ands. Baelz, also,
has emphasized the ethereal character of the Japanese ideal of
feminine beauty, delicate, pale and slender, almost uncanny; and
Stratz, in his interesting book, _Die Koerperformen in Kunst und
Leben der Japaner_ (second edition, 1904), has dealt fully with
the subject of Japanese beauty.

The Singalese are great connoisseurs of beauty, and a Kandyan
deeply learned in the matter gave Dr. Davy the following
enumeration of a woman's points of beauty: "Her hair should be
voluminous, like the tail of the peacock, long, reaching to her
knees, and terminating in graceful curls; her eyebrows should
resemble the rainbow, her eyes, the blue sapphire and the petals
of the blue manilla-flower. Her nose should be like the bill of
the hawk; her lips should be bright and red, like coral or the
young leaf of the iron-tree. Her teeth should be small, regular,
and closely set, and like jessamine buds. Her neck should be
large and round, resembling the berrigodea. Her chest should be
capacious; her breasts, firm and conical, like the yellow
cocoa-nut, and her waist small--almost small enough to be clasped
by the hand. Her hips should be wide; her limbs tapering; the
soles of her feet, without any hollow, and the surface of her
body in general soft, delicate, smooth, and rounded, without the
asperities of projecting bones and sinews." (J. Davy, _An
Account of the Interior of Ceylon_, 1821, p. 110.)

The "Padmini," or lotus-woman, is described by Hindu writers as
the type of most perfect feminine beauty. "She in whom the
following signs and symptoms appear is called a _Padmini_: Her
face is pleasing as the full moon; her body, well clothed with
flesh, is as soft as the Shiras or mustard flower; her skin is
fine, tender, and fair as the yellow lotus, never dark colored.
Her eyes are bright and beautiful as the orbs of the fawn, well
cut, and with reddish corners. Her bosom is hard, full, and high;
she; has a good neck; her nose is straight and lovely; and three
folds or wrinkles cross her middle--about the umbilical region.
Her _yoni_ [vulva] resembles the opening lotus bud, and her
love-seed is perfumed like the lily that has newly burst. She
walks with swanlike [more exactly, flamingolike] gait, and her
voice is low and musical as the note of the Kokila bird [the
India