The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume], June 01, 1918, Image 6

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Pastel Sketch of His Wife Made for This Page by Penrhyn Stanlaw
By Elizabeth Van Benthuysen
.liich knows so little about how "To the man who has been ir
.i... ....vi ,i,.,,f livi. Mux fore, tlif siliiaiiuii Is dine rent. A
TMIK world, liiih knows so little about how
Ithe man and the woman next door live, has
lui'Kttl.v missed the remarkable (arei r of tho
wife who, with siiireKs, ineels the daily and yearly
competition of all of Ihe champion beauties of the
day, seeing earh eonie, win the alleniion of tho
coil it try lor the moment, and then fade, a :i
rnoniiiiK fMory, tu give (ilacu to a newer and
fresher (lower.
There are not ?o many wives Tilio ran meet
with a. serene eont'uleiiee the eompet it ion of one
famous beauty. Many a woman who has eonie.
alonn Ihe thorny pathway hand In hand with a
man, has si en him falter and fall at the lirst
ross road that wound itself over the pathway. Tho
divorce eourls are full of milestones transplanted
from the c ourse of line love, and every one of
them spelled a story nf the possession by the other
womau of .something that Ihe wile did not have..
Husband of a Beauty Student
Wherefore, one may lisp n with the closest at
tention to the story of .Mrs. 1'enrhyn Stanlaws,
wife of an artist who has won fame as the maker
of womanly types, and who has never felt the
Elins of competition in Ihe uentle and 'raeeful
business of helm; a successful wife, Hundreds of
the most beautiful youmx women in the country
have posed, usini; every art to biint; to the lure
their moj' attractive points, hefme the man who
nestles in the sofa pillows in the Stanlaws home
after it is all done and waits for the companion
Khlji of one woman who docs not hmirc In the
picture supplements as Ihe ideal of an aesthetic
mind.
And docs she regard the charming young
woman as a possible rival?
Far from It.
The green-eyed, monster that comes to so many
women who see their husbands merely jjlanco ap
praisln(;!y at a comely :irl in I lie streets never
comes to the woman who knows day by day that
her husband looks with critical eye at the best
assortment of feminine curves that the artistic
world may alt'ord. She doesn't think any more of
a posing model, wlio;'e face and form will soon
regale the exhibition galleries of 'he manazine
readers, than the wife of a woul merchant would
a rare hit of meilnn that.
samples to show what the
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Stanlaws in her home Just
had been announced that Mi-s Kratics
mi ntioiied annum Mr. Stanlaw s's "dis
regard with disfavor
comes alone with the
Spring market will otic
1 talked with Mis.
lifter It
Jordan,
coverics," had been pu ked as the most beautiful
woman in the country, with tlf idea of puttim;
her lace on certain i'uv. nunental advertisement
designed to briim to Hi" eye and In-art of the sol
ditr an idea of the till he lelt hi hind him. bjtli
us a reason for taking tovenimeiital insurance.
Hid for fif'htini; for the government.
If this face, picked by n (orps of artists as the
most beautiful, liiinht be expected to allure ill Its
counterfeit form, the idea presented itself that
many beautiful faces and forms, seen In their
oriRinal charm, tniuht ifT'T some Fubmarine dan
ger to the homo life of a man who constantly
sought the freshness of youth for the mukinc of
pictures for the popular pb asinq. 1 wanted to
know from Mrs. Stanlaws just how one In the best
possible position to know would regard the ques
tion that b0 many Idle speculators haJ asked.
Fascination of the Mysterious.
"People, as a general r.ile." said Mrs. Stanlaws.
wise In her generation, "are uiuih prone to be at
tracted by the things they do not understand.
There Is always a vatue. uncertain alluriuint In
a land one has not visited. A man who has never
been away from America imagines that be will
End an Arcadia in Fome far-off realm of which
poets have fung. and wLose scenes artuts hav
plclured.
"The chances are1 that when the man reaches
the land he Is more interested in ntudyinR the time
table to find out how- toon be ran set away than
lie Is in regarding the mossgrown antiquities that
lured him thither. Moss on a bucket Is about the
Same in Illinois as it is in Normandy, and just
about as exciting.
"To the man who has been in the country be-
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h i in ill., mniirv itisirlcis of France to paint
knows thai he will lind a certain old typo of
broken down mill at a certain place. But he knows
also that he will put up with the inconveniences of
a tenth-rate hotel to get the working chance, and
that the procession of peasants who pass beforo
him will only present so iimny types out of a hun
dred, just as a procession of natlvps in Missouri
will offer some quaint and unusual studies.
' Hut the man who knows has no illusions, or
delusions. His mind is on straight, and the gen
eral effect that meets the casual traveler who has
only a vague Idea of tho country as a whole will
not make an Impression, lie knows what he seeks
tor the immediate purpose of his visit.
"I do not know of any better way to picture the
state of mind (,f an artist who works among living
models. As a rule, he has seen much of the world
and knows the classes and the conditions of the
women who pose to be painted. And they are as
vai led as landscapes in an irregular country.
"It Is quite possible for a woman to come along
who has the most beautiful arm In the world, and
yet to timl that her mind and her arm have not
iiad simultaneous development. No man ever loved
an arm. merely for the arm's sake. He may ad
mire It, but li won't beckon any real man from
home unless there is a menial supplement, or com
plement, that appeals to the Imagination of the
mini. Models come from all walks of life. Soma
are artistic, graceful and charming girls, who pos
sess the goodness of soul and the polish of society
that give added value to their work. There is no
danger In such a woman, because she Is inherently
good, and her work no more Involves the duties of
a siren than does that of a bank cashier.
Beauty and Lure.
"In . ome types we find women who have Just
the simple beauty of youth, with the lack of
accomplishment that must exist to make a Hireu,
even though one is desirous of shining In history
as a Cleopatra. Tln-rc isn't any more danger In this
type than there is ot a man's becoming intoxicated
at a prohibition dinner. The alcoholic equation is
nb.-oluti ly missing. There are many of this type,
having the physical elements of attraction without
the experience and the know ledge of the world that
would make them dangerous. They are like wet
gun-cotton, which is no more dangerous than
putty, although it contains all of the power that,
w n h later treatment, w ill make it w reck a city.
"If one will itnily the siren of history, it will
at once be Impressed that at no time hna a woman
r- ac hed a heart wrecker's state excepting from the
pedestal of politic al cunning the same sort of cun
iiim: in a woman that lets a man undermine bis
fellow in plain politics. And the male, political
wr-c ker is never ol the handsome type. Tub pure
article of beauty has never yet been the vehicle of
crime, or of intrigue. Sometimes it has been an
accessory to mental development, and sometimes
in- nt j I development has set beauty at naught and
won merely through personality.
"There Is no guile in beauty In itself. Quito
the reverse. One must spiiil beauty to make evil.
It is possible, of course, because the human tnlnd
in a beautiful load is. after all, but the same sort
of mind that an ugly one contains. It Is subject
to the same suggest ions, the Fame environment,
and the same associations, which combine to make
character.
"Atjd. perhaps, the wis-e wife an artist, fa
miliar with mod.ls, might study tm a trifle her
F' If. I s she find a peculiar trick of hairdressing
that lends attraction to a face? Why not adopt It?
Ioes she find a drapery that brings out a line?
Why not 'try it on your own piano ? The artist's
wife has a chance to see ail of the things that ber
husband esteems worthy of art."
I have thus set down the wise comments of a
wise woman concerning the things that most
women would like to know. And. as I think over
them. I am impressed by the fact that tbe drawing
that accompanies this article was made by Mr.
Stanlaws of his favorite model the wife who does
not look with envy upon bis models of tbe busi
ness hoars.
Mrs. Penrhyn Stanlaws Tells How It Feels to Be
the Wife of an Artist Famous for Interpretations of
Beauty, and Why She Is Never Jealous at All.
Stanlaws
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