Emiir_e_ift Aothority Gives E:_plajniai_i?-ii of Beauty?Piroper
BV .iOltJJ BM'IIETII WATKI.VS.
Waahlngton, p, c., January yo, 1910.
Beauty of tlm humun torm divlno
has bncu the llfo study of Major Itoh
crt W. Khufeldt, Medical Corps, United
tjiatoa Army. blologlut and author, who
nceds no Introductlon to tho reader
?who ls an artlat or r.avant. My toes
?'ould turn no other way but towarda
hlm after I had takcn a chance gllmpsc
nt a now work, "Btudlcs of the llutimn
Form," bnflrlng hls name upon tho title
page and nomc r,00 woflderftil nnd dnr
ing prortucts of hls canicra between .Hh
t/road covors. Havlng dlsentanglcd
myself from the lahyrlnthlne mazes of
Mount IMcasarit, I found hlm a Jolly
and hospltablo hoat, wlth hls hcad
a.dorned by a red fez and hla motith
by a atogy a? crookod a8 Harry La.t
der's cane, and almost aB long. And
-what bcautv lt wafl that gazed down
upon ua here, there and cverywhere
h.auty, created not hy the brush and
chlsel of man, but the Makcr lllmaelf
nnd renected by tho crystal eye of the
camcra.
"Who Is the greatest American
taeauty of to-day?" was my flrst shot.
But the doctor dodged.
"No, slr, I w?it not play the rolo of
1-arlB." he protested. "I might awar-l
the applo to-day and then wish I had
lt back to glve to somo n?w heauty
met wlth even before your story got
mto type. And, beBldett, my Venus
?would. T am Bure, be some one unheard
of?no great actress, no Kraude dumr
of society or that Bort."
After he had thua parrled a dozen nr
?moro bf polnted Interrogatlons I finally
hurled onc that came nearer the mark.
Perfect Fetnlnlne rroportlom.
"What Are The perfect proportlons
for a woman?"
"Ab there are no two women ln ihe
world exactly allke In feature* or
proportlonF. there can b. no natural
Btandard, and any law we plea.se tn "x
must hn eleastie. Or.at artlsts and
anotomtfta vary In the 'e.-non' of pro?
portion they have aet up as a basis
for the normal female proportlons. But
here are a few laws on whlch most of
them ngrce:
"The perfectly proportioned woman
should be seven and a half times the
helght of her head. ten tiinea the
helght ot her fare. nlne tlmCB. the
length of her hand* and from six to
Feven times ihe length 0/ her foot. Th?*
dlstance between her temples should
he equal to- the length of her face.
Her arma should be three tlme.? and
her legs four times the length of her
head. Her shoulders should be two
heada wide, ;ind ihe upper and lower
partH of her arm aml of her leg should
be of equal length."
Ovat l"nee the Mo?t Beautiful.
"Kow, as to the perfect face, doctor?
analyze lt for me."
"Flrst let me say that mankind wears
not the face to-day that lt wore yeare
%go. nor will It ln the far future wear
the same fare that now eharactorlzes
the famlly as a whole. The form of
the face Is an Inde* to Intcllectual
ability and ..trength of character.
Those wlth circular faee.? -tand lowest
ln the feale In these respects, whlle
oval or suboval faced women are,
everything else being equal, the hlgh
er typ.s lntellectually. Thus the cir?
cular face predomlnates among the
black and red races, and Is met wltii
in some of the Orlcntal stocks. whlle
the oval face prcvalls among the hlgh?
er Indo-Kuropcans.
I".?r? Moat Importnnl.
"Now let us take up the fcatures
In thelr order. In tndlcating the emo
tlons agltatlng the mind the eyes play
a more lmportant part than the other
fcaturcs. The expresslon of the eyes
depends largely upon thelr e.xternal
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GEO. B. ROBSON, Mgr.
201 East Broad Street
?**mmqr0*mmi*mmmm
appcnrJagoK. Thus durlng cxtremo an
gcr or scvcrlty thn cynbrows contract,
whllo the nyelldn stlffen and aro sonie
what drawn lo, But to glvo beauty to
thc cyes tho eye socliets slioukl be
largo and deop rather than small, andj
Iho beautlful eyebrow Is one, not too
promlnent, ln whlch thc hnlr makes n
perfect and gracoful nech, growlng
ihlcker toward the nose and taperlng
tt> a polnt fut lt passcn otit.ward. Heavy
eycbrows aro snmetiinos consistcnt
tvlth brunetto but never wlth blond
typOH of beauty, while those which
mergo over tho nose glvo a mascullne
effect A? means of impartlng ex
pi-fisslon the cyebrows ,may be com
Pletely undor control of the wlll, nnd
thoso skllled ln their aor.trol may
"inploy t)1Cm to ?.Irniiliite varlous pa?
elons and emotlons.
Hnlr llfliik* Second/
"Next tp tho clmrm, the loveilncSs.
ho fascinatlon of woman's eyca is
tbe glory tho splondor tliat every
over ot tlio ncx sees in a full sult of
ustrous halr. A luxuriance of Jet.
black halr devold of ul| unnatural
ndornment h certalnly ??0 of the
glorles of nature. But when It ls of
a deep Tltlan red. wlth warm retle.
lons ot golden hue, and ls abundant
long soft. wavy and fine, thr-n Ihdecd
have we somethlng- worthy of th0 g-'aze
ot tbe c-^Ij.. Poftfa amJ ,over,
be forglvefl for anythinjr they may say
in pralse jf it.
"Thn nose enters Into many of the
moro powerful .-xpresislons of thc face
whr-n agitated by a number of mental
emotions. Moreover, lts form expresses
strength or weakness of wlll, good or
bad tpmper. Beauty demands that this
feature should be Hlcnder and stralght.
Among the rlark-Kklnned barbarlc races
woll molded noses aro rare."
The Moutli More IiitcrrntlrJK.
"And thc mouth, doctor, do not ovcr
look tliat.'*
"By no means. for lt offers a far
Wlder fleld of study than does tho nose.
Indeed, the Ups caslly take rank among
the most charming- features of a beau?
tlful face, when they are prettlly pro
portioned; while, on the other hand,
When thln, pallld, stralght and consi.l
erably produced from sldc to side. they
are not glorlous to look upon. The con.
tour llnes of tbe llps not only suggest
jcharacter, but are constantly changing
? with age. Full llps are jnoro to be
, admlrcd in dark-sklnned ?RuUes tlian
j ln the blonde types, But beauty of tho
j mouth depends to a large degree upon
i the teeth. also. cspeclally thc regular
t Ity and whltenc.13 of the four inclsois
I in elthcr ja.w. whlch are the ter-th most
i tre'iuently seen, and then the four ca
nlnes, the two above and two below,
whlch are next most eon.splcuous. But
in ordlnary open smlle8 it Is tbe upper
teeth alone whlch are vlsible. Yet
those teeth which arc not ordlnarlly
seen alter the exprnssion of the face.
Thus, when back teeth are mlsslng. tho
checks collapse. and as the teeth wear
i oit, wlth age. thc lips become com
\ pressed, while the no?e approach^s the
j chin. the mouth widens and the skin
fornis larger folds round thn cornT?
j of the mouth. I can frequently tell
1 from a woman* face before I have seen
I her teeth whether they are sound or
i not.
The Devtl In Hcr Kar.
"Ears. although incapable of enter
j Ing into lmpresslon of emotlon. are
I yet qulte aj indlcatlve of character as
is the eye, mouth or no3c. If a woman
has a long. narrow and thln ear, fo
! suggestlve of the satanlc auriclc. there
I is the devll lurklng somewherc. No
organ Is superlor to the ear to estab
llsh tho Identlty of an Indlvldual. fo*
1 lts fonn ls practically unchanglng
throughout life, and the ears of two
Perfect Arm and Torao.
?
indlvlduals are never allke.
"But, however perfect all of these
features may be, there can bc no real
beauty wlthout Intelllgence. There are
thousands of barbarlc and semi-bar
barlc beautleE?such as the Kamoan.
Maori. Burmese, Farsee. Turkish, Per
slan, Hlndu and Arablan girls?wlth
flgures quite as perfect and features
qulte as classtcally regular as those
of the most beautiful women among
our own people, yet they cannot hold
the men of our Indo-European race.
who soon abandon them and yearn fot
women of greater intelllgence.
"So much for tho face. Now one of
the requlsltes of a flnely formcd wo?
man is an even surface between the
cheek and neck. Yet we but rarely
meet with thi3 good point, for in a
vast majority of cases the lower mar
gln of the Jaw ls too well doflned. But
a beautiful neck and shoulders depend
largely upon physlcal training In girl
hood, ajmed at" development of the
muscles of the back, breast ajd should -
ers.
Few Wlth a Good Torso.
"Few women of our raco aro now
found wlth a torso Jtrunk) whlch
would meet the requirements of any
art standard. One of the few that I
have found Is a young Swede. and this
endowment has made her a favorlte
model among New York painters and
sculptors. It ls her boast that she
never ln her llfe wore a corset."
"You are, then, for dress reform?"
"Yob. but I am eatistied that the
liarm done by the corset to the feml
nlne torso depends upon the klnd of
corset worn. and whether' her bonea
are- Btrong or frail and a few minor
polnts.
"The torso can be wonderfuliy beau?
tiful in a great variety of types of
women. and In so far as my establlshed
standards are concerned, tve aro just
aa likely to find theni in old as in
young women, In small as ln lartra wo?
men. or ln one race as in another. The
parts most effective in lendlng the
torso beauty ara the shoulders and
hips, while its beauty js marred by
curvature of the splne, promlnent mus?
cles. collarboncs, shoulder blades, or
too high and protuherant hips. Thls
photograpn here shows a mark of great
beauty, which is very rare among both
men and women?a pair of 'sacral dim
ples,' one on either sldo of the Bplno,
just below the waist. Dr, c. II. Stratz.
the noted Dutch authority on tho hu?
man form, makes much of theso and
photographs all that ho can find."
M"BC"l?riry n? -, Defect.
"Do not athletlcs sometlmes mar the
beauty of our women?"
"They do where thoy produco undua
promtnence of tho muscles. -Rut some?
tlmes thls ls not due to exerctae., but
to heredlty, and there are many wo?
men who can engago ln gymnaatics for
an hour daily and produco a flno gen?
eral museular development with in?
creased rotundity of form and elas
tiolty of movement Jneteafl of hard^nd
promlnent muscles,
"However well doveloped, a woman's
forearm should never havo its muscles
thrown Into promlnonco, while a man'a
my be-como, and wlth advantago, aa
blg as Sandow's. One of the most
beautiful eomparJsons known to mo ot
the male and, fi'male #arm i_ to be- seen
ln pavld's palntlng of paf|s ftna H0icn,
tn the touvre. ff I meet wlth a woman
In whom the muscles bheome more or
loss evldont when the arm ia powerful
ly flcxed, I frequently know -lt to ho
an indtcntlon-of tho vlndictlvo vlrngo
and the same woman is apt to havo a
round, hard. 'bossy chin nnd a stolM
sturo, - ;-", '?'
Tlio l-ilumtteil (iniHi,
-The arm and hand rank next to tiie
head as liistrumoiita of omotlonal cx
Ipression. Thelr ovocv trinin^ cestifea
Tlie "Corset Torso." ? ?
has Its meanlng, and ls an index to the
mlnd to which they are servant. Aud
as age advances they seem to take on
a very part of tho character of the
possessor. Unreflncment, culture, mean.
ness, music, power, vacillation. char
ity, dexterlty. crlnie nnd worthlessness
are each and all dlstinctly expressed
in the hands, and when the entire arm
ls seen to tho shoulder tho record is
seen all the plalner. Did you ever note
tha expresslon of power accumulated ln
the arm and hand of Sarah Bernhardt?
It ha3 been moldod by myriads of koen
and reflned emottons passlng through
lt for the best part of a llfe. And hora
are photographs of some other perfect
hands: Thls one show3 tho dlfference
In the flst as made m-turally by man
and woman, The man does not draw
tho end of hls thumb so far Into the
pulm, but more decidedly ovorlaps the
points of tho index and middle flng.r..
Ono of the great beautie.. of tho hand
ln thla other ploture ls the promlnonce
on each of tho llttlo emlnencos inside
tho flnger tlps. The perfect hand ls
one-nlnth the longth of tho body and
tapore gradually to well ourvoa nalls,
whlch should bo longer than they are
broad, A llne drawn from the top of
tho borto of the upper arm should reach
the end of the flrst tlnger when the
arm ls turned wlth tho pulm backward,
and the samo length of llno should ex?
tend. to the end ot the thlrd flngar
when the arm 1b turned wlth the ualm
outward.
' "The perfect foot is more rare among
clvllized women than the perfect hand.
And how -hall we know lt when, by
chance, we aeo It? Tho second too ox
tendg beyond the great toe and h the
largest. whlle tho thlrd too ia ahout
as long as the blg one. And when set
upon the ground the Instep should hc
? go. hlgh that a Uttle blrd could ult UU
Idor lt."
I DlKn&rec Moat n? ?" I'erfoet I-<-B.
"And dellufi th? nerfeet le'g?'' ,
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ipect to tho lo-wer extremlties. Some
lay that femlnlno lega should touch
n four places whon brought normally
:ogether without gTeat muscular ex
;rtIon, whllo others require that they
ouch at but two polnts.
"And now Just a word as to feml
line beauty ln general. In the case of
he best women of our Indo-European
itock. ln whom obtains maxked
beauty oj face and form assoclatec
wlth lntelllgence, thelr beauty wlll en
duro from earllest chlldhood untll tli?
advance of senllity, provlded thero In
tervenes no destructlve force as dls
ease, lnjury, lnsanlty or poverty."
"And you lnclude poverty?"
"Yes, lndeed. Poverty ls beauty's
greatest materlal enemy."
(Copyrlght, 1910, by John Elfreth
"Watklns.)
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