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Show Average Height of American Woman Is Set at 5 Feet, 4 Inches, With Shoes more tall girls happen to be going to Vassar. The women of average or less than average height can find comfort com-fort In the fact that they have lots of company. Incidentally, the men seem to be perverse about the whola business. They have a way of falling fall-ing In love without consulting the fashion dictators or a yard stick. We even know some men who admit ad-mit that small women excite their protective instincts. They like to beam down from a masculine height of 5 feet 11 inches with a complacent compla-cent sense of their own strength and stature. It is all a rather complicated compli-cated business once you venture past the safe pages of a fashion magazine. According to the dictates of high fashion, we understand, the American Ameri-can woman is 5 feet 6 or 7 Inches tall. Now that the Gibson girl is back in fashion the fundamental rules (on high authority) are about the same still the perfect 36, tall slim waisted and long legged, comments com-ments the Kansas City Times. This might seem to be a rather unhappy situation for the American women. According to a recent study by a life insurance company the average height of the American Ameri-can woman is 5 feet 4 inches (with shoes). It coincides admirably with the Venus de Milo; but the Venus has been deposed as a standard of fashion. She is too pleasantly plump, so nothing else need be said to explain the fall of her influence. Many persons have rather counted count-ed on the idea that the height of the whole population is increasing. This hope is contradicted by the fact that a similar study 40 years earlier shows approximately the same height for women. In the height of college women Vassar reports re-ports an increase of Hi inches in 37 years. Maybe this means something. some-thing. Or it m?y simply mean that |