The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-09-08
each others heads al fewi hundred
years ago.
The British Tyne.
1-FRENCH TYPE.
2-SPANISH TYPE.
3-AAIERICAN TYPE.

each others heads al few hundred
years ago.
The British Tyne.
an Englishan selects a woman of
stature and fair color for his wife, ad-
mires his sisters and cousins in proper
tion as they possess these attributes
and if he is going to write a romance
or poem, with a pretty woman in it,
from the time of Chaucer 10 pennyson
that woman has been linned as rosy
of cheek and lengthy of limb.
However, it is readily found that
Englishmen are not alone in a prompt
defense of their national beauty, as
closely and as jealousy drawn as the
boundary lines of their country, nor
are they less eager 10 sing and paint
the distinguishing traits Of their Ia
dies loneliness.
German Fairness.
What LEY, Reynolds and Romney
have done for English cheeks and the
lofty stateliness of the English danes
the German painters have achieved IN
expressing a. Teutonic approval of the
buxom damsel. Heartily and candid1y
every German despises leanness in
woman; there is something comforting,
sclacing and bewitching in solid, whole
bosomed woman is romantic, too, to
his way Of thinking, while a Freedman
nearly Weeps with disgust at his breth-
rens material taste.
Diana's Pool.
For ages he has been jotting down
verses, dauibing pounds of paint and
sculptur-ng innumerable white marble
figures TO prove that the fairness of
], i-sa,. 7fttTa
al The back and front Of her throat
II is the way dark hair grows in a
curving line, all figured about with
natural little feathery curls, over a
white neck and the way that white
neck is set by nature onto the
shoulders; the venus nuque, that Greek
skulptOrs perfected; yea, the very sight
OF it fills Frenchman with a despair
of JOY.
He would no more write a heroine
down, in one of his little yellow backed
novels. without mentioning her nuque
ahan he would forbear to dilate upon
the fact that just at the base Of her
throat lies a big dimple. This he calls
Diana's pool, a snowy hollow few but
French women ever have and that is
worth all the pink checks and fat arms
of the whole English ana German race,
in the eyes Of her adoring countrymen.
4 Neat-Footed Venus.
Frenchmen lean sympathetically to
The notion of Irishmen with whom a
tight ankle and a slender waist count
first and last and always.
The Reason Why.
Now the student of beauty, as exempli-
fec in race lines, early Learns TO observe
that each OF these human tribes has Sc
lecied the feature in his women that ap-
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trait or. prejudice. With an English
man good health and exercise are the
great essentials. just as Germans reVer-
ence Solidity no matter how many pounds
st may weigh, the Frenchman, with his
predominating love of art and form, feels
the sculptors enthusiasm for dainty grace
and the Irishman, the best dancer in
the world, viii have none but a light.
lteai-footed partner. Undoubtedly of
them all the Greek chose the highest
tenets of female excellence when chipping
reiterated again and again that the pillars
of the fine mind and Tair IBce were al
WAYS to be seen IN a low broad brow and
a short curling upper lip.
Oriental Eyebrows.
such lines were all very well. if the
Persian could have added TO them pair
OF massive eyebrows. reaching clear
across the nose-bridge, and curVing heaV-
Siv Gown onto the temples: for a Persian
stakes his all IN a woman with these !
eyebrows, that denote jealous nature |
e.d jealousy is flattering to the masculine /
mind in Persia.
Curious it is TO remark that the Per- |
<;aa's next-door neiShbor. the man from |
I ala. is the one man who literally wrote |
sonnets to his mistress eyebrow and
Gnev what a perfect eyebrow ought to be |
ike. Straight and black as a swallows |
wing" walls one Mahomedan Romeo |
rri,iie a follower of Buddah dares heaven |
"a show him anything finer in this way |
<hav, the dlslIy creSCentS over his lady's |
eN-es. curved auJ soft as butterhy's
pinion.
beautiful Feet and Hands.
Farther north, sentimental beaux with |
ones. fos a number of thousands of years |
Ssx-e sighed :nexyressabie things over feet
that fit bai3ies' soes. perhaps because the |
ciS,h feet, showed by the women of their |
1atfon, signifed the wealth, aristccracy /
and general uselessness Of women as So I
r;si factors, all of which ticl1led the Chi |
slese ina gination.
Down IN Italy and Spain the hands and |
che upper lips give women their first |
claim 10 admiration and fiattery. An
italian looks for hand, large 1t may be, :