The herald., 1893-02-24
FOR WOMEN WITH FINE FORMS.
Ii Their Bodies Are Perfect
They Can Play Venus.
A Statue of California Woman
Wanted at Chicago.
A Plan by Which the Most Perfectly
Formed Woman in the State VIII
BE Chosen to Act as
Model.

in marble, and the statue will be exhib-
tied at Chicago during the fair to show
the world that the rarest and most per-
feet type of beauty is not that of Milo,
nor that OF Medici, nor that of Oapua,
says the San Francisco Examiner. A
new model OF the loveliest woman is to
be given, and il is to be from the Amer
lean west,
Nobody yet knows who the Californi a
Venus ia, and the question must be de-
termined by popular vote. There is
about to be contest for the distinction,
open to all native California women who
reside in the state. Candidates will be
required to have their physical charms
considered by committee of the local
artists, and then to stand in similar re.
view before ali who wish to judge.
| This is all in connection with the
worlds fair. The statue of the new
Venus is to be the central ornament in
the California room of the women's
building, and the beauty contest will be
under the supervision of the lady who
has charge of that room, Mrs. Frona
Eunice Wait of this city.
do ia to exhibit at our California room a
statue that will honestly represent Cal
iiornia beauty, and the best way to &C.
complish that ia to have woman OF this
state for the actual model. OF course it
will be statue of the ordinary Venus
pattern, with very little drapery or none
at all, but the exact design cannot be
chosen until after the contest.
RIVALS OF THE MILO WOMAN.
"Our standard of beauty is the Venus
of Milo, and the successful candidate in
the contest will be the woman coming
nearest to that statue in form and
measurements. All candidates must be
at least feet and inches in height,
but the only other requirements are that
they be natives of California and resi-
dents at the present time.
"The contest, which begins immedi.
ately, and will continue long enough to
give all the state fair chance in getting
ready for the competition, is by means
OF photographs. There is no charge for
entering the contest, and all that any
woman has to do is to get two suitable
photographs of herself and send them
to nee.
Accompanying the photographs must
be the name and address of the candi-
date and the place and date of birth. but
these facts will be for my knowledge
only. And besides (for the use of the
judges and public the complete phys
ical measurements and the weight must
be given.
"Of course, the photographs need not
be entirely from the nude. The candi-
date, when posing for photographs, may
wear drapery of cheese-cloth or crepe,
which will conceal while yet revealing.
The figure must be shown.
"Now, as I receive the photographs
shall enter them in book which will
keep strictly to myself. Nobody else
shall see it, not even the judges or the
sculptor. l shall number each photo
graph to correspond with the entry num-
Der in my book, and there will be no
means by which the public can identity
the candidates except by recognition OF
the pictures.
THE CHOOSING OF THE MODEL.
"When the time for selection arrives
we shall appoint committee OF three
leading artists to pass on the photo
graphs. These judges, having no in.
formation about the originate, will select
the three that are the best modelled,
making use of the measurements, to-
gether with the photographs.
THE MODEL MUST POSE.
1.-THE woman who Is chosen will then
be asked to pose for the sculptor. Ru.
pert Schmid has promised his services
and he will do his best work in making
life-size statue of our California beau
ty. An exact likeness of the face will
be made aud the form will be in the ex-
act proportions. How much the sculp-
tor will have to work from measurements
in designing the figure is matter
which, OF course, must be arranged by
Mr.. Schmd and his model. The name
of the model may be forever withheld
if so required.
"When the statue it finished it will be
taken to Chicago and placed on a mar
BILE pedestal in the center of the Califor-
mia room OF the Woman's building, and
it will be entitled A California Venus.
cat the close of the fair the model
may buy her statue if she chooses, and
if she does not want to do go it will 90 to
the San Francisco gallery in the Hop
kins maneion."
GODDESS DRAPERY SUFFICIENT.
Mr.. Schmid, the sculptor, says the
subject that he wants for the statue is
the typical California beauty. "If the
model insists on having the work done
from measurements, said he yesterday
why l will dc it that way, but the
statue will be of less substantial mate
rails than l would otherwise use. A
good Venus cannot be made from a tape
line. There are rules to go by in model
ing from the measurements, but neither
can you get satisfactory and life-liks
figure from set of rules.
IA woman should not object to posing
if her statue ia to be nude. Justice tt