The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-21
SMALL MEN AND LARGE WOMEN.
with Remarks ON the Traits OF Little
Women and Big Men.

IL wife No. ] is short depend upon II that
wife No is short, too.
II has always been said that small men
love big women, and vice versa. and the
Oh Snowman in Dickens'S story. Chops.
the Dwarf gave 1t as his experience that
dWarfs always fe.i in love with the giant
esses in q museum, and that this was good
for the ul1e. since it prevented the prop
aSatlon Of too many dwarfs, and thus
kept them the curiosities that they were.
Nevertheless there have been good many
marriages between dwarfs. Gen. and Mrs.
Tom Thumb were both dWarfs.
Gen. Tom married Lucia Ierat. ana
neither Of them was yard high. Similar
instances could not be multiplied. bur these
marriages like good many other mar
purposes. and the dwarf husband Is quite
certain TO be flirting with women who are
almcst big enough 10 swallow the little
adCrsr as though he were a capsule.
Giants are a,so likely TO marry small
women. but they do not run 10 the same
extremes 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 IA; women happy in hav-
professional living skeletons. when the
ludcrous side Of the case makes II inn
possible that the passion should be mu-
Now. this general rule about tai women
and short women can be said 10 apply IN
a modified degree with respect to the feel
ings that women entertain toward men,
but with a difference; for the women must
wait for what men may come To them.
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 1t out, and
and regularly laying siege to their hearts
whenever il suits them to do so. As soon
as this state of affairs arises IL 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 general
thing. If they like man, like great deal
When YOU ike. for instance. little women
there is no use in your endeavOring to
place your position on any basis of reason.
If you say you like them because they are
cleVerer or more beautiful. than big wom-
en- you are not talking sense. Size has
nothing TO do with brains. and as for
beauty. If you judge it by the greatest
ponderance is rather in favor of the
larger women. The Venus of Milo is a
big woman; so the seven virgins surround
most MadOnnas are of medium Size not
small As fer brains, they have no refer
ence to size. George Eliot was big. and
Bronte was almost a dwarf.
Harriet Martinez was small, ana so was
Dolly Madison. As for heroic deec., they
appear to have been performed by women
OF medium size. Grace Daring is repre-
scented as being Of medium proportions,
ence Nightingale was of ordinary size with
a tendency to be small. SO with Nine. Ro-
land 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 Cleopatra above the medium
hight SO was Lady Hamilton, whom Lord
Nelson loved so guiltily; 50 was the wicked
Aspasa; so was Mary Shelley. For terms
of enGeament. however. woman is lit
tie. The sense of protective devotion of
men seems to require this. Who ever heard
of man addressing his wife, My dear,
big wife"
Of course. size has little to do with dis
position There is a prevailing tendency.
however. among large people TO be rather
slow OF mind. and consequently rather
slow to anger. taken as two separate
classes, big women are rather better tenn
pered than little women. but there are
some terrible ViragoeS among the big wOm-
men. Fat women are, or course, nearly al
ways good natured. Ii is the long. lean
women who are the worst. Female muir
derers belong to this class and ii must be
added. i'm all fairness, some of the most
charming women in the world are inclined
to be long and lean. But Mrs Sherman,
the Connecticut woman who killed a dozen
people, was a lean and hungry tigress. and
If 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,
get n little woman-the smaller the better.
These are the most terrible ones of all.
They are very apt to be goOd-looking, too,
of the brunette type with dark bright
run away, If you know what is good for
yourself. There is no use in staying out in
the rain II you can run indoors, and there
is no sense in man standing under a tor
he 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 a Observation-Disclosures Star.