The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-03-19
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Up jumps the devil again. This time in the form of fashion or feminine pulchritude. It's all the same thing.
 The beauty shops of New York have chosen an "idear' for 1886. She is a little flea-bite of girl, lovely and dainty as Titania her self, little dancer who weighs no more than a pound of soap after 8 hard days wash. Her height IS five feet one inch. Her perfect thirty six, is alas, thirty-just thirty. Her shoes, page the prince, are size four. Just a itty-bittsy girl who is strong and healthy enough but whom nature decided not to make any bigger. And now what? This is where the heartbreak of it comes in.
 Something sent us off at tan- gent about ten years ago when suddenly it became fashionable over the week end to look like a fence slat. It was on us before we knew just what skullduggcry was afoot. The youngsters knew though, long before parents woke up to the fact that the oatmeal wasn't being eaten, and that the potatoes were scraped off DOdo's plate into the sink strainer every night. That, in plain words, the girls were dieting 50 they could look like Betty Bronson or Bessie Love, airy-fairy creatures made of nothing.
 Girls getting their first rank growth, and needing forage at the most important time of their lives, looked in the mirror and com pared their bulging lines aud newly filling limbs with increasing horror. At the puppy stage when feet take Over-Sized shoes and mother in the dress shop whispers to the sales lady, "Size 20, please. You know she is only sixteen but she's growing so fast" That sen- sitive, tragic time when the girl in her young teens wants to look like princess but generally does not.
 Victory Was Only Tcmporarss.
 She will shape up, of course. She will turn into q swan, very likely, this ugly duckling, but she doesn't know that. She is sure she is too tall, too fat, too pink, too healthy. A
 MOSt DOSl-WdI ttitAS way, especially when dressmakers, too, decreed that one might as well be dead as not to have a "boyish'' figure.
 When parents and doctors woke up to the truth, they fought these youngsters tooth and natl. It took. years, but they won.' The big sturdy girl has been on her way back to our midst. The oat- meal and the marmalade and the milk were having their way, and to look as robust as Mae West, plus a few pounds of Kate Smith even, did not bother the young misses of the land. All was se- rene and growing more serene. The little whiffet was out of vogue and the girls no longer whispered when they went into store and asked for a size seven once. What the heck difference did it make! Who was ashamed of the big bad bones. and fat, and what-not any way? Give me another sundae. Pcte.;" ,..
 But now it looks as though it would all be to do over agaip With petite Marion Quigley select ed as the ideal woman for 1886" the ball Is over the fence asain and the enemy Is in. Let's hope the girls haven't seen it, -'the mo- tice. mean. If they do it Is too bad. If for no other reason than because it makes them feel gawky rnd inferior. Why can't some body set up a statue. Of Venus ds Milo and say. ''Thcre girls, copy that and he yourselves"
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