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L9oaiiCllLll fZ® *iwK\ "Beauty's Hour"
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 conies her hour of
gri'ntesr beauty. At what age dots
that supreme hour of beauty strike?
Balzac, a consummate judge of
womanly charm, declared x hat it is
seldom at its height before thirty.
Ninon d’Enclos, that prize beauty
oi the old French court and literary
circles, who was so beautiful that
she successfully defied the conven
tion? during the greater part of her
Hie, was still beautiful at ninety!
Our own peerless Lillian Russell
at fifty—whisper it softly—ls
one of the most beautiful women in
the world. Tc gaze upon her is
enough—no one gives a thought to
her age.
The beauty of Mrs. John Jacob
Astor, mother of Vincent, the great
heir of all the Astors, 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
coos not seem to have been men
tioned.
Mrs. Robert (roelet. who was Miss
Elsie Whelan, is another celebrated
American l.eauty. At in the neigh
borhood of thirty all her beauty at
tributes seem to be still developing
—-which makes her a remarkably in
teresting demoiist'iction ■' Balzac’s
theory Perhaps If the author of
the “Comedie Humalne’’ bad lived
till now hr would have set the
Miprewc hour oi beauty still farther
on. by i.cu or 'wenty years.
The instance of that other beau
tiful American, formerly Mrs, Dan
dridge Spottswood, now ’he wifi- of
Cou. t E. von Schonbrun Buckheim,
of Hungary i, ; similar. Has her
hour of .rreatest beauty struck while
,r i here Are Even Beautiful Century Plants
’“T'GiE age of beauty varies with the type of
J woman studied.
’*’ Some young girls of fourteen are ex
tjuisitely beautiful.
We took ui.x j) them with wonder and admira
tion,'and think how remarkable they will be at
eighteen or t ,x •niy-two.
Then, at sixteen, their beauty h.„lns to van
tsh; 'he;- i;; >xx- commonplace, amj the delicate
u tre of it ■ skin disappears, and ..he whole ap
pearance changes- The rare parti I soon looks
1 a cheap chromo or a faded photograph; and
in arc- beauty of fourteen is an ordinary girl
at seventeen. This type of woman does net re
gain her charm at a later period, but rather be
comes mon- an ' more commonplace with each
passing year.
Again. --or plain girl of sixteen sometimes
‘’Motherhood the Age of Beauty,’'
B GLIZON BORGLLAI- The «*'ain<»i!s Sculp'Or.
*-r-»HE bom- cf beauty, greatest beauty, in woman is a prolonged one.
5 It begins about eighteen mid lasts until about forty. It corresponds
to the period of motherhood.
1 have a v.ire and sex en-month-old son. They seem to me the most
beautiful sight in the world. Nature looks mt for the attractiveness of
woman, making it. at its greatest while she is capable of motherhood. I
know a woman who, at iorty-two, was th- mother of a lovely child. The I
mother v....-■ ai that age tar more attractive than at eighteen.
file g.i-..' .--t beauty ot woman is hor soul quality. This is developed
by mo;n ■.hcoii. All that i ; lie c anil finest in a woman's nature is re
vealed ic the showing forth of her maternal instinct.
1 speak both as a man find an artist in making those statements. The
artist can ii.~. no higher .han th' pian. His work is uie mirror of him
self and his ideas. The artst is merely the medium through which the
man works
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Photographs Showing Lillian Russell at the Successive Ages of 20, 23, 33 and 50 Years. Al Which Age Do You Ihink Her
Most Beautiful?
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stie hov.-rs about the age of I IjO
thirty, or are her charms— I
as portrayed by the Hun- \
gariau artist, Jozia Koppay,
still on the increase? V\
Portrxtts 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
sours snv that she is more or les
beautiful now?
On this page four recognized ex
perts discuss the question of wo
man’s hour of beauty in more or
less detail—Gutzon Borglum. the
celebrated sculptor: Harrison Fish
er. the distinguished illustrator: Lil
lian Russell and Ella 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.
Ono newspaper, which put the
matter to the test of a popular vote,
received ballots naming all the
years from fifteen to thirty-five. A
working woman, who never had
taken time to consider whether she
was beautiful or not. believed that
any woman, "if she loves, and lives
her dream, and if she waits in hope,
can remain attractive until she is
fifty-five.”
At ’he age of ninety-three the
\>nds,-i,pe paint -r, Harpignes, says:
"No man while still young can yet
■appreciate what is admirable, inim
itable and unique in youth Ho
allows himself to be • tured by
thi artificial and exti u. <y ques
tionable beauty of women who are
made up and by the attraction of
what is called th charm given by
experience. Later he learns the
difference, the abyss that separates
the sham from the true. The sover
< ignty of human b utj lies in its
simplicity, in its limpid perfection
that can endure no inroad by years,
anxieties, disappointments or ill
health.
' The only beauty that can be ac
centuated by time is the beauty of
things of nature, such aa the old
blooms into amazing beauty at twenty-uve, ana
even at a much later period.
A woman of fifty, who attracted the eyes of
evi ry beholder and who was always the com
pelling personality in every room she graced,
was raid to be only a healthy and over-robust
type ■ t girl in her youth. It was not until after
forty-live 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
and refined her features. She was sought after
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. i
Love and maternity are beauty developers for
a certain type ot woman: and they destroy the
beauty of other types.
The phlegmatic woman who is beautiful by
Trilli May Strike at
jS/l ANY AGE
from Sixteen to Sixty >
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Mrs. Ava Willing X
Astor, Who Is W .
Most Beautiful J \-
at Forty-five. 'S>., if 5 *
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oak tree whose bos- / d’
ses and crinkles are as / fe' &
beautiful as the tender | |■flrih'X ’ w I feorc 4
shoots of the young I iflF X I Cahi-o e t> . sr«».e fj’,? '
sapling Women has \ wflP*' I
ther loro her hour of \ Z —XN
beauty during voutb R B 9
from. ay. ].; lc 20.” r v
Says Mr. Gabriel
Ferric, member of the X
French Institute and ; /N. -v ’
master of the Paris X ' '
Schoo! of Fine Arts —'— /\ ** : 'X
' The hour of beauty’ fs by nature
the hour of love, for in my opinion
beauty must be the cr ..tor of love,
although happily love is not always
the offspring of beauty. Once upon
a time it lasted some fifteen yea'’s
and the saying was current “ X
woman’s beauty is like a fine fruit,
it must not be picked too late,' and
Musset wrote. 'Woman has from
nineteen to twenty-live to be loved,
from twenty-five to thirty to love
tor herself pud the rest of he 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 1 think
I can truly’ say that in our days
when women nave become masters
Most Beautiful at Thirty-Five.
By LILLIAN RUSSELL.
WE have the very best authority for believing that a woman is not
at 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 <j e .
’eloped 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 exere’se and diet.
G,or o /
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The American Countess von
Schonbrun Buckheim, Who /
Was Mrs. Dandridge /
Spottswood Fairest / I
at Thirty.
ol the an or tiow to present them- 11
selves, the hour of beauty sounds \
ror a long long time, from twenty- \
five to fifty. My models often give
me a proof that that is true.”
"In love and in art from earliest
youth to extreme old ago '■ saya
Jean Boucher, the French sculptor
woman is adorable. But if 3 limi j
must be set, the beauty of youth
bui pusses till others, let us su.y from
“ ° to tmrtv
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
(America’s Foremost Woman Poet)
nghi. of classic icaimes aucl orniian’ coloring
at eighteen, grows heavy and sallow after be
coming a mother at twenty; while the emo-
Int tnm T the anelnil ’ order flames into radi
ft splendor after wifehood and motherhood
have crowned her life. mauuwi
1,15? e J !tV ' e . lght has always seemed to me tbe
!?..? for . womau beauty; for then the girl
fcti. retains her youthful contour and her nat
nral doom, while the woman adds the charm
eXpCri g“ c “ ‘be physical
But no age can be stated as the ideal age of
woman s beauty; for women are as varied as the
flowers of a garden and ono is a morning g] or y'
ooking Its best before high noon, and another
is a .our o clock and another a night bloomin*
Cereus. ""viumg
And still another is a Century Plant?
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Miss Gladys Deacon. Who Lost Her Beauty
After She Was Twenty-two.
“ Two Ages of
i Loveliness.”
s By HARRISON FISHER, (he His
tinguished American Illustrator.
THERE are two ages at which fem
inine loveliness is at its best. I -
cause there are two distinct types
of beauty as the years govern it. Oiv
is the giil type whose beauty wanes wb n it pa-’’ ' 9
.nto years of womanhood. This, -rhich 1 call the
school girl typo, 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 prfeer nec is quii.c
the opposite. A bouquet of buds would capture only my
casual glance. A full blown rose would hold me cap
tivated by its beauty and fragrance. Character, which is
only a short way of saying “strength of character.' has
always seemed to me an essential of beauty, the one
indispensable quality. This no men girl car. have.
Electrical Mountains to Provide Energy for the World?
ATIIIE Chilean Government, actin, with she e oi
I Bolivia ami Peru, have appointed a commission
“of
which is flashing from the And>u in Cnilc. The light
is visible within ;• radius of 50b miles from the mail',
ridges of the range and is beli'-ved to b< electrical in
irigin. it emanates directly from th mountains them
selves. The three governments are anxious to see
whether the enormous energy which is manifested can
be harness"?! and be mad* a sourc of power to irr'.-atc
the deserts on tin Paeith slope of the Ami. s and
and tame the wilderness west, of tie. Cordilleras
A suggestion has been mad. that th-' light may not
be electrical at. al’; that it may be ernai.atiotis from
gigantic beds of radio-active substances, perhaps
radium itself, which become visible under certain
atmospheric conditinns. if this la ter theory is cor
rect the Chilean Cordilleras hold a board which will
change the destinies of the world
Dr. Pedro Santini-z. one of th" commission selected,
writing of the extraordinary phenomenon, says;
"The light is ordinarily of a glistering appearance
and has the shape of a bold curvt It appears to have
fixed points of Issue and chatigi only in the frequency
of its discharge and in its extent The most vivid
Hashes come from a very deflnit • ; lint, and the radia
tion sometimes reaches far above tin zenith and away
io sea. The extraordinary phenomenon can be seen
with greatest ease when the sky r clear.
“The flashing begins late in Spring and lasts uni I
early Winter. Toward the south then the light cea <
almost altogether. But in northern and central Chil“.
in Peru and Bolivia the flashes are intermitt it
throughout the Winter.
"We owe al) of our present knowledge of the light
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The Marchioness oi >
Who Was Miss Mar jo it
Manners, anti Prettiest at
Sixteen.
Thought nnd '.writ t--irr oerrtng lift**
to the iace x. i ' .i. i . a- •; ,i . Thought
and experience dim ; >, -en -iiuper ai d a
srnili' Th. . glow to th»
eye which is a sign of t .a. m. atal vitality.
Beauty vai.it he vh- irnai b- g’ns. and con
tinues, to look old. Uoi e:i of to-day wisely turn
back the hour h . e Cay can by attention
uid nd mi> reach the
age of forty b< r. hi ar tin stroke that tells ot
tbe Cinderella-ake > -u.is■■ ng of b inty. T the prae
tised eye it i- evident that ’ hour comes tn the
thirty-second ••■ar.
to a distil -msln d naturalist who r- . -ntly, during a
journey through a valley ot thfe main Cordillera, ol>
sewed ' phenomenon ■ 'h exactness. One evening
about 9 o clock, w dh studying an unusual and fre
quent d.- .large, ue .. .s able t-, -.certain that its point
ot issue was im - iv' non oi tuo Cordilleras along
wmen v...- ru.oii.i - -io, ~n o.uisi ,oaij. .uuund uua
... .■ nt ot one or two
. . , eigh an nuur to the zodiacal
ri.-.iii n oriy tituess.
"D iin. the present. : • -on 'he light lias glistenod*
and especially
abo *. the discharge, into which the glistening naa dn*-
U iderat interval. The naturalist he
li- es that if tin \ndes is due to profuse
el* < ric dib< tai in certain districts ot their Chilean
s. ' . and pa' I- tlarly among the greater peaks. The
pii opular view is th this light is a !•>
of the molten lava in volcanic craters. Such a
v w is erroneous, however. It is not improbable that
umber of the points at which these discharges
' r changes; and it is possible, too, that during .hi
f ' irch'juake of August, 1906, discharges occurred
along the whole crest, for, if we may accept authorita
tn statement, the sky everywhere in Central Chile
Ju Hashed with a quivering 'lire,' such as was never
seen either previously or thereafter.
"Observation leads to the conclusion that this seem
ingly radiance ot the Andes is the result of a copious
issue of electricity. How the • discharges, which are
uoisless and produce no sparks, may be designated at
a, 'i,it is not quite clear.
"It Is 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
viding energy for the whole world."
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///LAce Chasls*.
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The Large Pic
ture is That oi
Mrs. Robert
Goelet Whose
Loveliness [s
Now at Its
Height at 28
Yerrs.'
