San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-30
BY FLORENZ ZIEGFELD JR.
Copyright, 1924. by The Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.

Copyright, 1924, by The Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.
I venture to surmise that nowadays
not one woman in twenty-five -
possibly In hundred-has the figure
that suits her. She wants to be
thinner, or fatter-thinner, usually,
because in this country passion for
slenderness prevails. It's shock to
an American to 60 to the countries
just south of us, where avoirdupois is
considered beautiful.
"She'd be beautiful IL there were
about twenty-five pounds less of her!"
/ heard one American business man
say Of a South American. "She's far
too fat!"
And the young lady's countrymen
considered him strange, strange
man.
Now, the fault with women who go
about in figures that aren't theirs is
lack Of initiative. They think that
figures are like noses, or the color of
ones eyes, or something akin to those
Interchangeable details.
The. truth of tho matter is, that
there's many a self-made figure, as
there's many self-made man. But
as a usual thing, figure has to be
trained in the way it should go. Wo-
men who don't know this, who think
that they just happen to have good
figures, or happen not to, will see
the logic of this if they'll give it
moments thought.
They train everything else. They
70 to school, as children, to train their
minds. Even after they've grown up,
and married and brought up family,
they 90 on training their minds -
joining clubs, studying, keeping UP
with the affairs of the world.
They train their faces. Just. con-
suit the list Of beauty parlors in
any classified telephone directory, re-
membcring that the list is but an
incomplete one, and you'll agree with
me in that statement. Many fortunes
have been made in selling prepare
tons to enhance beauty, and made In
some instances, not because the prod
uct itself was any good, but because
its manufacturers said it was, in Their
advertising.
But-women do not train theiI
figures. That is, not unless they
have to depend on beauty to help then
earn their living.
The women of the stage fall int
that class. They know that they cam
afford to overlook anything that IL
going to mean anything in the way OF
beauty. So they 60 in for beautiful
figures, right from the start.
Figure Can Be Acquired.
Some of them were lucky, becaus'
they began when they were yer!
young. But it's possible for woman
who has reached thirty, the gateway
Of middle age, to acquire a figure
that she'll be proud of, the figure
that really belongs to her.
1t may seem like hard work. Blu
what woman, in this progressive da!
and age, wants to go around mas
osarading in a costume that makes
her less beautiful than she is! IL L
were clothes that caricatured her
she'd work like a slave to get som
that showed her to be just as good
looking as she possibly could be. Bu
when it's figure whose best point
are concealed, because of under dc
yelopment, or because of too much fat
or for some such reason, the womal
lust goes about wishing that she wer
better looking, but feeling that SD
must do the best with what claims t
beauty she has, and be satisfied.
She's really deceiving herself an
everybody else. She can have beauty
and doesn't know it.
And the way is an old, old one
Exercise!
The best way to take it is in dan'
ing. Chorus girls, whose faceN an
figures frequently are their fortunes
dance and dance and dance. No
long ago 1 overheard discussion b'
tween two of them. One was dancin
every night and two afternoons wee