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Big Girls

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
October
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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Frora the New York Sun. Are the young women of this town at the present day talier and stouter than its belles of twenty or thirty years ago? Old fellows say they are, and the height and weight of the evidence which they introduce cannot fftil to give strength to theirassertion. But these far-seeinj old philosophers also want us to believe that our girls now are less beautiful than the dames of former times. We can't. The law of gallantry foibids us. Our girls are immense, and are still progressing with gigantic strides; but that they are in any respect less lovely than the little creatures of long ago we must deny. Five feet. two inches, we believe, is the exact beight of one of the famous statues of Venus. If that statue, like some of the images that we read of in fairy tales, could come to life now and get rigged up in all the fascinating toggery of the present fashion, she would be only a mite amone the tall and stately beauties of Broadway. Five feet two may have been the standard height of long ago, but not of this time. Every evening we empty out shopfuls of girls of from ñve (eet six to live feet ten, and every one of them carved like the Goddess of Liberty.

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Ann Arbor Democrat