The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-05-03
WE'VE A VENUS.
Yes, Wen Have a Stun
). s. .11er After All.
.cALIEORNIA. GIRLS AVERAGED
Mrs: VI aite="Never Thought of Giving
!. Jp the California Venus, but Now
= :: :: '>>.:- it Will Be Composite.

g.. Wt're: going California Venus at the
Worlds Fair after all.
just think Of it'll The highest type of
female beauty in all OF this glorious State
Will display its grace and beauty in pure
white marble, that to the eye will seem as
soft as a maiden's dinpled cheek.
Maybe twill beat anything in the line of
statuary' the nineteenth century has pro-.
duced.
Maybe the Venus of Milo and that De
Medlclwfll no longer be such wsnders when
the highest beauty of this sun kissed shore
gets properly transform into stone.
:. Anyway, the silver statue that Montana
: lEas made such fuss about will be cheap
ard vulgar thing frem the standpoint of
real art when our AphrGdite rears her
Wli}te and stately form in the Women's
hlnding at Chicago. That's where our
goddessrof beauty will be in few weeks.
y. Its 10 be a1comp6site statue. There were
"a: whole: lot of measurements and photo
graphs sent in by native daughters, ambi-
s;tioug to he immOTplized and deified as the
:; "CAfi:oTnia Venus" land as there was no
! use in wasting them the.best were averaged
;: MP; and the result fdealized where there
We're iogs.:: e.
:. So. The: CaiifoIpta Venus Will not honor
Miss Mary Brown of the foothills or Miss
:14ertTude le jones of the Western Add
!: fion,; hut wall BIZ. properly labeled, paren-
r1eriraIlS, :";Ehe: Misses Mary Brown, Ger
:, tTItl4e de: j 6Hes, Miss Evelyn Rich ct al"
Z: Tie average. has been found, bat what
g: the .proportiqns are: and who furnished
Them: are. secrets:
50 is ~the' statue Just now. 1t is a big
. ,lgID Q f:clay out.in Mr.. Sehmjd's shed now,
and n0body C an see. it. IT will pass into the
plaster of: paris stage when the sculptor
;+st IS back from Chtcago. and il Will be.
narble Some time IN, hot weather.
~ hen .it5yiil be set .up in the California
.FoGm ii the Woman's building for the world
tQ:adl)isTe and: ritlcize. and for newspaper
Wits 10 'tJosh::!"-
g: ~Mrs.:Wafte was. seen at her residence by
a.EepQrler of The CALL yesterday after
:. 1.-THE CALL has secured secret which l
have guarded as zeal0usly as / possibly
cOpfd," ShF:said.
I'VE had hoped above all things to keep
I'll 5 away from the papers until the Cali.
farniI Venus was Safely placed in the
g, CaltforE aToem Of the WOman's building in
Chic&eo.
.-..''l-ez, it will be called the California
Venus That was not the original name
we had selected for it. but, since the people
OF California are pleased to name it that, so
q. shall lex
:. ''It Fr}F be just. exactly as we originally
desisfitfit: Not a particle or part of the
PAN VIII be changed.
.@Thr statue will be beautiful, simply
: paantiiu!. and people viii grow rapturous
0ger H. i will be draped. The most mod
est wfiAan in California will be delighted
With il. -.
@ '%Fhe statue is now being made. Mr..
SclHnia is in Chicago. lie VIII be greatly
Chagrined 10 find that the matter has been
made public We had hoped so earnestly
that tt wculd ee kept secret, and had tried
Sc hard 70 keep It so"
INV did the idea of California Venus
copleto be formed?"
II started really with desire to display
. sdme pieces of California marble to the best
adyaiiage. We had several different kinds
anu hTst we proposed 10 carve it pp into
q. pedeStals. Then when one was started it
did: not seem to be attractive enough, and
s0me:ef the ladies proposed that marble
bust be placed on one OF the pedestals.
"a very prominent society lady o San
FRANCISCO promised to pose for the bust.
Then another lady suggested that there was
=. the perfect woman, and so the idea kept on
growing.
Il suggested that it be made typical
California beauty. The idea was so novel
That 1t would be a drawing card for Cali
foTnia.. Then came the plan of the beauty
to NEST, and then all the trouble followed
when We tried the plan.
OF course we will have to deny il all
agaln'fl the matter IS published now But
you may be sure of this. The statue Will
be. in The Noman's building in Chicago and
II Will be beautiful-simpy beautiful"