Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-18
NAY THEY NEVER GROW OLD
A Discourse on Women in
Advancing Years.
WHEN WOMAN Is AT HER BEST
The Perfect Period is the Be-
Witching Age Of Thirty.
win Ellen Terry. Sarah iernhardt and
Fanny Davenport be blessed With
Eternal fuutlI and Visor ?-."fa"
stage Queens = Are Our American
Women Growing IIandsonsr"

Special Correspondence Gazette and journal.
New YORK, May l2.-lt came about
through my seeing in the paper an an
nouncement Of the marriage Of Ellen
Terry's son, and | thought with shud
der Of Rosalind, Of PDrtia, OF Beatrice,
OF Katharine, and Of Ophelia as grand
mother Itscemcd horrible just at first.
Then laughed and realized that il
wasn't horrible at ALI that there were
plenty Of women who were Shakes
peare's ideal, whom age did not whittier
and custom did not stale. Then | re-
membered seeing little performance
for some charity, where Ellen Terrys
daughter played the leading part, and
Ellen Terry herself was maid-serYant
dressed in pink cotton, and the mother
looked younger than the daughter
There arc women, who, because Of the
youthtulness OF theirhearts, the strength
Of their mentality, and the innocence
with which they accept and do not at
tempt to unalyzr many emotions are
never old Ellen Terry Is one Of these
women. If she were a great grand
mother, she would still, because Of her
| slender, girlish figure, because of her
merry laugh, and because each year
made her so many years younger rather
than so many years old be able to play
the part Of the most love-slck girl OF Is.
EVER YOUTHFUL ACTRESSES.
To 90 over to Paris, as great many
do, can you imagine Sarah growing old !:
Not II bit more than you could think OF
the sphinx losing its eternal youth.
she seems always young and never old.
think she is grandmother, but | am
sure that she can understand and could
portray every emotion Of the girl Of IT,
Most English women grow old hand
somely; they get 10 look dignitied, their
neclls increase in beauty, and they hold
their heads we'll. Mrs. Langtry at Is
will be an older but an equally hand
some Mrs. Langtry, for it is only ncces-
sary to look at her mother, and you see
the beauty, Us in a looking-glass great
many years from now. Mrs. Bancroft,
one Of the idols Of the British public, il
to-day handsome woman, clever
enough to realize that increased flesh,
that foe to actresses, has made it impos-
sible for her to play the part she used
to, and SO in the reviyalof Diplomacy
she took the small one Of Lady Henry,
because she knew She would look the
character perfectly, and that there
would not be a suggestion Of mutton
dressed in lamb fashion Consequently
She looked the perfectly wall-brcd
woman of the world, beautifully dressed
and so delighted We're the audience al
seeing their old favorite again, that from
| the pot boy in the gallery to the Prince
Of Wales in his box, there were wild
cheers and calls for the clever actress BY
,, her name. She will never grow old
there is too much of humanity in he
life, and it is that that keeps people
young.
9 Look at the women on our own stage
, II Lolita numbers as many years n
: "She," the sprite herself would be u
young and as delightful as the cherub
) that Raphael pictured. Sometimes
! think that she is the result Of the Law
E of transmigration, and that years agt
y she was butterfly, then human being
and delightful one, warranted to keel
young forever, Testing aside, Lott
I. looks young even of the stage. say
her the other day on the street, simpl,
dressed, without particle Of paint 0
powder on her face, and there passet
: before me in review that pretty girl VIII
h was left in the pawnbroker's office, tn
y Marchioness slipping the rosy with Die
' Swiveller, and then the young, bright
I. merry looking girl who had made io
a for me when was a schoolgirl. kindli
G ness and genius combined are two @
|. the ingredients in the drlught from GU
! the fountain of eternal youth.
There is Il type Of woman on the stag
2 who reaches d fascinating age and stay
il there. may say, % use Balznc's word
i that reaching is the perfect age Of 80,