Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1913-07-25

for the edl1catlOn or those SntpS or
girlhood" who have the temerity to hint "she was
handsome in her day" She's beauty right now,
thank you!
Mother and grandmother their idealistc
rejuvenaton to the New York whose stock
in trade is feminine loveliness-the artists who
paint and etch and model. They've taken US
down q bit those of us who rave of fair hair, be-
witching eyes, peachbloom tints and aquiline
features For on this single point they are
unison:
A woman can be beautiful at fifty
Harken to what Harrison Fisher, Irwin Wies
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 a woman past the middle span
of life. They've all seen matrons and spinsters
who were handsome when the haIf-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 it If nature rebels at the strain of busy
life and 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 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 frmness that
comes of mental strength and mature character
None the less Is the artistic eye today appre-
ciatve of vivacious girhood 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
Tespendent 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 now has her day of reck
oning with youth come She match her
charms with her in it's 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
beautiful!
Victor D. Brenner, sculptor who knows the
soft and pleasing lines of figure as we'll as he
knows the face is to the fore the most out
spoken and uncompromising indorser of this new
viewpoint in art "All women to be ad-
mired" he put 1t generally, and declares that
femnnity in every condition of servitude and
age has points for artistic admiration.
The poetic has its place In Sculptor Brenners
reasoning much the hard and fast rules
for physical perfection. He personies 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
all his prescribed ingrediences for the most
beautiful woman.
Beauty all depends upon the viewpoint Of the
individual sculptor" declares Mr. Brenner. "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 1t can't help
but draw forth his admiration.
From twenty-five to thirty might classify az
another type of beauty; beauty that is begin
ming to bloom in all its radiance, fully developed