"The average Englishwoman of today is more beautiful than the Engli-woman of 20. years ago, despite the fact that she is fand has bigger hands and fect.
This is the opinion of the prin cipal medical officers of one of London's principal hospitals. He attributes the increase in stature to the better conditions of life that now enable them to reach their full growth.
"The young woman of today, he said, "wants to rival her brother in he She wants, to wriggle her toes and to keen every beautiful. The desire for beautiful hands and feet may have helped in attaining the new freedom and me crease in size, but it ig far more likely that improved health has brought about this change.
can remember when girls who were proud of a size three shoe came into my out-patient depart ment with crippled fect. It was very seldom in those days that T saw a decent-locking foot. Today it is just as seldom that I seo a foot distorted by wearing tight-fitting shoes. The growth of the feet, however, is not nearly 30 Scesble as the astonishing increase in good looks. With full growth has come full beauty."
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