The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-11
Artist HeIleu Announces Something
That We Have known for 1
orsat Number Of
Years.
AND HE'S "A FRENCHMAN
Beauty Hunt At Longchamps Races
Falls Sometimes to Result In
Anything But Fine
Feathers.
by William Philip simms. Paris cor
respondent Of the United Press.

by William Philip Simms, Paris cor
respondent OF the United Press.
PARIS. July -1.That American
women are the most beautiful In the
world Is the contention OF the great
French artist p. G. Helleu. after do
ing the portraits OF the earth's prize
beauties And the compliment is not
q hollow one since ii was voiced, not
In the presence Of Americans In the
spirit Of flattery, but in the privacy
Of his home here, Rue de Pomereu,
before gathering OF his own French
people.
Helleu intends to prove his asser-
ton. He is preparing an album In
which will appear the portraits OF ten
OF the most noted beauties Of Paris,
ten Of England's prettiest women, ten
Of the Argentine Republics and ten
made by him In the United States,
the collection to be used for purposes
Of comparison. One OF Helleus guests
who heard the artists eulogy, re-
marked:
with emphatic gestures he assur-
red US he was not exaggerating. One
by one he drew forth from his collec-
ton. leaf after leaf. upon which he
had sketched number Of representa-
tive American women. The beauty
OF these ladies. one must admit, Is
remarkable. 1t appears diaphanous, al
most unreal, though very real the
women themselves evidently are, with
their brilliant lips burning with warm.
scarlet blood pure as fire. their eyes
sharing the sumptuous. velvety quail
ity OF the wings OF butterfly"
As Helleu exhibited his work, his
enthusiasm grew.
In America he told his callers,
you will run across beauties like
these at almost every step, Each is
more beautiful than her sister. Not
only among the rich do you find them,
but In the middle classes, among the
working girls, everywhere.
Strolling along the streets OF New
York every few minutes ! found my
self stopping to admire some beauty
going past. j ow should have liked
to stop some of them, and ask them to
walt moment. until could make a
sketch. But then with sigh) you
know you can't do that over there. not
unless you know the lady. regretted
the proprieties every moment Of my
stay; II one could only have ignored
them, ever 50 little. just for mo-
ment!
You may think have idealised in
these pictures have shown you. Not
at all. They are in reality exactly as
have painted themand perhaps
Just little more beautiful still.
Eve French people have heard that
the American woman is cold, hard OF
heart, calculating. 1t is false They
are very fine and burn with enthus-
iasm.
Taste? They dress over there
every bit as we'll as the French ladies
do here. as we'll as the most Partisan
OF Parisiennes. In their homes one
finds a sense Of artistic satisfaction
one does not always feel here. Their
apartments are beautifully furnished
and decorated Every woman has her
toudoir, her bathroom.
The American woman has the
strength Of the healthy in mind and
body. And she has the grace oil
clinging feminity with it. I love all
things beautiful and over there lived
as In dream!
In Paris. when wish to see 9
pretty woman, / go to Longchamps
to the races, Of sunday. l go on q
beauty hunt Eth bien. Quite otter
come back empty handed! l have
found beautifully dressed women, ex
pensively dressed women, and women
dressed with chic and dash. but die
not see the pretty face / was looking
Tor. AS / say, my beauty hunt is no,
always a success But in America
At New York nothing like that ever
happened to me. There. always
found beauty a-plenty.
They are intelligent too, those
American women! They are very
/ 'spirituelle.' intensely alive. But
when It comes to that, Of course, the
French women are also.
When / finish my album of beau