The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-22
WOMAN, THE INFERIOR AND LESS
BEAUTIFUL ANIMAL

A writer calling himself '"Truthteller,"
has a letter in the New York World In
which he advances the proposition that
in man is shown forth the higher physi-
c6s development of the race with a
sacrilegious earnestness and attention to
detail that must shock the deep rooted
sensitiveness of the age. Here are the
heretical specifications of the indictment:
Woman is heavier and fatter and
size of her frame.
She is ashamed of her natural shape.
and not by any means from modeSty.
she DISCUSSES and deforms it completely.
A woman dressing as she does in New
York today would lead a man ignorant
of the real state of affairs to believe her
to be something very different from what
she really is. She wears sleeves that
give her shoulders an immense breadth.
whereas the narrowness of that part of
her person is one of her most distinctive
natural features.
There seems to be some reason in this
AN unusual amount of reason, in fact,
for the female sex. She is trying to con-
inevitably means lack of matchmaking and
bbreathing power and strength. But what
are we to think of ner conduct in shift
ing her waist by means of corsets as far
as possible below it's natural position?
That indicates her lack of intelligence
and emphasizes her physical inferiority.
1t is at once an outrage on good sense.
good taste and hygiene.
The lines of the natural waist are
generally considered beautiful. They
compensate in degree for the ridiculous
shortness of the locomotive members. BY
making an artificial waist just over the
hips and around the digestive organs, she
loudly calls attention to that brevity. She
does what she can to make clumsiness
hideousness.
1 strongly recommend the impartial
student Of woman to study her while she
is bathing at the seashore. Under no
physical conformation so conspicuous 1t
is a sight to make one fee 10 the noun
tains. Those artists who depict beautiful
batherS at the summer resorts are the
most unblushing liars to be found in this
land
Hideous as are the women bathers we
see. we must remember that they are the
more shapely members of their sex. No
woman who does not consider herself
good looking. will venture out in bathing
costume. What must the others be like?
The woman bather, of course, is at her
worst when she gets wet, as she ire
quently does. Thare is after all some
excuse for those who stay on dry land
tune. They are only exhibiting a form
of that capacity for hunbug which is
woman's peculiar property and which we
do not begrudge her.
1t is more to our purpose now now
ever, to consider the wet bather as she
energies from the kindly concealment of
the ocean. Her hair, which at other
times is made UP so as TO give an i'm
preston of abundance, is scanty and be-
draggled. Her face is blue and red and
generally discolored a condition prjnci--
her blood. Her narrow shoulders ard
fiat chest are pitiful Corsets and pad
ding are no longer there to produce the
effect of a straight back and we'll
The waist, being covered with several
thicknesses of stuff and clumsily tied up,
calls attention to the general shapeless-
ness. The skirt probably gives us a
or q q knock
knees or bow legs. or of that other fire.
quent phepomenon--tWo knees bent side
ways in the same, direction. Happily, it
is still usual in this country TO wear
stockings when bathing.
All the bathers movements show that
ungracefulness which arises from lack
nent When she stands i'll the water
she bends the upper part of her body
forward and jumps up and down, pre-
senting the most ridiculous spectacle It
his slow diagonal walk, is in comparison
an object of grace.
When she can swim she usually does
it very badly. She uses her arms and
legs at different times, and. with an
amount of ezertion remarkable in one
so weak. brings half of her body out OF
the water with every stroke: 4,,,+ s,o
should be compared in this way with
men. but the conduct of those who talk
so much nonsense. about her makes 1t
that a well-formed woman is not a pleas
ing object, but, as have said before. she
is distinctly lower form OF animal life
than man. He is made to. carry on the
work of the world. to go forward in the
process of evolution His frame is strong,
light, graceful agile and generally. fitted
to carry out the commands of his 1ntelll-
gence.
It is much more common to find a man
who has attained high degree of physi-
cal development in his way than
woman in hers. I have reason to believe
that the great majority Of doctors will
corroborate this. statement Among {, Ger,
blacksmiths, one finds a considerable NUM-
Der of remarka BILE physical beauty. Their
wives are not similarity remarkable.
Even the women who enjoy a public re-
putation for beauty are surpassed by men
equally in the public view. James j.
corbet is more graceful than m any " wG }Iiag
on the display of limbs. crowd of
third-rate prize-fghters would certainly
make a. better appearance, judged by dis
passionate artistic standard, than the
living picture ladies.