Show AMERICAN GIRLS WAISTS A saya they are much too small for development dr J C kellogg of battle creek mich bloke at the washington high school to tho girls of the school daring his visit recently he opened his remarks by announcing that he was going to say some very unpleasant things about young ladies notwithstanding their good looking faces he said most of them are crippled and deformed the doctor has devoted fifteen years to the study of the human figure ha has made measurements of the mexicans the italian german and french peasants and compared the size of their waists with those of american girls and has come to the conclusion that the average american woman is deformed that her waist is too small for her body he had compared the waist measurement with the height and as a result cf 1200 measurements found that the average waist measurement is only 39 per cent of the height the average waist of the american woman inches the waist of the venus de milo is 47 per bent of tho height with such a waist as that a woman could draw a good big breath tho waist of a woman he said ought to be larger than a mans because her liver is larger he said a smaller heart but a larger liver but not pleasing tha young ladies by this remark he added only in quantity in quality it is otherwise the doctor said that those organs which should bo above the waist line ara so pressed down by tight clothing as to make women deformed he called particular attention to tha fact that although a woman doubled in weight the measurement of her increase at all while in washington the last few days dr kellogg has measured the waists of twelve little girls in a private school and found the smallest waist twenty ahrea inches tho average was twenty four inches ono was twenty five and one half inches and one twenty six and one half inches and those waists he said will become smaller as the girls grow older these restrictions of the waist causo many other deformities such as hollow chests drooping and round shoulders dr kellogg did not see any reason why women be as strong 03 men the doctor spoke of the women who carry heavy burdens on their shoulders up and down hills and said that they are among the healthiest women in the world he showed by diagrams that tho bamo evils occasioned in women by tight clothes were to be found in men who wore belts new york commercial advertiser ver tiser |