The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1908-11-09
Nevertheless She Insists She Is
Not a Bit OF a Crank On the
Subject, and Is Fond OF APP
pearing in Smart FrotkS.
Has No Set Hours or Rules for
Exercise, Eats and Drinks
What She Likes, and Isn't
Averse to a Cigarette.
BY Ethel LLOYD Patterson.

Most women would pay $4,000 to
be a Prize Venus" Miss Maude
odell has been paid $4,000 Just be.
cause she is one. From a disin-
terested viewpoint 1t does not seem
exactly fair for her to have both
the money and the loveliness, but 1t
only goes to show how unevenly
things are sometimes divided In this
world. Some things at any rate.
OF course in this particular case It is
conceded that II Miss Odell's avoirdupois
had not been evenly distributed there
would have been no neat little nest egg
coming her way. Likewise there would
have been no story OF her English con-
quests to whet bur curiosity.
1t was somewhat pardonably excited
and we'll nigh bewidered Venus that
arose to invite admission to her apart
ments in the Hotel Empire. Scarcely
two hours had passed since she had left
the steamship Arabic, of the White Star
Line, and already she had encountered
the perils and sensations of her first ride
in an elevated train. Newspaper men
besieged her door imploring her to come
forth and pose in most any old costume,
while the delay OF her luggage forced
recurrent denials to their persistent ap-
peals. Add to these things the fact that
Miss Odell Is actually and unpressagent-
ly young girl, comparatively new to
t.NtE a ls,Ha
follows in natural sequence.
Trained Ten Years.
One point was obvious at the first
glance. If Miss Odell's type is to be-
come a fad her followers have stiff
bit of training ahead of them. You
could not make yourself look like her
by just pinning on frouzle of red curls
and painting in dimple on your chin.
The English prize beauty comedies that
II took her ten years to develop her I'M
yielding sky line. and to see her is to be-
lieve it. This is no Cutie who cuddles
her nose between your ear and your
collar. Miss Odell looks like an unusual
~ healthy advertisement for break
fast food.
However. she seems to have developed
heIse'i iheh'a's "'oi4S VIC same sai''
heaith! Hhes mat sue hss Phs siCaI!'
therefore, the'e IS wen iounoeu nope
'ha' even II enter ~ is''is MAI ae'ui ~ .
do take u naming their products in her
honor there will still be little danger of
her head assuming proportions that
would mar the otherwise perfect sym
metry of her measurements.
RlSht mere II may De stated mat MISS
lodeIl eats Whatever she likes, ana drinks
what she wants OF cla- It, burgundy and
champagne, but no spirits. She also
smokes one, two or three cigarettes a
day-because she likes II. In spite OF
these trifiinE indulgences, however. she
still manages not to allow her waist 10
exceed "a inches. her neck y l-2 inches,
her bust 40 inches and her hips 4? inches;
the ideal proportions for her height
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rect ihches,
No Crank on Subject.
opo,u,," Me. o5.u ,,o,,,, ,,,,., -.
''s WI" ie'
fascinating Engllsh accent. II NJ not a
bit OF crank on this subject, OF course
/ 70 gore into it rath,r deeply ana tired
to study II on, intelligently. but I dom,
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want people TO thihR mat am physi'
cal culture maniac. OF course at first
! I int In, Inc
w., me" ., o' otn , .,e IA ue.t'op."t
my FORM along the SandoW methods
worked harder at 1t than do now. And
when | had attained the proportions
desired ana decided TO make use OF my
success in earning my livelihood / tried
to do that intelligently too. which means
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giving the IDEA time and thought. Bur
what / am trying to convey is that
have mot given INV form, all my. tive a,d
U
/ all my thought Because ] pose In
draperirs as Sappho or Psyche do no,
yisb IN looL, unsmar, in ,..h,ono,Il
toilets. l do not want people TO think
that devote all my time to exercises
paths and massage.
NO, have 10 set hours or rules for
exercise" Miss Odell continued in re.
snonse IA question. INST befora
cnmneted for and won the L;ueena a.