The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-01-31
often enormously suppose.-Leonie Gil.
mour, in National Magazine.


American Glantesses.
The American woman has added a
full inch TO her average height. She
is growing steadily taller, while the
future American man, the business
man in particular, threatens to be
small and wiry specimen of humanity.
who will have to look up to his tall
wife, physically. at all events.
Statistics show that at the age Of fif-
teen the average height of boys and
girls is the same, each measuring sixty
two inches.
1t is after fifteen that the girl pushes
ahead. for she has all the opportunities
of physical development denied her
| brother.
Under ordinary circumstances q boy
goes to work Immediately upon grad
uating from the high school He then
goes into store. factory, or takes his
place behind a desk and remains there
! for most of his days. The store is
| badly ventilated. He stoops over his
work. He exercises as little as pos
sible. All this is not conducive to
growth. At the age of eighteen, so
says physician who has made
study of the matter, the average man
who is denied any form of outdoor
work ceases to grow. After thirty
years of age, providing the same seden.
tary life is observed, n man often con
tracts a STOPPING habit, which takes
another inch or so off his height
DR.. Robert Hutchinson thinks it pos.
slble that nature is producing by de-
grees a race of men particularly fitted
to survive the wear and nervous strain
of American business life. The future
man will be short and stocky, capable
of getting along with comparatively
| small amount of food, which will not
overstrain his digestive capacity. His
force will go toward the preservation
of nerve and brain, and not to be
wasted on mere muscle or height. The
future man will be much less than
medium height.
Not so the future woman. For the
first time since the Golden Age she has
ceased to be a drudge. While her
brother is going TO work she is con-
tinuing to develop herself physically as
we'll as mentally. She longs to be
tall. And what she longs for she us
ually gets. Gibson set for her an ideal
in the tall girl. This ideal she is stead
lily achieving in a surprising manner
out-of-door exercise, physical culture,
mechanical methods of increasing the
height rational and irrational means
she tries them all, and by her indomita-
BILE perseverance she has raised the
standard of size for the sex full inch
in the past few years.
The perfect woman used to measure
five feet five inches. The correct height
is now five feet six inches; but the
American woman's ideal is nearer FIVE
feet eight.
Housework for the woman of to-day
has been brought down to minimum
by the host of modern inventions of
which her grandmother never dreamed.
Fiat life has reduced her indoor sphere
to third or less of the space occu-
pied by her former home. All this
gives her more leisure, more time to
be outdoors, more opportunity for the
physical development that was denied
the generations before her. In depart
ment stores all the sizes in garments
have increased. Skirt lengths used to
average from thirty TO forty one
inches; now the ordinary length is
from forty-two to fifty-one inches.
But strange to say, the tall woman of
to-day and the small but successful
man find each other most congenlal,
and so it happens that ministers are in
no wise astonished at performing the
marriage ceremony for a couple who
have quite reversed the old ideas that
woman, to be the right height, should
reach to mans heart. Brides of to-
day are quite as often n trifie taller
than bridegrooms, and the couple show
no embarrassment whatever at turn
ing the tables in this way. The bride
recalls that most great men were small
beginning with that immortal trium-
vlrate-Napoleon, Wellington, Caesar
The bridegroom consoles himself with
the knowledge that he is in the advance
guard of the age where the tall woman
will have to choose small men because
there will be no others.-New York
World.
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