The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-20
DO YOU WANT TO Be TALLER?
EXERCISES TO INCREASE TIE
SHORT GIRLS STATURE.
Tall Girls in Fashion N0w-Gymnastics
That Seem to Add to the Hetsht--some
Real Stretching Exercises AlsO-An
Inch May he Gained in Six Months.

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Real Stretching Exercises Also-An
Inch May he Gained in Six Months.
The fashion is for the tall girl. There
are nowadays plenty Of girls who would
jog beam placed five feet nine above their
heads. and many there are who would
touch with waving pompadour tho beam
held at six feet.
How do women manage to be so taAf
asked an obseryant man of woman who
knows all about such things.
THAT is easy" replied the woman. Afor
woman's figure can be moulded at will. 1t
can be made taller or shorter, or wider or
narrower, or any other thing.
at is all a matter of training and practice
and the girl who trains and keeps on train
ing and the girl who practises and keeps on
practising is the one who will arrive.
If were a short girl would learn to
grow taller. would take the lengthening
exercises which stretch out a woman be-
fore she knows it.
AL women are growing taller There
will soon be no more short women left ON
the face of creation"
BY short is meant the woman Of feet
or 8; and. If you will stop to think, you
will remember that there used to be great
many women Of just that size The short
woman was once considered very dainty.
! She was called petite, and sonnets were
written to her.
She had little hands and tiny feet and
she weighed 100 pounds at most. She was
very PALE but much admired.
| But the standard Of feminine beauty has
i ,k,a ID nd thae CHI De- nok ~,
The woman who cannot count s feet inches
should 60 and stretch herself in an effort
to grow taller.
The woman who is Of the best height is
about feet 8. and may even be little
taller. Five feet 10 Is considered a de-
sirable height for a woman in England,
and there are few beauties, English and
American. Of just 9 feet. This is. Of COURSE
very tall for girl. But 1t is the fashion
And what becomes Of the short man?
Why, he just toddles along and tries to
forget that he Is little. He ia proud of his
tall beauty and likes to be seen with her
Several English titles have been carried OF
by American girls who measured head,
neck and shoulders above their husbands.
To be tall when nature has made her
short, Is difficult task for any girl But
she who Is ambitious will not regard it as
impossible. She will try and keep on
trying, and always in the hope that she will
add not ono inch, but two or three or four
to her stature.
1t is a remarkable thing, but it is said
to be q fact. that the great athletes the prize
fighters and the college football aspirants
almost always gain in height after they
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they grow steadily.
stretching machine was invented to
promote the growth Of the short girl, but
unfortunately it did her some bodily in
jury. The idea was to place her elbows
in a wise, and then to stretch her toes out
as far as possible, trying to touch board
several inches beyond her. She usually
succeeded, but unless strong, it was with
some lameness In the region OF the spine.
SO this method was given up.
The girl who wants to be q little taller
must begin with foot exercise. She must
stretch out the toe and point it until she has
made the foot very supple. This supple
ness of foot is very important, for it gives the
! foot natural arch, and fits the figure in a
very natural, very easy, very graceful
manner.
They say that there are short women
who appear tall, simply by their method
of walking. They have very graceful,
nimble feet and as they walk they rise and
fall, giving pretty unduation to the walk.
The trouble with the short girl is that
she usually says down. She is not so tall
; as she ought to be. She is very often stOop
shou!dered and too frequently she IL weak
, in the knees, which makes her appear yet
shorter.
The short girl will benefit her height,
or her apparent height, very greatly by
cultivating her muscle, II she will learn
> to be strong she will learn to be taller.
The short girl must try to keep fresh
=, all the day, for, if she gets tired, she grows
shorter at once. All people are shorter at
, night than in the morning. and all people
are shorter when they are tired than when
, they are fresh. AS you get tired you sag
and your A. ches are much less than when
you are fresh and vigorous.
!, II the short girl will stand up straight
,, and lift her arms over her head. extend
ing them right up in the air until the finger
. tips touch an imaginary beam above her
% head, and if she will keep on doing this a
dozen times day she will find that she il
growing a little taller She will first notice
!. It in the Engineering Of tho waist.
The jumping rope Affords an excellent
,, means of physical culture for the short
girl She should not jump with it so much
i, as she should perform other exercises
. IF she will take the skipping rope by the
. handles and will stretch out her arms
:, swinging them and raising and lowering
them II will raise her not a little.
= Making ones self taller IL slow proc
ess It takes a month before any per
ceptible difference Ia noted and then L b
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