Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-08
A PRETTY WOMAN.
Essentials Of Beauty as Enumerated by
an Expert Of Today.

Essentials OF Beauty as Enumerated by
an Expert Of Today.
From the New York Sun.
What is essential to a pretty woman?
Here is the answer as given by a modern
beauty expert:
A pretty woman. first Of all, must have
clearly cut, regular features.
She must have a skin above reproach, UNI
touched by rouge or powder.
She must have full. clear eyes.
She must have eyelashes long and curling
upward.
She must have eyebrows finely marked,
slightly arched, long and narrow; yet the
narrow line should be thickly covered, so
as to be well marked, as II penciled.
She must have a straight nose, yet deli
cate, neither fleshy, nor pointed. nor broad
at the tip, with the nostrils free and fiexi-
BILE.
She must have a mouth rather too large
than too small. with lips full and plump and
rosy red Even an exquisitely shaped
mouth has no charm without expression.
She must have even, regular teeth of mod
crate size. pearly white. with full enamel.
She must have a chin neither sharp nor
blunt, but gently undulating in its line.
round and cushfony, turning little up
ward, with a dimple in it.
She must have a small, delicate jaw not
large and angular, which gives a hard, DOM
tneering look.
She must have a throat round, full and
pillar-like-a marble column to support the
head
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, compact
ears of shell-like shape.
She must have a forehead smooth, even
white, delicate, short. Of an open. trustful
character Aristo says ''of terse ivory was
the joyous brow"
She must have a long and delicate hand,
yet plump, with tapering fingers the tips
of which, when resting on the palm, should
turn back a little.
She must have a nail transparent like a
ruby among pink roses"-not long, not
round. not altogether square, but of fair
shape, with white crescent visible at the
base.
She must have a foot not too small, but
proportioned to the stature 1t supports;
white, well arched, with curved outline
and smooth surface.
She must have arm with round and
flowing outline. no sharpness at the elbow.
and tapering down gently to a small wrist.
She must have sloping shoulders, not too
lroad.
She must have a 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 a good figure, plump
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 being
Stin-wafSted.
She must possess the pose and repose that
mark the daughter of hundred earls."
She must have a gait which nay be lik-
ened to that Of a Diana following the
hounds.
She must know how to climb stairs, also
how to come down stairs, gracefully with
out any attempt to push holes in the steps.
She must have flexible. vibrant, caress-
ing. 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 attractions
be either dark or fair, tall or short. slender
or full formed, grave or piquant, majestic
or ytvacious, serene or brilliant-and unless
her own personality 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.