Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-01-07
TYPES OF BEAUTY.
FEATURES SPECIALLY ADMIRED IN
WOMEN BY VARIOUS NATIONS.
rhe Irish Ankle, Italian Hand and SPAN
ish Lip-Germans Admire soiidity-The
@rrepchmau's DeIight-Americans sum
Tn IoyeIjness In the One Word oIyic.

unroveline. In the One Word "Style.
NJ. Alphonse Daudet came a-visitini
over tho water, and in London he fount
MANY hkable things, but through I'M
chor;s,od nopocIe that every frcnchmar
wear, he saw and disapprovcd OF the ENG
fish woman. He went home anu "ro''
dreadful things about her. Not ,iiae Si'
wasn't good and Kind and clever nc ihere
" slandered her looks. This was 100 'huci',
SO as one man the British editor arose anu
Photographed the FrcnchnGh III "as -
make his hair curl tight with true uaiiie
rage had ne been able TO read EhSiish.
The French papers then had their iihe'
and II bitter one it was, TOO, that aiiiloa'
drove Il warcloud upon the European hori'
zon and proved beyond doubt that chiNaiis
of the oldest fashion is not dead YET, lof 1t
was about just such trilles as These tHe
men broke each Others heads lew nun
dred years ago.
An Enrlishrnan selects a woman OF stat
ure and fair color for his wife, adlnlrea
his sisters and cousins in proportion as
they possess these attributes, and II he Is
going TO write a romance or a poem with
a pretty woman in it, from the time OF
Chaucer to Tennyson that heroine has
been liinned as rosy of cheek and lengthy
of limb
However, it is readily found that Eng
lishmen are not alone in prompt defense
OF their national lines of beauty, as closely
and jealousy drawn Us the boundary lines
of their country, nor are they less eager Ia
Sing and paint the distinguishing traits OF
the:I ladies loveliness.
What Lely, Reynolds and Romney have
done for English cheeks and the lofty state
illness of the English danes the German
painters have achieved in expressing a
Teutonic approval Of the buxom Gamsel.
Heartily and candIdly every German de
spise. leanness in woman. There Is some
thing comforting, solaclng and bewitching
10 him in solid, wholSsoine ayoirtupuis.
a broad hipped, fun bosonled woman is
romantic. too, to his way of thinking
while IA Frenchinan nearly weeps with dis
gust at his brethren 5 material taste.
For ages he has been jotting down
verses, daubing pounds Of paint and sculp-
turing innumerable white marble figures
to prov. that the fairness OF the weaker
sex lies in two little points AT the back and
front of the throat. Ii Is the way dark
hair grows II. curving line, all figured
about with natural little fcatherv curls
over white neck and the way that white
neck Is set by nature on to the shoulders
the Venus nuque that Greek sculptors per
fected, yea, the very sight OF it fills "a
Frenchman with a despair Of joy
He would 10 more write heroine down
Ia one Of his yellow backed novels without
mentioning her nuque than he would for
bear to dilate upon the fact that Just ;.t
the base of her throat lies big diinple
This he calls Diana pool n snowy hollow
few but Frenchwonen ever possess, and
that is worth all the pink cheeks and fat
arms of the whole English and German
race in the eyes of their admiring country
men.
Frenchmen lean sympathetically to tho
notion Of 1rishmen, with whom a tight
ankle and a slender waist count first and
last and always.
Now, the student of beauty, as exe,npli-
fed in the race lines, early learns to OBJ
serve that each of these human tribes has
selected the feature in his women that ap-
pcals most strongly TO the leading nation
al trait or prejudice. With an Englishman
good health and exercise are the great cs-
sentials, just as Germans reverence solidi-
ty, no matter how many pounds ii NAV
weigh The Frenchman, with his FREEDOM
mating love Of art and form, feels the
sculptors enthusiasm for dainty grace.
and the Irishman, the hest dancer in the
world, will have none but n light, neat
footed partner. Undoubtedly of them all
the Greek chose the highest tenets of fe
male excellence when chipping out his |
nymphs and goddesses, for he reiterated
and lnai,l Tint hn s,f,
mind and fair face We're always To be seen |
in IA low, broad brow and "a short. curling |
upper lip.
Such lines were all very well if the Per |
sian could have added to them a pair o. |
massive eyebrows, reaching clear across |
the nose bridge and curving heavily down |
on to the temples, for u Persian stakes mis- |
all in woman with these eyebrows, that |
denote jealous nature, and jealousy is |
Hattcring 10 the masculine mind in Persia
Curious it is TO remark that the persan's |
next door neighbour the man from India
is the only man who literally wrote son.
nets to his mistress eyebrow and knew
what perfect eyebrow ought 10 be like.
Straight and black as swallows wing. "
walls one Mohamnedan Romeo while a
follower of Buddha dares heaven to show
$500 ,'AA 'A'iAtS AhNh Al AtS way tuau IEt
dusky crescents over his lady s eyes. curved
and soft as u buttertly's pinion.
Down in Italy and Spain the hands and
the upper lips give women their first claim
TO admiration and tiattery. An Italian
looks for hand, large it may be, but with
long taper fingers and a soft, rosy palm.
Your soft hand is woman in itself :"
says one of their poet painters to one he
loves and perhaps was quite content that
her face seemed passably fair. That point
81, velvet hand is subtle, soothing, sympa.
hectic, capable of clasping a dagger or
luieting great pain, and the Spaniard, a
person OF great spirit, likes the sign of hot
temperament shown in the woman with
Town on her upper lip. Just dusky
shadow with the Cupids and curl deeply
ndented and the lips themselves richly
ed. Murillo and Velasquez painted WON.
N with the Swallowed upper lip, just as all
he portraits of the Borgia, Medici and
Johanna women display the Italian hand
Russians, curiously enough prefer that
he skins OF their women be very white
'ale as velvet, and their feet are adored foI
heir tiny arched symmetry, while an
American man sums his canons of femi
line comeliness up in the one all embracing
vord style, and though the most dem