The evening world., 1910-12-01
Her Figure Is Becom.
ing More Like Mans. but
the Change Is Simply Making
Her What She Should Be.
Hazard Physical Director
Explains.
Girls Ire Getting More Sensible
in Taking Proper Exercise,
but There's No Chance of
Their OufSfnpping Men, Who
Are Advancing Some Them
SelUeS.

'NUtlh I" Nv ''" ''
CAMBRIDGE Mass Dec. l'-"Do
you really believe the American girl OF
to-day Is becoming mannish7" an Eve
ming World correspondent asked DR..
Dudley Allen Sargent. director OF the
Hemenway Gymnasium OF Harvard
University. whose quoted statement las,
accordinp IN repor,s. stirred I'D the
r.ra,h -, .ho,o u,ho s,,, be,iove tho
,-. - u oaa, =.
-.
uai"'y anu e""S" 10 VI W."
moment tnere was a great s"e"'e'
Then the doctor rose from MS swinging
chair and. standing at his desk, spoke
thusly:
us this he foolish season OF the
rear. when the newspapers must send
out to ME men who would nave me
say what I do not believe and who
write what I have not said? Is there
such a dearth OF news that stories suca
as this."-and he pointed TO an articie
with a headline that well might make
men tremble In their boots TOT rear
their day had come must DC
printed?'
The Evening World man. Tor tne mo
meht nonpiused' made another start
But you do say mat there mas oeen
In the last twenty years n marked
change In the female fgure, l oele'e'
Not Becoming Mannish.
"cer,ainIv. certainly.' DR.. Sargent re-
nIied .pu, 7 do not believe and have
never hold that the girls are becoming
m,nnisb 7 s,npose the mother OF every
rirl who attends this gymnasium vii
no WONDERING a,ter reading the articles
,ha, bave anne,red. why I am trying to
turn their daughters into men. Why,
IN n fsu davs will have letters pour-
inc 4, bero from nj, parts of the coun-
try nro,es,ing against my daring to do
such a thing and telling me that 1 do
not know what / am talking about.
1.-THE girls are getting more sensi-
BILE; that's the whole story. In
stead OF sitting in the parlor and
folding their hands all day they go
out ana take exercise. OF course
It's going to make q change! But
Il 10 not going to make mon Of
them!
Twenty years ago tight lacing ana
; lack OF proper exercise gave us i
woman with small feet, a diminutive
, waist. abnormally large hips. siopInS
!, shoulders and a small or thin neck.
To-day we ind a change The feet
} are somewhat larger the mp s"h""e''
due ndouOtedIy 10 the iact 'ha' Inv
/ corset worn now Is t'S"t aoou' '"e
hips; the waist Is arsef- much ia'se''
the shoulders are broader ana nave ios'
their unwarranted Slope anu 'aS''S' '"e
neck Is thicker. s
NoW' all or TINS Is que 10 'he i'0'
that to-day women exercise more 'HeS
are hoI becoming mahii'S"' ihueeu' INC
woman's form nat tell apout Is not
even newt mas merely come oaeN u
-, what 1t originally was
Men Advancing, Too.
But how about the poor mem" DR..
. Sargent was asked. Are they Siding
, back so fast that women WIZ sum oe
: their physical superlorsT'
In anwer ne handen over d pooNie',
THE Physique OF scholars' Athietea ana
the Average STUDENT was is 'lue' ~
. Sargent himself. It's author ana as me
, World man opened 1t and looked biankiy
over its pages OF hgures ana STATISTICS
the author helped out by saying
"1t shows that man ~ ~a'@no-
ing, not railing osox' Anu .. 'or
. the woman advanc''3 10 fap,a'y -
to outstrip tho msn' "s -" 'A
sense.
4 There are men vko come to the gym
! nas,pm here and IN the first six months
-, deveIon nearly 20 per cent. Now. that
=, does M, mean that they are going to
. "a NOR cont In the mex
! u''e''p g. u,,,n ,ho woma,
rev months III ah' 90 WIN -
t There has been In the past t"en'y yea,
a great agitation for more athietcs aho
better developed women and they have
" needed the call. Now, they may have
- $1,000 1T "a nor cent in that time
"a'a' IN no, adyarca q,
nut certainty my W." NV
rapidly IN the future
Depends Upon rasnion'
.r, doas not take any great r~easonine