Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-10

"Another becoming addition to white hail
| and an old face, when attired for going out, il
q little thin white veil 1t has softening effect
on the harsh outlines of age just as Indian sum.
mcr's blue veil Of haze softens passee and leaf
less nature, making you feel while it lasts almos,
as II November were IS pretty as May.
FLOWERS
zone more unorthodox idea of mine" she
went on, lis that people of my age, if they
choose, should wear flowers. not, perhaps. the
huge corsage bouquets that decorate our daugh-
tiers, but single long-stemmed rose or any
other blossom that taxes ones fancy. Why
shouldn't we, indeed? Since flowers are spring.
ing at our feet. at whatever time of life we may
! be, Is there any reSs0nS why we shouldn't pluck
one we go along and show our appreciation
| OF Its fowery existence by wearing it," e.,
THE STAR woman then noticed the elderly
matron's flower. 1t was hah-blown bride
rose and shaded of prettily from the silver
gown.
But after ALL" she continued. refectively
| following slight pause, II don't know bat it is
psrdonable offense, this emitting elderly
women from the fashion articles. since, when all
Is said and done, il is through the eye we are
taught the correct thing in coStuming, rather
than through the ear One can sec the truths OF
this exemplifed when making comparison of
the dress of city and country women. The
city woman's garb, even if Of the simplest ma
terials, IL more apt to have that indefnable
quality called style" about ii than the richest
array Of her rural sister, and not because news
papers with fashion articles and entire mag
szines devoted to fashion do not penetrate the
country, but because there are no street
pageants and theaters wherein to read the pre-
vafling mode. If city and country woman OF
ths same station in life were to change places
| with each other, you would find after the ex-
piration of year that the e1-city woman had
lost something of the lair" that formerly char
acterized her, which her country cousin, now
an urban dweller, had gained Just in the proper
ton that the other had missed it. You see this
illustrated every day in people who having
once lived in the city become country dwellers,
and vice versa
ITS quite a study, isn't it?'' said the elderly
matron to The STAR woman, "this costuming
oneself properly. Sometimes have thought 1t
would be a time saver, to say the least, to be
started out in life. like bird, with one harmo-
NOUS suit for all the year round. But If Dress
ing is troublesome we can always have the con-
ISOLATION that We have plenty of company in our
perplexity, which misery, you know, is said to
love, since the world is never done clothing it
self.
HOW TO PREPARE FOR OLD AGE.
"There is good deal in preparing for q
comely age while one is still young" said the
elderly matron, returning to her first thought.
"Oh, do tell me howl" said TIE STAR woman.
I'D SO like to practice it.
well, the first thing you must do them" re-
piled her instructor, "s never to lose hope, for
hopeful look Is youthful look, even If it il on
a seventy yearold face, while in the counte-
nance Of a cross and disappointed child you can
see look of incipient age. The reason of this
is that pleasant expression brings the curves
into the face, while unpleasant look intro
duces the straight lines and shadows So be
hopeful, and in that way you will not only look
well, but you will be so much more comfortable
for yourself and others to get along with. II
1t did any good to worry, why, then of course,
there would be some sense in the process, but it
doesn't, and it only makes one feel bad, look
worse and effects nothing
10 look hopeful" repeated THE STAR
woman, making mental memorandum Of it.
Anything else!"
TO STAND STRAIGHT.
Eyes, to stand straight" said the elderly
matron. "for nature didn't intend us to do
otherwise, and when we go contrary to her de-
signs the result is always bad. Why, to say
nothing of the infirm look that round shout
ders-one Of the features of incorrect car
riage-giye, Carrying ones head craned forward
makes one look old, for it spoils the line Of the
throat and chin"
"To look hopeful and to stand straight" said
THE STAR woman reaectively she rose.
ITO be hopeful" corrected the elderly
matron, ''for then you'll necessarily look hope
full
And The STAR woman decided, as she betook
herself to the Office. that at the first gray hair
she would let her bangs grow that BY the
time her locks were quite frosty they would be
in fit condition to part and wave off her tenn
Piles. She resolved too, when that delightful
period was come. to have gray dress and wear
solitary bride rose thereon, to also don a
white veil and bonnet and then, as thoughts
Of the elderly matron's manifold beauties and
virtues crowded upon her thick and fast part
of a sonnet of Wendell Garrison came to mind,
which runs:
Age cannot wither her whom not gray hairs
Nor furrowed cheeks have made the thral Of Time
For Spring lies hidden under Winters RHINE.
And violets know the victory is theirs.
face still fair. thou Ia pHler. and serene
With sense of du y done WI thout complaint.
venerable crown 4 living green,
strength To the weak and courage to the fam
Thy bleaching locks. thy wrinkles, have but been
Fresh beads upon the rosary of a saint"