The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-07
woMAN's FORM DIVINE.
Bah on the Figures and Curves OF
Famous Women.

New YORK, Feb. CIV atching dancer
the other night, a dancer who is as grace
full as possible. who can make her tiny feet
seem on a level with her head, make them
whirl through the air as if they were simply
fairy slippers, l heard a small boy in the
gallery call out, Say, do you catch on to
her curves" l began to look at her then
with the eyes of the small boy-that critic
who, having seen all sorts and conditions of
women, was capable of judging. The
curves of a woman's body are at once the
most beautiful and the most absolutely
modest in the world AS Eve stood in the
Garden OF Eden with no stain Of sin on her
soul, she is the embodiment Of exquisite
feminine modesty. Later on. even when
she was fallen and she is seeking to hide
herself. the perfection of her form Is SO
great that you feel like bowling before her
as the representative mother Of the world.
The small boy with his slang had uucon-
sciously reached out to the greatest charm
that a woman can possess, and beside which
beauty of face is nothing.
woMAN's PERFECT FIGURE.
The perfect feminine figure, as any artist
will tell you. must never achieve an. angle
in any position, and the woman must
naturally fall into those Jpitudes that form
curves. Ii you watch a woman who is
simply herself, aud who is not posing for
your benefit, you will see that, sitting,
standing or walking, she unconsciously does
this; and it is only when she is subject to
that undesirable disease, vanity, that she is
stiff and angular. The dancer admired by
the critic of the gallery was not verylarge
woman, certainly not what anybody would
call a stout woman. for fat is as abundantly
destructive to beauty as are huge bones.
Naturally the women Of the stage, the
ones best known to all, are the ones whose
figures can be criticised. Beginning with
the beauty Of the stage, Mrs. Langtry, who
can deny her gracel Her arms and neck
are perfect, but the lower part of her body
is angular and ungraceful, SO, for that rea-
son she is always clever enough to have her
gowns SO draped that as far as possible the
defects are hidden. Her defects Of figure
are simply those Of the Englishw
in general, for she is by no means,
taken altogether. as handsome a hgura
as the American woman, although she usu-
ally surpasses her in beauty Of bust and
arms. Nine. Bernhardt is q seductive
figure. for slenderness does not Of necessity
hint Of angles and thinness. A small-boned
woman whose bones are properly covered
may be as beautifully formed as the woman
with greater hight and weight. Jane Had
ing has essentially the figure of the French
woman of fashion, the small waist, broad
shoulders and large hips. 1t is a figure
that one is inclined to call chic
rather than artistic. Agnes Booth
has grown too stout and matronly look
ing TO be criticised, but have been told by
people who saw her play CLEOPATRA" that
she fulfilled Gautier's ideas of the beautiful
Egyptian. Modjeska is angular. Fanny
Davenport is, just now, most perfect
figure, for, having lost some of her flesh aud
being a large woman, the amount she still
weighs is only that which should be hers by
right. Ada Rehan al ways impresses you on
the stage as looking all right, but you are
not conscious of any of that charm of curve
which is painters delight and the fascina.
ton of SO many women.
CURVES OF FAMOUS soUBRETTEs.
In the world Of light opera. Della Fox
NAV be cited as having the most boyish
figure, Anna O'Keefe the most feminine in
the dressmaker's sense, but Marie Jansen
the most absolutely perfect in all senses
Just watch her as she moves; wherever she
goes she seems to carry with her the perfect
line of which Dumas wrote, and which,
after all, is the line Of fascination
If she moves her hand, a curve Is
achieved from the shoulder to the
elbow; if she throws her foot in some care
less position the line from the waist to the
knee is almost the same as that famous one
which we call the line Of beauty, aud whea
she stand perfectly still, her feet close to-
gether, her hands by her side, from her neck
down she is a succession Of beautiful curves,
over which a French artist would rave
would do more, would make i'm IMMORTAL. Sadie
Martinez has fascinating figure that. as she
moves, beautifully gowned, as she always
is, suggests to you her intense femininity
every rustic of her silk gown seems to say,
81 am feminine, l am mysterious. but be
sure that am charming" Johnstone Ben
nett, Jane" is a girlish figure. pleasing to
look upon and essentially suggestive of
youth. Lotta, we'll, who ever thought any
thing of Lotta's 6gures She will look
SIXTEEN WHEN SIZE Is SIXTY.
Kate Forsyth has e most magnificent
figure, it is Juno like; but, If you remember.
it was not Juno who facinated mankind it
was tbs smaller, lissome and more
womanly Venus whom they adored.
Christine Nilsson long ago grew too
fat, and then she is not womanly
looking; she is too suggestive of the Vikings
TO delight humanity. Mrs. Brown-Potter
is bony; but Mrs. Brown-Potter is 80 essen
TALLY feminine that her bones seem to know
how to curve and make the lines Of her