The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-14
THE BEAUTIFUL SEX.
so important a factor that it elimina
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SO important factor that it eliminates
the material.
considering it first from the material
side. as question of form and proper
tiOns, the masculine figure has slight
advantage. Its proportions are more
pleasing-perhaps they are more harmoni-
Gus. though it is difficult. if not impossi-
BILE, to say why the eye finds more delight
in one than in the other.
'But in the human one cannot stop, in
the search for beauty, with the mere figure,
For beauty must be always a question of
the ideal and the spiritual rather than of
the material, and the human body is so
illumined by the character that the body
itself becomes subordinate element. A
figure plain figure that 1t will become
more delightful to the eye than beautiful
body that has not such tenant.
"Woman can be more beautiful in char
acter than man. In the divine quality of
self-sacrifice she far surpasses him, and
these powers of love and devotion and
self-sacrifice and many. others that she
type OF beauty and make it finer and bet
ter than his"
Il am afraid must agree with the con-
ventional idea on this question:" said Mr..
Willard L. Metcalf. "ThA ideal type of
beauty is founded on the female figure,
and do not see how 1t is possible to get
anything more beautiful than that figure
ment. The masculine figure, in its best
form. is fine. too, exceedingly fine. But
the two can scarcely be compared with the
idea of saying which is the more beauti-
full. because they are so different in their
distinctive characteristics. 1t is like COM
pairing two trees of different kinds, each
perfect of Its kind, and trying to say which
is the finer.
mo. do not think that the feminine
figure gains anything when it approaches
the masculine type. Decidedly. should
say that it loses in charm by such devel-
opment. 1t does not need to borrow no.
bility or dignity by initiating the mascu-
line figure. 1t has a nobility and a dig
nifty that are all its own, different from
those qualities in the masculine form, but
more harmonious with the feminine type.
1.-The nearer the feminine figure stays to
the feminine type the more beautiful and
the more charming it is. Every step that
it takes in an approach toward the mascu-
line type interferes just that much with
its harmony of proportion and helps to de-
strOy the charm.
among the people of the present time
think there is more beauty among men
than among women. Men have fallen
away from their ideal type of beauty less
than women have from theirs. In the
days of the Greeks, whence We get our
ideal types of feminine loneliness, women
dressed more freely than they do now
Their bodies were unfettered by their
clothing, and all their muscles were given
free play. They reached as nearly per-
feet development as the human figure has
ever had. But in the later times their
clothing has made such development i'm
possible Men have dressed more health
fully and have spent more time out of
doors, and SO they have not lost so much
of beauty as women have.
"But the figures of women have been i'm
proving during the last generation. Per-
haps they dress more sensibly than they
used to do, and they certainly take more
interest in physical development dur
ing recent years than formerly. At
any rate, there has been much
improvement in their figures. And, if
they keep on in this way, they may once
more distance the men and make it posi-
Bile to say of them that, IN actual fact, as
we'll as in ideal type, they are more beauti-
full than men,"