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Show v tv,;...,. . 1 perfect rhyiioal Types Discovered Ij Boientiflo Methods Some of the- , , , ; i : Posaible Oonsequeaoes, " 'j . i WIKHEES TJSDEB THE NEW BULE3 llKCUnreliable Eye Gives Vay tptheBesc-lutely tptheBesc-lutely Accurate System ofl Anthropometry.'' The'first man known to have officiated as judge at a beauty show was that old-time old-time dude and masher Paris, son of Priam. Each of the three aspirants for the prize the golden apple of discord offered the guy young Trojan huge bribes. Juno's tender was dominion over Asia and wealth; Minerva's, military renown and wisdom; Venus',' the fairest of females for his wife. The prince was at an age when "wo- nineteen different peoples. His report gives (SS ,B m.illimetere- A mUlimeter is .03W7 of an inch. Jackson is 73 inches tall, or nearly 1,853 millimeters, and here is the way he towers above other race types whose stature is set down in Dr Weisbach's statistics: Henry C. Jackson, of Maine 1 855 Kew Zealand Maoris "i-vr Kafirs of Africa KM Korwegians .'-,, Bcotch .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.17 Bweds 1700 English and Irish .'.'.'.'.'.'."!! 1090 Danes Germans , Italians , !!"!!"!!l!or8 Frsnch ; '.'.'iter Spanish and Portuguese 'i'6Ti8 , Hebrews WTiat an iconoclast science is! In some phases of It research It would seem to be sworn foe to sentiment and romanoe.j Now that Dr. Sarjcent's new style of beanry contestwhere con-testwhere inexorable weights and meas' tires reign has come into vogue, the verdict ver-dict of the eye must lie regarded with distrust. dis-trust. It will be safe no longer for Mr. WcGinty to declare that Sallie Waters is the finest girl in town, for Captain Jinks I may be expected to respond at once: "No, ' sir; yon are mistaken. Her measurements, measure-ments, according to the percentile system; do not come within ten marks of those that record the superb lines of the peerless Annie Rooney;", Ideals and hitherto recognized standards must also fail. I know a courtly gentle-uiauof gentle-uiauof middle age who is-' a bachelor today to-day because a quarter of a century ago Adah Isaacs Man lean roftiunrl tn enve htm a ;'" ITISs' S! ARGAKET BLANCHE BEST. " : . .- Reproduced trom Boston Herald. man's looks were all his books," and he decided de-cided in favor of the Queen of Love. She paid tho specified' price for hef triumph, and Piiris ran away with Helen. The two . defeated goddesses took revenge for the "injury of their slighted forms," and when the Greeks went whooping about the gates of Troy the prince probably felt that it "would have been $10 in his pocket had ha never been born." They manage affairs of this kind better in these later and more practical days that is, at least Dr. D. A. Sargent, of tho Harvard university gymnasium, does. Three years ago the doctor offered cash prizes for tbe man and woman, students of his system of physical culture, who could show, at an examination to be held in ths summer of 1890, the most perfect symmetry sym-metry of form, the candidates to be between be-tween the ages of 17 and 80. Three thousand thou-sand persons entered the contest. It was one entirely different from that in which Paris came to grief. There was no chance for bribery or favoritism. When the lists , closed and the period of probationary exercise ex-ercise ended each fair, maiden and stal wart youth was subjected to what is known as 'the percentile system. 'Tbe tape of the dentist regarded not bright smiles or 1 THE KI0BK OF SCOPAS. v 1 place on her; list of husbands. , She is his ideal yet. It'is his not unpleasing custom, when tjlie subject of handsome women is under discussion, to descant upon the glo-ripus glo-ripus loveliness of his lost sweetheart. He knows her history from the hour when she was born at New Orleans, in 1835, and bap-tized bap-tized Dolores Adios B'uertes, to the autumn day of 1608 when she found sepulture in a Paris cemetery. He can give quaint reminiscences remi-niscences of all the men she married-rMen-ken. the musician, Heenan the pugilist, Newell the author and Barclay the capitalist. capital-ist. , Tears stand in his eyes when he quotes the pathetic poetry she wrote while dying, and she seems to smile before him in all the oriental charm of her insolent magnificence as he tells of her theatrical triumphs as Mazeppa at Ast ley's. Some day while he chants the Menken's praises there is the possibility that a believer in the percentile system will ask: "What were her measurements?" Then trouble will follow, for the old bachelor has a short temper and a strong arm. Until the present the Greek type that preserved for ns in the sculptured works of ancient masters has been the generally acknowledged standard of perfect physical beauty. Hermes and Niobe still gaze with the changeless youth of marble upon the modern world, of which their makers never dreamed. Apparently they nre faultless, of outline and without flaw, but the ver- ' , UfiinKi v. jAi.sauK. i Reproduced from Boston Herald. anxious looks. It went on recording, per- ' son by person, every item ot size. Here U the list of measurements: I Height Standing, sitting, knee, pubid arch nd sternum. . Girth Head, neck, chest, waist, hips, thighs, knees, calf, instep, upper arm. elbow, forearm hud wrist. I ' Depth Chest and abdomen. I Breadth Head, neck, shoulders, waist, hips, Shoulder elbow and elbow tip. i Also length of foot, horizontal length aud Stretch of arms. I The female winner under these exacting ' conditions was Miss Margaret Binncho Best, of Meadville, Pa. She is the daughter daugh-ter of Dr. David Best, a graduate of . La Salle seminary, at Auburndale, Mass., and follows the calling of a teacher. She is 83 years old, and has been one of Dr. Sargent's pupils for twelve months. The doctor said recently: ' "Miss Best is .5 feet 5 inches in height. My tables show that 82K per cent, of all women are shorter than she is, and 174 per cent are taller. Her weight- is 130 pounds. My tables show that 82X per cent, j of all women weigh less, and 17 per cent. . weigh more. That is, with all other women wom-en to judge from, Miss Best's height and weight are in just the same proportion; in other words, symmetrical." . - - . The preceptor, naturally, would give no details in inches of the other measure- j merits. . , - . - , - j i Henry C. Jackson, who gained the prize j offered to men, is said to approach much i '"- ' THE HERMES Or WU1I1U9,, diet to be rendered by anthropometry may drive them from the throne, and where they reigned others may be crowned in their stead. . . Fred 0. DATtoK. Work of the Vegetarians. The recent conclaves of vegetarians in America and England have been of advantage advan-tage even to the scoffers. The foes of animal food have at least demonstrated that such things as beans and peas and cauliflower may be so artistically dressed as to cause even the gourmet to regard them as ends in themselves, and not merely as the subsidiary adjuncts of a chop or steak. A London paper, commenting on the vegetarian, says "that the majority of Englishmen eat more meat than is good for them a habit which isdue not so much to the perversity of their dispositions as to the incompetence of their cooks." It is a little queer, by tbe way, that these British cooks, who are denounced at home for incompetency, in-competency, find easy employment and big salaries in the kitchens of wealthy Americans Ameri-cans who think nothing worth their use unless it. is imported. ' ' , ADAH ISAACS MENKES. nearer the standard of perfection than j Miss Best. He is a Bowdoin college student stu-dent and a trained athlete. His height is 6 feet 1 inch, and his weight 185 pounds. When asked the tjuestion, "Which is mora symmetrically developed as a class, man or womanf" Dr. Sargent replied: "Man. j Yet, notwithstanding gotmrations of stays and corsets, and all tha Inflictions of dress, ' the average woman has a much more gym- ! metrical form than those published cariea- ; turea that pass for fashion plates would mak tu believe." There is a remarkable fact to be noted in connection with Dr. rWiir-tit'a contest. If Mr. Jackson's proportions are to be accepted ac-cepted as fAandard for the ii ideal American, Amer-ican, thea tha fully developed eltlncn of th ' United Stars! bag not his etjnal on tbe globe In stature. Anthropometry th measurement of man baa for some years been the atndy of acieotlsta, and on of them, Dr. A. Welsbach, chief physician to the Aostro-Hungarian hospital at Con-, Con-, atantinople, who enjoyed exceptional a1- Tantagea, his taken measurements of ser-t ser-t ra fciflilada of person? rem-esenting |