" The Japanese belle
of ancient times, Dr. Nagayo Sensai remarks (_Lancet_, February
15, 1890) had a white face, a long, slender throat and neck, a
narrow chest, small thighs, and small feet and hands. 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.
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