Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-03-11
WlNIFRED BLACK
WRITES ABOUT
WOMEN GROWING
TALLER.
Copyright, 1921. by
Newspaper Feature Service, Inc.

fifty years ago and they are a good
! many pounds heavier So says Or.
| TAFT Mckenzie. director Of physical
education at the University of Penn
sylvania DIR. Mckenzie has been mill
ing over a lot Of exact statistics COM
piled from years and years of other
peoples experience, and he ought to
know.
We all ought to know without being
told by any specialist.
Women are not only growing taller
and heavier than their mothers and
grandmothers, but they have bigger feet
and bigger hands and bigger waists than
the women ever had before. since shoes
and gloves and corsets came into
fashion.
l don't know single girl who can
wear her mothers shoes-do you?
And as for her grandmother s-you Just
get little Miss Gwendolyn to try to slip
on one Of her grandm others wedding
slippers and see il she can get even
the tip of her toe into It.
Twenty years ago an average woman
wore a number 3 or 312 shoe. Now
the average woman wears a number .
shoe. and no ones in the least as
tonished to hear stunning girl con
fess to wearing number shoe.
Her grandmother would have gone
into a convent before she would have
made such an admission.
Bigger in Every Way.
A number 6 glove was large size
twenty years agornow many wear I
or 71a-and think nothing Of t:
Mothers waist measured eighteen
or twenty inches. Daughters meas
ures thirty inches and she doesn't care
who knows it.
The average daughter today can pick
grandma up and carry her downstairs
as if she were doll.
Is the average man keeping up with
the average woman?
Is he taller and broaded shouldered
and heavier?
Has he bigger hands and feet and
deeper chest and a thicker throat
than his father or his grandfather?
I wonder.
Sometimes they look 50 little to me,
the Young fellows who bring their nku-
leles around to the house in the spring
evening--so little and wispsh and sort
of frail. Not at all like the great. big,
strong men men we used to read about
n the old-fashioned romances.
Perhaps it's the clothes-the tight
coats and skimped trousers and queer
little hats and belted overcoats.
Mems tailors seem to try to make
men look like professional dancers with
girlish figure these days.
But, anyhow, the men do not look as
big as they looked a generation ago.
And the girls look not only as big
but lot bigger than their mothers
and as matter of fact, they are big
ger in every way.
I wonder if it's the tennis and the
swimming and the rowing and the golf
and the gymnasium.
Where's the girl who can't walk half
a mile without getting the backache +?
What's happened to the woman who
couldn't go out on the lake in a canoe
without coming home with sick head
ache?
What's become of the girl who had
to have a room on the first floor at
the boarding school because she couldn't
60 up and down stairs?
They're changing right before our
eyes-the boys and girls.
Consider Some Men.
/ saw some pajamas for sale in a
mems shop the other day, and they
were trimmed with ribbon, and nobody |
even smiled when ] mentioned it.
Mems nails are as well manicured
as women's these days-and if you
don't believe that men take facial !
now and then to get rid of
the barber.
He can tell you lot about glistening
hair and the things he puts on his GUS
toners heads to make then look like
movie heroes.
What does it all mean, really?
Something very deep and hard to
notwithstanding connected with
evolution, something that we can only
sense dimly in vague sort of way?
Or is it just a passing freak OF
passing mood Of Nature, that most
feminine Of all things?
What do you think about it?