The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1886-04-14
MATURE BELLIES AND cALLoW
BEAuX,
cupid's Latest Freak. AS 1t is Seen in
New York.
IspeeIal Correspondence.l /

New York.
special Correspondence
NEW YORK, April Sit is getting to be
the fashion for extremely young men to be
come enamored of extremely mature women
This peculiar phase of Cupid's work is not
confined to New York. According to tn
newspapers it is almost epidemic all over Il
country, and Europe has furnished some
illustrious examples during the last few years.
Just the other day | had letter from an old
friend, who told me of widow of 81, Wit!
three grown sons, the eldest 2S, who as my
friend expressed it, had ''up and married
boy of 49, to the great scandal of society il
general and the modification of her ch. ldrtn
in particular
In former times, before society was tanned
down to accepting the doings of psople who
few in its face, such a match would have
been considered nothing short of criminal
The bride would have found herself cut by
her neighbors and prosecuted by the COM
bined Indignation of the town. The lot of
the bridegroom, too, outside of his home
would not have been happy one. But now,
although society still arches its back when
two persons marry without asking its per-
mission and getting its blessing, it let's them
off without any stale-egg experience, because
it doesn't quite dare to go that far, but,
though it accepts the situation, it makes some
wry faces over it
The spectacle of rosy-cheeked boys hanging
around women verging on so is not at all un-
common here. l can pick out seven or eight
cases in a minute. The youths are infatu-
ated and so are the mature beauties They
are stepped in sentimental folly, and pay no
attention to the half-concealed sneers of
others whose cardiac experience has been
more after the regulation pattern.
Well, why shouldn't all this go on and no
remarks be made? Since the beginning old
men have made fools of themselves over very
young women, and society saw but little in
it to condemn. Why shouldn't the same toll
Grafton be extended to the interested parties
when that order is reversed and it is the
bride who is elderly and the bridegroom
young? Whose business is it who marries
who, anyway?
In the cases | know the secret of the attrac
ton on the youths part is that the mature wo-
men are always their superiors. Their minds
are attractive. Then, in kindly way, theY
take an interest in the neglected youths, praise
what is good in them, set about cultivating
their minds, and stimulate their self-respect
All of which is very grateful to the recipient,
who doubtless has never had any one take an
interest in him in his life before He begins
to turn his attention to learning something.
Quits talking "horse" and Show and
studies Shakespeare, picks up bit of
some other language and buys fresh dress
suit His manners improve He goes
out as escort with his elderly sweetheart,
who, being superior, mixes with superior
people, and it's all new and beneficial ex-
perience to him. He soon begins to turn up
his nose at any talk about pretty girls"
makes remarks about "simpering dolls, and
gives his chums to understand that & woman
without brains is not to his taste. When
chaffed about his preference for women of
years he routs his antagonist completely, and
allows nobody to sneer at his preference
The experience refines him. He becomes
in every way more interesting and useful
person. His character improves and his
mind expands As for the mature woman,
she is from fifteen to thirty-ive years older
than he, and it's a good thing she doesn't hear
the mean remarks that are made about her
interest in the young man-an interest which
vulgar minds mi:apprehend entirely.
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