THE GIRL OF THE AGE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 121, 23 May 1914, Page 13

THE GIRL OF THE AGE.

"Has the new century evolved a new woman? Is the typical woman of 1914 a glaring, self-confident, and enquiring creature?" asks the Mail. These questions a famous woman sculptor, Countess Feodora Gleichen, answers more or less "in the affirmative" in a new work in plaster, which she calls "1914." Countess Gleichen finds the girl of 1914 self-possessed in garb of a scantiness that would have been incredible to the Victorians. Her symbolical statue is undiaped because it was not desired to create a mere record of a fashion. But on a pedestal near by the model is seen in the same attitude, but clad in a fashionable dinner-gown — a gown that conceals the outlines of her form no more than that of a Tanagra woman or of a " Merveilleuse " of the Directoire. In tho straight, unflinching look of "1914" and in the almost impertinent confidence of the pose of the right arm, Countess Gleichen has sought to indicate what she finds the characteristic attitude of the 1914 woman's' mmd — a certain insouciance, an insatiable curiosity, a rather frivolous sort of intellectual activity, fearlessness, and nob a halfpennyworth of prudeiy or of coquettishness.