| Show TRIALS I OF AMERICAS AMERICA'S NEWEST NEVi VENUS VENUS NANA NAN A STERLING'S MEASUREMENTS Which won icon her the medal for the nearest approach to toa toa a perfect physique to be le found among the women of the United States Age Age 19 19 years Weight Weight pounds Height 5 Height 5 feet 6 inches Chest 35 Chest 35 inches Neck Neck 13 13 inches Waist Waist 26 26 inches B Bust Bust 38 st 38 38 inches Thigh Thigh 22 22 inches L 38 Hips 38 inches Arm Arm lI 11 inches Calf Calf 14 14 inc inches 8 Wrist Wrist 6 K inches Forearm Forearm lO 10 inches By Norah Meade N the hole cubby cubby dressing room of an uptown vaudeville I IN house I found the perfect woman of America engaged i in removing her make Nana Sterling had just finished finished finished fin fin- the daring trapeze act in which twice daily she tak takes s the chance of breaking her neck for the amusement of the general public She was rather preoccupied I guess ess Im I'm about as perfect as as any anyone one can be she said indifferently Anyway I can beat the Venus de Milo She's fourteen points behind me The Venus did nothing but pose Nanas Nana's an athlete in addition to being perfect It is a combination almost phen phe phe- n menal For athletics notwithstanding many authorities to the contrary do not conduce to grace of form fonn Beautiful of body N Nana ana Sterling certainly is though she has strength in a phenomenal degree In her act she dangles dangerously sy behind the footlights swinging and swaying from the ring of a trapeze by her knees her hands her arms T There er is nothing unusual in it so far save the easy rapidity with which it is performed save for forthe forthe forthe the lightness and surety with which she each time regains her perch like a bird alighting on a branch Very suddenly it becomes dangerous She is swinging from the ring by her heels head downward downward down down- ward and you notice that a strap t ap dangles from her throat Beside her is her partner Ralph Lohse apparently engaged in his own p pursuits Th Then n sudden suddenly y so swiftly that it is al almost almost almost al- al most unnoticed there here is a swoop swoop- and the man is hanging from that strap strap pounds of solid humanity suspended from the girls girl's neck Yet the column of her throat is slim and flexible in perfect perfect perfect per per- symmetry with her rounded rounded shoulders and there is no no noI I deforming bulk in leg or arm to break the curving loveliness I. I of line How is it possible BETWEEN the vigorous daubs of cold cream which were fast erasing the carmine Miss Sterling the gave recipe for her physique When Nana Nan Sterling won the medal of a national athletic magazine last September over the heads heads' of f contestants contestants contestants contestants' contes contes- tants tants' jt was found that she she was was short of a absolute solute perfection by bya a bare 77 points This is her account of how she attained such a phenomenal physique Every morning mornin for ten minutes I exercise in the coolest m j aJ 00 0 I L 4 4 U R tl II tl R tl 4 II III s tl w II IIII II Q tl D Ii r rI I 1 II IIII II IIII II II II IIa II a II a i tl B F II a II II IIa I Ie tl a II IIII II II II IIII II II e a k 0 a aa a II II IIII II IIII a o oa II a a ar 1 r II 0 II IIII II II IIII II II II aa alI cf ro r o p Nana Sterling beats the tIie V Venus nus of Milo by 14 points in the percentage of physical perfection air I can find I I touch the floor with the palms of my hands my knees being perfectly straight I sway away my body ody from side to side I bend my knees keeping my back quite I lie on the floor and raise myself without the aid ald of my hands I do all aU those exercises night as aa well as as s morning They keep me supple and make my muscles taut My next Item is fa a cold bath O Gold ld water makes you lean keeps the fat out of your tissues and the blood flowing free In your veins EACH day Miss Sterling g walks from four to five miles mUes usually doing one before breakfast and this walking with her work on the trapeze completes her of exercise for the day unless day unless there is a chance of a game when she can hold her own with most I can play tennis or basketball as well aa as most girls I Ican Ican Ican can ride a Buffalo Bill bronco with the best of them But if a ayou you ask me all that exercise counts for little in making me perfect Its It's the food you eat that makes the difference in your physique makes you coarse or dainty or just deli deli- cate cater Nana Sterling eats only two meals a day The first cones comes comes usually between the hours of 10 and 11 the second sharp at 5 5 For breakfast she has fruit cereal an egg milk and bread and butter Tea and coffeE have no place on her regular menu though to be sociable she occasionally takes them But no claims whatsoever can induce her to eat greasy sub stances Fried food is entirely banned from her meals meal Butter is the only fat she allows herself She has meat only twice a r week Fish and fruit are her mainstays and she rarely indulges in indulges in in candy Exercising gives you an enormous appetite and of course there is nothing more satisfying than heavy foods That is partly the reason why great athletes are coarse oarse men men they they eat the wrong substances and eat them in quantities NANA N MANA ANA now nine nineteen en years of or age a blond blue eyed matter of fact young lady whose equilibrium equilibrium equi equi- is in no way disturbed by her fame Houston Tex is her home but there are few parts of the United States that she has not seen At the age Of ight she began to exercise under the doctors doctor's doctors doctor's doc dos tors tor's orders orders she she had been rather a puny child At twelve she made her first appearance in public on a small town vaudeville vaudeville vaudeville vaude vaude- ville stage and except for one p one e year as a rough rider in Buffalo Bills Bill's circus she has kept closely to her work on the trapeze Her lIer life is one series of short stops in the leading American cities the constant travelling wear on your nerv nerves nerves st The only thing that gets me nervous said this apparently apparently apparently placid young person is staying for more than a week eek in one spot I get irritable I want new people and I always want new things Now I am learning toe dancing Ill I'll go in for that next But what about your beauty Isn't this ceaseless cn ceaseless cn en energy ergy liable to injure it iU Oh Ob my beauty laughed t the e paragon worry me As long as Im I'm healthy noth nothing ng can harm that |
