyes get angry
| run away, if you know what Is good for
| yourself. There is no use in staying out in
| the rain, if you can run indoors. and there
| Is no sense in man standing under a tor
| rent o: singing words from woman, If
| he can run away from her. She may pur-
| sue you-and probably will do so-and she
| may catch you later, but at any rate you
| will have had q respita.