WEIGHT OF WOMEN.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2081, 4 September 1875, Page 2

WEIGHT OF WOMEN.

In romance we read of heroes rushing off with fainting maidens from blazing houses, or ' carrying' them off on their shoulders for purposes of revengeful abduction. Let any one but of training, or under six feet high, and proportionate strength, attempted to run away with a fairly well-composed girl of eighteen or twenty, and give us his opinion of these vaunted knights. A woman weighing a hundred and forty pounds weight of kicking womanhood is not to be carried at all. Even a slight girl will weigh one hundred pburids, and ' our hero' will stagger, under her lovely but' encumbersoLue figure. There are plenty of buxom girls wJaq T^eigti up to a hundred and seventy poundSj and it is not given to every man to 'hurry off with such baggage.' Where the victimised one faints on the stage, the robust tenor takes care that the fainting shall be accomplished as close to the wing as possible. He knows what she weighs by sad experience of rehearsals. Let any of pur readers carry his sMSter up three nights of stairs without stopping, aud forward to us" his sentiments on the occasion., ; At Tpienna we saw a little tenor s^ruggHag ta parry off a fat soprano to the amusement of the house, while she made stentorian mirth by turning round, -whipping \ip the: tenor, and making her exit with, him kicking under her arm.—Court Journal. ■•-.■■■ • ' '