The Winslow mail., 1913-07-26


girlhood' who have the temerity to hint "she was
handsome in her day. She's beauty right now,
thank you!
Mother and grandmother their dealistic
rejuvenation to the New York men whose stock
in trade is feminine loveliness-the artists who
paint and etch and model. They've taken US
down Bit those of us who rave of fair hair, be-
witching eyes, peach-bloom tints and aqune
features. For on this single point they are
unison:
A be beautiful at fifty.
Harken to what Harrison Fisher, Irwin Wiles,
Edwin Blashfeld and Victor D. Brenner say.
This galaxy of illustrator, painter, mural deco
rator and sculptor has to the defense of
physical beauty in woman past the middle span
of life. They've all matrons and spinsters
who were handsome when the half-century post
had faded on the ten-year distant horizon.
Cheer up, mothers grandmothers, aunts and
cousins whose silver-sprinkled tresses
droop 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
evitable 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 frmness that
comes of mental strength and mature character.
None the less is the artistic eye today appre-
ClaC1Vo OF VlVaclOuS glrlnOOQ Win lLS luminous
flesh and radiant nature. But it has turned to
another quarter for a 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 funess
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
charms with her sex in its teens and stand be-
fore the modern day court of art without fear
favor. The middle and the past middleaged
women Of New York have heard the verdict. You
are beautiful
Victor D. Brenner, sculptor, who knows the
soft and pleasing lines of figure well as he
knows the face, is to the fore the most out
spoken and uncompromising indorser of this new
viewpoint in art. 'All women are to be ad-
mired," he put it generally, and declares that
femininity in every condition of servitude and
age has points for artistic admiration.
The poetic has it's place in Sculptor Brenner's
reasoning as much as the hard and fast rules
for physical perfection. He personifes the time
adage: Beauty Is only skin deep" Be-
meath the fesh beneath the walls of muscle and
the frame of bone goes Sculptor Brenner for his
ideals. Mentality morality and warmth of heart
all his prescribed ingredences 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. If 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 the less appre-
ciates this bloom of early life and lit can't 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