HEALTHY GIRLS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 46, 17 May 1927, Page 12

HEALTHY GIRLS

PRAISE FOR ENGLAND “WONDERFULLY FIT” Medical officers of health of 11 countries v. ho have been studying our methods of ensuring public health, and who recently completed a threeweeks’ touir of the pri icipal cities in Great Britain, are unanimous in their praise of the highest physical standard of English girls. Statistics prove that our girls are healthier than they have ever been, and are living longer than men. Dr. Jonas Sliupas, the Lithuanian representative, discussing his visit, said: “Your girls are wonderful. They have undoubtedly attained a standard of physical fitness to be found nowhere else in the world. I have been impressed with their vigour. They are so much more energetic than the men, and are always cheerfully smiling. I have not seen a dull-look-ing girl since I came. “I do not consider they are beautiful—not so beautiful as our own girls, for example—but I do not think that young men should 'look for beauty of face alone.

“Short skirts are the most sensible things that have ever been introduced from a health point of view, and the whole world is now paying English girls a compliment by following their lead. Even in Lithuania our girls wear their skirts just below the knee. If I were a young man instead of an elderly one I would not go back without an English girl for a wife. “The physical standard of any nation is based upon the general physique of its women, and on its present human stock the British nation must be easily the healthiest in the world. I have seen your girls dancing, and I agree with those who claim that it is a healthy exercise, as well as an aid to a healthy 'inind.”