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IN the eyes of most beautiful wo
men nothing is more import
ant than her own beauty. Be
ginning with the thrill of her ear
liest consciousness of it, she
watches itt, development with in
creasing delight and observes its
decadence with feelings akin to
terror. At some point before decad
ence begins comes her hour 'of
greatest beauty. At wbat age does
that supreme hour of beauty strike?
Balzac, a consummate judge of
womanly charm, declared ‘hat it is
seldom at its h< ight before thirty.
Ninon d’Enclos. that prize beauty
of the old French court and literary
circles, who was so beautiful that
she successfully defied the conven
tions during the greater part of her
ilfe. was still beautiful at ninety:
Our own peerless Lillian Russell
at fifty—whisper it softly—is
one of the most beautiful women in
the world To gaze upon her is
enough—no one gives a. thought to
iter age.
The beauty of Mrs. John Jacob
Astor, mother of Vincent, the great
heir of all the Asters, at forty, or
thereabouts, is a beauty "of world
wide celebrity, if her hour .of
beauty has struck, and the decline
has started, the latter circumstance
does not seem to have been men
tioned.
Mrs. Robert Goelet, who was Miss
Elsie Whelan, is another celebrated
American beauty, .kt in the neigh
borhood of thirty all her besuty at
tributes seem to be still developing
—which makes her a . nnarkabl in
teresting demonstration ■ '.al.-ac’s
theory Perhaps if the author of
the “Comedie llumalne” had lived
till now lie would have set the
supreme hour of beauty 'till farther
on, by ten cr twenty years.
The instance of that other beau
tiful American, formerly Mrs. Dan
dridge Spottswood, now the wife of
Count E. von Schonbrun Buckheim.
of Hungary, is similar. Has her
hour of greatest beauty struck while
‘There Are Even Beautiful C entury Plants ’—
-T-tiiE age of beauty varies with the type of
| woman studied.
* Some young girls of fourteen are ex
quisitely beautiful.
We look upon them with wonder and admira
tion, and think how remarkable they will be at
eighteen nr tv way-two.
Then, at sixteen, their beauty o fhs» to .tin
ish; they grow commonplace, and the delicate
lustre of the skin disappears, and .he whole ap
pearance changes. The rare pastel soon looks
iike a cheap chromo or a faded photograph; and
the rare beauty ot fourteen is an ordinary girl
at seventeen. This type of woman does not re
gain her charm at a later period, but, rather be
comes more and more commonpiacfi with each
passing year,
Again, the very plain girl of sixteen sometimes
“Motherhood the Age of Beauty/’
By GUTZON BORGLUM-—The •’’amous Scuip-or.
1-f HE hour of beauty, greatest beauty, in woman is a prolonged one.
It begins about eighteen and lasts until about forty, it corresponds
to the period of motherhood.
1 have a wife and seven-month-old son. They seem to me the most
beautiful sight in the world. Nature looks out tor the attractiveness of
woman, making it at its greatest while she is capable of motherhood. I
know a woman who, at forty-two, was the mother of a iovely child The
mother was at that age far more attractive than at eighteen.
The greatest beauty of woman is her soul quality. This is developed
by motherhood. All that is best and finest in a woman’s nature is re
vealed by the showing forth of her maternal instinct.
I speak both as a man and an artist in making these statements. The
artist can rise no higher .han tiie man. His work is the mirror of him
self and his ideas. The artist is merely the medium through which the
man works. 1
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Photographs Showing Lillian Russell at the Successive Ages of 20, 23, 33 and 50 Years. At Which Age Do You Think Her
Most Beautiful?
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she hovers about the age of I |
thirty, or are ber charms — ImO
as portrayed by the Hun- \y®
garian artist, Jozia Koppay. \W»
still ou the increase?
Portraits of the English \
beauty Miss Marjorie Man
ners, taken at the age of
sixteen seemed to show per
fections that years could not add
to. Would artists or other connois
seurs snv that she is mere or 'es*
beautiful now?
On this page four recognized ex
perts discuss the question of wo
man’s hour of beauty in more or
less detail —Cutzon Borglum. the
celebrated sculptor: Harrison Fish
er. the distinguished illustrator Lil
lian Russell and Elia Wheeler Wil
cox Their views will be read with
Interest not only in this country but
In Europe, where the subject is be
ing discussed.
One new ■ aper. which put the
matter to the test of :> nopular vote,
received ballots nan >ng all the
years from fifteen to thirty five." A
working woman vim never had
taken time to consider whether sho
v as beautiful or not. believed that
anv woman, “if she loves, and lives
her dream, and if she waits in hope,
can remain .ittraetive ,umi' she is
ri fty-five.”
At 'lie ag? of ninety-three the
lapils.painter Harpignes. says'"
“No mr.n whilestii: youngcanyet
appreciate- what is admirable, inim
Itable and unique in youth He
allows himself to be captured by
the artificial and "xtromely ques
tionable beauty of women woo are
made up and by the at'raction of
v’lmr is ailed th elmrm given by
Late ho learns tho
difference. h< abyss that separates
the sham from tl n rm,- The sover
eignty of human beauty In s in its
simplicity, in its l,;upid perfection
that can endure no a road by years,
anxieties disappointments or ill
health.
“The only beauty that can lie ac
centuated by time is the beauty of
things of nature, such as the old
blooms into amazing beauty a; twenty-live, and
even at a much later period.
A woman of fifty, who attracted the eyes ot
every beholder and who was always the com
pelling personality in every room she graced,
was said to be only a health} and over-robust
type of girl in her youth. It was not until after
forty-!.ve that her beauty developed. The white
hair softened her complexion; the too round
face grew oval; experience and joys and sor
rows had given a deeper expression to her eyes i
and refined her features. She was sought after i
by painters, who wanted to put her face on can
vas; while no painter would have cared to have
her sit for him in her earlier years. |
Love and maternity are beauty developers for ]
R certain type ot' woman; and they destroy the ;
beauty of other types. <
The phlegmatic woman, who is beautiful by
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Mrs. Ava Willing \
Astor, Who Is
Most Beautiful
at Forty-hve.
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oak tree, whose bos /
cq? and crinkles are as /
lie: ititul as the tender I I
shoots of the young i ■
sapling Women lias \
iherel -re he: hour ~f
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from. ay. 16 t< 20.” \\s
Says Mr Gabriel
Ferri. member of the X/nSI
French Institute arid t
master of the Paris
School of Fine Arts:
“The hour of beauty Is by uatnre
the hour of love, for in my opinion
beauty must be the creator of love,
although happily- love is not always
the offspring of beauty. Once upon
a time it lasted ; ome fifteen years
and the saying was current. “A
woman's beauty is like a fine fruit,
it must not be picked too late,' and
Musset wrote, ‘Woman has from
nineteen to twenty-five to be loved,
from twenty-five to thirty ro love
for herself and the rest of be life
so God.’
Since Musset’s days the hour of
beauty has been modified and pro
longed. thanks to dressmakers and
modistes and to the ever increas
ing experience of women. I think
I can truly say that in our days,
when women have become masters
Most Beautiful at Thirty-Five.
By LILLIAN RUSSELL.
WK have the very best authority for believing that a woman Is not
st her most beautiful hour until she has reached thirty-five. That
authority is the Venus de Medici, the greatest model of beauty
in the world.
The sculpture is of a woman at an age when the body is fully de
veloped and mature, when hair is at its greatest quantity, when eye and
brow and all the upper part of the face are fullest, when the bust is at
its greatest roundness and firmness, and when the general contour of the
figure proved that the woman had reached the point of maturity.
The height of the chest proves that a deep breath had been taken,
and the expression of the eye shows the Intelligence which dictates deep
breathing.
A woman’s hour of beauty begins at thirty-five and lasts Just so long
' as her intelligence directs the right regimen of exercise and diet
May Strike at
ANY AGE 1
from Sixteen to Sixty
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"woman is adorable. But if a limit — /r, > 1
must he set. the beauty of you•' ' W k
surpasses all others, let us say from uo~.o~ * i ' - |
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By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(America’s Foremost Woman Poet)
right 01 Classic .icuies anu m imam emm-ug
at eighteen, grows heavy and sallow after be
coming a mother at twenty; while the emo
tional girl ot the anemic order flames into rau,
ant splendor after wifehood and motherhoou
have crowned her life.
Twenty-eight has always seemed to me the
Ideal age for woman beauty; for then the girl
still retains her youthful contour and her nat
ural bloom, while the woman adds the charm
of culture and experience to the physical nt
tractions. '
But no nge can be stated as the ideal age of
woman s beauty; for women are as varied as the
flowers of a garden, and one is a morning glorv
looking its best before high noon, and another
is a four o clock and another a night bloominu
Cereue. b
Ami still another is a Century Plant!
Miss Gladys Deacon, Who Lost Her Beauty \\” // <£> *>
After She Was Twenty two. 'i-v- C “**‘’ t *
’‘Two Ages of
Loveliness.'
Ilv HARRISON FISKER. the !>i<=
tinguished American Illustrator.
rHERE are two ages at which fem
inim loveliness Is at its In ■ ». he
cause there are two distinct types
of hl-.Tlltv acs tloz-x ITOner rrm H 011ß
oi beauty as the years govern it. 'Jne
is the girl type whose beauty w'anes when it passes
into years of womanhood. This, which 1 call the
school girl type, is loveliest at seventeen. The other,
the kind of beauty that is most striking in maturity,
is best at twenty-nine.
If you prefer the girl type, very well 1 shan’t quar
rel with you about it. Personally my prfeerence is quite
the opposite. A bouquet of buds would capture only my
casual glance. A full blown rose would hold me cap
tivated by its beauty . ml fragrance. Character, which s
only a short way of saying ’strength of character,” has
always seemed to me an essential of beauty, the ono
indispensable quality. This no mere girl can have.
Electrical Mountains to Provide Energy for the World?
*—r~r HE Chib an Government, acting with those ot
| Bolivia and Peru, have appointed a commission
“ of scientists to invei tiaatu a >ngo light
which > s Hashing from the Andtv in chib’. The light
is visible within a radius of 600 miles from the main
ridges of the rang,, and is belief ‘d to b< ••! •etrirnl a
origin. It emanates directly from the mountains tm'tn
selves. The three governments are anxious to see
whether the enormous energy which is manifested can
be harnessed and be made a source of power to irrigat.
tin deserts on the Pacific slopes of the .Andes md
and iame the wilderness west of the Cordilleras
A suggestion iias been made that th" light may not
b* electrical at all; that it may be emanations from
gigantic beds of radio active, substanc s, pi riiap'
radium itself, which become visible under certain
atmospheric conditinns If this latter theory ,s cor
rect the Chilean Cordilleras hold a board which will
change the destinies of the world.
Dr. Pedro Santlnez. one of the commission selected,
writing of the extraordinary phenomenon, says:
“The light is ordinarily of a glistering appearance
and has the shape of a bold curve. It appears to have
fixed points of issue and changes only in the frequency
of its discharge and in its extent The most vivid
flashes come from a very definite point, and the radia
tion sometimes reaches far above the zenith and away
to sea. The extraordinary phenomenon can be seen
with greatest ease when the sky is clear.
“The Hashing begins late in Spring and lasts until
early' Winter. Toward the south then the light ceases
almost altogether. But in northern and central Chile,
in Peru and Bolivia the flashes are intermittent
throughout the Winter.
"We owe all of our present knowledge of the light
The Marchioness of Anglesey
Who Was Miss Marjorie
Manners, and Prettiest at
Sixteen.
Thought and exnerb neo bring strong, swooping ifriS#
to the face without which I find It unattractive. Thonghi
and experience draw the line between a simper and a
smile. Thought and experience give the glow to th*
<y< which Is a sign of intense mental vitality. x&r
Beauty vanishes when a woman begins, and
tinues, to look old. Women of to-day wisely turn
back the hour hand n» far as they can by attention
to hygiene nnd beauty culture, and some reach the
age of forty before they hear the stroke that tells of
the Citideiella-like vanishing of beauty. To the prao»
tised eye it is evident that that hour comes in th*
thirty-second year.
to a distinguished naturalist, who recently, during a
journey through a valley of the *main Cordillera, oh
served this phenomenon with exactness. One evening
about b o'clock, while studying an unusual and tr»
quent discharge, he was ablo to ascertain that its point
of issue was an elevation of the Cordilleras along
wnmu he was roaming, aiuviug cousiamiy awuml uxu
peak was a baud soaped like a segment ot one or two
degrees in height auu somewhat similar to the zodiacal
lignt in brightness.
"During the present season the light has glistened
as usual, but with much greater strength, and especially
above the discharge, into which the glistening aas dis
appeared after a moderate interval. The naturalist he
li* that this flashing of the Andes ie due to profuse
electric discharges in certain districts of their Chilean
section, and particularly among the greater peaks. Th#
predominating popular view is that this light is a re
flection of the molten lava in volcanic craters. Such *
• v is ‘ rroneous, however, it is not improbable that
tiie number of the points at which these discharges
occur changes; and it Is possible, too, that during .he
great earthquake of August, lltufi, discharges occurred
along the whole crest, for, if we may accept authorita*-
live statem<nt, the sky everywhere in Central Chile
then flashed with a quivering ‘fire, such as was never
seen either previously or thereafter.
“Observation leads to the conclusion that this seem
ingly radiance of the Andes is the result of a copious
issue of electricity. How these discharges, which are
noisless and produce no sparks, may be designated al
1 this day. is not quite clear.
“It ie probable that in the Andes is a source ot
power such as the world has never known and which,
if it can be harnessed, will be found capable of pro
' vlding energy for the whole world.'*
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The Large Pic
ture Is That of
Mrs. Robert ■
Goelet, Whose 3
Loveliness Is a
Now at It# I
Height at 28
Years 1