Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-04-13 | Page 8 | What the War Has Done to Women's Faces

I What the War Has Done to Women's Faces WOMAN sculptor when asked if she thought the experiences of the war had i left any permanent mark on the faces of omen replied There are arc women whose fac faces s r ire e masks s. masts No artist can penetrate to their souls nd record in paint or marble qualities which he vinc's ivines rather than sees by the exercise exercise of his imaginative magi native gifts These women will not show lie he marks maiks which the time last four years may have sprinted on their souls Z c Then there are the supremely frivolous women men who would dance as lightly over a battle battle- cid as they do in a ballroom These women pave awe ve not won a line of suffering in the last few ew ears c ns There Thc is no record l on their faces ol or su su- 1 preme moments to map for the artist their sorrows sorrows sorrows sor sor- rows and emotions But as 15 regards the generality of Englishwomen Englishwomen English English- women for or example I notice a n greater spirituality spiritual spiritual- ity in the faces of my sitters when I compare them with the time women who came canine to me ine before the war Plain faces are no longer plain They are interesting the faces of women who ho have forgotten themselves in spending themselves for others And AmI strangely enough I have the imI impression im- im r I that I see sec more quietly happy faces than I used to In HIn the c eyes es of many ninny of the women I study in inthe inthe the streets and public places I 1 trace sorrow and past grief but not so often present ness It is as if in in the severing of a human tie tic they have gained some sonic spiritual some otherworldly otherworldly other other- worldly comfort