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/V <, 1 UM 11 ■ • cAdfe IS<J . *■ B wii • jk / 17/ WhoWaßa no tv L,iving tj < s x V\ »?w Force Experts / w a ) \ \ /H k T T l , /V( o sr. V lu l F re a o l f A That ‘ j 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 ■'■ , -: i; ■ 0 PWIKI Ml W T * = * • Ir "W I J £ I ??’ U , •frh-jy U-’-i ' ■<"" s -■> i Z M \ '* ' l' ■ \* < #3k' '■■ i <u Z '-- >W* ■■' r «Ba&hJ j&L A'} U d l. < '•■''•' IL B i W&?K ‘qLL . .. 7~ L=i ,; '. ■• .- } £.\ qT J■ - - 'p '* H 4 To *>T S<KLOJS ** V A-a. «•».'■ PalK *. v Photo O> *n O M/» <AO Aa a, y PH«rw 3 T WHITE a, v Photographs Showing Lillian Russell at the Successive Ages of 20, 23, 33 and 50 Years. Al Which Age Do You Ihink Her Most Beautiful? /I & • I llfl 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 > \*> u a • fV’"’" ■" fl fl : % \ x. J" v Mrs. Ava Willing X Astor, Who Is W . Most Beautiful J \- at Forty-five. 'S>., if 5 * / a- . w a\ t > s i 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 / jT.,e.o xk 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? \.WK. '/U \w <©•’ I’ n X' ' fc li fT 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 \1 X > \\\ > W z 'i- > **<s- 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." ,y/’’".ro <2~> Sv ///LAce Chasls*. / z * I. •*<*«*«, The Large Pic ture is That oi Mrs. Robert Goelet Whose Loveliness [s Now at Its Height at 28 Yerrs.'