The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-28
WOMAN MUCH MORE LIKE NAN
AB0UT RIGHT NOW PHYSICiL-
IL, SAYS DIR. SARGENT.

dit rreuce Between women Of To-day and
Those ss 1880 shown by Measure
ments- Man fseesming Q Bit Eneml-
nate. Thinks Director Of Har, ara Gym.
fast assuming the physical proportions
and mental characteristics Of man? DR.
Dudley A. Sargent. director Of the Harvard
and Sargent gymnasiums in this city.
believes he has noted steps I'm such
transformation In the last twenty years.
He argues from q figure moulded from
measurements made prior to isso Of 10, 900
women On the other hand. he AYERS.
man is inclining toward etreminacy.
Although I've no actual figures 70
verify the statement Dr. Sargent says.
i know for a fact tina, the women OF
to-day are more mannish han the women
OF that time Women in the savage
state were so like men in form that il
WAS well nigh impossible to tell them
apart. Then as civilization progressed
their especially feminine characteristics
became accentuated until the exaggera-
tion Was almost painful to look at. Then
the pendulum began to swing the other
way. Women are again beginning to
look and be more like men.
Great changes in this direction have
been made since the moulding OF that
statue. The women from whom the
for " were taken were OF
q very different conformation from those
Of to-day. The composite was the ex-
IRENE type Of feminity. She was woman
Her hips and all the
pelvic portion were overlarge. Her waist
was oversmall. Her feet also were I'M
developed. So were her back and neck.
since tina, time her physique has been
thorou ghly made over IL Is approx
mating that OF man. The sloping Shout
ders OF her grandmother time have dis
appeared They are no longer in fashion
In their place We find well knit. athletic
broad ones Her back Xix e.
wise 10 better developed Her hips. on
the other hand. are not 80 large as they
once were The entire pelvic region
has decreased In size and the result has
been an enlargement Of the waist. The
small waist IL . thing Of the past. Her
neck 10 thick er and more muscular. her
limbs more smoothly developed. her
hands and feet are larger In every
re-pec. OF which We in max ing measure
ments Of many women daily take note
the woman Of to-day 10 getting 70 be more
like man
Her chest has been said 10 be hatter
I should hardly wish TO indorse that
opinion II is tine. however that her
chest NAV APPEAR ffatt"r. because. I am
glad to say. the corset which formerly
forced it upward has Of late been some
what modified II il this modification
Of the corset which IL responsibl. for the
Of womAn's figure The chest
is therefore larger and better developed
than the ches, you see in that statue
In certain persons the chest il developed
TO an extreme degree and il stronger
han tina, Of a man The modification
II th,>corse, 40 ! have said. is one reason
for the change in womans physique
Another reason is that within the last
twenty years women have done grsa,
deal more IN -h. way Of athletics than
hey did formerly
Golf tennis. running and swimming
have done much To ImprOv. woman's
physical development. Being the sports
" hiCh one naturally takes to ~. masc,I-
lane. they have the inevitable result OF
those who indulge in them more
like men. for IL IL a rule that one may
take few exceptions TO- that Il a man de-
votes himself 10 the activities Of "A woman
or II a woman devotss herself TO tn. ac-
Invites Of man there ~ bound Ia be a
iO-S II ~eN
This approximation IL mans physique
-. from an meteorological point Of view.
A tad thing. II ID 10 he hoped that men
and women do not grow to he more alike
than they are to-day. Tn. same may
h. said 81 men From tn. overd.veloped
Sindo~ man has changed TO tn. .iYemi-
nate and the foppish being Tn. as~imi-
Iation Of the seNss by each other IL a
possibility 20 he decried The develop
rnent have been speaking OF is mental
A. well az physical
The danger Of woman's becoming too
IL momentous The pendulum
in swinging from one extreme 60 the
other 10 bound 10 hit at some time upon the
happy medium. the point Of ideal de-
velopment. should think that IL was.
At the present time. on the whole that
we should be most likely 20 find the physi-
cal development At its highest stage
Care must be taken not to let the pendulum
swing too far the other vay-