Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — Beauty Promenades. [ARTICLE]

Beauty Promenades.

There are three beauty promenades in the United States. They are placed in New York, Washington and Chicago, and are named Fifth avenue, Connecticut avenue and Lake Shore Drive. The women who frequent these display grounds are markedly different in type. The New York woman is well built, long-limbed, and carries herself well. She looks straight ahead. She Is graceful, with a cultivated grace that smacks of Delsarte. Her hands are large and well formed, as are her feet. She is narrow-hipped and flat-chested. She is apt to be blonde or an approach to a blonde. The woman of Chicago is stronger than her New York sister. She has more muscle. She is not so tall, but is broader, Her forehead is pot so

high, but she measures more between the eyes. She is not so handsome a woman, but is more attractive. Her face is apt to be irregular. The lips, if not thick, are full. She Is of all types —short, long, blonde, brunette and brune. The Washington girl is a compromise between the type of the North and the type of the South. She is of the woman womanly. She has peculiar delicateness of face and figure. Her form is beautifully rounded, yet slender. Hands and feet are small. The height is oftener under five feet five than over it. The eyes are apt to be hazel or dark, and are always bright and tender. The eyeIjFdws are somewhat heavy and strongly marked, and the lashes are long. The complexion is singularly clear. The face has great regularity of feature and the average of beauty is high. Washington and New Orleans are the only American cities in which one may see the women walk with Spanish grace. The Washington girl may not class so high in beauty as the New York woman or the Chicago woman; but I believe that most men will prefer her.