Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-17
ENGLISH MEN AND WOMEN.

Do you see that giantess?n said q famous medical man yesterday, as he called attention to an unusually tall woman in Sloane street
 She was walking across the street With the stride of life guardsman. Her head was erect, her cheeks glow ed with the evidence of pure. fresh. buoyant health, and her height was six feet at least.
 Now said the physician, Hook at this one and that and those two and another just stopping to get in that ridiculous little brougham They are all tall and athletic looking and active. Look about you among this throng of handsomely dressed shoppers. Do Ryou see any midgets among them?"
 There were indeed, few short. under sized women. There was, however. q strange predominance of tall. straight- stepping, broad-shouldered ladies. and the great authority who had first call ed attention to them, made q startling prophecy regarding future femfninity.
 flIty years from now" he stated.
 The women of the leiSured classes that IS. those, women whoNe occll- pations do not keep them constantly within doors-will be six-footers. You see the evidence before you. Year af- Ter year women have been growing taller and stronger, save those who ] work in offices and factories. They are exempt from my prophecy, I What about the1ny' was asked.
 "Ah, that is difficult to saw, re- piled the doctor, but I do not think [ am far off in stating that indoor wo- men Will become shorter and less TO- bust. 1 have given much study to Ihls subject during the past ten years. nave made minute investigation and careful tabulation.
 nave seen the golf-playing, hook ey-dr1ying, bicycle-riding girl sprout | upward inch by inch year by year. and on the other hand. I have noted that | the lack of air and exercise have had a correspondingly deteriorating effect upon those poor things who are per force obliged to work indoors. l Open windows would do much for them. In fact, I think it would be best II all employers were made to provide fresh air, either by way of windows or air tubes. Posterity de- mands fresh air. Here i'll the street is 1 your proof, for all of these strong. tall A<iis, 'llN OlACn tlr6 Ilr SrOWn. "l have often noted,'' said the pro- phetlc medical expert, that foreigners say the tall EngIishwoman is yanid. brainless, lifeless, all muscle and no mind. Now, I am prepared to dis l prove that. Where. in all the world. are women more intelligent? Iii Ger many! Perhaps ill the lore of the cookery book. In France? Yes, if you conflne the question to the art of the needle.
 Tn America? We'll. they are rais- Ing their own crop of giantesses by the same simple air process that we l have applied.
 NO, the charge may have been cor rect 2o years ago when the gawky, ill., dressed, heavy footed English girl in- Vaded the continent with her walking SUCK. her mahistick and her par ploo per kange secongs doing To compren- ney! but now since this blot on the nineteenth century's fair fame has gone into the ewigkeit the tall, 1.-the Engllshwoman, who eats her meals ratlonally and as much as she likes. mas gained not only in muscle and bone, but in brain as we'll
 You have only to go to one of our problem plays to note that the complex " Gaap.n9 VI ineaulIS anu the n1mDIeneSS or the ep1gram are not lost on our young giantesses, and that implies brains"
 And what about the man of 50 years hence?' was asked.
 A great bulging head, set of use less legs, pair of electric glow lamps Tor eyes. and the whole huddled up in new Tangled 'tuppenny tube.' hurt ling frantically to Throgmorfon street, was the reply.-London Mail