BEAUTIFUL MODERN GIRL.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17936, 3 December 1923, Page 2

BEAUTIFUL MODERN GIRL.

GAMES AND GOOD HEALTH. LONDON, November 18. "Every chocolate box gives evidence of the change of taste that has occurred during the last century," writes a Harley street doctor in the "Weekly Dispatch." "Gymnasiums are the modern beauty parlours. Perfect beauty nowadays is' perfeet ■ health, like the beauty which the ancicn,t Greeks loved and immortalised in their statues.

"Our admired women with sloping shoulders, swan necks, and narrow faces. We® admire bracedup shoulders, upright necks, and faces with the eyes wide apqrt. "The explanation is simple. We have learned that beauty and health are almost the same thing. The women that our great-grandfathera admired were f<ir less healthy than the modern women. Sloping shoulders and swan necks are both signs of early consumption,' arid narrow faces mean lack of brain power. "To-day the more intelligent and the more fit a gitl looks; the more men esteem her beauty. When unfitness passed for beauty, tho hope of improving the national physique was very slender. Girls did not want to look 'brutally healthy,' so they cultivated anaemic faces and narrow chests.

"Now the tendency is in the opposite direction.' Physical culture classes axe most popular, and the result is that the health of women is improving amazingly. Amemia is almost extinct. "We are only at "the beginning of a revolutidn which will take two generations of games girls to produce a perfect type. Qrir. grand-daughters will be lovelier than, their grandmothers. It is possible that the -girl who is called a strapping lass to-'dav will appear a fragile typo 50 years liencc. "Those critics who declare that women are uglier and have, lost the spiritual type of the last century forget that the. beauty of the past was capricious, troublesome, and unreliable. Beautiful modern.women are living down that reputation. They possess the real spirituality belonging to a clear and active mind. The modern beautiful gifl is good-natured, and as fair and square in her dealings as her brothers. Health has given her a new dis : position."