Daily Republican., 1885-01-01

Define q good figure 2" said Mrs. ]
Kerlogg, the we'll knswn Detroit sculp- |
tor. "well, a good figure Is . rarity.
There are 30 many girls who come 70
me 10 pose as models and 30 very few
are of the least Use. Their knees are
crooke al and their waists are pinched
in-there IL always nnething wrong.
See that head and trunk, That In
Proserpine. She is shrinking away
from Pluto, who is about to carry her
away To the Internal regions to be his
| " life. Now, do you know that II took
sittings of FIVE different models to make
that one piece? Now. you can imagine
how hard 1t IL 10 ind really go,d
| figure. did zee a good figure once.
She was u most perfect. You know that
Venus do Medici Is supposed to bo the
perfection cot form. Well, this girls
inquire vas almost identical with hers.
Had wished to make full sized
statue would not have changed her
one iota. She wac q very wealthy girl
and very ipdolent. Sitting always in
her room in negligee costume and
taking No little exercise, che grew to DO
the very perfection Of grace. Every
pose WAS study and every move beau
tiful. And do you know that girl
lacei-terribly 80? She compressed
her waist, | should think. seven inches
smaller than il naturally was. But
then she wore corsets for only about
three hours each week, she went out 80
little. she WAS q very attractive girl,
but not very pretty-very good figures
seldom are. | will give you her di
mensions She WAS Ave feet four and n
half inches high. Then she measured
thirty one inches about the bust, twenty
SIX and a half inches about the waist,
thirty. five inches over the hips, nine
incnes from the srmpit to the waist,
eleven and q half inches around the
bail OF the arm, nine and fourth
inches around the elbow and ak and q
half inches around the wrist. You see
she tapered four and half inches from
, the burt TO the waist that IN right.
Small waists and large hips look horri-
: Bile to an artist. Then her hands and
feet were good and large. An artist
always looks for large extremitIes. The
teet of this girl were nine and half
D Inches long What an immense hoof,
do you say Well, not 80 very large.
think It WAS . No. shoe she took.
Now here is cut of q foot not 80 large,
you will say. Well, 1t measures eight
aud half inches. The fingers Of the
hand, too, must b. long and taper, with
n curve back &c the tips. Women have
! come TO me 20 proud Of their hands,
1 such tiny hands. and yet perfect do
i formities, with every finger warped
;, and crooked.
a shcu d have said, of course, tina,
i no hgure can he good unless well
. rou lied and free rom angles. must
4 confess, though, that tine statueeque
' figure would not look well draped In
q the present fashion. Yet, ] Will give
> my idea vi fine figure in the present
e fashion. Bust measure, thirty.twc
Inches waist, twenty nine ; niLe in
ches from armpit TO waist long arm'
aud long neck, BY neck, / NEAR
from the collar bone to the chin and
r recollect this, would rather see th'
Is waist twenty-five inches than twenty
re- three. This figure shall be- hive fee
four and three quarter inches in height
lie | once raw figure l admired goo,
d dea. that VAS thirty four inches ahou
!, the bust and tventy-six inches ab0u
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