Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1885 — The Bright Side of Being Little. [ARTICLE]

The Bright Side of Being Little.

Unfortunate as they deem themselves for their fine feet and less of goodness and dimples, no women are so looked after, petted, housed tenderly, and made “much off” as are little women. (rush forward to shield them from danger and comfort them as they would babies who may be walked on by great, hulking women Gullivers, who always stoop before seaside mirrors. Who ever heard of any one soothing and mollifying a tall woman ? She can stand in the car because she is big enough to reach the strap. Little women are hustled about by the big ones, but men frown ferociously at this and take up their battles. “Oh, I wish you were bigger, Sallie,” said a blacksmith once, “wot a wollopin’ I’d give yer, gal.” Big men are almost always captured at sight by little mites of women—their helplessness appeals to them. Suppose some one should hurt them! Yet little women are blind to all this obvious advantage, and are forever bemoaning a lot which stunted their growth.— St. Louis Republican.