The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-04
WHOLE EFFECT
BEST TEST FOR
GIRLS BEAUTY
'Once-O Ouer,' Is Not
Enough, Judge
Says.
By G. r CALDWELL.

Consolidated Press Correspondent.
Copyright. 1922, by The Argus.)
New York, N. Y, Sept. 4-Pul-
chritude is solely a matter of speci-
fications. individual taste in the
matter of what girl is beautiful is
merely per cent of the total
specifications.
Thus declared Henry Give, New
York artist, who with another fam
GUS illustrator, and motion pic
ture star, decided recently who
was the most beautiful of all the
girls who bathed at Brighton
Beach this summer. There were
hundreds of contestants. They in
cluded all types, and as many per-
sonalities as there were contest
ants. Take it from the judges them
selves, it was hard job All of
them said today they would never
act as judge in such a contest.
One thing, according to these
judges, it can be said at the start,
would bar a girl from getting even
one vote-bobbed hair. 1t is no,
natural they all said, and to be
beautiful a girl must be natural,
above all else They all insisted
that the trite, expression about a
woman's hair being her crowning
glory must be true, since in no gal
lery in all the world can be. found
a work of art by an old master
showing a beautiful woman with
the back of her neck exposed to
view below cropped curls.
"A girl might not have two per-
feet features" said Mr.. Give to-
day. 1T is the general appearance
of all the features which make up
the effect. And it is the whole eff
feet that in the end makes wom-
an beautiful or not beautiful. Gen
orally, however, there are certain
basic standards to look for. An
other thing that is most important
is that the first once-over is not
| sufficient. The judge must have at
least "a hours between one covers
before it is possible for the male
Judge especially to give fair and
true verdict on feminine beauty.
Bingo!!
"You know how it is yourself.
You meet a queen at dance and
right away she is knockout. You
try to dish all the other girls and
fill your dance card with her name
You go home raving to yourself
about her and next day you see her
| on the street or in another costume
and bingo!!-You wonder how you
fell SO hard the night before"
| The general specifications which
Mr.. Give and his conferees unani-
mously agreed should be taken into
considerations in all contests fof
beauty are:
General appearance, distance be-
tween the eyes, shape of the nose
whether the eyes are of a decided
color shaded eyes are ruinous)
shape of the mouth, condition of the
teeth, "a gold tooth is fataD, set
up of the head, texture and condi-
tion of the hair, angle at which the
ears are Joined to the head and
where they are placed, width OF
the brow, condition of the skin
width of the upper lip, length OF
the eyelashes. The eyebrow, oi
course, must conform to the other
features, Mr.. Give said. Plucked
eyebrows, these judges said, like
bobbed hair, are not natural, and
therefore would disqualify a con-
testant.
Cosmetics, excepting perhaps :
dash of powder on the nose, are Is
bad as bobbed hair and plucked ey ),
brows.
The general contour of the body
and bearing. rather than decided
holding to the Venus De Milo fig
ire, Mr.. Give declared should rule
Just so a girl is not exceedingly
thin or exceedingly fat, she stands
a show unless it is purely a bath
ing beauty contest, and in that case
said Mr.. Give, the body lines must
OF course, come in for a large shars
of consideration.