BEAUTY BY WEIGHT.
GERMAN FEMININITY
BERLIN, February 12. Realising that farmers were flocking to Berlin for Agricultural Week and that I they disdain slimness as an adjunct of feminine charm, the director of a I pleasurfe resort was seized with an ini spiration. l He staged a competition, in which ; weight was the sole criterion of beauty. [It was an uproarious success, the five 1 prizewinners aggregating 32601b. ) As the quintette of feminine super- . dreadnoughts clambered up to receive ;their awards the entire platform shook I beneath their ponderous tread, while the ' 'hochs" of the assembled yokels split the qivelkin.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 40, 17 February 1931, Page 7
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