AUSTRAL TYPES

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1895, 1 November 1913, Page 10

AUSTRAL TYPES

i. 'THE VIEW, OF A SCULPmESSi ■Miss Dora ph'lfseii, Australian, sculp* .tress;', and portrait .painter, and an .old Sydney High School girl, who has mado an extended visit to her nativo land,, left Sydney a fortnight,..ago for her studio ill Homo. She took with hor a. number of casts of well-known identities to bo finished in bronzo in Boms. ■Asked why tho bronzes could not bo completed in Australia, she said thero was rio foundry for artistic bronze cast* ing, nor was there Scope for one, for the process was too espoti.su o, Btieli foundries were only possible, where you can count the. artiste by the hundredItaly and Paris, for instance. Oiia thing favourable to the art.Tiers was tli's excellent marble for statuary. ," I am also taking bask with mo, • she said* "a number of portraits, depicting Sydnoy types of beauty that I have done solely as a hobby, because nobody abroad thinks an Australian type has yet dovekmod, the country being so young, and I want to give thorn . ecular demonstration of the fact, that it has. ' Tho type is strictly classical, m seen in tho loiig column-like neck, tho setting of the head, and the small oval face. Tho eyes, too, are beautifully bright and young-looking, with tboir usually half-tare, lalf-venturesomo expression. • .> , ■ "Travellers from all parte of tho world aro unanimous in doclarintf thai Australian women aro beautiful, but thoy lose their beauty all too soon. I have not seen anywhere elso so many women young in years, but middle-ago.!, in looks, and this is -mainly duo to iliow mode of life. People lire here cxaotta like those in England, though too enmatio conditions aro so radically .ditteren't. Thero is nothing at all in the general mode of life to indicate that we are living itt a Southern clime. Women aro in the habit of going out in the hottest part of tho day, whereas, in latin countries-Italy for mstance-thoy never dream of venturing forth into tho fierce rays of. the sun. House?, too, . aro there hygcmeally built to,suit tho climate, having wide, passages and verandahs, also dark green Venetian btods, which, in the summer aro kept down, daily from 9.30 to 5, thus preserving a restful, normal tompwaturo. "Though tho Austral clime is delightful from one point of viow, it is very wearing to women- unless they take precautions to counteract its 'influence, for' it dries the sap of the skin and affects the optic nerve. The hir is so clear that there is no atmorphcro between you and flio object yen are observing. It is certainly, a fine atmosphere to live and work in, for it vitalises and makes one feel very buoyant. But it wears out tto exterior prematurely by'drying lip tho'skm, greying the I'iair, and weakening the eyes, for tho sun strikes too hot, and the winds aro at times too tempestuous. 1, however, find the rarefied atmosphere quite extraordinary for thought transference, for on the mero sending of a thought von scorn to got an answer at once. I-o obviate any ill-effects of climate, I Would recommend women to make an art of physical culture, by which I mean not inuscnhr development, but a system of gentle exercises, with no dumbbells, .weights or bars. They should also prsetico dcen-brcsithinc as taught in India. I would nlso advire the- prac-tice-of auto-sußgeStiott,- *ni tho con- ' een'tration of will power.

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