BIGGER DAUGHTERS

Taranaki Daily News, 25 July 1931, Page 9

BIGGER DAUGHTERS

MISS AMERICA TO-DAY. Schopenhauer’s description of women as a “short-legged, broad-hipped race no longer applies to those wb» attend leading colleges in the United States, says the Daily Mail. . ' After comparing the physical measurements of more than SOO girl students with those of their mothers, taken years ago, when they also were- students, scientists of Harvard University find in them an evolutionary tendency to grow taller, broader shouldered, narrower hipped, and heavier. , It seems that the daughters of to-day surpass their mothers in every dimension except breadth of hips. They are, on an average, 1 1-lOin.. taller and i Jib. heavier than their mothers at the same age, but their hips measure more than an inch less. With greater chest expansion and lung capacity and in other physical characteristics, the modern girl, says the scientists’ report, is evolving ‘towards an accentuation of the masculine characters of body build.” ' . Similar tendencies arc noticed m voung men who attend Harvard. They arc taller, and relatively more slender than their fathers, and have increased particularly in leg-length, shoulderbreadth, and thoracic circumference, but have decreased in hip-breadth.