The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-13


Width OF shoulders. IN 1871 16H
The weights OF the first and the last are
between $50 and 1873 pounds. while the
New York girl weighs about 1875.
Polycletos, an old Greek sculptor from
Licyon, left rules governing the relative
proportions of the female form. He said
that twice the thumb was once round the
wrist, which IL is not, unless the thumb is
unusually large and the wrist unusually
slender that twice the wrist is the size of
the neck, which is about the case in a well
proportional woman that twice the neck
is once round the waist, which is about So
But he also says that the hand and foot and
face should all be of the same length, which
is very rarely the case, and that the body
should be six times the length of the foot
which would limit most men whose feet
average ten inches in length TO a stature of
five feet The gentleman from Licyon is
evidently not trustworthy guide.
Referring to the above table. is will be
observed that the waist Of the New Yorker
is much smaller than that of the other two.
The fashion of small waists is the rage in
the east, aud the desired result Is attained
by tight laciDg, which is carried TO such an
extent that the physognomisb is lost in
amazement as TO where the lady has be-
slowed her vital orRans No statue in ex-
lstence exhibits such a disproportion be-
tween the waist and those portions of the
trunk which lie above and below II. The
compression OF the Rirth is mere fashion
able fad which good taste must condemn.
Our Californian girl wears 24-inch corset,
which might easily be reduced to % inches
IL the wearer saw fit to sacrifice comfort to
eastern fashion. There are bellies III New
York who are not satisfied till they have
squeezed Themselves into a 17-inch corset.
Such persons, it would seem, would have
enjoyed the Scottish boot.
The bust and hips should, in a perfectly
formed woman, be exactly the same in cir
conference. They are so in Ballow's ideal,
In the Venus of Milo, in the Cnidien Venus
and in the California girl. In the New
Yorker the circumference of the bust is half
an inch greater than that of the hips, which
is probably the work of art, not nature
Ballow does not give the diminsions of his
ideals feet or hands. He merely says that
they are lin proportion" which is rather
vague. The rule among sculptors in that
the foot should measure one head, which il
unsatisfactory, as some large women have
small heads, and some small women large
heads.
The female foot Is probably smaller In
New York society than here, for the simple
reason that il has less to carry. Shoe
makers say here that they sell more and
Az shoes than ony Others, but many ladies
in society buy 81, 3. and even az shoes.
The Knights of st. Crispin do not believe In
the sculptors' rule about feet, they say that
small feet, like large wits, are gift from
heaven and may be found attached to per-
sons OF any dimensions. Everybody has
observed that there IN no necessary connec-
ton between the hands and the figure; that
some slim girls have large hands. and some
girls with opulent figures small hands and
fingera
Take all the measurements together, and
the conclusion is forced that the Californian
girl more closely resembles the Cnidian
Venus than the Venus of Medici. and that
a representative Californian statue should
be cast after study Of that masterpiece as
we'll as Of the Venus of Milo and the Venus
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