Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-05-11
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
THE GIRL OF OUR DAY.
Guided by Common sense, She Looks and
Feels BETTER.

Guided by Common sense, She Looks and
Feels Better.
Ii IS matter for congratulaticn that
the typical American girl has left be-
hind her, with her low slippers and
white cambria frocks in winter, the
delicacy Of constitution and of appear
ance on which She once prided herself
remarks a writer IN Harpers Bazaar
Exercise in tennis, in croquet, in gym
nasium. in canoeing, in mountain climb
ing. even in walking, has brought the
muscles into play which develop the
whole shape. and she is everywhere
better made, better nodded, and with
better command of herself than her
grandmother.
Moreover. where once the American
girl, if she had hearty appetite, dared
not acknowledge it, but, like the girl
in the fairy story, ate only one grain Of
rice in public, she is now much more
ashamed of lack of appetite, as sign
of enfee Element and low condition, for
her pride is in her fine condition, and
she eats well and nourishingly, and,
consequently, overlays all this muscle,
born of exercise, with soft curves and
cushions through which the red blood
bounds with swift life and color.
And, although it has long been said
that the English girl had a figure
superior to that of the American girl,
even if the American face were the
lovelier, now to the lovely face there
has been added all there is of supple
and noble form, and thus in the matter
of beauty the American girl has it all
her own way.
This young compatriot Of ours no
longer laces herself to breathlessness
and red nose and pimpled forehead,
pushing what flesh there is into regions
where it makes deformity; she wears
corsets; but only to outline and par
TALLY to support, never TO press or
pinch, and thus her digestive organs
are kept free to do their work and as
sist in preparing the rounded and vel
vety surfaces. the glow in the eye, the
blush upon the cheek. the dye of the
soft lips; for, unpoetical as it appears,
the laboratory of beauty is in the
stomach.
In addition to all this the American
girl is no longer ashamed of her foot.
She used to think it a disgrace if she
wore a larger shoe or boot than No.
25s if she wore IS, she managed them;
if she wore 5s, she hid her foot Now
she understands that it IS a law Of stat
uesque beauty that a body should have
an extremity apparently equal to its
support woman foot big enough to
stand on, and bien chausse, bien gantee.
she never dreams of lengthening her
skirt because her shoe is a six or a
seven. or Of keeping her hands out of
sight because they did not stop growing
when she was ten years old Owing to
the last act of wisdom she can walk
with freedom where she will, without
pinched feet or any of the discomfort
that urges her to sit still; and thus she
takes with delight the exercise which
does so much for her, which fills her
lungs with fresh air, and oxygenates
her blood, and gives it all its life and
sparkle wherever its effects are visible.
After all, it is common sense, the appre-
citation that nature says how much to
eat and what to wear, that Ixas re-
formed an ailing and early withered
woman into a beauty of the old Greek
type