The Springfield herald., 1913-07-25


NxHvHIH orbs" of which poets have sung
\IEGRM immemorial. Grandmother at last is
WkEW coming into her own. She is en-
HN ~ sconced upon artistic pedestal
for the edifcation of those "snips of
girlhood" who have the temerity to hint "she
handsome in her day." She's beauty right now,
thank you!
Mother and grandmother owe their dealistic
rejuvenation to the New York whose stock
in trade is feminine oveliness-the artists who
paint and etch and model. They've taken
down a bit, those of who rave of fair hair. be-
witching eyes. peach-bloom tnts and aqune
features. For this single point they
unison
A woman 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 come to the defense OF
physical beauty in woman past the middle span
of life They've all seen matrons and spinsters
who were handsome when the halfcentury post
had faded on the tenyear distant horizon.
Cheer up, mothers, grandmothers, aunts and
cousns-you whose sver-sprinkled 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!
Tho fair debutante may appeal to the eye for
beauty more than her mother from whom the
color Of buoyant youth has flown: whose flesh
has lost the satin gloss of grlhood days; whose
tender lips have compressed in the hrmness that
comes of mental strength and mature character
None the less is the artistic eye today appre-
ciative of vivacious girhood with Its luminous
flesh and radiant nature But 1t has turned to
another quarter for type CT 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 life, the mental development and the strong
force Of character written In every nge 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 She match her
charms with her in Its teens and stand be-
fore the modern day court of art without fear or
favor. The middle and the past mddleaged
women of New York have heard the verdict. You
are beautiful!
Victor D. Brenner. sculptor, who knows the
soft and pleasing lines Of figure we'll 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
femirinity in every condition of servitude and
age has points for artistic admiration.
The poetic has its place in Sculptor Brenner's
reasoning much as the hard and fast rules
for physical perfection. He personifes the time
adage: Beauty is only 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 ingrediences for the most
beautiful woman
Beauty all depends upon the viewpoint of the
individual sculptor, declares MT Brenner 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 beaAty 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
another type of beauty; beauty that is begin
ming to bloom In all its radiance, fully developed