The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-24
ABOUT LOVELY OLD LADIES.
Some of the Noble Types that are
Presented by Old Age.
A Busy, AncctIOnate Woman says Mr.,
Amelia T.. Barr Never Loses Hcr
YOutII-The Tender and Graceful
Beauty of Liic'S Autumn.

may bc rs charming IN their way q, seventy
years of ngc, as their grand.daughtcrs are
at seventeen for it is the low sun in life,
as well as in nature, that makes the color
and the evening of well-spart days, ought
to have the splcndor AMI .aa poacc Of the
westcyng sun At the sAma ,imc, Age Is
not exempted from tho variety which distin-
guishcs every other portion og lie. Beauty
use. gsace aud Value are 20 pr found among
aged women, ,hoUgh they may have diff
cnt aspects from the same uall,.es IN youth;
and again, ,hcc2 a.e those 10 whom the ycart
have laugh; nothing, and SVEN nothing, aad
from whom they hay, taken away, even that,
when in the days ol their youth ,hcy pos
sc+ ed. The latter ca,s .n No way come
under the designation Of "LoNc.y uid
Ladies' They are the Mrs. Sl.cNlcns, and
Miss CrawLcys OF fiction; prowImS about tine
gay places ot the world, that they ought long
ago 10 have dccently retired from. Ouv of
their place. and therefore out OF use and
honor car!ca,uT!nS youth ana beauty they
are ii objects for the seorn of those youth
tul years they affect; and also ot those
mature years, they dishonor
Ago has, however, lar ron!cr types than
these. It's physical beauty !" thing to be
leIi' No' seen wan the eyes; and therefore
/ tho tGouShiess aAd un!ctinS do not $40
it. For the beauty OF age ; d0t'rd beauty.
1t is the essence ot pam and SORROW and
victory informing me mere he7h and blood,
anu trahslSurIhS II. i"d'h lhliEs SORROW
to be an accident oil HE, which 1t may
escape. On the contrary II Is the very
wooi, woven into the wet oi HE Our
nerves were made to sulcr; our hearts We're
made 10 bleed ana every woman that at
ta!ns TO tthe hIghc3U law ol hcr beng, must
have been wounded IN all her affections, and
| Dc aoIc 10 say oil every part OF her Dody II
mas us history oil suiIerlhS 'dlh Is specially
the .reilnet ot women and 1t Is % Its line
craving they owe III age th"t clear PASSION
less lace, anu 'lat |'t OF patience ana seTen-
ny, Whlch IN ltSet Is he"uty lar beyond
that OF mere form or eoIor'
Nothing has ever So absolutely proved the
beauty OF age as the human documents
which are NO" one ol the great attractions
OF our m"SaIInes-the l"ces oil famous men
ana women from their youth Upward In
tEe great majority ol '"osS documents
'he round puppy lre't'Aes' "I you'h, steadily
grows AheE' hopeI' more 'As''ic' WIN III
'eHec' ana leeIhS' 50 '"a' no one win u
soul, eouiu hesitate " moment, between
the Oeau'y oi the !ou'h'Ni ana the aged
iace' Ihe hfsI Is perhaps only the likeness
OF handsome ANIMAL ou' 'he lat'er mas
Deeh craven Dy inc lessons oi me- uhtil II
mas become 'ile 'AehesS oI "'ihS soul
LOOKING Ut Such H'ces III "seu women
We are never reminded ol theif years; iof
tholr Souls thro" WelV ol radiance across
'he p"le' OF "tihA'cu licalI'cil''' NO amount
oI AeciahIcal training no schooI oil eA-
preston or repression, can tedch an aged
woman this ar ana a'aEuoe OIL her years,
II her nature Is u"ru' worldly ana uh'oNely,
II Is liom WITHIN not from Without ana
even ltue chIid VIII never heed 10 be
told the difference NO! not until ,'he fierce
passions ot youth ana middle age are stIIled,
not uL'l ''o eye, iy7e thoI n'e' ana 'nV
cheeNS lhsir Hu'h' = tue beauty ol Tue
LORD our uol upon Us the beauty oil a
spirit Pur.hed b? loss ana YET RADIANT win
oe''es nope. 49,
Tor really oeau.idI Old women are ol
that noble Laad VINO age cora ioy adversely
by this toh2n-In"t 'heJ nave conquered It,
Ihey have been wives and mothers, they
have climbed many = hnl o. Difficulty with
the one they loved, thoy h"Ve walked WIN
Goa IN the valley OF the SHADOW oi Death
They have sent sons aud daughters into
the world well trained io' Is Aahy conflicts
Ihey nave la'd o'her5 IN me grave ines
at least, understand N al! s's variety and
; IuIhe5S tue 10" s'd music OF humanity.
10 them come inc young "'lh al theh
, passionate SHeia "Ab hJpeIaj7 losseS, ALl
7 Ihe mlddie aSou win al ueIr ANXIOUS yer
pleNitIes' for tue words OIL 3uea women
especially 70 thelr own sex, Hf1 wiser ang
more potent orGce5, tnan any DeIphiaI
n priestess ever uttered siAca ihoy surely
, VINO have come hobiy ont pi ueop trDu!a
, tons, can best tell OF the Joys and gains o
, conquest.
.
/ wise or symPathi2o with youth Tho worlC
T indeed changes and moves onward, but tho
l great essentials ana attributes oil humanity
change not, What the women OF Abraham'
time were, in thor loves and ha,reds, 81
; are the women OF the present day aud thoF'
VINO have ielt the force and drank th'
r sweet and bitter wine oil both conditions
arc Tor tho young, earth's bcst councillors
since their experience docs really, o!tel
attain
Z" To something like prophetic straln;'
while undoubtedly, the rcsidium of humOl
wisdom, refined by age, is perhaps the bes
thore is in us.
And pray who can sympothize with youth
as well as the aged can? Even in the matte
Of love afiair, no young woman will give I
, sympathy so wise, and so warm, as II 600,
y kindly old woman. Her own loye-lifo ma,
lio far behind hor but it lies in that glor.
y ofmemory, which no selfish thought troubles
Sho remembers that she too has been il