The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-07-25

girlhood" who have the temerity to hint "she was
handsome in her day" She's beauty right now,
thank you!
Mother and grandmother their idealistic
regeneration to the New York men whose stock
In trade is feminine loveliness-the artists who
paint and etch and model. They've taken
down bit, those of who Of fair hair, be-
witching eyes, peach-bloom tints and aquiline
features. For this single point they
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 woman past the middle span
of life They've all matrons and spinsters
who handsome when the halfcentury post
had faded on the ten-year distant horizon.
Cheer up, mothers, grandmothers, aunts and
cousns-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 your velvet cheeks with the In
evitable wrinkles Of motherly devoNon? You're
handsome still
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 frmness that
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 1t has turned to
another quarter for type of beauty that has
survived from the birth Of man, but shone
respondent 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 rack-
onfng with youth come, She match her
hor IN ho
fore the modern day court of art without fear
favor. The middle and the past middle-aged
women of New York have heard the verdict You
beautiful!
Victor D Bremen, sculptor, who knows the
soft and pleasing lines of figure well IS he
knows the face, is to the fore the most out
spoken and unCompromising indorser Of this
viewpoint In art. All to be ad-
mired," he put 1t generally, and declares that
feminnty 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 personif1es 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 the less appre
cates this bloom Of early life and it can't help
but draw forth his admiration
From twenty-five to thirty might classify
another type of beauty beauty that is begin
ming to bloom In all its radiance fully developed