The Raymer enterprise., 1913-07-24

girlhood" who have the temerty to hint she was
handsome in her day" She's beauty right now.
thank you
Mother and grandmother their dealistic
rejuvenaton to the New York men whose stock
In trade is feminine loyeliness-the artists who
paint and etch and model They've taken US
down bit, those OF us who rave OF fair hair. be-
witchng eyes. peach-bloom tlnts and aquiline
features. For this single point they are
unison:
A woman can be beautiful at fifty.
IIarken to what Harrison Fisher, Irwin Wiles.
Edwin Blashneld and Victor D, Brenner say.
This galaxy OF illustrator painter. mural deco.
rator and sculptor has come to the defense OF
physical beauty In woman past the middle span
OF life, They've all seen matrons and spinsters
who we're handsome when the haicentury post
had faded on the ten-year distant horizon.
Cheer up, mothers. grandmothers, aunts and
cousins-you whose silversprlnkled tresses
6roop over sylvan folds OF face and brow! What
matters II II nature rebels at the strain OF busy
life and sears your velvet cheeks with the In
evItable wrinkles OF mothery devotion? You're
handsome still!
Tho fair debutante may appeal to the eye for
beauty no more than her mother from whom the
color OF buoyant youth has Nown whose flesh
has lost the satin gloss OF girhood days; whose
tender llps nave compressed III lHe HTnHtSs lllal
comes OF mental strength and mature character.
None the less is the artistic eye today appre.
catiyc OF vivaclous gIrlhood with its luminous
flesh and radiant nature. But 1t has turned to
another quarter for type OF beauty that has
survived from the birth OF man, but never shone
resplendent in the light OF public approval.
The mature woman-she who has the fullness
OF llie the mental development and the strong
force OF character written In every age line OF
her CONFERENCE.-The been called beautiful. She
has been striving for this verdict for centuries
md centuries, but only now has her day OF rcck.
oning with youth come. She can match her
charms with her sex in its teens and stand be-
fore the modern day court OF art without fear or
favor. The middle and the past midde.aged
women OF New York have heard the verdict You
are beautiful
Victor D Brenner, sculptor who knows the
soft and pleasing lines OF figure us well as he
knows the face Is TO the fore as the most out.
spoken and uncompromlsng indorser OF this new
viewpoint In Srt "All women are TO be nd.
mlred" he put Il generally and declares that
feminnity In every condition OF servtude and
age has points for artistic admiration.
The poetic has its place In Sculptor Brenners
reasoning much ms the hard and fast rules
for physical perfection. He personlfes the time.
worn adage: Beauty is ouly skin deep" Be
meath the flesh beneath the walls OF muscle and
the frame OF bone goes Sculptor Brenner for his
ideals Mentality. morality and warmth OF heart
are all his prescribed ingredlences for the most
beautiful woman.
Beauty all depends upon the viewpoint Of the
individual sculptor" declares Mr.. Bremen. He
Is Influenced by the nature OF his subject. by the
task he has before him. II beauty OF childhood
Is his theme, then his whole heart and soul are
wrapped in the Infinite lines OF tenderness and
delight to be found in early youth
III the sculptor seeks the poetry OF spring.
time. he perchance acquisitions beauty OF an age
from eighteen to twenty He none the less appre.
ciates this bloom OF early lIfe and It can't help
but draw forth his admiration.
From twenty-five to thirty might classify as
another type Of beauty: a beauty that is begin.
ming to bloom In nll Its radiance, fully developed