TALL WOMEN.

Evening Post, Volume XLVII, Issue 41, 17 February 1894, Page 2 (Supplement)

TALL WOMEN.

Francis Galton has collected some j interesting facts in regard to the j effect of athletics and improved physical condition during the last 40 years on the physique of the middle classes. When he was an undergraduate at Cambridge, from 1840 to 1844, although but sft 9 Jin in height, he was taller than the majority of his fellows. In 1893 he no longer possesses this advantage. Altered social conditions, in his opinion, have helped to improve the bodily powers and address of this class; such conditions, for instance, as more wholesome and abundant food, better cooking, warmer clothing, moderation in the use of alcohol, better ventilated sleeping - rooms, more change through vacations, and, lastly, tho healthy lives led by women iv their girlhood. One of the most striking sights in the City of London is the number of tall women who are to be found in the fashionable parks during the season. It is more particularly among the women of the upper classes that the improved conditions of the last two generations have left their mark. Women of sft 6in and oft Bin are common, and it is not a very unusual occurrence to meet a woman of sft lOin and even 6ft. A gentleman, well-known in London society, states that when he became of age, 22 years ago, his sister, a tall and handsome girl, was the tallest girl among the visiting acquaintances of the family, and now she is over-topped by nearly every one of her younger lady acnnnint.ATinaq