The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-27
ENGLISH MEN AND WOMEN.

10 you see that giantess?' said a fa
nous medical man yesterday, as he cali
ed aItentlon to an unusually tall woman
IN Sloane street.
She was walking across +ba c+roo+ ,.-;+t,
the stride Of life guardsman Her head
was erect, her cheeks glOwed with the
eEI9ehceS or pure, fresh, buoyant health
ana her height was six feet at least
Now" said the physician. look at tnis
one ana that and those two and another
JUST stopping to get in that ridiculous
nue. nue. prougham They are all tall and
athleuc looking and active. Look about
you among this throng of handsomely
dressed shoppers. Do you see any mid
gets among them?'
There We're indeed, few short, under
sized women. There was, however. a
strange predominance of tall straight
stepping broad shouldered woman. and
the great authority who had first called
attention to them made a startling proph-
ecy regarding future femininity.
Fifty years from now" he stated. .the
women OF the leisure cIasses-that is,
those women whose occupations do not
be siX-footers. You see the evidence he
fore you. Year after year women have
been growing taller and stronger. saw
nose nose VINO work IN offices and factories.
They are exempt from my prophecy
What about them?" was asked.
An, that is difficult to say" replied the
doctor, but l do not think | am far off
in stating that indoor women will hecorno
much study to this subject during the
past ten years. I have made minute in
Vestigation and careful tabulation.
i have seen the golf-playing hockey
driving, bicycle-riding girl sprout upward
inch by inch year by year, and, on tie
other hand, have noted that the lack of
ar and exercise have had a correspond
lngly deteriorating effect upon those poor
things who are perforce obliged to work
indoors =
Open windows would do much for
them In tact, think it would be best if
all employers We're made, to provide fresh
air, either by way of windows or air tubes
Pcsterlty demands fresh air. Here in the
street is your proof, for all of these
strong, tall Englishwomen ass air-grown.
l have often noted said the prophetic
medical expert, that foreigners say the
tail Englishwoman is vapid, brainless,
l1feless, all muscle and no mind. Now,
am prepared to diSprove that. Where in
all the world are women more intelligent?
In Germany? Perhaps in the lore of the
cookery book. In France? Yes, If you
contine the question to the art of the
needle.
In America? Well, they are raising
their own crop of gfantesses by the same
simple air process that we have adopted
No, the charge may have been correct
twenty-five years ago when the gawky
addressed, heaVy-footed English girl in
vaded the Continent with her walking
stick, her mahlstick, and her par ploo
ker hangs Secongs dong % comprenney3k'
but now since this blot on the nineteenth
century's fair fame has gone into the
Ewigkeit the tall, 1.-the Englishwoman,
who eats her meals nationally and as
much as she likes, has gained not only in
muscle and bone, but in brain as Well
You have only to go to one of orr
problem plays to note that the complex
depths of meaning and the nimbleness of
the epigram are not lost on our young
giantesses, and that implies brains'
And what about the man of fifty years
hence?" was asked
"A great bullying head, set Of useless
legs, pair of electric glow lamps for
eyes. and the whole huddled up in a new
tangled tuppenny tube hurting frantic
ally to Throgmorton street, was the re-
ply.-London Mail.