Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1913-08-01

and jealousy guarded! An old wom-
AA/ an is handsome, wrinkles are be-
coming, and dash Of rouge no moro
wv is crime against the symphony of
feminine loneliness.
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la SO vi Evil days have befallen the tradi.
NA$.hzdV tional bloom Of youth" chestnut
AViyy1RNW tresses" and the soulful drown
NtNNN1 orbs" of which poets have sung
1IEMm immemorial. Grandmother at last is
WNNM coming into her own. She is en-
~TE ~ sconced upon artistic pedestal
70: the .edifcation Of those "snips Of
girihood" who have the temerity to hint "she was
handsome in her day" She's beauty right now,
thank you! 10 &c.,. 4. 81
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 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 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 halfcentury post
had faded on the ten-year distant horizon
Cheer up, mothers, grandmothers, aunts and
cousins-you whose silver-sprinkled tresses
droop over sylvan folds of face and brow! What
matters it if nature rebels at the strain of busy
aife 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 girhood days; whose
tender lips have compressed in the f1rmness that
comes of mental strength and mature character.
None the less is the artistic eye today appre-
ciative OF vivacous. grlhood with its luminous
Hesh 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
sesplendent 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-
sonng with youth come She can match her
charms with her sex in its 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 D. 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
femninity in every condition of servitude and
age has points for artistic admiration.
The poetic has its 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 fesh 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
As his theme, then his whole heart and soul
wrapped in tho 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-
states 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
eng to bloom In al its radiance. fully developed