Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-06-22
atwlroHIne MArRoNs.
Women Past Thirty the Most Interesting
in American Society.

Women Past Thirty the Most Interesting
in American Society.
THE buds" says Russian. "are nine
DAYS wonder, and are much talked Oh
for thal space of time, but 1t Is the
women past thirty who are the most
interesting in America They seem to
have the Gift of eternal youth ana at
fftv are more agreeable looking than
the women of any other country
Rustans observation will surprise
neople whose sole knowledge OF fash
ionable society is derived from the
chronic.ers of quarter or half century
back. but to the onlooker, as well as TO
the foreign traveller, it Is patent thaC
there is great physical change IN the
American society women as eXempll-
fed in New York. They hold their
ane in an astonishing and unprece-
denied manner and seem not to at
tain the zenith of their beauty I'LL
point beyond which they
were once hopele5sly pdSse. Men say
that the women of to-day are at thirty
five no older than they formerly We're
at Twenty-Five. and that there is COR
responding difference all along the
line: that. consequently, they dress
Younger without incongruity; and that
bevond and above all this they have
learned to grow old with grace, which
means that they have at least recog-
uized that 1t Is futile to sham youth
and have set themselves to develop
wit, stvle and other attributes which
are permanent and may grow instead
of lessening with time,
In the time Of our mothers ana
rrandn.0thers, if the society chron-
iclers are a guide. woman was con-
sdered old after twenty-five. II she
did not marry in her first season she
was called ''relic" and made to feel
in the way. And there was some
reason for the raillery.
Between then aud now two things
have happened. Health has become
the fashion, and is sought for passion
ately aud successfully. CLEAR skins,
natural pQlor. iirm muscles, bright
eyes and elastic steps are now the order
of the.day, and a woman who was once
as transient as snow has become as
permanent as her husband. That pre-
tension to yuuthfulness is not now the
common weakness is evidenced by the
fact that the humorous papers, which
once found this the most fruitful sub
iect for je9ts. have turned their atten-
tion TO other foibles With this change
mems taste regarding women seems to
have altered somewhat. Where once
he admired the beauty of youth alone,
and was satisfied with dumb response
to emotion, he now demands q
great deal more. The woman of
to-day must make herself ag,Gso
able, not passiyelE-h1T actively,
she must be BIN liant and witty, pos
So ID of tact and able to entertalni
must have the art of dressing, the
knowledge of men. the art OF Halter
ing, must he in short d women OF the
world with the liberal education which
that implies. The day of the doll has
passed away: the debutante is in nc
furry to get married and the yearlina
pasture is not the wife market it was
1t might he supposed that women
who keep up d continuous round o.
dinners, operas and balls would look
dragged out and weary and old before
their time, hut In reality they are IL
the most splendid physical condition
They are up, 1t Is true, till the small
hours of the morning, drinking cham
pagne, dancing, Gonver5ing and flirting
but this Is their sole occupation, and /
does not begin before four o'clock il
the afternoon. The remainder Of theil
time Is spent In the pursuit OF health
After a noon breakfast, they drive
twice week, to the Turkish baths
and showered, shampooed and mani
cured and turned out as If new made
from the hand of God. No Othel
creature, unless it be thoroughbred
TdttTSf nave Slltil bcttC 5lFOil w biioll
bodies us these women whose business
is society, Whatever science and ar
have discovered and invented, or nat
ure allotted, to give health aad beau
ty. Is commanded by them. until 1t il
now beginning TO be said, curi0usly
that the women are outlasting the
men.
The society woman depends greatly
on luxurious bathing to renew hel
strength, The Turkish bath must be
taken outside the home but the bath
rooms in some of the wealthy houses
give evidence by their costliness ant
beauty of the part they play In the
daily economy,-N. Y. Mail and Elk
press.
The Sunbeam Of Existence.