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TENIMBER BEAUTY. 
was hung on his wall. It represented ideal 
figures of ladies, in walking, riding, bathing, 
mountaineering, and gymnastic costumes : as 
far as I observed, —and I noted their manner 
carefully , — they saw no resemblance to human 
beings in these figures ; they were as triangles 
or squares to them. Ah ! may advancing civil- 
isation keep such monstrosities far from the 
graceful Tenimber women. With head erect 
and chest expanded, how easy, graceful, healthy, 
happy they looked ! Untrammelled in limb, 
free of foot, it was worth while to watch their 
every motion. As they came home in their 
prahus from their gardens over the strait, al- 
ways just at sundown, when their figures, as 
they stand erect at the stern, show clearly 
against the ruddy light, with a powerful push 
of the pole, and an exquisite action of the body, 
sending the prahus shooting up the beach, they 
showed at their best, and formed a picture we 
never tired looking on. 
There is no question that the beauty of the 
Tenimber women is in their healthiness and 
natural grace of movement — not, except in a few 
case3, in delicacy of feature. In budding woman- 
hood some of them look sweet, — pensive eyes 
and the soft brown skin make up a pleasing 
