Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-08-01

girlhood" who have the temerity to hint she was
handsome in her day" She's beauty right now,
thank you
Mother and grandmother owe their idealistic
reJuvenRtion to the New York men whose stock
in trade lie feminine loveliness--the artists who
paint and etch and model. They've taken US
down bit, those of who rave of fair hair, be-
witching eyes, peach-bloom tints and aquiline
features. For on this single point they are
unison:
woman can be beautiful at Atty
Harken to what Harrison Fisher, Irwin Wilea.
Edwin Bashheld and Victor d. Bremen 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 spnsters
who were handsome when the halfcentury post
had faded on the ten-year distant horizon.
Cheer up. mothers. grandmothers. aunts and
cousins-you whose silversprinkled tresses
droop over sylvan folds of face and brow! What
matters It If nature rebels at the strain of busy
life and sears your velvet cheeks with the In
eyitable wrinkles of motherly devotion? You're
handsome still
The fair debutante may appeal to the eye for
beauty no more than her mother from whom the
color of buoyant youth has flown whose flesh
has lost the satin gloss of girlhood days; whose
tender lips have compressed in the firmneas that
comes of mental strength and mature character
None the less is the artistic eye today appre-
flesh and radiant nature But 1t has turned TO
another quarter for a type Of beauty that has
survived from the birth of man, but never shone
respondent in the light Of public approval.
The mature woman-she who has the fullness
of life. 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
and centuries but only has her day of reck-
oning with youth She match her
fore the modern day court of art without fear or
favor The middle and the past middle-aged
women Of New York have heard the verdict You
beautiful.
Victor d. Bremen sculptor. who knows the
soft and pleasing lines of figure we'll as he
knows the face. is to the fore as the most out
spoken and Incorporating indoraer of this new
viewpoint In art "All women are to be ad-
mtred. he put It generally. and declares that
femininity in every condition OF servitude and
age has points for artistic admiration
The poetic has its place IN Sculptor Brenner.s
reasoning as much as the hard and fast rules
for physical perfection He personihes the time
worn adage: Beauty is only skin deep Be-
meath the flesh, beneath the walls OF muscle and
the frame of bone goes Sculptor Bremen for his
ideals. Mentality, morality and warmth Of heart
are all his prescribed ingrediences 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.
If 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 cant help
but draw forth his admiration
From twenty-five to thirty might classify as
another type Of beauty; beauty that Is begin
ming to bloom in all its radiance fully developed