The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-31
H/NIZH/IZ MIf.H
NICW M.

WRITTEN FOR THE SUNDAY REPuRLic.
So great is tie tyranny Of the pink ano
white when the mind has subordinated &c
its tint and tone every other human quail
!ty that the woman with the beautiful
dinpied back las often more power OF
fascination than her sister whose face IL
very fair. out who shows either round OF
scrawny shoulders.
A dimpled back may not be the las
word OF beauty. but 1t has a masic-tners
Is no other expression for it-ot its own.
There is In it's soft roundness. in III
curves at once Ihythmical and placid. a
note Of mystery and romance.
1t appeals to the senses truly. but when
| one sees a beautiful back one is not eager
to behold the face of its possessor, for 1t
| holds the attention Independently.
Even after the face has been seen and
little found there TO admire. another
glance at the dimpled back renews this
Independent attraction.
To be sure, it is the seeker after pure
sensations, the analyst OF beauty for beau
tvs sake, who is thus able to Judge indie
Iendently OF this fascinating part Of the
feminine form.
He must have the harmonic instinct well
developed before he realizes 10 the full its
charm upon linn. and then ne must be a
bold man or else a poet to express 1t. fo-
the world would be more quickly scan
dali.ed by a compliment paid to a wom-
ans back than to her face For the latter
there is apt TO be precedent; for the for
ner there would have to be reason.
Those sloping. fairylike hills. with the
line like an enchanted river running be-
t~wesn-"that sp Get Tesepotamia'-mak
no appeal to the mind. Yet to the sculptor
there Is rhythm. color. music in the back
chantmcnt.
PAINTERS APPRECIATION.
But 1t is to the painters one mus, so for
the truest appreciation.
sculptors have too many things on their
minds, too many points of view to on
slider, and cannot concentrate talent on
the soft. pulsating back as they would like.
while the painters need only to consult
their own tastes before turning a models
face away and painting what attracts
them.
From many Of the greatest the pictorial
expression of the back. with its innate
significance and sentiment, has called out
their utmost subtlety and strength.
There are at least two men great in art
who hays constituted themselves the
ooets-fn-pain, O, the reminin. back with
the face partly or entirely turned away. II
ia need,css 70 say that Henner ia one Of
them
H;s record Of the Mardalen. her aspects
and qualities rarely deals with the face;
/, usually p,aces emphasis on the shoul-
ders and the hack.
He has been wise and mariana not for
the reasons that renders hi. nam. mar
,icu,ar,v a~nnosite here because the face of
the Magdalen would be too sentimental
in feeling and effect; her back give, Just
the required touch of the grandiose.
Ev hiding the repeptaut vomsn's face
and concentrating his attention elsewhere
bis resp,,s are sometimes marked bv real
of emotion and propriety sf ut
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