The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-16
Mss Best's Measurements.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner DISPATCH
BosToN, Sept. l4.Miss Best has declared
since winning the prize in her class. which
was offered three years ago, that she made
no effort to win in the sense of working for
it. Miss Best is wonderfully beautiful
woman. Had she never entered the the
contest for the Sargent prizes, she would
still have been known to her friends and
acqualntances as a model of womanly love-
llness. Those who know her speak of her
mental charms as enthusiastically as of her
physical PROJECTIONS.
She is feet > inches tall, weighs
100 pounds, and has habit of arraying
herself in gowns that fail wholly to exhibit
the proportions of her figure. Her head is
as perfect as the rest of her body and it
gives to her carriage dignity of the sort
That queens are supposed TO be familiar with.
1t is set high on shoulders whose beauty and
symmetry cannot be hidden: poised with
perfect grace and crowned with hair that
places her in the category of blondes, but
her friends never speak of her beauty
without telling of her wonderful ewes.
Like her face and figure they are remark
able In their beauty. They are of deep
Dlue, large and clear. Had she no other
charms, those eyes would render her beau
tiful
When asked if she could assign any
special reason Tor winning the prize one
day this week, she said no; that she SUP
posed her natural form was aided and de-
veloped by the course of the study and ex-
erclse she had taken in physical culture.
Though DR.. Sargent refuses to give out
the measurements of Miss Best, he has
given TO the press chart. By the chart it
would appear that Miss Best's greatest de-
FlatlOns from comparative symmetry are
IN the breadth of the hips and in me dis
ha Hysct
great and the second too small Beginning.
then, at the top of the chart her ''weighi''
and 'height standing" both fall on the s. Y
per cent. line, showing that she is perfectiJ
symmetrical in these two points Then the
line DIVORCES a little to the right, showing
that her sitting height is
trifie too great for absolute SYM
metry 1t appears that Miss Best's
body is just fraction of an inch longer
than 1t ought to be for her height, and her
legs below the knee are Just that much
shorter. The length of the upper leg is
normal. The distance from the ground to
the sternum or breast bone rises a little
above normal, showing she is trifie long
wasted. But these variations are after
all SC slight that only accurate measure
ment determines them. 1t is in the meas
urements around the body at various
points above the hips that Miss Best's syf;,-
metry is shown. The distance around The
hips is rather too large, but this is owing
to their unusual breadth. In fact thew
are broader than those of ninety-three
women out of every one hundred. The
thighs, on the other hand, are rather too
small. While but seven women in the hun
dred have broader hips, thirty five have
larger thighs. In ali other respects the
measurements around her limbs, both
upper and lower, show almost perfection.
Her feet are both of the same size, and but
213 per cent. smaller than they should be.
Tine abdOmen iS rather too fo+