The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1932-10-18
SHOULD A SKINNY WOMAN CHANCE
MATERNITY?

Affair six vcars of persuasan, she writes. my
husband has about decided that ne IL wiii.ns
to have a baby provided that the FISK ID ho' ""
great for woman Of my age. -,
Hats off men, to this courageous huspanu'
| Seriously though, no kidding suppose the
women OF the world should declare honday
and leave 1t to us men 10 nave '"'
Would we squawk!
| old Sc inches tall, and weighs I'D POUNDS !
suppose with her teeth In and everything; IN
snitc of that she AYERS she IL In no PAIN 10
sneak of at any time. Her husband, she solemn
| " declares, IL six feet eleven inches TAI ana
weighs ITS pounds. suspect the lady IS con
fused in her measurements. Whataman ~ prop.
ablv Ave feet eleven inches tall, and even AT
that he is no midget what
Rut here comes the sea ndal Besides her
| whale of Il husband the skinny woman seehis
to carry on an intrigue with another chapsWho
has often figured in this column. she mas ben
Told that since she measures only 10 lhches
from hip to hip across the abdomen loi course
she means from anterior superior spine or the
illum to the same point of the opposite mum
across the bely) her husbands child would
likely be too large for her to bear.
Well, that's far enough to go in this sordiu
recital.
NV advice to the skinny woman is to give
Ben Told the air, also Mrs Sumsey and Sairy-
gamp and settle down now to raise her family.
At the age of IS to 40 years a woman Is or
should be in her prime physically and better
fitted for motherhood than ever before. In
fact women of that age who achieve the happi-
easy delivery, end not a hard time as the old
harpies would have them imagine
A woman Is old as she feels.
/ have never known of disaster or regret
coming to the woman who bears her first baby
at that age. that Is. anything that could fairly
be attributed to her mature age.
The measurement the thin woman gives
doesn't mean anything. because the dimensions
Of the true pelvis Independent of the
breadth of the hips II there is any doubt of
the development of the pelvis her physician can
JnIa I,x p1afr,
normal pelvic capacity has been attained.
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