The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1913-07-31

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F7 OE to beauteous ideals, long nurtured
SVHVUYs and jealousy guarded An old wom-
fAA/ an is handsome, wrinkles be.
+" coming and a dash Of rouge no more
w i is crime against the symphony of
feminine loneliness,
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NAf,MS1W tional bloom of YOUTH" chestnut
\NIyFKykAM tresses" and the soulful Drown
KSAAyMN1 orbs" of which poets have sung
lIEaQEH immemorial Grandmother at last is
WXKXW coming into her She Is
SuN ~ sconced upon artistic pedestal
for the edfcation of those "snips of
grlhood" who have the temerity to hint 'she was
handsome in her day." She's beauty right now,
thank you'll
Mother and grandmother owe their idealstic
rejuvenation to the New York whose stock
in trade is feminine loveness-the artists who
paint and etch and model They've taken
down bit, those of us who rave Of fair hair, be-
witching eyes, peach-boom tnts and aquiline
features. For this single point they are
unison: ,
woman can be beautiful at fifty.
Harken to what Harrison Fisher Irwin Wlles,
Edwin Blashfeld 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 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-you whose silver-sprnkled tresses
droop over sylvan folds of face and brow! What
matters 1t 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.
ciative Of vivacious 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 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 now has her day of reck.
oning with youth come. She can match her
charms with her sex In it's teens and stand be.
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
are beautiful!
Victor D. Bremen, sculptor, who knows the
soft and pleasing lines of figure as we'll as he
knows the face, Is to the fore as the most out
spoken and uncompromising indorser of this new
viewpoint in art. "Al women are to be ad-
mired," he put 1t 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 the hard and fast rules
for physical perfection He personif1es 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. 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 none the less appre-
ciates this bloom Of early life and 1t 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 It's radiance, fully developed