Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-08-24 | Page 2 | "N. Y. Women Never Smile" Fisher Girl Scorns Easterners

"N. Y. Women Never Smilev H M H m Fisher Girl Scorns Easterners MISS MAURINE RASMUSSEN. Maurine Rasmussen, Artist's Admirable Girl Model, Says, "Give Me the West." SAX FRANCISCO, Cal . Aug. 23. ' New York women never smile," declares Miss Maurine Rasmussen, the California beauty "They ?o around with regular plaster-cast expressions ex-pressions on their faces In New York somehodv was always 'guessing' that I was 'from way out west' because I went around smiling as we do here " Miss Rasmussen. who has just r -turned from New York, was chosen by Harrison Fisher, the artist, from scores of lovely young women as the typical American girl. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Rasmussen of this City, who own a large ranch in central California. Cali-fornia. There Miss Maurine has lived In the free air. and she is a product of which California Is proud. "Vto more New York for me," Miss Ra3nuissen continued today "I am glad I have seen something of my country. But I do not want to be like New York people who believe New York Is the whole country and who can't he convinced lhat It Isn't " When Misr, Rasmussen was posing for Harrison Fisher she expressed Bfl no opinions of eastern women 'I find the New York women wonderful won-derful jus! as our buildings are wonderful and your city wonderful." said the California!). "Rut New York women are beautiful through artifice. They are without heart, without soul, without the loe or" nature which every fine, beautiful being must have as the foundation of real beautv and worth. "That Is why there is something splendid In our western women something more than beautv of face and figure. It la the tiling called 'soul' that creates poetry, music, painting "New York women, with their magnificent mag-nificent physiques, their flawless profiles, pro-files, their marvelous good taste, still lack 'soul.' Not because they are not Intelligent and well-poised 'mentally 'men-tally bul because they simply do not know they lack soul in the eastern civilization where nature Is not reckoned reck-oned with where beauty Is not ieal. but artificial - where complexion can Ire bought by the box. where 'woman's 'wom-an's crowning Ki"ry can be 'dyed to suit' or purchased by the yard."