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What the Faces of Famous Bean
ci'? ties Show When Tested by
w Will the New “Beauty Meter”—
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Length of Nose from Pupils of the Eyes
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Length of Chin Two J
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4 ( 1“’ VERYBORY” calls you beau
r* tlful —but are you? Will
*— l your face stand the test of
the “Kallometer.” Here is where
eold science has the last word —as
in many other matters; for the in
ventor of this instrument has proved
that cold science and glowing aes
thetics can agree, that the face
which the trained artist’s eye recog
nizes as beautiful is really scientifi
cally beautiful
Maybe you are pretty, maybe you
are charming maybe you are irre
sistible You may be all those and
yet lack beauty. Prettiness, even
Irresistible charm may, and often
do, exist in spite of irregular fea
tures —nose, mouth, chin and eyes
out of proportion in size and in as
symmetrical relation to each other.
But beauty means regularity, pro
portion. symmetry—and by applying
the Kallometer to your face and
looking in a mirror you will know
Immediately whether or not you
possess it.
This ingenious device —which is
pictured on this page as applied to
several typical faces —may be con
structed by anyone It is merely a
wooden frame having the width and
height of a normal human face, in
which cross-bars are placed to fix
definite points of measurement from
the top of the forehead to the tip
of the chin
The intervals between these cross
bars are established by the Kallo
meter’s inventor--Professor William
Barnes Fotheringham—to conform
to the accepted classical standard of
facial beauty, slightly modified by
his years of study of recognized liv
ing beauty types The starting
point is a horizontal line drawn
through the pupils of the eyes. This
fixes the location of the Kallometer’s
middle bar.
The next bar below fixes the point,
of the end of the nose where the
nostril opens—the distance from the
pupil of the eye is exactly one and
sevefi-eighths inches. From the nos
tril opening to the mean line of the
mouth, lips closed, shows the length
of the upper lip —three-quarters of
an inch —and fixes the position of
the third cross-bar. From the mean
line of the mouth to the bottom of
the chin is exactly two inches, fixed
by the bottom of the Kallometer’s
frame. Five-eighths of an inch be
low the mouth line is placed a bar
to indicate the hollow where the un
der lip joins the chin.
Three-quarters of an inch above
the horizontal of the eye-pupils is a
bar which properly locates the eye
brow. Another, one and seven
.Countess von Schoenbrun Bucbheim. the Famous American Beauty.-
Nose, Chin and Upper Lip Too Short.
g,—Lily Elsie, the English Stage Beauty.—Chin and Upper Utp Too Short.
B^—Maxine Elliot, Whose Feature Measurements Give Her Ideal Beauty
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eighth inches above It, locates the
middle of the forehead Follow
these measurements accurately and
you will have constructed a perfect
kallometer. Fitting it to your face,
with the middle bar on a line wit a
the pupils of your eyes, and direct
ing your level gaze into a mirror,
you will discover how far you fall
short of true beauty
The experiment will need some
courage, for Professor Fotheringham
declares that true facial beauty
exists in only "one or two persons
out of a million ”
Although measurements of the
width of the face are comparatively
less important, the professor has es
tablished a vertical as well as a
horizontal index This fixes the
width of lhe normal face at. five and
a half inches, measured at a point
just below .the ear The eyes should
be two and three-eighth's inches
apart. But it is admitted that where
the horizontal lines exist as estab
lished in the Kallometer the width
of beauty-type, faces may vary con
siderably. It is the length of nose,
upper lip and chin that matter most
On this page are shown at least
two beauty types that need have no
dread of the Kallometer test The
faces of both Maxine Elliot and Lil
Ilan Russell —which bear no re
semblance to each other —reach the
maximum of one hundred per cent
In these cases the Kallometer cor
roborates the popular impression
that both of these faces are truly
beautiful
Another sac still another
beauty-type —that meets the Kallo
meter test perfectly is that of a
favorite artists’ and photographers
model, and still another that of Mlle
Lantelme, the famous Paris stag
beauty, who not long ago met such
a tragic death while houseboating on
the River Rhine —although, in the
case of Lantelme, the chin is just a
trifle short of the ideal.
Probably artists and beauty con
noisseurs, and other readers of this
page will feel greatly relieved to find
that science, as represented by Pro
fessor Fotheringham’s Kallometer
not only does not overthrow their
living beauty idols, but actually sup
ports the artistic and popular con
ception.
But where the Kallometer ruth
lessly denies the possession of
beauty in notable instances where
it has been claimed, there is still
plenty of consolation. All the world
know's that it is seldom the most
perfectly beautiful faces that are
most atrtactive, that many com
paratively irregular faces hold ss-
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9 Lillian Russell Showing That the “Kallometer” Beauty Test Finds
, ■ Her 100 Per Cent. Perfect.
s VwX Diagram Showing the Geometrical
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f V: wKI L I “Beauty Meter”—The Circles
J’sl Described from Eyes and Bottom
-of Ears Fix the Proportions of
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‘ lafcX Ga!,y Dejys,
fe ,- s p *. ■ IkA the Parisian Ideal
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HqL Beauty and Chic,
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ductive charm which no ideal
beauty has been able to exert.
For example, Gaby Deslys. Gaby’s
charm has vanquished the people
of two continents. She is the
Parisian ideal of what is chic, pi
quant. seductive really unique
among feminine charmers. But ap
ply the Kallometer to heT face and
see how she fares' Nose too long,
upper lip too short, chin too short,
forehead too narrow, eyes too far
apart It cannot be denied —Gaby
is far from beautiful!
Not only her face, but her figure,
too. fails to measure up to beauty
standards. Her arms and legs are
too long, and she carries an un
beautiful amount of tissue about
the hips and calves But for all
this, don’t imagine that Gaby will
swear out a writ of injunction
against the terrible Kallometer. On
the contrary, she will smile, shake
her locks saucily and issue an
amiable challenge to any and all
Kallometer beauties to come into
the lists with her where the palm
is for what, really matters—charm!
Quite a number of world-famous
"beauties” of the stage and of
fashionable society when they ap
ply the Kallometer to their lovely
faces will find themseves In need
of the kind of consolation enjoyed
bv Gabv Deslys They meet the
scientific test nearly enough to come
under the beauty classification, yet
their shortcomings are plainly indi
cat pd.
The Countess von Schoenbrun-
Buchheim. formerly Mrs. Dandridge
Snottswood, has nose and
both too short. The brevity of ner
especially. i« unfortunate, as
't gives the impression of an uppe.
] p g tO o long and a general d apro.
portion of the lower pait of the
faC Lilv Elsie, the former London
mus ?cal comedy star, recently mar-
Manners. "" Arl««ocrn»»r Fnclt.h Beauty Type. Wtt>
4,— l.ndy M " r,, ’J, nr| || y H Feature nt the RlKht Proportion.
" r .. nrownlnw, Engitl.b Poeteoa. Whose Charmins Face
6Ellr.abeth Harrett
la Marred hy ■ Shor*.
Pointed Chin. I ' . /T 9
p Mlle. I.antelme. the )'X \ 'U?»
Cate Celebrated Sta«e I 7 ) A
Beauty, Whose Chin 1 f I
Was Mueh Too Short. . I I /' lU z.
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ried. and whose "beauty” wat
famous among theatre-goers in th?
British capital, falls short both as
to upper lip and chin. Almost th?
same deficiency is noted in the sac?
of that celebrated English "beauty’
Lady Marjorie Manners. The ef
fect is really worse, owing to th?
unusual breadth of the chin.
Genius in both sexes is prove?,
bially lacking in beauty. Consider
the face of Elizabeth Barrett
Browning as measured by the Kal
lometer. It is a face full of charm,
but the upper lip is much too short,
and not only is the chin too short
but too narrow George Eliot, the
celebrated English novelist has been
quoted as admitting that she had
a ‘‘face like a horse,” with its long
nose and its grotesquely elongated
chin. Yet the attractions pos
sessed by both of these great wom
en were freely admitted ny al) who
met them.
In the course of his researched
which led Professor Fotheringham
to devise a universal measure of
facial beauty types, he reached
some very interesting conclusions.
Although no one of a thousand
beautiful faces may seem to bear
any resemblance to any other of the
thousand, yet all of them conform
to the Kallometer measurements
of features. The 'nity of these
measurements persists in all groups
of faces, grouped as to general
contour, as broad, narrow, oval,
pear-shaped, etc. Racial charac
teristics, so apparent to any ob.
serving eye, have no bearing oa
the results of the Kallometer test
Don’t be afraid of the Kallome
ter. Possibly, if through its habit
ual application to your own face
and the faces of members of your
family, you and they discover, and
keep ip mind facial deficiencies
that exist now, future generation?
may be inspired to do better!