The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-19
Special to The Globe.

Mass, April 1S.-IhiS has
always been the city of highest culture,
aestheticism and fads of all degrees,
but Boston has suddenly made it's mind
up to reYolutionize the form of lovely
woman. The giraffe woman of the
present type of fashion plate is to van
lSh. The -WaSp-waisted woman is to be
RELOCATED to Chicago and other cities of
merely average culture, whilst fat
women will be possibly only outside of
the HUI. The scraggy woman, a gen.
ulne native product, is to be made over
again, and so on. OF course, it is the
dressmakers who are going to do It
that IS the National Dressmakers' as
ISOLATION, who Will work under the di-
rectiOn of the Boston Art league, many
of whose members have made a pro-
found study of making a woman over
again. They go at their work in a
thorough manner, molding new shapes
on old forms, and before all the sum
mer dresses nave been built the new
woman Will have arrived-the brightest
orb in the armament of female beauty
the world over, not only as far as figure
is concerned, but features as well, the
plan being to have a club of members
for building over the face in conso-
nance with the new form.
Their PhiIanthropic Plans.
T begin with" said Mrs. Martin.
why do We nave so many spinsters I'm
the world and so many bachelors? All
men n women would be married If
women were made sufficiently attrac-
1--WE. The twaddle which has been
written during h last month or two
over President Roosevelt's dictum that
IL was a solemn duty to marry was abb
surd. You can never make a man hon
est or good by act of congress. He will
generally do about what his inclination
dictates"
incidentally" continued Mrs. Mar
tin. although the trap will be set for
renegade man baited with beautiful
forms and lovely faces, we shall not
stop there. Most men are too bashfuI
to propose and this is a potent cause of
the lack of marriages. We shall issue
a new code of etiquette, which will give
woman the privilege of coming to the
proposal point without losing her dig
nifty. Long drawn out engagemenfs
unless absolutely necessary will be
made a thing of the past, b~etrothals
Will be made a prior rite to marriage
ana our press department will see to il
that those who break them are made
known to the world-their t~reacherv
iald bare and themselves put under a
ban by the rest of Womankind PER-
fdious creatures that MANY of Thorn
are men will no longer be allowed To
tr1f1e with faithful hearts, for our legal
department Will take up all cases of
breach-of-promise and make it warm
Tor violations of faith by those esnon
Sible."
The Perfect Form.
Mrs. Martin says further: "The per-
fectly formed woman should be but five
and a half feet in height. We cannot
cut down the six-footers, but by ar
rangements of the hair and shoes we
can do much for the midgets. Thirty
hVe inches is the size of the real
Venuses' bust line and forty-four of
the arms. The body and limbs should
be about eight times and a quarter the
length of the head. Across the shoulders
the depth of the mead Should he
doubled. One and three-quarter times
the length of the head is the correct
measure of the beautiful waist. From
the bottom of the chin to the breast
bone she should measure half the
length of the head and from the top to
the bottom of the breast bone should
measure half the length of the head.
FROM the waist line to the beginning Of
the lower limbs should easur the
length of the head. These limbs should
measure precisely one head from the
beginning of the lower limbs to the
middle of the thigh and a half head
from there to the top of knees. Built
- NIC5N LCSL Tx the Iuedl woman
should measure n and a half heads
from the bottom of the knee to the
small of the ankle, and from there to
the sole of the foot half a head. The
hips should match the shoulders and
be twice as wide as the head is long.
THE feminine figure is the ideal of
creation when properly fashioned. The
measurements given differ but slightly
from those which were the standard
for the ancient Greeks and Egyptians.
Modern artists all utilize them and it
IS now for the ~dressmakers to come
into line. We have had enough Of six
teenth century abortions of the ivine
figure, French frills and furbelows and
paint and powder. Nature intended
woman to be beautiful, but her tailors
have deformed her until she is as lit
tie like herself inside of her clothing
as outside as is a stage clown.
"Of what value is it to cover a gown