VENUS—THE MORTAL.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 53, 16 February 1921, Page 7

VENUS—THE MORTAL.

SECRET OF BEAUTY. Physical perfection anil beauty is not ! merely a matter of features and hair ( and complexion. The roally beautiful ■ woman, which means beauty of form, i hardly relies at all on artifice and the I aids of her dressing-table. Miss Maud ’ O. Dell recently won the Sandow gold ’ medal in London, in an international i competition for the most perfectly pro- j portioned woman. She achieved the i honour on the following proportions, in- 1 dueed by ten minutes a day attention '. to physical exercises: — Height. sft. Bin. Weight, lOst’. 51b. Feet, fUin. Length of hand. 7 inches. Hips, 40im. Neck, 12! in. Waist, 25in. Wrist, «>Hn. 1 'pper a rm. 12 Ain. Bust, 41 Jin. Miss Dell affirms that practically any i woman can have a perfect figure by I proper exercise, but she should re I member that proportion is everything, and that the exercises jiave, to be I chosen with care so as to cultivate the i right muscles. A woman’s corsets should lie of muscle and not of whalebone, ami because they are of the ]atter*is the rea- I son why so ipany women suffer from i indigestion ami stomachic troubles, i The muscles of the stomach are not ’ used. It was the ten minutes schedule ' that the winner of the Sandow medal worko/l on. and she offers it as a , medium to all other women for the | achievement of the. excellent health she has. besides flip perfect development , which is hers. She regards American > women as beautifully proportioned, am’ ' faithful devotees of the cult, of being beautiful, so much so that they arc idolised by their men.