FOR WOMEN How Do You Measure Up To "Miss Average"?

Greymouth Evening Star, 18 March 1947, Page 10

FOR WOMEN How Do You Measure Up To "Miss Average"?

The girl who claims to be “average” ought to think twice about giving her- , self that description. Statistically it' gives her a lot of characteristics she, might not care to recognise in herself. According to Charm Magazine, Miss Average is 64-2- inches tall and weighs 129 pounds (which is at least 15 pounds more than she wants to weigh). She is a medium brunette with a medium complexion, of which she does not take the care she knows she should. i Miss Average thinks she is much more attractive than she .really is, and somehow believes that she possesses shapely legs. She sleeps nine hours a night in five-eighths of a nightgown and three-eighths of a pyjama suit., and she charges her position every 20 minutes while she sleeps. She favours bluish red tints of rouge and lipstick, but has rather iess skill in putting them on than she thinks she has. ; Her favourite colour is blue and she likes red, too, but strangely enough. I she wears brown and black more frequently than either blue or red. She likes the scent of lilac best, then rose and then violet. | As a child she went to school forseven and a half years and learned, among a few’ other things, about.. 7,500 words. But within a couple of years of leaving school she forgot all <

1 but about 1,500 words and now uses only about 1,000 in her daily life. I Before Miss Average reaches her ■ 21st birthday, she marries a man . whose age is within one year of her own and whose birthplace was not farther away from her own than 50 miles. When she goes to the pictures, which is about twice every three weeks, Miss Average much prefers a romance containing at least one : sequence that will bring tears to her i hazel eyes. She is attracted more by the title of a picture than by anything else, and she first wants to see then to feel. Neither she nor her husband would dream of going to the pictures to think. ■ In the way of self-betterment Miss Average reads a magazine for 15 minutes each day and a newspaper for 30 minutes. The thing that impresses her most on the radio, which she runs about three hours daily, is I the tone of the announcer’s voice \ rather than what he says. i Charm declares that Miss Average forgets almost everything she learns inside 24 hours, remembering only a tenth of what she hears, three-tenths | of -what she sees and four-tenths of what she both sees and hears. As a result, if she is called upon to testify . as a witness in court, she will almost certainly unconsciously perjure herself.