Weedy Women!

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 5, Issue 1, 1 July 1926, Page 38

Weedy Women!

ONE of the King's physicians, , Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter, has recently described the modern woman as "willowly, weak and weedy": also as a potential consumptive and even a premature corpse. Surely we are not going to revert to the type of girl whom Thackeray pictured as "pale, pious and pulmonary " It will need more than professional strictures to convince us that we arc.

If the modern girl has a sylphlike figure, she has also an insatiable love of strenuous sport and of the open-air than any medicine to banish that anaemic, lifeless creature who was once all-too-familiar a representative of her sex. Willowness does not betray weakness. There is strength as well as grace in the slimness of the modern girl. A healthful activity, rather than a starved stomach, is responsible for her discarded avoirdupois.