Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1913-07-25

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girlhood' who have the temerity to hint she was
handsome in her day" She's a beauty right now,
thank you!l =
Mother and grandmother owe their idealistic
rejuvenation to the New York men whose stock
in trade is feminine loveliness-the artists who
paint and etch and model. They've taken us
down a bit, those of us who rave of fair hair. be-
witching eyes, peach-bloom 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 Wiles,
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 a woman past the middle span
of life. They've all seen 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 it 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 trmness that
comes of mental strength and mature character
None the less is the artistic eye today appre-
ciative of vivacious girlhood with it's luminous
flesh and radiant nature. But it has turned to
another quarter for a 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 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 Z. Bremen, sculptor, who knows the
soft and pleasing lines of figure as well 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
age has points for artistic admiration.
The poetic has it's place in Sculptor Brenner's
reasoning as much as the hard and fast rules
for physical perfection. He personifes 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-
eiates this bloom of early life and it can't help
but draw forth his admiration.
From twenty-five to thirty / might classify as
another type of beauty; a beauty that is begin
ming to bloom in all its radiance, fully developed