Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-03-08
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| When man wants to prove a
favorite theory. he begins collecting
statistics, taking notes, visiting for
elgn countries. that promise to con-
! tribute the desired information, and
hnally he writes book, which, often
| as nat, gathers dust on the shelves
OF public Libraries. Here it remains
unealled for, unread and unsung
a woman on the other hand has
much less expensive, less cum
oersome method. of arriving at con-
clusions than this-she consults her
intuition, and nine times out of ten
she is right.
For instance, Professor w. NJ. Gal
mean wrote book on THE Psy-
chology of Marriage" in which he
says that Primitive man was allured
py physical charm and is still so
attracted among uncivilized tribes"
Just how uncivilized he regards
present day Americans, Engiishmen,
Frenchmen and other Europeans
who put on straw hats in May, wear
linen collars and hard-boiled shirts,
1t would be difficult to say. But
certainly no woman would take the
time and trouble to write a book
about the havoc physical charm
causes among men, gentle or savage.
She recognizes that as an incontro-
vertible truth, and she would never
thlnk or visiting the Hottentots to
observe its baleful effect. She may
see IL next door, down town or under
her own roof, for that matter
10 her straight -the-point, in
stinctive way of looking at things.
oook on the subject would be a
waste of ink without stopping to
theoriZe, she turns to the business
in hand-the subjugation of man by
good looks, either natural or ac-
quired. -
She changes her figure, the color
of her hair, her expression, her very
stature itself to suit the prevailing
standards of beauty, whatever they
may be. Her business is to look
pretty and appeal, and this she does
quite successfully. In the meantime.
man writing tones on the subject,
gets no nearer the truth than "Prim-
tive man was allured by physical
charm. and is still so attracted among
uncivilized tribes"
Personal Experience to Help
HIS own experiences are apparent
ly no help to him. He sees a Hot
tentot worship a fat lady-that par
ticular heathen's ideal of beauty
his own Waterloo may be excessive
slenderness, he falls, but he never
learns.
Standerds of female beauty differ
all over the world. the Arab admires
slenderness to the point of emacia-
tlon. Other desert tribes share the
Arabs adherence of fat. Readers
n 4f
Hitchin's description of Irena, the
kabyle dancing girl who looked
enemic almost tubercular, vet
thrilled the spectators to the verge
of frenzy by her dagger dance. He
thus describes her:
Her features were narrow and
pointed. Her bones were tiny. and
her body was so slender her waist
so small, that, with her fiat breast
and meager shoulders, she looked
almost like stick crowned with n
human face and hung with brilliant
draperies."
The tribes of Africa, on the con-
trary, esteem fat. And they are not
alone in their admiration of a gen
erous outline. The Reubens tyne"
says another authority, sis perhaps
the most admired by man" No doubt
the desire for a disparity of struc-
ture and form, in the two sexes is
deep and fundamental"
haVelock Ellis, who has written a
pprary on the general subject of
sex attraction, asserts that carriage
mas decided influence on selection,
and that an awkward gait detracts
from a Woman's attrac activeness.
Stoutnes is, however, not neces-
sarily handicap to graceful move
ments Spanish women tend to
stoutness but they have the inward
curved spine which makes for sta
tuesque bearing and nimbIeness in
motion.
Carrying Bucket on Head
me carrying of a bucket of water
or other burden on the head insures
an Incompatible beauty of gait.
number of opera singers have re-
course to this particular form of
exercise in their physical culture
exercises. 1t insures poise with a