TALLER GIRLS

Shannon News, 7 December 1928, Page 3

TALLER GIRLS

A medical authority says that girls Are now generally taller than their mothers-were, owing to the more sensible schemes of dress, diet and exercise which prevail to-day. . This is probably true enough, and perhaps explains why tallness is a less emphasised point in good looks than it was in the nineteenth eentury, says a London writer. Tennyson's Maud was “tall and stately’’ at sixteen, and this phase “divinely tali’’ was tacked on to most heroines in late Viotorian novelettes.