Show i r y RAISING H London Physical Culturists Join American AmeriCan i Ac laimi r Medical Authorities Jn in Acclaiming g it i itc k tc Advent Within Few Generations t f e- e OJ of t Miss 7 G Gulliver U II j 3 i Z V the Herself Product c 4 o of Modern Athletics and Outdoor Life ife 4 Lh i t 4 4 i d isiS 11 4 TALLE Q 4 4 S Thanks to vigorous athletic games in which schoolgirls are encouraged and often required to participate England and x tf- tf l America are producing a race of young giantesses r Nb I l rj JI RI C I z vi X A m N i F lf i 4 w viaN iL rn t J r. r u Six foot debutantes perhaps girls eight to ten feet tall is the prospect prospect pros pros- for our grandchildren dren as a result of modern athletics say London experts analyzing upward tendency of f the modern girl H. H C C. Norris I By y London 1 K KEEP a young young mastiff puppy in a aret are are- re restricted o f space allow it no exercise t for years and you'll raise a lah-de-dah lah it sort of creature that will be quite at t x home in the drawing room without danz dani dan dan- z i ger of breakage to bric a Encourage a young mastiff puppy to scamper camper hither and yon teach it to play t tag and retrieve tennis ball take it on long riotous runs cross country let it swim in the brook every day and before before be- be fore you know it you'll have a great big bouncing grown full mastiff on your hands y Theres There's a lot of mastiff in the human y race Accordingly ladles ladies and gentle gentle- meet men Miss Gulliver For thanks to vigorous athletic games in which schoolgirls are encouraged encouraged- SS and often required to join England and America are producing a race of young giantesses Two London medical specialists specialists a man physician and a woman r surgeon have noted the symptoms and commented on the facts American and andS S English girls of today have trained into hard serviceable bunches the muscles which their mothers seldom used and their grandmothers grandmother didn't know existed 1 in the feminine CosmOs They hey have atS attained at- at tamed a greater muscular development S than has been attained by girls since the days of Sparta and they are progressing steadily toward a great deal more of the same Alas for the dainty petal flower hand and the lotus bud foot Girls in AmerIca America Amer- Amer ica and England are taller and broaders broader s shouldered than their mothers right 5 S now their hands and feet are are a good inch larger their waists anywhere from to ten inches inches' more around than mother ever dared to and admit they've only just begun To what widths and heights they will advance i in the next two or three generations is something J no one ne can gauge with accuracy as yet six foot debutante hovers noW THE in the offing Within not so long longa It a th e tithe tithe- her No 10 O slippers firmly tf planted on the floor and her size No D 9 hands toying with a cup of tea she will be a normal and average ornament f four our social functions When she goes onward and upward to perhaps seven feet or even eight if there is any limit to the stature possible for the human race nobody has yet discovered the fact our fragile modern houses will have to be enlarged not to say ay re- re enforced and the rise of the nine foot debutante will certainly mark the decline of the the- kitchenette apartment While at first thought it might seem highly desirable to raise young Gull Gulli- who even at the age of 10 or 12 will be able by standing tiptoe to to lift things down from the top closet 5 U S yet shelf London medical authorities view the approach of this new generation genera genera- Y tion with mingled feelings One authority authority au- au contends that by playing games which were originally invented for big S boys and young men the girls of today are not merely developing any muscles which come along They ar are he says developing in n particular the combative and muscles the com combative instinct 1 Can you imagine a fractious child ot of six feet two going into a tantrum in the too not future at for example the laden china dinner table of its leftover grandparents who measure only around five feet eleven Or can you picture the same child having arrived at womanhood womanhood woman woman- hood and eight or nine feet permitting her combative instincts to assert themselves themselves them them- selves against a mere seven foot husband when the uny little man whose mother hadn't gone in for athletics much came home homp ate for supper Or can you see but after all the ten seven girl is sufficiently far faraway faraway away at present like end of the world which if you take a gloomy view of things her arrival may well pre pre- It is the present modern girl getting speedily along toward six feet that most concerns us at the instant If you are not concerned about her then you do not share the feelings of Dr Leonard Williams of London a physician physician cian of international reputation In teaching and making girls play these hard athletic games you develop the combative instinct and the combative muscles muscles so so goes the t e opinion of f Dr and Williams you are raising a race of giantesses who are going to have the combative disposition Another r effect of or orthis this ultra cism among girls of today is to produce a creature who has the mate male rather than the female characteristics Well of course nobody would like that that- very much Not even the young ladies themselves So before giving up entirely to despair it seemed as well not to accept the inevitable unless the necessity for accepting it were rated And who would know more about the effect of athletics upon girls than a woman surgeon Around the corner comer from the office of Dr Williams and inthe in the same Harley street district famous for its medical specialists is the office of Joyce Partridge English English surgeons donot do donot not take the title graduate Doctor of the Royal College gery Of the modern athletic type and herself nearly six feet tall tall it did seem as if this woman surgeon were ideally equipped to talk on the subject And there was always the chance that she might ight not agree in any particular with the giantess theory Hope began to glimmer It glimmered only until Partridge spoke Afterward it j just st sort of flickered Anyway as you shall see see it didn't really die Women are indeed growing larger and taller she said at once and so are men The children of this generation genera genera- tion when full grown often are taller than their parents Undoubtedly this is due in part to the widespread playing of vigorous athletic games by both girls and boys But it is also due to the fact that the health of the whole race is better We know hygiene we know diet we know rational dress to a degree far greater than greater than that of preceding gen gen- orations Human beings are growing healthier larger and taller all the time Though it is difficult to get exact statistics chiefly because until recently nobody thought about taking the necessary 9 1 r y t j 1 J FULLER WAIST 0 1 rt LARG LARGER E HANDS HANOS Girls of- of today are taller i and broader Shouldered i Y J. J So I than their mothers their hands and feet t are a I good inch larder their I I I waists anywhere from t A six to ten inches more a around and r 0 U n d and they've And only just begun 0 LARGER FEET 4 r. r W A L I h F k S. S If one must have the prima facie evidence just compare the famous English Channel swimmer Gertrude Ederle with the diminutive mother and daughter of a century ago measurements from century to century yet we can easily prove of this point We can prove it for one thing by the suits of armor vorn by Crusaders by men in the time of of Richard II Nature usually works to our eyes ey s. s very slowly She takes infinitely long longto to make structural changes Millions of years are nothing in her working day But Richard II lived biologically speaking in our own times when you consider over what a lengthy period nature has been at work Richard JI II seems a almost most contemporaneous with ourselves And yet ever since the era of Richand Rich Rich- and II human beings have grown so much bigger and taller that the suits which fitted the men of Richards Richard's time are considerably t too o little for the men of oUr oWn o I am speaking naturally of the average man man and the average man nowadays cannot get into the Crusaders Crusaders' suits of armor his shoulders are too broad This indicates with what really astonishing speed the human race is gro growing larger AS FOR the av average rage woman nowadays nowadays nowa nowa- days the surgeon laughed when it was suggested that perhaps perhaps' a a modern girl might be successful in getting into the clothes of a lady at the court of Hof Richard II Apart from the high and accentuated waistline insisted upon by the Richards Richard's reign the handsome handsome hand hand- some broc brocaded gowns would be in every way too tight The sleeves would be too I Ismall small the shoulders would split at the first vigorous wriggle wiggle of the modern girls girl's attempt to insert herself into them And the shoes would simply dangle halfway halfway half half- way on her feet Besides which as the I surgeon poin pointed ed out no modern girl would put her active limbs into anything so obstructive as those yards and yards of glorious hampering silks and velvets They had a higher average of formal dignity in those days both men and women This was freely admitted But they had a lower average of good health And it seems as though they must have had a a good deal less fun Catherine de deMedici deMedici Medici dashing around a tennis court courtin in ruff f farthingale and v voluminous luminous embroidered embroidered em- em broidered train is unthinkable Catherine Catherine Cath- Cath erine never thought of such a thing herself herself her her- self because from babyhood the women of the good old days wore frocks of heavy stuffs that all but hid their feet Perhaps if Catherine de Medici had gone in for hockey or basketball sh she Wouldn't have grown up with the mean disposition that prompted her to slip poison into peoples people's meat pies Though to be sure there were Iere several good Queens in various countries countries coun- coun tries those be- be wrapped and enveloped C centuries Very likely 4 they were were too languid to be anything more active than good r In any case there still F remains the problem of these modern giantesses What's to be done about t it v J Nothing replied the surgeon firmly Well but a seven foot girl you you know know- A six or seven foot girl Really Already the average modern girl is isa isa a bit of a giantess compared with the average girl of Richard II's reign the surgeon proceeded calmly and what if girls do grow into giants What harm is there in that Boys are tending in the same direction too Ah but the combative e sense now being roused in g girls by all all all' these hockey matches and so on The combative sense which is so noticeable in boys Isn't it going to be pretty awful when the young giantesses develop to the full their combative combative com com- sense and also the combative muscles to back it up Again the surgeon laughed The combative combative com com- sense Do modern athletic games it in boys I dont don't think so I think boys have it anyway Before boys learned to play hockey or tennis they had fights And now that they do play hockey and tennis they still have fights In my opinion athletic games may in a away away way be an outlet for the combative senSe but I dont don't think athletics de- de it Moreover did did you think women waited until they took up basketball and foot races before they developed an aptitude for combat have havethe havethe the combative sense and they acquired it just as men acquired il they were born with it Women are not generally looked upon as combative of course This is because women fight more with their tongues than with with- their fists and I dont don't think even if athletic games are developing the combative muscles of girls that girls will taketo take to fist fights for most women are by n nature ture averse to physical violence violence vio- vio lence no matter how physically strong they may beThere be There are exceptions to this of course In the London slums you may maysee maysee see a fight between two women almost any day and frequently it is a fight I I This slum type is the only type type of female who fights with her fists and her combative sense certainly was not developed developed de- de on the athletic field It by the way because women fight mare m re with their tongues than with their fists that men n call women catty x They have even called women gossipy if I remember aright But a natured good smile spread face men sometimes sometimes some some- over the surgeons surgeon's are times rather put put- putto to it when their combative combative com com- instincts happen to be aroused in some place where fists are not in order Work on committees with men and see how catty even how gossipy they are Its It's a bit curious isn't it WELL WELL WE'LL but this new young giantess 1 Y with her combative muscles all developed developed de- de isn't she going to be rather an ungainly object As she strides toward us up from the horizon isn't she going to be the utter antithesis of feminine grace Look at her great big feet Look at her great big hands too replied Joyce Partridge they are already already al- al ready big from playing tennis She is larger all over over but she is well This rightness of proportion would alone save her from being ungainly un- un ungainly gainly but in addition to right proportions proportions she has also the poise and grace which characterize the athlete An athlete you know is almost the the symbol of grace From slow motion pictures pictures pic pic- tures you can see that every movement of pugilists is graceful in the extreme and the ripple of muscles down their a arms is extraordinarily beautiful Slow Slow- low low- motion pictures also show us that 1 Even women runners embody grace wom women n jumping from the ground for a high stroke in tennis are marvelously graceful As for being unfeminine artists for centuries have admired the feminine grace of the classic Greek woman And Greek women were athletic Also Greek women wore clothes as sensible as the sports costumes of the modern girl That is why the women and girls of ancient Greece were feminine graceful and athletic all combined It is hopeless y to put an athletic girl i into to certain types of modern clothes The hobble skirt ski t for instance was never made for such as asher 1 her and consequently she looks ridiculous bus lous in it And feels ridiculous in it a too The girl who is petite and does i nothing but slink around her mothers mother's m drawing room looks well in a tight r skirt kirt and she's the only kind of girl who foes does look well in it But the athletic girl irl accustomed to taking a step of r honest lonest length looks in a tight skirt as helpless as she is Tight skirts are not for young giantesses They need and J generally demand the loose free clothing cloth cloth- ing ng of classic G Greece or the sensible loose sports ports clothing of today which in essentIals is not so very different from what Grecian women wore In this type of clothes the athletic young giantess if you like to call her hero so o looks entirely feminine And she 1 E En becoming less any feminine either In n outlook or characteristics IT rT MAY be inferred that Joyce Part Part- f L ridge advocates athletic games for young Toung girls In this she differs from various other surgeons of both sexes who vho have become alarmed over the t prospect of permanent physical injury to o the young who goes in for the rougher athletics and who shake a. a yarning head over their belief that foot foot- j ball all hockey polo Plo and sundry sports are 1 primarily a mans |