Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-18
charming and happy in after that before Won

charming and happy in after that before you
are content to sink gracefully into decline not
eclipse. Do not be envious or disheartened or
impatient which make ugly lines in the face;
but take care of your health and use your
brain and your feelings. Do gentle. kind,
generous things, with or without return for
them. Study sincerity and charitable-which
Is unemployment on persons and things. You
won't get credit for is-as Balzac says of graft
tude, that would be expecting usury upon
the good done--but there will he the
freshness OF hidden waters among heritage,
serenity OF nerve. clearness and steadiness OF
eye. and the sweet pulsng of the blood from a
warm heart, which physically works its part
better than formal one. Literally there ia
hySienic value in good feelings. which act upon
the nervous system and thence upon the other
physical parts, making the only mind cure
which has any worth. No mystery Of nature is
more beautiful than this interdependence of
our physical and moral natare-how the grefs
and ouestloEingS of the mind clear up if the
body Is kept in repair, and the functions of the
latter respond to the calming of the mind by
trust and resolution, whether it feels the sun
shine of happiness or not. There are many Of
months OF cloud and desolation. Defy the
storm; endure the gloom; do not desert your
SELF
BEAUTIES OF wAsHrNGToN's TINE.
1t was such self-mastery which aided the
women of the revolution to keep their prime.
The portraits of beauties of the time of WASH
lngtons inauguration show the highest femi-
nine charms of wit. feeling. heart and mind in
faces which wore their bloom stanchly up to
fifty. Mrs. Jay, daughter of Rufus King, with
her black hair and brilliant blue ewes: Mrs.
Bayard, whose pictured face it is impossible to
see and not to love; the faithful, frank wife of
Alexander Hamilton, who could have kept her
gallant husband from his erring ways had she
been more of woman and less of a model
these and the bevy of Philadelphia beauties
Kept their looks delightfully."- ND to the line of
sixty and remained lovable into age 1t might
have been written of them as of the Duchess de
la Nalliere, who at fifty was still marvelously
beautiful, that nature prudent and wise
forces time to respect the charms she is
powerless to repeat. But she goes on from age
to age, forcing her masterpieces upon us for
imitation. Many will recall Nine. Rudersdorff.
the singer, when over forty, beautiful as an
image of rose and white parian. and Rose
Eytlnge, whether among the tapestries of her
picturesque rooms in full sunlight, defied
time more successfully than any beauty who has
ever trod the stage Fortune was none too
KIND to either of these women. indeed. il seems
as If those best dcfied years who were con-
stantly stirred up to effort. 1t depends upon
woman herself more than upon her adva ntages
whether she can retain her charms and her
youth up to three score. Doubtless this sounds
very audacious and immoral to stald women
who believe in the intense Responsibility of be-
Ing rather ugly. But my dear mesdames, is it
SO very immoral to contrive that man shall
always remain in love with his own wife?
SHIRLEY DARE