The Jersey City news., 1906-06-01
HOW TALL GIRLS
ARE HANDICAPPED
They Aren't In It With the
Little Wemen In the Mat
rlsassssl Rsoe
TOO MUCH FoR THE MEN
nHnY MAKE THE LATTER LOOK
SMALL WHICH IS UNPARDoN-
ABhD-To SPEND A HOLIDAY.

TIE hard case of the tallSgiri is sell
Hom realized even by herself. 1t is SO
much the fashion 70 admire the type OF
Juno that she misses iaOwing just how
much ehe-is handicapped ualsss she tries
to make her living, says the Chicago Fri-
bune.
IF she does this in any of the mercan-
sils pursuits she finds that the average
siaed figure counts for everything in
all salesrooMs, showrooIns and even in
ofaOas. where the appearance of the
woman employees is estimated by the gen.
eral effect they have together.
As mercantile model she is useless,
and as an artists model she is only
wantedsin special and rare cases. If she
tries going on the stage she quickly is
bDoughs % a realization of the fact that
Aer height is handicap.
Naturally, in the commercial positions
height is not handicap, and it is the
GIRL who wishes in some way to use her
good looks to best advantage that finds
herself discounted, no matter how pretty
she may be.
But it is the way in which she is out
Of toach with things matrimonial which
Is the greatest drawback to the girl of
amSaxon-like proportions and one which
rs likely to become serious question be-
cause she has now to be considered as a
class instead Of an exception.
TAe girl athletic still barely in her
asens, wAe towers shove her mother and
ssysho puts her male contemporaries IN the
sehadA is becoming q fact to be reckoned
with. A London paper recently COM
,x2entsd on the fact that the streets are
Full of hese young girls, who are the
resultof outdoor training in which men
Fare too busy to compete.
h.0ftensr than she has any ideo of, it is
E2robable the girl Of this type loses out
sssith the man who would like to became
'1er lord and master. but who realizes
that physically he roes met look the part.
In these days men are developed arti-
fcially to the point where they have an
artistic sense of the fitness of things
The instructive law of keeping the species
I, the normal of which Schaupenhauer
wrote and which would make the pyg-
mics in size turn to the young giantess
for mate, does not seem to work in the
man of cultivation. lie kings were not
trained especially in the science of buildr
ing a strong race, it is probable that
Queen Helena, for instance, would still
be only the beautiful Montenegrin prin-
cess.
A king cannot be made to appear ri
diculous, but such a step as this the
ordinary man In high life seems to con-
slider good chance Of being made SO,
Once In a while couple on which this
snispreportfon of size occurs is seen to
pass trundling or leading after them the
small signs of matrimony, but these cases
20 not occur "in society"
..shsn one Of these young amazons gets
.rasTisd it isxo man who is actually of
.N5s own sixs, although he may not seem
~. I'LL 3sva man as she does fer girl.
ySs6h tsme one Of these weddings takes
&aee .s1s astonishing revelation of the
92Beuof xnauaity tan girls Is the re-
,fh shs idea o. ruakiag her wedding
dA5acturesape as psssakle the tall bride
plans. to pick out only such bridesmaids
sssare Of her own height. and. although
ats6ast everybody wonders just where
theAars to come from. 1t is easy to think
Of still more and mere until usuaMy she
has enough for the most elaborate we'd
uAfk&s WhL1o1S 0CPnA k1uS AAoAA H4c4 OBa
circle. 1t u long time before they are
called out again. which is In itself suf
6cienk Sroof Of their slight chances mat
hiinpnialsN
Fhe tail girl may glory in her height
An& her woman friends may admire her,
but it b the rare man whose sense Of
beauty i developed so that he wants to
marry her. He thinks she il great on the
golf links, he is less attentive when it
comes to filling out her hance program,
and he is stiA more shy at the altar.
Introduce one of thess amozons TO your
brother or the friende whom you would
Nke to have take fancy 20 her, and you
will have the verdict OF she ordinary
sized and commonplacs man. s'aasS q
ans sirl, but shes toe big Sor me-" b
win say. unless he is a big. strspping
afhelete himself
A. a masssr u fact. de tail gil u not
In dexaan& except for occasions Of show