The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-08

ton to the total stature). These proper
tons apply TO every portion OF the body as
well as to the stature, and when reduced
to figures have about the relation OF three
to two. Thus, In the human figure the
waist IN a person Of, say, five feet
high, should be three from the ground
and two feet from the top OF the
head. These typical proportions are, how
ever, only met with In tall women; hence
the superior attractions OF the "elance"
figures OF English and American women OF
Teutonic, or rather OF Scandinavian origin,
over those Of the shorter Celtic types Of
France, Spain and Italy, the countries
from which we received the fashion of
wearing corsets. Granting, then, for the
sake OF argument. that waist OF some
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from a conscious desire TO conform to
Zeising's law Of proportion, for it is hidden
away in learned mathematical treatise,
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