Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 185, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1913 — Page 3

At what AGE is WOMAN MOST BEAUTIFUL?

jva&js&vsjrM c&mvir 4 OE to beauteous ideals, long nurtured ■■TT and jealously guarded! An old worn■m/ an is hand Some, wrinkles are beWv coming, and a dash of rouge no more Tv is a crime against the symphony of f feminine loveliness. Evil days have befallen the traditional “bloom of youth,” “chestnut tresses” and the soulful “brown orbs” of Which poets have sung Immemorial. Grandmother at last is -coming lntp her own. She is ensconced upon an artistic pedestal for the edification of those “snips of girlhood” who have the temerity to hint “she was handsome in her day.”' She’s a beauty right now, thank you! Mother and grandmother owe their idealistic rejuvenation to the New York men whose stock in trade Is feminine loveliness—rthe artists who paint and etch and model. They’ve taken us do wn a bit, those of us who rafye of fair ( hair, bewitching 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, Irvin Wiles, Edwin Blashfleld and Victor D. Brenner say. This galaxy of illustrator, painter, mural decorator and sculptor baß 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 sllver-Bprinkled tresses droop over sylvan folds 6f face and brow! What matters it if nature rebels at the strain of busy life and sears your velvet cheeks with the inevitable wrinkles of motherly devotion? You’re handßome 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 firmness that comes of mental strength and mature character None the less Is the artistic eye today appro dative of vivacious girlhood with its 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, bat 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 countenance—has been called beautiful. She has been striving for this verdict for centuries and centuries, but only now has her day of reckoning with youth come. She can matoh her charms with her sex in its teens and stand before the modern day court of art without fear or flavor. The middle and the past middle-aged women of New York have heard the verdict. You are beautiful! ’ r Victor D. Brenner, sculptor, who knows the soft and pleasing lines of figure as well as he knows the face, is to the fore as the most outspoken And uncompromising Indorser of this new viewpoint In art "All women are to bq admired,” he put it generally, and declares that femininity 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 personifies the timeworn adage: “Beauty is ./Only skin deep.” Beneath the flesh, beneath the walls of muscle and the frame of bone goes Sculptor Brenner for his Ideals. Mentality, morality and warmth of heart are all his prescribed lngrefiiences for the most beautiful woman. "Beauty all depends upon the viewpoint 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 and soul are wrapped In the Infinite lines of tendernsss and delight to be found In early youth. “If the sculptor .seeks the poetry of springs time, he perchance requisitions beauty of an age from eighteen to twenty. He none the less appreciates this bloom of early life and it can’t help but draw forth his admiration. “From twenty-fire to thirty I might classify as another type of beauty; a beauty that is beginning to bloom In all lta radiance, fully developed

and taking bn the richness of a valley flower before the touch of withering heat. “From thirty-five to forty takes us to a period where the average, human unschooled in more than a superficial appreciation of beauty might remark that voluptuousness was giving way to the ravages of age. I have found many, many beautiful between the ages of thirty-five and forty —positively handsome. “Thiß beings us to the half-century mark, where woman has all the strength of character Imparted by a lifetime of observation. Here enters personal magnetism, a factor which figures largely in the determination of beauty. If face, form and temperament harmonize, she 16 placed in tlid category of the lovely. “I have seen women fifty years old who I considered exceedingly handsome.” Edwin Blashfleld, mural decorator, says: “There are four types or ages of beauty—children, Who are most handsome; youth, between the ages of sixteen and nineteen; middle age, ranging from twenty-five to thirty, and women who arh mounting the ladder of time .toward the half-century mark. “I have seen many handsome women at fortyfive and fifty. Sometimes wrinkles are exceedingly beautiful in women of that age. Persons who use their brains a great deal in after life generally are exceedingly Attractive. Wrinkles enhance this type. “I have no particular choice of beauty as regards age. I use models from nineteen to thirty, but by no means do I consider they are the embodiment of all that Is beautiful.” Harrison Fisher, Illustrator, haa his personal tastes as regards the age of charming women. "I prefer the beauty of a woman from sixteen to twenty-eight,” he says. “Between those periods of life I consider her the most charming because she embodies'all the spirit of youth, the innocence of girlhood and lacks the veneer of worldliness that comes to a woman later in life. But I am not decrying the attractions of older women. I have seen them at thirty and thirty-five and even forty whom I consider more handsome than girls. I know women of fifty who 1 consider embody all the elements of general beauty. They may have lost some of the fairness of their girlhood days, but they have made up for it In physical development, in mental sharpness and in the strong characteristics of the face. "There are so many good-looking women in New York It’s hard to pick out any particular beauty of any type or of any age. Women all are to be admired.” Irvin Wiles, eminent portrait painter, who baa daily opportunities to observe types of beauty, is more lenient as to advanced age than either Mr. Fisher, Mr. Brenner or Mr. Blashfleld. "I have seen women who were handsome at seventy,’*'he declared. A woman at thirty may be far more handsome than one at fifteen or eighteen. They say age Is no respecter of beauty, but you may reverse it and remark that beauty la no respecter of age. Much of the secret of beauty depends upon, the physical and mental care a woman takes of herself. The portrait painter does not look so much for beauty In his subject as he does for the medium that permits

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him to emphasize beauty. Of course the major ity of our sitters want us to paint them as beautiful as is consistent with the laws of art A woman of thirty has developed. She haa learned the Value of dress, how to attire herself in a manner that enhances any physical charms she may possess. Girlhood lacks the development of more mature age. Therefore, a woman of thirty may present a far more attractive appearance than the girl in her ’teens or Just past the twenty mark. “The womaq, beauty at fifty is less In evidence than the handsome feminine In her 'teens or below the age of thirty. But I have seen handsome women at fifty; women whose features, whose personalities and whose physical development struck me as being amazingly handsome. “From my view I don’t think dress has much to do with good looks. The true lover of beauty gazes and can enthuse over cut of features and tint of complexion without dwelling on clothes. I consider’ a woman between the age of eighteen and twenty to be in the bloom of youth. Naturally, youth is attractive; It la like a rose in Its brilliancy beneath a light morning dew."

UNMISTAKABLE EVIDENCE.

"Those seeds you sold me for flower seeds were nothing but weed seeds.” “Come up, have they?" “Of course not; 1 only planned tiiem day bfr fore yesterday." “Then how do you know they are weed seeds?” “The neighbors’ chickens won’t dig them up."

PLANNING AND PLANNING.

"I am planning a trip to the Panama canal” “That so? So is President Wilson." “But the trip he is planning is altogether different from the one I am planning ” “That so?" "Yes. he’s going."

WRITING THAT PAYE.

"What does this young fellow write? I won't h j^ Te .. my mairrled to a starring aft* “Off the handle, as usual, dad. That young chap wrote $400,000 worth of life insurance last years.”

A FREQUENT HAPPENING.

r U e don t do as we should. For one thing we are told to love our enemies.” jf * “A great many of us live up to 'that nidu'l you ever notice a couple of society leaden kissing each other?”

Practical Fashions

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CHILD’S TUCKED DRESS.

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His Comment.

“They say that women keep the wneels of commerce going.” “Maybe su. Here’s a woman’s program when she buys anything: She opens a handbag, takes out a purse, opens the purse and takes out a coin, shuts the purse and opens the handbag, shuts the handbag and adjusts her veil. I think business would slump if a man had to do all that every time he made a flve-cent purchase.” •

Poetic Argentine.

Not long ago a young man attached to the Argentine Legation at Washington was a guest at a certain after noon affair, when a young woman In vited his attention to a couple in a corner who were paying marked attention to each other. “He ie fifty-one and she thirty-nine.” said the young woman, “and they have been ’courting for twenty years.” The Argentine adjusted bis monads and glanced at the happy pair. “Ah, /aid he. ‘ft romance of the Middle Ages, eh?”—Lipplncott’i Mggaxiua

How Can God Declare One Righteous Who Is Not Righteous?

By REV. H. W. POPE.

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TEXT—Therefore being Justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.—Romans S:L

4:5). How can God reckon one righteous who is not righteous? This is a fair question and we must face it. Suppose a merchant in a small town hat. fallen into debt. He is not a good buyer, he is not accurate in his accounts, and he is shiftless. Suppose a rich uncle who has made a fortune in the same business, and has retired, should pay him a visit. After a few days he says to his nephew: "John, 1 hear bad reports about you; people say that you are sadly In debt and that your credit is poor. I have had a good year, and I believe I will help you. If you will foot up all your debts I will give you a check for the whole amount.” John accepts his ofTer and pays off his creditors. As they go out of his store they say to one another: "We are fortunate in getting our money this time, but we will not trust him again. He is the, same shiftless John, and he will soon be as badly in debt as ever." Now what has his unde accomplished for John? He has paid his debts, but he has not restored his credit Suppose, on the other hand, that the unde had said: "John, I have been oat of business a few years and I find that I am getting rusty. I like this town and I have about decided to go into partnership with you.” John is delighted, of coarse. The uncle says: "I will put In all my capital and experience, but I shall Insist upon be ing manager of the business. You can be the silent partner and work under my direction. And John, I think you had better take down that sign over the door, for your name does not command the highest respect in this town, Suppose you put up my name instead, ft Co. I think it will look better, and you can be the company." John gladly compiles with the conditions, and the business opens under new auspices. John goes out to buy goods, and what does he find? Instead of refusing to trust him, every merchant in town is glad to give him credit, because his rich uncle has become identified with the business. In the one case the uncle paid his debts, but did not restore his credit. In-the other case he restored his credit by going into partnership with him. God’s law says that the soul which slnneth shall die. When Jesus took our place on the cross and died for our sins, that paid oar debt, hut it did not restore our credit, it did not make us rlghtequs. Had there been no resurrection of Jesus we could not have been justified, though it is conceivable that we might have been forgiven. But when Jesus rose from the dead and identified himself with os by faith, coming Into our heart and taking possession of our life, then he not only paid our debts, but he restored our credit. He made it possible for God to declare us righteous, since we have gone Into partnership with • righteous Saviour, who has not only kept the law perfectly himself, but who is able to help us to keep it He ie the managing partner, and we simply obey his orders. Ws have even taken down the old sign, and now we bear his name —Christian. Martin Luther said: "If any one knocks at the door of my heart and inquires if Martin’ Luther lives here, I should reply, *Martin Luther is dead, and Jesus Christ lives here.*” Paul bad the same idea, for he said: "I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me.” "For ye are dead and your life is hid with Christ in God.” If Jeens lived a holy life in one body he is surely able to do it in another, if that body ie yielded to his control. God then can properly and justly reckon the believer righteous because of his union with the righteous Saviour who has atoned for hi* past Bins by his death o» the cross, and who guarantees his present and future conduct because that life has been committed to his keeping. If, as he says, he is "able to save unto the uttermost.” “able to keep us from falling" (Jade 24), and if he guarantees to present ns before the presence of God’s glory absolutely faultless, surely God can safely reckon us as righteous. The ground of our justification then is not what we are, but whose we are, not our owa good works, or our desire to be right eous, but our union with the Lord Jesus, who was “delivered for our of fences, and was raised tor our justl flcation” (Horn. 4:25), ~

The word justify means to reckon or declare righteous. Forgiveness is a negative term, meaning to pat away or remit. Justification Is a positive act, and means not simply forgiving the sinner, or letting him off from the punishment which he deserves, but declaring h i m righteous (Rom.