Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-06-17


"But thought You were the woman who
never intended to look old-that you had in
fallibls recipes for preserving your good looks,
reminded the intimate caller.
'Nor do ever intend to have some Of the
marks Of age that one only too frequently Sees
never intend to look dispirited, since what
ever comes I am going to resOlutely cultivate the
bright side life never intend to lose my erect
pose, for that, too. is within the direct power
Of my will / never intend to make wrinkles on
my forehead By scowling 1t up, for can help
that shall make point of possessing good
teeth with the aid of art, IL nature fails me,
while / hope much from the simple self-given
facial massage of which told you, a pre-
ventive OF double chin and the parenthetical
marks around my mouth Still am aware that
6rmness of the muscles. as well as smoothness
and clearness Of the skin. depends much upon
the general health. which is additional rea-
Son, by the bye, for not being careless and
neglectful in that particular. The only place
where one looks pretty when one is i'll Is in
novels-never outside. Indeed. to tell
woman OF thirty or over that she looks i'll is
precisely the same thing as to tell her that she
looks old-they are synonymous terms.
The hairs luster and vigor also depends
upon the general health So. although am
going TO put forth my best efforts to keep from
time what personal advantages may have been
originally endowed with, still il he steals some
Of them in spite OF me. shall try and fill the
place Of each vanished charm with some grace
IN costume. so that its omission won't at
least be so noticeable "a il otherwise would
''But can you do it?' inquired the intimate
caller anxiousiy.
Scan do isT' returned fair and forty, 81
wonder that you ask that when you can see an
exemplihcatiou of my statement any day and
hour. For doesn't even Old woman look ten
yes. sometimes twenty-years younger when
she IL robed in her best attire, provided this at
tire makes any pretense TO harmony IN color
and form and adaptability to her style and
years, than she does when she is CARRIED with
out thought In the FIRST old thing that comes to
hand?
"Ths reason Of this" she went on. reflect
lively, as .has harmony in form and color. no
matter how subdued the tints CT how Quaker
Ike the cut, produces a kind of beauty, and as
why, when even a tiIne-worn person Is framed
In il it imparts u degree of youthfulness, just
as the red rays OF the setting sun inpart SEEM
ing warmth TO winters fields of snow"
Beauty does not know any such thing as
sger repeated the intimate caller. with an ar
gumentative accent. swell. I've seen some very
pretty women who became very aged looking,
notwithstanding your edict-"
.'Quite likely" returned fair and forty. calmly
"but L II venture that if your dilapidaled Senuses
were placed side by side with other persons of
precisely the same years, to whom nature had
not been SO kind in the beginning, the passe
beauty would look younger than the passe
scarecrov. So I repeat that unalloyed beauty
has no age and that fading pink rose 10 oka
fresher. because prettier, than does a salioW
Squash blossom when it is departing this life
But thought you were going to tell me OF
the part that harmonious dress PLAYS in keep
ing one young looking" said the intimate
caller, who had no taste for hair splitting. and
OF the subject without further decentralization.
IF you had little more patience you would
see that am getting TO it. and then resuming
IF we all. or even a single one of us, indeed.
were absolutely beautiful there would be some
sonse IN tina. proverb that Beauty unadorned
10 still adorned the most since it is. Of course
most palpably foolish TO gid refined gold or
TO paint the iily. but none o! Us are for
turate enough to possess the faWless beauty OF
flower, why, il is q mercy that wo are priv
LeSed TO conceal our discrepancies and art
fully emphasize our good points by means OF
clothes, and since. as a general thing. woman
gets less comeiy she gets older. Why, instead
OF leaping desperately into black garments
wnsn she discovers this melancholy fact and
sxlsnGtIg from thecee on all that had pre-
yiousIy been la:I cut or her own personal
sdcrrhlent on Ler daughters. Why. she must ex-
actly reverse this very usual method and give
30 instead OF taxing from herself.
Dress ia 10 a woman wha. tie SKY is to th,
sea. aud you know how dull and Ieaden I'll,
ocean looks beneath lowering clouds. and hov
Well, that is precisely the way dress can b
made to suggest uSliness or loveiiness in
woman
''rve seen a peaked-faced woman, who. whe
her neck was enclrcled b. boa that terminate
In a weazels or some other rodents head
looked If she were wearing oLe OF her ow
near relatives, the aeaZels sharp features call
ing into prominence aud emphasizing all tn
sharpness and cunning in her own face, Will
another who though the possessor of
II L. Ill
hair, il a philosopher where dress is cor
cerned. actually deludes tine world general
into believing her locks TO be sewers
shades less fervid than they really are b
invariably wearing only the darker tones Q
brovn-these ehciting the brown tints that lur
In even the most fiery hair. I've seen thos
neutral tinted eyes that. like the sea. take tn
colors of whatever Is placed next to them. who's
owners made them look absolutely blue by sug
gestiOn-that ia, by having little blue some
where about their costume. while others wit
eyes Of precisely the same shade would max
them appear quite putty cOlored by donnin
some slaty or stone shade. / have seen
"But imagine a woman to whom nothing
becoming" interposed the intimate caller
.'becarse she has become faded or i'll tina
absolutely nothing looks well on her"
'.Eut cannot Imagine such an instance. an
more than l can imagine musical key that la
not its harmoaizing range OF tones The oni
trouble that ever need be experienced Is
NM OUT rEe Color heN on winch one Is pllCueC
for one must not. if old and subdued and dig
nifed. select the shades and styles that sugges
youth and gaiety and piquancy-to bring
pleasant effect from such attempt would b
rs futile as trying TO melodiously combine tn
chords Of Tat and sharp. o.. if young. TO ador
the soberer ornaments OF age.
''But WHIST 1 am contending for is never
give up the suitable decorating of oneself, eve
II one IL octogenaT.an-thatt there Is alway
something. no matter how old one is. that
more becoming than something else.
1.-The trouble. though. with most women pal
ticularly when they get lar enough along
life TO come under the head {
middle aged ard elderly. is that errone
ously believing themselves past the age
prettiness they look upon clothes purely i
their unitarian sense IS projections from hea
and cold, quite ignoring their other two Office
of coacealing ones flaws and suggesting an
emphasizing ones charms
but age is insidiOus In Its approach.
said the intimate caller, that it il difficult
know when the huos and fashions of wont
must be discarded for those OF maturer lite.
ayes" answered fair and forty, lit is fat
.,listase many wCmsn make To wear, say, as
instance brigh; pink into the dimness of
h-aIth or middle lie. becanse they have bee
told sometime in the freshness OF their yout
that rose pink was becoming. 1t may Indee
look well on them III less pronounced shade
and in lesser quantities. but facts of this so
women must find out by experience and tn:
profit by them.