National Baptist world., 1894-10-12
SMALL MEN AND BIG WOMEN.
With Some Remarks Also on the Traits OF
LITTLE Mnmen and ZIG Men.


| it that wife No. 2 is short, too.
1t has always been said that small
men love big women, and vice versa,
and the old Snowman in Dickens story,
"Chops, the Dwarf, gave it as his eX-
perience that dwarfs always fell IN
| love with the giantess in museum,
and that this was good for the trade,
since it prevented the propagation OF
too many dwarfs, and thus kept them
the curiosities that they were. Never
theless, there have been good many
marriages between the dwarts. Gen.
and Mrs Tom Thumb were both dwarfs
Gen. Tot married Lucia Ieratl, ana
neither of them was a yard high. SIM
liar instances could be multiplied, but
these marriages, like a good many
other marriages among larger people,
are for show purposes, and the dwarf
husband is quite certain to be nlrtlliS
with the women who are almost p19
enough to swallow the little adorer as
though he were capsule.
Giants also are 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 glant<
ess had any husband, nor are museum
fat women happy in having many ador-
ers, except, perhaps, among proles-
; sional living skeletons, when the luui-
crous side of the case makes 1t lnpoSSl-
BILE that the passion should be mutual
Now, this general rule about tall Wo-
men and short women can be SAID 10
| ed wit
to the feelings that women entertain
toward men, but with differences 1ol
I the women must wait for what mel
may come to them, whereas the men
q can go out in search OF the women ano
q consequently they have wider nelo
a of choice Of course, this is all wrong
n and the tendency of our present civil
n ization NAV eventually wipe it out, anc
:. we shall then have women proposing
Q to men and regularly laying siege t'
their hearts whenever it suits them t(
" do 50. AS soon as this state of affairs
O arrives it will be easy to see that Wo
men prefer big men to little men, O.
n vice versa It is probable that big mel
d will have the largest number of suitors
for women. as a general thing, IL the.
T. When YOU like. for instance, lttl
women there is no use in your endeaV
s. oring to place your position on an
basis of reason. If you say you hk
IS them because they are cleverer an
IL more beautiful than big women yo
Id are not talking sense. Size has nothln
vs. to do with brains, and as for beauty,
2. YOU Judge it by the greatest produ(
tions of art, you will find the prepoi
derance is rather in favor OF the large
women The Venus of Milo is a bl
woman. so is the Medici, so are TN
seven virgins surrounding the car l
the painting of Aurora; most Madonna
are of medium size, not small. AS fC
brains. thev have no reference to siz
J George Eliot was big, and SO was Quee
Elizabeth, but Charlotte Bronte WI
4, almost a dwarf Harriet Martinez
IIA was small, and so was Dolly Madlso
1|N AS for heroic deeds, they appear to hay
Hin been performed by women OF medlu
" size. Grace Darling is represented
being of medium proportions, with
tendency rather to be large Floren'
NIGHTINGALE was of ordinary size, wit
} a tendency to be small. So with MN
Roland and others that could be name
Women who have been famous b
cause men loved them frantically al
:" braved a great deal for them ha
usually been large. Cleopatra w
rv above the medium height: so was Lac
te. Hamilton. whom Lord Nelson loved
er ouiltilv: SO was the wicked Aspasia
/ was Mary Shelley. For terms of e
ut dearment, however, woman Is It'll
nd The sense of protective devotion OF m
ut, seems to require this. Whoever hea
zee of a man addressing his wife, "My de
il big wife?'
&C OF course, size has little to do wi
ws dispOsition. There is prevailing ten
ny ency, however, among large people
be rather slow of mind, and con:
uI ouently rather slow to anger. Tax
re- as two separate classes, big women a
he rather better tempered than little
on men, but there are some terrible VII
DID goes among the big women. Fat
;he men are. of course. nearly always goo
ooI natured. 1t is the long, lean WON
itt who are the worst. Female murdert
belong to this class, and 1t must
out added. in all fairness, some OF the mo
lar charming women in the world are
elk clined to be long and lean. But Nj
,ss. Sherman, the Connecticut woman w
killed dozen people, was lean a
tie; hungry tigress, and if you will go
i'd the penitentiary you will find that t
is the prevailing type among crimil
women.
If YOU want vicious, stinging or
az ture, that has tongue like neec
ely YOU must get little woman
o. smaller the better. These are
OF most terrible ones of all They
ury very apt to be good-looking, too, OF
the brunette type, with dark, brig
lost flashing eyes. When the eyes
d angry run away, if you know what
It good for yourself. There is no USE
ded staying out in the rain if you can
per indoors. and there is no sense in n
en- standing under a torrent of sting
was words from woman if he can !
ing away from her. She may pursue
a and probably will do so-and
ants NAV catch you later, but at any r
be YOU will have had respite. -Washi
lust ton Star
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