LADIES in ITALY.
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In form the Italians exceed us. d Larger,
fuller, they. naturally acquire finer gait
and bearing. It's astonishing that our la
dies should persist in that ridiculous notion
that small waist is, and par necessite,
must be beautiful. Why, many an Italian
woman would cry for vexation if she pos
sessed such waist as some of our ladies
acquire only by the longest and most pain
full process, | have sought the reason of
this difference and can see no other than
that the Italians have their glorious statuary
continually before them as models, and
hence endeavor TO assimiate themselves to
them j whereas our models are those of
French stuffed figures in the milliner's
shops, Why, if an artist should presume
to make a statue with the shape that seems
TO be regarded with us as the perfection of
harmonious proportions, he would be
laughed out of the city. 1t is standing
objection against the taste of our women, in


the world, that they will practically assert


that French milliner understands how


they shall be made better, than nature her
self Headley's Travels in Italy. ,....