The evening world., 1913-01-24
"You KnosD," He Muir.
nurs, "N Any One Of
Our Lonely Women
Really Did Look Like
Venus de Milo, She
Would Haze a Fit in Her
Tight Corsets."

Tight Corsets."
Mavgueyite M00ers Mavshau.
whs's venus saA whys
1s the fairest woman Of the modern
world q flesh and blood replica Of the
arble found at Meios. In which an UNI
Identified Greek sculptor had immortal
ised for posterity eli that was most
beautiful to the eyes Of his beauty-iov.
ing race? IL the Venus De Milo. ID
vinciy tall and most divinsiy fair" .
vision reincarnated In the iiving. loving
women Of to-day? And. II %. whore Is
the most perfect type Of this new-old
beauty to be foundf II Il . product Of
the New World or the Old? Does this
Venus of 1918 live In Italy. France. Ger
many. England or--America7
Seven cities fought for the honor Of
Homer's birthplace. Two nations. Great
Britain and the United States. are In
the midst Of an animated war Of words
regarding the native land Of the mod.
srn Venus. shes . Londonerr' pro-
claims John Bull. ''she lives In little
old New Yorh!" Uncle Sam asserts.
with equally fsrvsnt conviction.
% far the claims Of the Venus Of
Manhattan have bssn backed up by TIVE
suceessfui scuiptors. Sara Norris 0rssns
and Myra Nussslman- Can. and the
weil.knowu portrait painter. Alfonso
Nmbaal. Nrs. orssns's testimony was
particularly valuable. for she confessed
that In an experience with models from
practically every country che had no.
whore found . nCase equal - that %
the American women.
WHAT ARrier chANleo G. Gun.
RAN Mas 10 CAV.
hut are al our artists equally ready
to vandicats the supsriority Of the Amsr.
lean vsnusf ! decided 10 consult Charles
c. curraa. whose perspective Of sxpsr-
isnce eutdistanoss that Of Ne majority
Of the painters settled IL New York.
". Curran u . trustee Of the National
Academy Of Design. That Ne knows .
pretty gin when he ssee one 10 proved
~ che fact that recent magazine cover
Of his Fsceived moro letters OF common
dstten than any other cover used BY the
magazine IN years.
And here IL the way he sums UP the
Venus question:
~ ~ sas naa1sa WAsgs ~ osu-
eoslaA yase ysels0iAates = Ne
beaaA110 VsmAa aAxhe1ly ll4ee.
- frea - nAsts1ly s1vssass -
~ besasass q aay stAss nasiea
lAAAA1es1 ~ ~ whats nee. n Pea
ises fes ssaa vasiAAisa = We
yea Aust sall frsa Ne YAsias
eeo0t q AAseisa - JaVaa, net
Ss0R ~ AtaaatAs esast - 1Ae.
lAnA. !1eeo 80 vsausee n Few
Yss3 90 vea1sss u xsaAsu, n
eAs9s, veaasss sAsagh fer aIl.
Ne lsat nse1 - suasssl sSeus
tAsn.w at u,
Then . dsiishtfuiiy auissiSai smile dis
closed itself Just above Mr.. Curran'u
grisslsd vandyies beard. He bent toward
Ne oonAdsntiaiiy.
you know" hs murmured. III one
Of our lovely young women really did
LOCK like the Venus Dc Milo she'd have
. ut. wsil-maybs she wouldn't ct just
this minute. I understsnd they're wear
Ing everything loose. But OF course Il
csn't last. and imagine . real Venus
trying 10 train herself down 70 q small
pointed waist! The original never had Il
wear corssts."
"Rut ct least yeu don't coosidsr tia,
English women have better figures thar
; We dof''I questioned.
A GOOD WORD FOR DRIriOH ANc
i AMERICAN oiRLs.
Mr.. Curran shook hh hsaA "rv,
painted some English women and . goo<
many Amsrcans." he observed. and
haven't noted any marked differentiation
. between the two national types. wsr,
all from the same stock originally, 70,
must remember. English and American
come from Q minglinS Of Tsutouic ant
Gallo blood. The result can't b % vast
iy dissimiiar.
1T II true. supooss. that the EuSiisl
woman OF . certain class has great,
bensntsd In physical way by her out
door LIE. To-day the American womsl
has keen interest In sports and spend
much time In the open air. At least
she does this Just - soon a. she learn
that Il 10 the proper thing and the mod
OF life preferred by nice people TIL
Engllshwoman. however. IL she IL O
good family. has walked and ridden an
hunted and lived In the country for gen
CREATIONS. She has TINS time conferred ad
vantage"
And then AIR. Curran quietly launche
a fine heresy.
~ don't thiAk that the heroic
type Of beauty. ~ rsprsssntsA by
the vsaus 10 leilo. u the only or
even the supreme tasal Of sssui-
ntAs iovsiissss," he said. .To ne
astast1e ~ veil ~ - tAs pepular
eye bsaaty REVEALS itsslS n many
forms. n y Impossible 70 sslsst
enc spsslaa AsalA, Aevsvss e.
suisss. saa yrsasuass u sssal-
ssA 70 whasi III others must cen.
fern. xhs tai vssus anl Tie N.
tAts SysoAs are Seth assAsl /. he
weyla."
Just as the show g,rl ana the chteke
Are beth needed In thu inusicsi sVmsly y,
eaaesatses ~ ~ hpsSaA .Asl1ai