The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1913-07-26

gtrlhood" 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
regeneration to the New York whose stock
in trade is 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 this single point they are
unison:
A woman be beautiful fifty.
Harken to what Harrison Fisher Irwin Wiles
Edwin Blashfield 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-you whose silversprinkled tresses
droop over sylvan folds OF face and brow. What
matters 1t II 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 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 firmness 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 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 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 come. She can 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 mddle-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 as 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
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 personhes 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 Brenner for his
ideals. Mentality morality and warmth of heart
all his prescribed ingrediences for the mos,
beautiful woman.
Beauty all depends upon the view point 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
III 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 I might classify as
another type of beauty: a beauty that is begin
ming to bloom in all its radiance. fully developed