The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-13
A PRETTY WOMAN.
Essentials of Beauty as Enumerated
by an Expert of Today.

What is essential to a pretty woman?
Here is the answer as given by mod
ern beauty expert:
A pretty woman, first of all, must
have clearly cut, regular features.
She must have a skin above reproach.
untouched by rouge or powder.
She must have full, clear eyes.
She must have eyelashes long and
curling inward.
She must have eyebrows finely
marked, slightly arched, long and mar
row; yet the narrow line should be-
thickly covered, SO as to be well marked
as if Denciled.
She must have straight nose, yet
delicate, neither f1eshy, nor pointed, nor
broad at the tip. with the nostrils free
and flexible.
She must have a mouth rather too
large than too small, with lips full and
plump and rosy red. Even an ex-
quisitely shaped mouth has no charm
without expression.
She must have even, regular teeth of
moderate size, pearly white. with fun
enamel.
She must have a chin neither sharp
nor blunt, but gently undulating in its
line, round and cushiony, turning lit
tie upward, with a dimple in it,
She must have a small delicate jaw.
not large and angular, which gives
hard, domineering look.
She must have throat round, full
and pillar-like-a marble column to
support the head. 70
She must have glossy hair that has
never known the touch of bleach or dye.
She must fully understand what best
suits her in the way of hairdressing,
and cling closely to that style.
She must have small. delicate, COM
pact ears of a shell like shape.
She must have forehead smooth,
even, white, delicate, short, of an open,
trustfuul character. Aristo says of
terse ivory was the joyous brow
L, 1.1s 80.
hand, yet plump, with tapering fingers,
the tips of which, when resting on the
palm, should turn back little.
She must have nail transparent
like ruby among pink roses''-not
long, not round, not altogether square,
but of a fair shape, with white cres-
cent visible at the base.
She must have a foot not too small,
but proportional to the stature it sup
ports: white, well arched, with a curved
outline and a smooth surface.
She must have an arm with a round
and flowing outline, no sharpness at the
elbow, and tapering down gently to
small wrist.
She must have sloping shoulders, not
too broad.
She must have waist twice the size
of her throat, not, as fashion has too
often made it, nearly the same size.
She must have hips high and wide.
She must have good figure, plump
enough, yet slender enough, though new
er suggestive of an angle.
She must know how to poise the body,
in other words. how to stand correctly
She must know how to sit without be-
ing stiff-waisted.
She must possess the pose and repose
that mark the daughter of a hundred
earls.'
She must have a gait which may be
likened to that of a Diana following the.
hounds.
She must know how to climb stairs,
also how to come down stairs, graceful
ly, without any attempt to push holes
in the steps.
She must have a flexible. vibrant,
caressing, tender, poetic, crystalline
voice.
She must know how to put on her
clothes, or she loses half her beauty.
A woman may have all these attrac-
tions-be either dark or fair, tall or
short slender or full formed, grave or
piquant, majestic or vivacious, serene or
brilliant-and unless her own personal
ity is charming, unless she has tact, it
dawns on you, after you have seen her
once or twice. that she is not a pretty
woman, but pretty doll.-New York
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