Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-11-28
WOMEN MORE
LIKE THE MEN
And Vics Versa, Says, DR..
Sargent, the Expert.

Cambridge, Mass, Nov. 2S.-That the
physical type of American womanhood
has undergone a tremendous change in
the last twenty years and is approach
ing that Of the opposite sex is the be-
lief Of DR.. Dudley Allen Sargent, d.
rector of gymnastics at Harvard uni
versisy. That mar is going woman
ward is another statement he makes.
DR.. Sargent believes such a transfer
nation has been made in part in the
last twenty years. He cites a model
Of a composite woman nodded from
measurements made from 10000 wo-
men, all taken prior to the year 1890.
On the other hand, he AYERS, man is
inclining toward efeminacy.
Although I have no actual figures
to verify the statement DR.. Sargent
says, Il know that women of today are
more mannish than the women of
twenty years ago. Women in the saw
age state were so like men In form
that 1t was well nigh impossible to tell
them apart. Then rs civilization pro-
crossed their especially feminine char
acteristics became accentuated until
the exaggeration was almost painful to
look at. Then the pendulum began to
swing the other way. Women again
are beginning to look and be more like
men.
Her Hips We're Too Large.
Great changes in this direction have
been made since the melding of that
statue. The women from whom the
measurements for it were taken We're
of a very different conformation from
those Of today. The composite was the
extreme type of femininity. She was
woman overwomanized. Her hips
were overlarge. He waist was over
small. Her feet also were %undevelop-
ed. So were her back and neck.
''Since that time her physique has
been made over. 1t is approximating
that of man. The sloping shoulders
of her grandmother's time have dis
appeared. They no longer are in fash
ion. In their place We find well knit,
athletic shoulders, broad ones. Her
back likewise is better developed. Her
hips, on the other hand, are not so
large as they once were.
"a small waist is a thing of the past.
Her neck is thicker and more muscu-
lar, her limbs more smoothly devel-
oped, and her hands and feet are lar
ger.
Improvement of Corset Helps.
"Her chest has been said to be fat
ter. I should hardly wish to indorse
that opinion. 1t is true, however, that
her chest may appear fatter, because,
1 am glad to say, the corset, which
formerly forced 1t upward, of late has
been somewhat modified. 1t Is this
modification of the corset which is re-
sponsible for the betterment of wo-
mans figure.
''In certain persons the chest is de-
veloped to an extreme degree and is
stronger than that of a man. In the
last twenty years women have done a
great deal more in the way of athlet-
les than they did formerly.
''The sports one naturally takes to
be masculine have made those who in
dulge In them more like men. If a
mar devotes himself to the activities
of a woman or If q woman devotes
herself to the activities of a man
there Is bound to be a loss of sex.
mans physique has changed too.
From the oyerdeveloped Sandow man
has changed to the effeminate and the
fopplsh being. The assimilation of
sexes by each other is a possibility to
be decided. The developments have
been mental as well as physical"