Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-02

in the ordinary commerce of life who are
twelve and one-half feet in stature?
Are YOU personally chummy with many
Young women who are ten feet nine
inches tall"
Reason we're asking is because these
are the invariable heights of young EEL
lers and young women as depicted by the
illustrators of current fiction.
The present writer doesn't know any
young folks of such a degree Of altitude
mostly. Hasn't met any yet Don't know
where such could be found.
He remembers, dimly, that Chang. the
Chinese giant with the greatest show on
earth, away back yonder at the time one
was wearing his first pair OF gailuses-
that Chang was about eight and half
feet tall, and that Chang was viewed oy
the simple folk of his generation as being
quite some elongated.
He recalls too, a gangling young wom-
an from Missouri, name now forgotten,
who also trouped at that distant day with
the greatest show, etc. This young per-
son. who walked so clumsily that she was
commonly suspected of having heignt-in-
creasing stills concealed by her skirts.
was advertised as being above eight feet
in stature, and. seeing that she was all
arms and things, why, she certainty iooh-
She was tall gell and no mistake.
Aside from these, however. this humble
writer doesn't remember having come
upon any others Of such extreme YER
ticalness, so to speak.
He hasn't met any, Of either sex, in the
course of the everyday little affairs OF
existence.
He would be sorely put to it. not to
put to too fine point upon the matter, TO
fAlIA of
quaintance who is twelve and half feet
in stature or solitary young woman OF
his acquaintance who is ten feet nine
inches tall.
But the fiction illustrators make EN-
that tall. and they ought to know, hadn't
they?
In the average novel Of today the young
Teller as he stands straight up to pro-
pose to the CELL In the conservatory, SO
looms above the altitudinous palms In
the conservatory that the palms sort o
look like chickweed in comparison with
him. And the CELL herself. also standing
straight up TO give ear to his proposal, Is
so ee-normously stretched out that you
wonder, really how long 1t takes her
mind to take note OF the fact that she
has cold feet-cold feet over the proposal
or over any other old thlng.
But to continue.
Are all of the young males on your list
of friends boX-jawed?
Have they ali got those protrusive, re-
o. Bessemer steel. denoting that they're
embryonic captains of finance, or dis
tinguished jurist-consults to be In the
dawning time?
Do they all keep their adamant. merci-
less jaws clamped together all the time,
as if suffering from tetanus, commonly
known as lockjawe
Because. you know, the fiction illus
-.
This writer knows quite a number OF
youngish chaps who haven't got Jaws or
that kind: some of EN- have got retreat
ing chins, as a matter of fact, and
majority OF them. one would say, speak
ing offhandedIy, really relent once in a
while and not only smile, but look quite
Erinny.
But the fiction illustrators. it appears.
never happen to meet up with the KIND
of youngish chaps here adverted TO.
And then the) eyes of the fiction heroes
as portrayed by the illustrators.
Honestly, II young men OF this era pos
sessed eyes Of the illustrators idea Of
ewes this would be the cruelest world
you ever saw or heard OF.
The illustrators give 'em eyes that are
partly bovine but wholly cold, callous,
brooding. devilish Eyes that are pitt
'eu: that make you feel like building
a nice little bonfire under the owners of
the ewes to see il the eyes would by any
possibility reflect the sparks OF the bon
Are
They certainly are the murderousest,
Bill MISUNDERSTANDING bunch OF dressed
Up sons of galley cooks, these heroes
OF current fiction as portrayed by the il
Illustrators that could be imagined.
And with their inordinate and unvary-
ing stature Of twelve and one-half feet,
there isn't any one Of 'em that any or
binary person wouldn't just nachully hate
to meet up with on dark and lowering
night. what?
AS one Of 'em stands confronting the
CELL, he seems always to be In the very
article OF informing her that he's going
to stake her to q black eye immejH.
He appears to be menacing her with
blackjack which he has secreted in his
derringer pocket.
He seems to be looming over her-you
see she's only ten feet nine inches high,
which, giving him nearly q foot and a
half bulge on her in the matter Of height
enables him to loom over her-he seems
to be saying to her. as he towers threat
eningiy over her that way, something
like this:
Now. look a-here. you. You behaved!
You act pretty to me or I'll bounce you
Off the top OF that icehouse across the
street! Dye get that? Just you come
TO these arms, you pop-eyed doll, or TIL
make you sorry you didn't cash in when
you we're three months old! Act like