The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-01
Perfectly Formed Women.

Louis Xavier, a Partisan sculptor, now
making a tour of America, sat in the cor
ridor of the Southern recently, and with
a St. Louis Globe-Democra reporter dis
cussed the human form divine. SIT is
not true, as the world generally supposes,
that ideal statutes are composites Yes,
l have read that sculptors use a number
OF models for one statue, copying the
head of one, the bust of another, the
limbs VI a third and so on. Some sculp-
tors may resort to such ridiculous d Itch
work, but l imagine the effect would be
far from pleasing. Perfectly formed
women are by no means so rare as gener-
ally supposed. Not one woman in a
dozen has been seriously deformed by
tight lacing. and the high-heeled shoes,
that formerly played UGH havoc with
shapely limbs. have about gone u of
fashion.
But a perfectly formed female foot is
now a rara avis. The world appears to
have adopted the Chinese idea that the
smaller the foot the prettier il is, and the
result is that perfectly moulded feet are
cramped and abused until not a line of
beauty is left, Now any sculptor, any
Nar6ist win tell you that a foot too small to
harmonize with the figure is an actual de-
formlty. l would rather see the foot too
large. lift be shapely, than too small.
Think OF a Juno VINO stand five feet
seven inches and tips the scales at $50
pounds teetering to and fro on No. l OF
No. 2 feetl She should wear a No.
4 at the very least, and a No. 6
would not be out of proportion. Like the
foot, the hand would harmonize with the
body. A little string of a hand on a lusty
Minerva, who lowers up nearly six feet
tall, is shocking to rue artistic taste.
too small for his face?. Well, it's lust as
necessary that the hand and foot should
be in harmony with the figure as that the
nose should ht the face. Some day people
will learn this. and then as many people
Will wear padded shoes as now limo
along In footgear a size too small.
Madame will then be as much ashamed
of a hand too small as she now is of one
too large"
Misery, Not Economical.
How many of us when sorting over our
louise or our wardrobe have come across
many little things utterly vaIueless in
our eyes at the present moment yet
which are put carefully put away, think-
lngt ha6 they may come in good some
time? This programme is carried out
spring and fall, year in and year out,
until after awhile the closets are Uttered
MP with useless. half worn garments, and
the storeroom looks like a genuine hotel
des invalides for crippled chairs and sofas,
unhung pictures and faded draperies.
Now dear, careful souls, there Is not o.e
bit of economy in boarding up all those
things unless. being of a p~hilanthropic
turn of mind, you desire to give the poor
little Innocent moths a good square meal.
Suppose yon do put all these dds and
ends by for future use, do you believe you
can ever put your hands on them when
you want them? True economy is of a
very different type from this. and the
spirit of the miser is not the one that
leads to wealth. Be careful and prudent.
II a dollar can be saved by making over
an old gown save it. If the summers
bonnet can be trimmed with last winters
Feathers use them. but do not save a great
lot of accumulated dress goods. millinery.
odds and ends and feeble furniture lust
lecause ten years from now you might
have occasion for a solferino button, a
gray tip, or an a~ntialated hassock. Give
them to those who can make present use
of them. but do NOT aceumulnta q lot -