WOMAN AS MEASURED.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 30, Issue 9182, 15 September 1899, Page 6

WOMAN AS MEASURED.

Thequcetion has often been asked, "What is the correct measurement of the Woman as idealised I'n art?" An authority matter says:— ~ " " : ' j the woman's height by the celebrated Venus de, Milo, a perfect woman should be 5 feet 5 inches.- A woman of 5 feet 5 inches should be 138 pounds in weight, or even 140 it' she is otherwise well formed and in good proportion. With extended arms she should measure 5 feet 5 inches from tip to tip of middle, fingers. That is exactly the same measurement across the arms as is found in her height. '.:'■; Her hand should measure one-tenth of her height, and her foot oie-seventh of the same. The distance from the elbow to th» middle of her chest should be identical with that from the elbow to her middle linger." Four daughters of a Yorkshire farmer. eloped in one night, each couple taking a different road, and it drove the old mao about crazy to decide which party to pursue. ''"■.-"' " «•• A Polite Bridegroom.—A wedding party at the Jerusalem Qhurch, Berlin; ■ were startled the other day vy hen the bridegroom, in answer to tlie question:.." Are you then willing to cake "this woman to beyour wedded wife ? " replied with alacrity: " O'eitainly, Heir Paltor,".if objection!" '„ ' ■ -•■•■*■ - '-""-■. i •■ ■ '' -•««*■'; % " : : ;' /■;_ .':■ j Not Sure of the Friend: I congratulate you. my dear sir, on the mar- ' riiigc of your daughter. I see vd'u are gradually gutting all the girls off your hands/ Old Olivebranch: Uif my hands—res; but I the worst of it is, 1 have to'keep their hus-1 bands on, {.heir feet-.: ) •.,. ..ui ../if i 1 j ... " 10 . France been,decided, bythe courts"that an unmarried, woman becomeSxan 'oltiWilf at thirty/*' '■ '■:''}-_''■■ ■.'>•,'••"-;•. ....«> Ijhatt,!rtt4«>r would, <; never* do' rn!"th'is ,country.'' -, ' ~.. , •» ~■ ........,,.^.;.>- ■■ - ■ •.::- ■■■-■. .:■•■-. *? '" /Single women" neve* Ycack the age'of"3o 1,/. f'.',''■■ .V.-V; ■■} ,- : , *,.'./..-.-. i -.n.'l'^'' ' t Lord FitzfoodJe, casting Jjiro«>U. .■««•. his knees before "A ramusita, gave ut tq auco to the following: " Oh that 'l'co'ula"sriafcli a pine :from : .6<>ine primeval: fdrest£" ; l'-would sharpen the end of # it, witjb my penknife, dip it in' the mplteh'cVate'r of Vesuvius,.and •write uponah'e ttture' wall ; .bf' heaven in ,of ..livtng-j' hre—Araminta,. • I-? 'love thco!" ... ..,'=.,. ..,:- ''",' ! '"'. "'"'. ' S "■: **V." ..'-' i, .',.]:■■ . '"' A gentleman admires a chii'rming woman over 'whose heatf' the 'seventeen summers .have passed at. least; thrice.- ■■'< i..; r. '' '\ But, T say," . says, ; on« of his friends, "she's very charming,' 1" know; still, you must; admit thnt'she'is wrinkledr' • '• ' ••■'■■ " "Wrinkled!" echoes the chivalrous.lover. »"'(&' Tltore'may IS6 the indelible imjPression of. a-smile .here, and .there, but'that is all!" •■• ... • . . -■■■'■■ '"■* ■ ''■' ■ .."*•«• ..'\[ „ . ~'...;.., First love is a pretty romance,.. t , 1 'But not b'alf so sweet as 'tis reckoned; And when one wnkee from the'lnrnce, -';"' yhcro's a,vast.stock of bliss in the second. And e'en should'a second subside, . ,A lover .should nevor despair; - • Tlie world is uncommonly wide, '"""A'h'd tlie women'uncommonly fair. Thepoetft'their raptures.may t cl Who have.never been put ; o ho test; A first love is all very well, But, beiicre mo, the, last 'love's i tut buiC *