My daughter recently participated in a 4th grade living wax museum. The students chose a famous person to learn about and then presented information about what made this person special in history. If I were asked to do this right now, I would choose to represent Gladys Aylward and this would be my rough draft 20 second speech. *SPOILER ALERT*

This is considered a true story but it is not a biography or even a memoir. It is the story of a young British woman Grace Aylward who travels across Siberia to work as a missionary in northern China in the 1930s and 1940's. The author Alan Burgess was a seminary student and journalist and the only source material seems to have been his interview with Aylward. It is an amazing story and I am sure much of it is true. I was suspicious of the portrait of the Nationalist Forces during the war - in everything else I have read the Chinese army was hardly so admirable. I was also suspicious of the many times there was last minute religious salvation. Still worth reading. Just like the flare jeans, the bootcut is very flattering for all body types. Because of the leg shape, bootcut jeans can also make our legs look longer, which is why they are one of our top choices of best jeans for short women. First of all, high waisted style, in general, is very flattering to petite women. They extend your legs and make them look longer, because of the higher waistline. High rise anything can make short girls look good, and therefore they should be a staple of your wardrobe. Ideally, you want to wear wide-leg jeans with heels, whether pumps or booties and make sure your jeans are long enough to cover part of your heels.They arecalled jegging but some of them are actually not made of denim.Of course, there are jeggings made of denim, but they don’t have to. They can be any stretchy fabrics, as long as they hug your legs tight and are easy to fit into your tall boots. First of all, for petite women who wish to add a few extra inches effortlessly, the flareshape of slight expansion under the knee instantly creates the illusion of longer legs, unlike the wide leg jeans which are loosely fitted throughout the legs. In 2012, she met the world's shortest man, Chandra Bahadur Dangi of Nepal. The pair posed together for the 57th edition of the Guinness World Records. [9] Media appearances

Typically, high rise jeans are at least 9″ to 10″ in rise. Low rise jeans are designed to sit 3 inches under your navel, so they are about 6″ or 7″ rise. Mid rise jeans are somewhere in between. In August 2014, Amge was cast in American Horror Story: Freak Show where she appeared as Ma Petite [10] which premiered 8 October 2014. Scarlett Johansson (5 feet 3 inches), America Ferrera (5 feet 1 inch), and Zoë Kravitz (5 feet 2 inches) are some of the shortest actresses in Hollywood.Once in China, she finds her way to an obscure northern city and begins a remarkable "career" which, honestly, no one could ever have been considered qualified for. Through sheer determination, serving the poor, and following her sense of right, she becomes highly influential in the local community. When war with the Japanese threatens the area, she refuses to leave until it becomes clear that someone has to get 100 homeless orphans to a place of safety. And she is that someone. After being rejected by a London missionary society, Gladys decided to get to China under her own steam, because she believed it is where God wanted her to be. Working several domestic jobs (sometimes simultaneously) she eventually saved enough money for her long passage into the heart of Northern China. After she got there Japan invaded during World War 2 and Gladys led a couple of hundred orphans on foot through treacherous, Japanese occupied terrain to get them to safety. Meet the World's Shortest Woman: 26-Year-Old Actress Jyoti Amage". PEOPLE.com . Retrieved 10 February 2021.

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