There is a prevailing feeling that woman has become entirely different from what she was in the past, in every respect. Is this true?

Thirty American scientists have agreed that the modern woman has changed with time. Here are some aspects of this change:

• The average height of woman in 1892 was five feet three inches; the girls of today are taller by an inch and a half. "And the wider the scope of education, the narrower women's faces become."

• Whatever the years of women's lives, they are lighter today than at any time past; over the last century the average drop in woman's weight was five "pounds."

• In the early nineteenth century the measurement of the bust was nineteen "inches." The girl of today has broader shoulders and a fuller bust; the inner muscles of her body are more prominent; she has a lighter bust and legs than in the past; and there is a clear decrease in the breadth of the bone of the lower leg, though the measurements of the bones of the hand and of the lower leg are on the increase.

• Thirty years ago a woman of twenty was able to eat the equivalent of 2,800 to 3,000 "calories"—that is, heat units—in a single day... Today, however, woman's body does not use up so many calories, for she rides in the

automobile instead of walking on foot, and the mechanical appli-ances in her house carry much of the burden of the work laid upon her. Today she consumes 2,200 calories daily, and some girls who wish to be slim consume only 1,500.

• The average span of woman's life from birth is 60 years—an average of 18 years more than the fifty years of the past—while the average life of man today is only 63 years, an increase of 15 years.

The reason for this is the spread of freedom and the good benefits of education, which have made the women of today less sensitive than the women of yesterday. Even so, women are still more sensitive and more feeling than men. From studies made by psy-chologists among 500 persons of both sexes, it appears that a third of women are affected by events and things, while only a fifth of men are so affected.

• Women now accept new ideas that fifty years ago would have seemed impossible—ever since a majority of women in the last century voted in favor of legal prostitution, to combat the spread of contagious diseases, just as they also voted in favor of divorce.

As for women of comfortable

incomes, they have changed most of their attitudes toward the questions of sex and marriage.

• A study made by one psychol-ogist has shown that the more widely a woman's education increases, the more she loses of her plump feminine traits.

• The old "mode" consisted mostly of the one-piece dress, with no attention paid to whether the kinds of clothes suited a woman's figure or not; but the women of today choose the clothes that hide some of their defects.

• Despite woman's rapid progress in the economic and social fields, some women are not content with their condition as women; their chief complaint, as housewives, is of loneliness and isolation, and of not being able to obtain any special amusement outside their homes.

• The study made by psycholo-gists in the last century proved that the nineteenth century was a century of moral decline, and these scientists still observe the continuing decline in morals.

• The number of women who take spirituous drinks has risen, in a single century, from 6.3 percent to 17.3 percent.

• Experiments carried out in the American universities have proved that the girls of today think along entirely different lines from the girls of yesterday, and this is due to the free rein of modern ways of life.

• Studies made in 1928 showed that women heads of business grow angry at criticism directed at them, feel jealous of one another... and do not get on perfectly with their women colleagues at work.