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Form and movement together constitute the highest beauty. The poten-
tial movement of Greek statues as compared with the stolidity of those
of Egypt. Gracefulness among the lower animals. Only in the human
form do grace and symmetry combined reach the highest point of
beauty. The gracefulness of Rachel, the French actress, and of Miss
Terry, the English actress. The unity of effect in conjoined beauty
and grace. Grace depends primarily upon the co-ordination of the
nervous system with the well-shaped form. One of the best criterions
of gracefulness found in its expression of ease. Curvilinear movement
the condition of gracefulness. The difference between the sexes as to
their respective aptitude for certain movements of the body. A foot-
ball match by some young girls.

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other savages walk with parallel feet. The proper degree to which
the feet should be turned out is dependent upon a number of con-
ditions specified. The rolling gait of the sailor. Directions for walk-
ing. The grace of little girls as compared with their movements when
no longer little girls. The reason for the change for the worse. Slow
movements of the body the severest tests as to gracefulness of person.
Montaigne's confirmation of that view. The carrying of water-jars
on the head conducive to gracefulness of bearing. Dr. Thomas S.
Ellis's monograph on the subject of the foot and walking. His idea
of the dome-like character of the two feet constraining one to adopt
the mode of walking with parallel feet. His idea of the best position
of the great toe for the backward thrust from the ground in propelling
the body. Test by the facts observable in the movements of profes
sional dancers. The military mode of marching.

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The motive in women's dressing for adornment. The dressing of Ameri-
can women as compared with that of foreign women. Cases of want
of discretion in women, in not modifying fashions to suit their forms.
Beauty of the American woman as compared with that of the French
Woman. Béranger's comic old grandmother. Carlyle on dress. A
retrospect of fifty years in the matters of fashion. The change in the
American from simplicity to luxury. The simultaneous improvement
in hygienic practices. What the Countess of Jersey says on the same
topic in the Nineteenth Century. The concomitant social change
among Americans. The main proportions of the female form. Ele-
gance as shown by the characteristic length of limb. The beauty of
the female bosom. The bosom as found among some low, savage
tribes. Warning against the pretensions of quacks to change the
bosom. Dressing with relation to the form. The vulgarity of tight
shoes and tight gloves. General disuse of tight-lacing.
The per-
nicious effect of tight-lacing. Beauty of person and grace incompati-
ble with tight-lacing. The wearing of tight shoes prejudicial to grace
and destructive of the feet. The blonde and brunette types of female
beauty. The condition of Spain during historical times fully accounts
for the beauty and the particular gracefulness there existing. History
of the country from the earliest times of which we know anything
down to the present. The American has not yet a distinct racial type.
The conditions which will probably make of the American the hand-
somest type of the world.

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Description of the formation of the skin. The sense of touch. The case
of Laura Bridgman, who knew all that she had acquired through the
sense of touch. The effect of the skin in imbibing oxygen and liber-
ating carbonic-acid gas and many other products. The pernicious
effects of not attending daily to the evacuation of the bowels. Dr.
Franklin's air bath. Odors given out by certain glands as the effect of
abnormal secretion and disease, and intensified by want of cleanliness.
Odor among the lower animals. Man should, by his personal habits,
prove that he does not belong to them. The waste and repair of the
body. What is necessary to the health of the skin.

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