Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1911-11-02
WOMEN NOT TOO FAT
Chicago Experts PoOh-Pooh New
York PesSimiSt'S Views.
Women Here Are Slender and As TO
Gotham, Says One Dressmaker,
They May Be Fieshy, but An
other Doubts II.


Chicago are there so many
fat women? "-Quotation from New
York dispatch in morning newspa-
per.
There are not!"-Answer OF Chi
cago experts on the figure feminine.
Some little old New Yorker with
his Broadwise eyes, has been making
observations in the eastern city, but
his profound dismay" at what he
calls the alarming corpulence OF our
middle aged women" finds no SYM
pathetic echo in Chicago. A reporter
visited half dozen corset dealers and
filters and found them agreed that
the Chicago woman, at least, retains
her slim, graceful figure.
IL admit that the New York woman
is a little prone TO stoutness,' said
downtown corset shop, but the Chi
cago woman still has the loose, ath-
letic lines, so much admired and de-
sired"
The New York dispatch deplores
that women "waddle ponderously" at
thirty.five, condition reached by
overeating and drinking. The average
weight-New York figures-is 165
pounds and suit sizes 3S bust and
"a waist.
The average Chicago woman weighs
under $50 pounds" continued Miss
Nichols. She wears a SO bust and
"a waist That has been my expert
ence, and handle all sorts and class
es OF women.
How does she do it? Why, by TAX
ing care of herself. For instance, she
does not overeat She has practical
diet. which everybody should have.
She does not eat at all hours OF the
night She exercises systematically
that is, when she Is advised to exer-
else to keep In condition she does not
90 violently pell-mell at 1t. She uses
common sense.
Then our leisure class is a leisure
better care of themselves than Chi
cago society women. However, the
appreciation of the luxurious never de-
velops into mad chase 1t is tenn
pered with right living. AS far as
getting old and 'matronly' at thirty
I'VE Is considered-well, she Just
don't.
This New York man says he has
counted four stout women to every
stout man. Just go out on the street
any time and make observation and
see how far from fitting the Chicago
condition that New York observation
comes"
Miss Anna Snyder, manager OF an
other shop and an expert filter.
laughed when she read the dispatch.
isn't that just like a MANI" she
smiled. Why, with modern lacing 1t
is beyond any poor man to tell wheth-
er woman is stout or slender. Cor
setting has become such a science that
women strike more symmetrical
average
Another sapient remark by this
male person is that the American wom-
an cannot wear hobble skirt be-
cause her hips are too broad. That
New York man certainly should take
trip outside of his city. Why, the
hobble was made for the slender lines
OF the Chicago feminine figure"
We'll, | just returned from New
York." said Nine. Jeanne, at the head
OF another establishment, land while
the New York woman has made a fine
start toward running her figure with
immoderate eating and drinking, I
fear she is not SO far past redemption
as the New York man would have us
think. Perhaps he has preference
for the splender type and one or two
stout women seen one right after the
other sent him off in panic.
AT any rate, we need not worry
over Miss Chicago becoming stout.
She knows how to care for herself and
Is acquainted with the fact that mod
Grafton in living means moderation In
figure. That is why the Chicago per.
son Is often surprised to hear visitors
comment on the general beauty OF the
women OF the city. To him it has be.
come so common that he does not
realize the fairness OF the city until
he has himself been on a VISIT"