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

I 0bSoa, iof sllCe the lu6a occurred 10
me have taken particular pains to examine
newspapers from all parts of the country, and
while they fairly TEEN with advice as to the
dressing OF misses, young women and even in
fants. there is no more reference to people Of
my age than if we did not exist. One would
really infer, were ones reading limited to fash
Ion articles, that old Ponce de Leon had, not
withstanding history. actually discovered that
fountain of youth, and that all femininity had
quaffed of it,
"Of course" she explained, sit is Just posi-
o!e mat II Is piece of gallantrv ON the part Of
| the editors. TINS not permitting ANYTHING in
| their columns that would even intimate that
| womankind could by any possibility grow old,
| and while II that is the case it is very nice of
| them, it nevertheless remains a solemn fact
'hat We DO grow old, and If few more sug-
gesuons were given lis as TO how to garb that
| stage OF existence becomngly old age would
be robbed of half its horrors.
Not that personally am given to repining
| over the march OF time, she continued, "for
| realize that all ages have their advantages Do
you remember what Bryant says?
why weep that time has brought so soon
As idly should ~e at1 at noon on
To see tie blush OF morning gone'"
As The STAR woman looked AZ her this lady
VINO despite her years is well known as one
| or the handsomest women in Washington, she
| thought that in this particular instance there
was indeed no cause for repining. since many
| younger sister might well envy the beauty
/ which an unsecured maturity had bestowed-a
| beauty. too, which IL impossible for youth
to mimic. just full blown June cannot rival
October fading glory, however envious il may
/ be Of it.
| SYMPHONY IN SILVER.
| Her shining white hair parted madonna
wise and waved away from her temples From
the nape of her neck it was then caught I'D to
| the top Of her head in carefully careless
! French twist and secured BY a handsome tor
! toise-sheil comb. Beneath this simple but be-
| coming couture pair OF soft dark ewes looked
| out, whose serene and benevolent expression
characterized well the rest of her face Her
! gown, instead of being the conventional elderly
| black. was Il creamy gray, at which The STAR
woman she noted the harmony with its
wearers white hair could think of nothing but
| a symphony in silver.
| While the writer thus reflected the elderly
matron saving:
'les, indeed. it is mercy that most of Us &C
qulre some ideas about dress before reaching
middle age, for if we depended upon fashion
articles for guidance where would we be?''
| NO, she replied in answer TO q fattering
| comment of The STAR woman, you are mistaken
l have not the advantage o. other women in
personal points, but l simply make more of
what do possess than many may. and then
| have some peculiar views OF my own with re-
| gard to harmony IN dress, the carrying out of
| which. am certain, is beneficial to my looks,
however they might work on Others"
KEEPING PACE WITH YEARS.
would you mind telling me what they are?"
Certainly moi" replied the elderly rnatron.
''To begin with, when found myself grow
| ing old. did not relax my efforts toward adorn-
ment, as some women do, falsely concluding
| that because they can no longer be youthfully
| pretty 1t follows. as a matter of course, that
/ they cannot appear well after middIe-aged or
elderly mode. The year, when it gets along to
| September. might, with much sense be dis
| couraged. because 1t no longer looks like April
| And right here is good time for me to tell
| what think about mothers' sacrificing every
| thing in the TOWN of wearing apparel TO their
| daughters. II is wrong. all wrong" declared
| the matron, with some emphasis. The sacrifice
| II at ALL should be on the other side Youthful
| looks will bear 1t, middle-aged and elderly peo-
| pie need all those softening effects which the
| luxurious accessories of dress lend. never
! did it for my daughters nor would advise
| others to do it for theirs.
And when | Say that when a woman finds
| herself old she shouldn't relax her efforts
| toward adornment, please don't misunderstood
| me meaning by that that she should at
| tempt TO look well along the same lines that she
| has pursued while in the twenties. Mercy, mol
She would simply be defeating her own pur-
poses, for nothing makes an old woman look SO
| frightfuly old to attempt to get herself ND
after the model of the Younger generation with
bangs and hats and such things 80 impairment
| to Old age"
OVER SIXTY WITH BANGS.
| But see plenty of ladies' over sixty with
! bangs" remarked The STAR woman
! YES. and isn't it pity.'' said the elderly
matron commiseratingly, .'when they would
! look 40 much sweeter. and the lines in their
faces 0e so much softened if they would simply
part their hair and wave or crinlp it a little on
either side. l, myself, see plenty of beautiful
| old ladies VINO have cheated themselves of one
Of the most charming points OF age by banging
| their hair like school girls.
| CONTINUED CARE OF THE HAIR
J "And while are on the subject of hair. let
me suggest that gray or white hair will repay
brushing and good care as much as will de
butants youthful locks. Why, can make my
hair look like molten silver by a few days sys-
| :cmatic brushing, such as IL recommended by
the column for younger woInen's tresses. And
there really isn't the least excuse in the world
for the dry scared appearance of much OF the
white hair that we see, except that Its ownors do
not realize that their hair. instead of beng old
Ike themselves, is quite as young ever, since
! II Is growing all the time, its color only being
changed TO tint that might be called pretty
variety OF blonde. That's nay view Of it.
ELDERLY WOMEN AND HATS.
I Hats? Dear me, no! Hats are not meant
Ior US. why, mars on elderly women seem
somehow to have lost ell the dignity that they
may once have possessed in their owners
younger days, and III consequence i'll comport
with this later period of life when. If ever, it
becomes US 10 be dignifed. No, indeed! After
certain underlined line in middle age all
women should adopt bonnets
''lou see. am conservative, but in some
other directions am just strongly radical.
For instance, am quite a convert TO the mod
ern ideas on the subject of wearing black al
though do not agree with the extremists who
hold that 10 one over sixteen should wear
black; that II brings out the shades and lines in
ones face and is anything but the universally
becoming color that II is popularity deemed to
be- Black Is too convenient for all occasions
and TOO generally adopted the conventional
dress Of middle and old age to be discarded,
but do think tia. there is no necessity for
wearing it necessarily and without intermission,
rs is usually the case and thatit might be varied
with great advantage TO the wearer by using
gray white in house dresses.
GRAY AND WHITE.
"Oh. yes. gray or white be made be-
coming to any one" replied the elderly inatron
in answer TO a question raised by The SrAR
woman, 'for there is the creamy gray for us
of dark compilations and the blue gray for the
hgh,er-toned sisterhood, and the same distinc-
tion can be made in the selection of whites
creamy white dead white, according as oae
decides which Is the more becoming. and