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Show George Clinton Batclielder Says Venus de Milo Hasn't Got a Look-in. POINTS OUT THE FAULTS OF .EUROPEAN WOMEN French Too Thin, Germans Too Stout, but American Girl . , Just Right. By Leased Wiro to The Tribune. NEW YORK, Aug. 6. "Tho American girl is tho most beautiful girl in tho world. Why, I consider if the Venus de Milo should appear on earth today she could not hold a candlo to our average American girl." This waa tho statement mado today by George Clinton Batcheldor, who ha3 just returned from a long trip abroad, where he mado an explicit examination of tho women-of tho world in a business way. He is an expert designer. Hero is the way he sizes up the women of Europe; "Lot us begin with tho French woman. She Is 1 not beautiful, she is not even pretty. She is short and too thin. Sbo has a very abort waist. Sho has no shoulders shoul-ders at all and no hips. Hor complexion Is usually a work of art, and her eyes a-ro large and pretty, buL hor face, as a whole. la a disappointment, while her figure is very poor. Bcaldos, she is always al-ways a bmnotto, and tno' monotony of the type Is most wearisome. Gorman Women Too Stout. "Tho German woman Is heavy and masculine In appearance She, too. is short and yot, unliko tho French woman, la very stout oh, much too stout. And alio lu aiways a blondo absolutely without with-out neck. "Thero is no varloty tliore," either. 'I llnd serious fault with tho English woman. She is too long. Sho has done so much walking that alio haa lengt honed herself into a living slab. Hor shoulders are high and sqparo instead of sloping. Her faco ia strong, rather than beautiful, She has a very alight bust development, and often stoops as If afraid of ber own weight. Besides, sho dresses so badly. No Goddoss Types in Grooco, "Tho Italian girl is apt to be overdeveloped. over-developed. The girls of Greece today are small and thin I've never seen a goddusa type among them. "The girls of Austria-Hungary were really tho most attractive ones t Baw In .Europe. But thoy are somewhat too small. You seo, it all comes buck to tho American girl, "You seo, tho American girl ia tall, yot not too tall, slender and well developed. devel-oped. She has beautiful sloping shoulders shoul-ders and a long waist, Sho haa hlp3, though sho is rather foolishly trying to conceal tho damning circumstance at present. "ho lias beautifully long, exquisitely ex-quisitely molded arms, Her feet are slender, If not tiny. "Her features aro regular and well cut Sho haa tho most beautiful chin in the world. Her profile Is exquisite. Hor neck Is neither too long nor to short, and she dresses beautifully." |