, 1890-11-30
WHY WOMEN GROW OLD,
KATE UPsoN CLARK GIVES SOME
VALUABLE INFORMATION.

Youth All Too Soon.
Copyright by American Press ASsociationJ
From time immemorial it has been as
serted that women grew old far faster
than men. A woman at 40 is, it is said
-passee. A man at 40 is often handsomer
than in youth, and his feelings are as
fresh as at %.
"The cases are revsrsc5 nowadays"
remarked a brilliant woman at a social
gathering recently. Women are just
beginning to live at IS. They scarcely
attain to their belleships till TO-"
This was, Of course, only a clever mot,
but it could not have been made had it
not been true that women were never so
strong, so healthful or so happy us at
present and here. They never under
stood so well the truth of the poets say
ing:
The richest Of all lords Is use.
And rudy health's the loIIest muse.
The reason is because they have never
had so much freedom as in the Nine
teenth century, and there is no land
where this freedom is conceded so gen
orally as in our own favored America.
Freedom, in the true sense of the word.
agrees with men and women, as it does
with everything that grows.
But though this is true of the women
of the highest culture, of those who may
be called the representative women, the
fact remains that there are still thou
sands and thousands Of their sisters who
are growing old long before their time.
They are aging at 80; stupidity homely
and uninteresting If not chronic inva-
lids at 40: infirm Mt so, and deaf, blind,
or halt, perhaps dead. shortly afterward.
These women may be well to do and
fairly educated. They are often pious.
They mean well, but they do not know
how to bring things TO pass. They
would like to keep their youthful feel
ings and enjoy life at 40 as they ought
to far more than at 20. but they do not
know how. Very likely they do not
think such a thing possible.
These ome constantly adorn the
outside. They apply vaseline to their
wrinkles, and their crimping pins more
assiduously than ever to their hair, as
they see the cresses and the silver
threads gathering. Poof simpletonsi
Your genuine clever woman knows bet
ter than this. She knows that you can.
no more beat back age with these himsy
devices than you can cure a skin disease
by outward applications, or than a comet
can be stopped by a papal bull. She
knows that if the inside be right women
will look well, as Nj. Ruskin says in
ways of which they have no conception.
The New York correspondents have
been latterly enlarging upon the grow
ing part which physical exercise plays in
the lives of modern society ome 1t
is the latest fad" among this class-and
it seems likely to have come to stay-to
take sednlous care of the health and to
develop the muscle.
The thoroughgoing, intelligent society
woman of today has found out that
there can be no permanent beauty with
out health, and also that intellect and
activity are absolutely necessary if she
would make herself a light in the best
circles"
Consequently our fashionable dames
are attending TO the body and the mind
al never before. Their lives are as un-
like as possible to those of their dead
and-alive prototypes of twenty years
ago.
In the first place, if n woman would
preserve her youthful strength and
beauty she must eat regularly and plen-
tifully, but not too heartily, of nutri-
tious food. Our fashionable women are
most substantially fed. Their food is
not always of the most digestible char
acter, but at least the pie and the dough
nuts, which nave slain or stultified their
thousands, are excluded from their bill
of fare, and the multitudinous cake of
the country districts is also falling into
desuetude among the best people in our
cities.
In the second place, exercise is the
order Of the day among grandes DANES.
They not only ride, drive and practice
with dumbbells and fencing gloves. but
they are walking in the open air more
than ever before. They act upon Elmer.
sons saying, When you have worn out
your shoes the strength of the sole
leather has gone into the fiber of your
body
In the third place, nc n can keep her
youthful looks who does not sleep at
least eight hours on an average out of
every twenty-four. 1t is true hat the
women of society are often fitting at
midnight from one ballroom to another.
But, on the other hand. they breakfast
Mt noon after such designations. and
often deny themselves a matinee or an
afternoon reception in order to take a
needed siesta.
No one knows better than your astute
society woman hat the bewitching lights
in her eyes and the dimples around her
mouth, to say nothing of her complexion
and of her quickness at repartee, will be
hopelessly destroyed unless she takes
abundant sleep, and that as regularly as
she a possibly get it.
Her baths, too, are made a scientific
study with the society woman, while
they are too often neglected or improp.
erly taken by her less intelligent sister.
In the point of dress only is the society
woman behindhand. She not only wears
low uecked party dresses in winter, but
her clothes are usually very heavy and
so tight that she looks as though she had
been poured into them; but the college
bred women who are %thronging into oul
''best circles" are going to revolutionizt
this matter. The false standard caunor
long be maintained under their keer
scrutiny that the ''trimness" of /;
woman's waist Is worth more than tn,
disposition and freedom of the interna
organs, upon which the brightness o
her mind, the richness of her complexion
and all her freshness of feeling depend
BY fifty years more this matter will b