Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-03-06
BOSTON WOMAN WAS
DECLARED MODERN Venus
Or. Sargent Authority For
Statement

Boston, Mass, March 5.-"Swi'l
your way to perfect body!" This is
message from Madeleine Berlo, tn :
1S-year-old Revere Beach girl, whom
Prof Dudley Sargent has just declar-
ed to be the modern Venus of the
world-the Goddess of Beauty of the
twentieth century.
Sargent, the dean of all things ply
steal at Harvard University, says that
each of the measurements of the an
cient Venus is counterparted in Miss
Berlo and he has engaged her to teacn
the women at his school the art of
bodily perfection.
81 don't want to confine my sculpt-
uring of my sex to just the girls OF
Boston" says Miss Berlo. 81 want ev-
cry woman in the land to be beautiful.
And every woman in the land can
be beautiful.
"How?"
Swim"
Swim to beauty! Fat or thin, swim
ming will bring the body up to its
fullest wonder. And l will explain
Why-and tell How it brought to my
body the acclaim of being an absolute
reproduction of the masterpiece of
classic art"
Madeleine Berlo is by no stretch of
the imagination an Amazon, yet as she
tripped about the room-each line ami
ripping curve bespeaking a super
marvellous grace-her ability to ac-
complish her self-appointed life-mis-
sion seemed potent.
THE reason l say that swimming
will restore to woman her God-given
perfection of limb and organize
body completes because it calls in
to active play every muscle, every
organ of the body. 1t makes every
particle of the physical being work.
Some of these, at first will be rusty
from long disuse, but they will i'm
prove with each new effort. The at
tainment of the perfect figure is mere
ly the inevitable result Of the contin-
uance of such exercise.
at is like the sum of difficult
mathematical problem-it is worked
out by gradual steps until, without
any sudden jump, the final result i;
attained.
THAT is the answer to my body.
did not, at first, consciously strive TO
attain physical perfection. But sew.
eral years ago when athletic instruc-
tors began to get out their tape meas
ures to seek the Venus of the modern
world, / awoke to the fact that l was
already possessed of the symmetry and
proportion of the flesh. Then / began
the study of actual physiology
out of copybooks, but out of real life
tried all possible exercise and swim
ming proved the best of them all So 7
started to swim my way to perfection.
Last year Dr. Sargent examined
me and encouraged me to believe th:,t
I could gain the perfect form of my
sex Then | tried more than ever,
exercising in every way But it WASH t
work at all-it was too exhilarating
and blood-tingling to be work 1t was
just play!
q have always been a swimmer. I
started swimming at the age of I
years and have been swimming ami
swimming ever since. believe | could
eat and sleep in the water-I love il
so!
q know many women say that they
can't go in the water because they are
weak or sick. but if they go in the wa
ter they won't be sick! And if they
keep going in they not only won't b :
sick, but they will be on the road 20
absolute health and that alone means
a perfect body
so that is what | want to do--start
every woman in the world to swim
ming. If they will they will sue