. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . VENUS OF MTLO. Here we Lave the embodiment of an ideal form. The Venus of Milo givesus the true proportions of the feminine body and is also the type of healthfulmuscular development. The tendency to corpulency among women in middlelife is an indication of disease. The remedv for this disease is exercise and PAUIS FASHION-PLATE. This figure is a fair exponent of our Magazines f Fashion. The girth oftin- waist is little more than that of the aeck. This proportion is not unusua
. The well-dressed woman: a study in the practical application to dress of the laws of health, art, and morals . VENUS OF MTLO. Here we Lave the embodiment of an ideal form. The Venus of Milo givesus the true proportions of the feminine body and is also the type of healthfulmuscular development. The tendency to corpulency among women in middlelife is an indication of disease. The remedv for this disease is exercise and PAUIS FASHION-PLATE. This figure is a fair exponent of our Magazines f Fashion. The girth oftin- waist is little more than that of the aeck. This proportion is not unusualin actual life. With this deformity we find a ponderous development of hips,produced by the crowding down of organs and muscles. BEAUTY OF FORM. 183 by artificial and conventional shapes. This workis educational and moral. Since no other nation has possessed the delicateperception of the beautiful with which, the ancientGreeks were endowed, we shall find help in ascer-taining the conditions which produced this peculiaraesthetic gift. The Greek appreciation of the beau-tiful was not indigenous, but was the outcomeof various happy circumstances. The grandeur ofGrecian scenery kindled the Hellenic freedman was trained in logic, rhetoric, andoratory, and this developed the higher intellectualfaculties. But their peculiar reverence for thephysical man grew out of the Greek religion. Thegreat nati
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