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THE SEVENTH WONDER-

THE BEAUTY OF WOMEN.

(DY OSBORN.]

I have lately been akking my moru_cons- plaisant friends to give me lists of the Seven Wonders of the World (usodern), and now possess half a dozen of these carious docu ients, only one of which is the conventional catalogue of statues, pictures, and historie buildings. The modern mind, as

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these lists is capable of seeing more beauty in 4 || ailing ship, kaning

eaning her white breasts against the western wind,. than

Parthenon the jo

enzine

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machino (such as a 6,000 b.p. en und in a factory) to the surge and

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of the Odyssey. Here is a typical (1) Dante's Divine Comedy" alert exhibition of roses (3) Noter Dame; (4) a great airship; (6) o game at

cricket (0) Etoni or the British Con stitution; and (7) the

the modern orchestra, when there is not a

day, sinule, fruitful idea in my dark and decrepit

as perhaps... wind, these lists and others I am

I am expecti shall be made the theme of a secular dissertation, of a Friday essay that substitute for the large and luxurious Which Honoratus, the Roman child riliculed for refusing meat at dinner and dismissed with a very hungry belly dis- covered in the water pitcher. Senn while it is a singular fact that none of the lists in hand include man's most amazing masterpiece-the beauty of women; which lw has been at work on for a million years and must rely rank, despite its in- completeness, as the Seventh, or supreme, Wonder of the world we live in..

It is by an age-long process that we uten have made women the presentable objects of contemplation they are today. Let us consider a single significant act in this quaint drama of aesthetic evolution. When the human race finally descended from its very like the Lests in the green tree topa

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rude platform built in d from

beech by the e the Zoo), it himpanzee

that

no need of clothes, both. males and females possessing a thick, warm covering of hair. By alow degrees this covering vanished, and the time came when the last conspicuous vestige δι it-the "face moss" of a certain facetious novelist seemed out of place on the visage of a akin-clad Eve. When he blushed her face was like Shagpat's like an exceeding res in a bush-and it presently occurred

to

te the lord of her, destinies that beauty should be bare ficis. Far beyond the brink of evening. in a fair and fantastical future, he hail a glimpse of the features of his ideal-a complexion of tilia warts "epais without any veil of whiskerage whatsoever All great Art is slow but

and sure, many gehturies had paseed man's deliberate preferences airy by maidens as he completely uncleaded.

the enunteranes of the beloved was

In the end, by this self-saune process of selection, the woman's face was remodelled and her form remoulded nearer and yet nearer to his heart's desire. One of t

latest histories of the making of mund's

touches ifiscreetly mitive bian in

on the evolution of

of the beauty of)

Bian insisted of ulipose deposit; so

Venus prehistoric that the statuetic the Aurignac Period, is like the Ent Early in for or dime museum. The primitive notion that fatnesy is in itself.

autiful still survives among races

stilius ancivilised, for

which example, are by na means whereas slender figures are preferred in

are the Northern Europe, Southern Italian

the full-bodied penters the elle 7-1 beauty. And a certain measure of plumpness

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still

is universally insisted on by man, the master artist: because it is the plastic material which

end

the his preference, potent in the creative hand of the sculptor working in clay, moulds into forms of loveliness that are ever more subtle and intriguing

.

To-day, as Mr. Aldous Huxley points out in a delightful essayt, man has actu ally solved the problem of changing the faces figures of women to suit the taste

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of each sequent generation. "Beauty in

to give the title of his essay, in a

in science and in art

one who in the ggether

of Matthew Thomas Huxley, as well as of Arnal. It shows how the accepted type of female beauty lus changed several times, under the compulsion of man's wonder- working artistic Lyú, during the last hun- dred

years or so. Between the: Thirties and Forties all the women accounted -like beautiful had egg-shapped fuces, swa- necks, rounded champagne-buttle shoal- ders. Also their feet (of which only one was ever exhibited) were small oblong objects jike leaf. In the Eighties than ovi- form girl had yauished, and the tall, sleep. faced Du Manrier tepe was ubiquitous. And the Fish girl and other kind- two years red dnt find women had displaced the beauties who were just plagiariains of Du laurier's stately daughters, divinely tull and, having tho

"crisped hair

Zen

Tennysonian poem thinks that the feet of so exorbitantly exhibited pected to be a5

pretly

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of the Mr. Aldous Huxley women, now no longer ex. provocative as the pair in Suckling's ballad: Her feet henesth lier petticoat Like little mince stole in and out

more radically than have been altered even more their faces and figures. The tea-lcpf," be

"has been

been replaced by two feet of writes are design, carved and florid, rich rich barque with insteps like the necks of Arab horse

these changes take

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In America, mapidity bewildering to us placa with a slow, stodgy islanders. That the Gibson picture captured the eye of man

man, the master and in a trice saw nothing but Gibs sirls in american streets thing had been populous the week before with blondes, just big enough to make an arm- ful for some strong and silent billionaire.

This is a tremendous subject, and I have only touched the fringe of it. Ent caugh has been said, surely, to prove that the beauty of women is the creation of men fruma first to last, from the "Willensdorf Venus," to Mona Lisa and from Mons Lisa to the latest débutante, and must be list of the Seven Wonders. included in every lis

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