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(fi) . 'W**«X^ Zn How Living u nomarK=< •■*= £^ z « w jV(.oj>t) jL4S H i\ Mmit That W • S “Beauty's Hour" W 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 t ww- MH %.Mr 1 4 ® 4 ♦ Wr ->W ■ : ’ v. JEO »v. ML* w** & /'* j® i *' ®.i* *■ ■' ?•* ,«* JI j» >;> WBB* I * rB-'J- 4 *' Jgk< ! . JjrtMk .. > Lt, J] ; 4^*'(L ' - - Jr BX«Ta <S> <V, SCHI»fS X T *A.o Tr» 3v FA l H *• V *nfiTO (<J 8> “loKt <s ON rw 'r *•* •T» ft’ W *•' r € *, V Photographs Showing Lillian Russell at the Successive Ages of 20, 23, 33 and 50 Years. At Which Age Do You Think Her Most Beautiful? ■ 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 SiHftiß '' ' I d % \ /I t 0 T \ Mrs. Ava Willing \ Astor, Who Is Most Beautiful at Forty-hve. /M 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 in:':: . (.. 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 *-a » . x 4? A, Wsh'S < ■ : i ' J ■ ■K '"WC'X .: A, a/ X • cA^ otlv iTOB .o xZzwSz " i The American Countess von 4 J Schonbrun Buckheim, Who ■ \ i,. * \ . Was Mrs. Dandridge /Z®»• \ J f ..? / ~ Spottswood Fairest 4-.'- ."! /.• oU X/ selves, the hour r. - // '-xX for a long, long tin. from twenty \vMHNB -L.'.I 7 ;/- ' ■ 1 ■ \ ■ - r~ \X - m< a XvwiF’ •' z/ ' ,n 10 '7/ ’ •**. youth to extreme old age sa ..-. zX/ it f -ban Bouchet tlu » 7 T ■ \\ "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 ' - | M-toen -qrlv" >*■ I | a 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.'* • The Large Pic ture Is That of Mrs. Robert ■ Goelet, Whose 3 Loveliness Is a Now at It# I Height at 28 Years 1