Show Magazine Section HERALD-REPUBLICA- N Sunday Jan 28 V 4 NE critic of life has remarked that this seems to fee the age of the Girl It is true enough that there are many signs bearing out the critic's comment The Girl of Today living and pictured is very mudiin evidence and even if it might be shown that every age has been to some extent the age of the girl no one can deny that the Twentieth Century is showing great deference to the charming I young woman who is typifying the freedom the beauty the aspirations of the moment She comes as a conqueror does this modern girl She conquers prejudice She asks that she be regarded as a person rather than as a sign of sex She masters trades and professions She helps war when she must fighting if need be with men She is at the forge in the munition factory at the front in nurse's garb She breaks records in air flight She is elected to Congress and presides over the destinies of cities She is part of the nervous system of business She unfolds her discoveries before medical conventions She has "arrived the But will any one deny that she who is conquering girl is to be visualized as Dan Smith has visualized her — as just the Girl the girl who is the friend and companion of the man the source of his highest ideals the Mother Person of the race? She may fly or fight she may handle the surgeon's scalpel the writer's pen the auto wheel or the factory tongs but she realizes throughout all her expressions of her sympathy and courage the supreme power of being the Girl before whom science bends and art burns the incense of devotion From the beginning of history the measure of respect for her has been the measure of And she is She crowns the triumphs of progress civilization the tprnal svmbnl of Peace pre-eminen- tly J Magazine Section |