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Show ?ERTECT FEMININE BEACTTS Art U (election. When Zeuiii aeusht the Ideal he chore a brow from ArJaia, a nue front Lvdia. a Hp from Mr, an arm from I. ilia, a foot from xneliaaa. .Several ladiea were lairl under un-der contribution, and throuah thia eclectic ec-lectic proceaa came perfection. Moat women hare one aroo't feature. Even Kati.ha. ia "The MrVado." with her "cariratnre of face." had an elbow that people r me milea to aee on account ac-count of ita perfection. Thia. then, in the true war of arriving' at tieautr. ( honee aeveral heautiea; twlcct the chief bermtiea of theee aeveral beau-tiea; beau-tiea; borrow a perfect, eve from one, a faultleaa aoae from another, a match leaa mouth frnm another, and Wend, each feature into a beautiful whn'e. For it, m rare that Tou will And two perfect' featurea in th. aame face. A laree, melting, violet eve, ehaded by lone, dark lanhea. an eye whose ex-quiiite ex-quiiite loveliness reuse, a thrill of admiration ad-miration in the beholder, is accompanied, accom-panied, let u ear, h? a short, irregular oee. But do you notne these nasal hortcoming.f Do vow oraerve the length of the Hp or the lack of chisel, lag in the rbmt Not at all. You gaze at those elorioua eyea. You .are in-, tantly nader a saell, at which the ' dreesmaker and roinenr aasiat, and tou j (ro away thinking yon have met the oat beautiful woman you have ever seen in your life. - That ia why the average ia turn a poor eritie of female fe-male beauty, lie ia too much an impressionist. im-pressionist. He feela it impoaeible in cold blood to analyze anv other details than thoae which h. perforce admirea. (an yon conceive of a maa aaying of a womaa whose rharma are rnaoifeet. "She ia beautiful, I suppose, hut her aoee ia an eighth of aa inch too short, -earl the helix of her ear ia-very irrcg uler." From "The Oration of Veaua, " ia tha June Strand. |