The San Francisco call. [volume], March 31, 1907, Page 4, Image 4

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HERE ARE BEAUTIES FROM MANY CALIFORNIA CITIES
DO SOME OF THEM SUR-PASS DELLA CARSON?
IS ONE OF THESE THE STATE'S FAIREST
The San Francisco Sunday CaU
TX- LONG time ago there was a famous war waged
/ V over a woman's beauty. All the world knows
/~Y of that woman and that war, .The woman was
V Helen T of Troy; the war the Trojan war. Later
• there v was another v war, thlsMimo in England, and
this .war. some historians assert, was also Instituted
ih some subtle way by the beauty of a woman. In
this. last war, known, as the War of, the Roses, every
•partisan wore a flower. Ked roses and white blos
somed; in: the streets of England, and women wero
known by the badge they displayed.
iln this year of 1307 thcro is yet another war—
this time in the United States. This war is also being
-waged over the beauty^ of woman; and . while tho
loyal henchmen of Beauty's Qaeen do not show forth
"their zeal and championship by wearing colors, either
white or red, their ardor and devotion to the cause —
the old, old cause— are no less evident. \
i For in California these potential Queens of Beauty
have gone Into battlo to win. There is no longer
\ any • -stlon ' that there is v bcauty. almost beyond
co nip; in California, but perhaps a question migh*
- arisen yarding the standards by which it might ho
judged. One who can speak with authority on this
subject declares that in a perfect face every feature
should bear a certain proportion to every other fea
ture. The middle of the faco should be equal to
-five eyes. Tho distance between the eyes should bo
exactly equal to onb eye. Another lnlportant relation