FACE AND SOUL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13935, 14 July 1919, Page 4

FACE AND SOUL

WAR EFFECTS'ON WOMEN. ■A woimanj sculptor, when asked if she thought the experiences of the war had left any permanent mark on the faces of -women, replied: "There are ■women whose faces are iniasfkis). No artist oa.ni > penetrate to their souls 1, and record in paint oar marble qualitiesl which he divines rather than sees, 'by the exercise of his imaginative gifts. These women will not show the marks which the last four years may have imprinted on their souls. "Then, there are the eupiremely frivolous women, who would damce as liigiitly over a battlefield as they !do in ai ibaliDroom. These women have not won a line of suffering in the last) few years. There ie no record om thedir faces of Huptreme | momentfl to map for tibe artist tiheir sorrow and^^ emotions. "But, as regards the generality of English women, for example, I notice a greater spirituality in the face® of my sitters when I compare them with the women who came to m© before the war. Plain faces ! are no longer plain. They are in- ; teresting, the faces of women who I have forgotten themselves in spends ing themselves for others. And, strangely enough, T <bave the impression that I see more quietly happy faces than I meed to. * ".In the eyes of many of iihe women I study in the streetjg, andl pufelio-placeß I trace sorrow and past, 'grief, but nod bo often present ujnhappimie®B. It i« as if, in the severing of a human tie, they have gained- some spiritual, ssoane other worldly comfort."