The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-07-04
Ever Young.
From Harper's Bazarl

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 The desirableness of keeping young rarely crosses the mind of those who are now young. They see others about them who have lost their bloom, em- broidered their first wrinkles, showed themselves under with white hair; but they have always been surrounded with people older than themselves; it is a part of life, a feature of the world, for these others to be old: but for their part, they have always been young. And In some uneXpressed way. proba- bly, the natural feeling of the immortal being, they always expect to be young. Whether their expectation is realized depends almost almost altogether upon themselves. They think no more about 1t, however, till the first gray hair comes like an admonishing host upon the scene. At seventeen they were of the opinion that the first thing in the world was beauty. But at thirty-five they find it Is better to be young than to be beautiful. And it very often hap pens that the girl who was quite beau tiful, with vivid color and sparkling eyes and fruity flesh and dimples, when not quite twenty, finds herself at forty with none of these, and neither young nor beautiful. Yet if she were really fine and fair at twenty then at forty she has "a right to be fine and fair still; she should hardly have gone off at all. It matters far less than you can make her now believe that her eyes may be sunken a little, that the line from the nostril to the corner of the lip may have become marked, that the color may be less persistent, that the dimple may show symptoms of becoming something | deeper; under certain conditions all that is hardly noticeable. If she has kept the spring that used to animate 1 every motion, so that she moves now with as light a step. as erect a bearing, with as quick grace, holds her head still like a flower atop of its stem, straight and strong, yet without the least affection of juvenile frolicking ways, she will give only the suggestion [ of youth whenever she stirs. If she goes slow and tagging, with stoop and sign of weariness, she will have an arm offered her, and it will be understood ' that she bears a weight of years and needs it. If she dresses still in the tints and stuffs that suit her best, not with youthful frivolities. but with no sign of < surrender to age, she will have the ef- feet of still belonging to the forces whose uniform she wears. But if she wears sad and dull colors, relinquishing with reluctance last years styles, and with but little regard to styles anyway
 she will be taken at her own valuation
 More still, and of more value than the other considerations, if she still inter- ests herself in the things that interest youth, has saved herself from the crit icising and condemnatory manner which years sometimes give to ones view of life, so that the young still find her companionable, she not only affects others as being young, but feels at fifty scarcely a day older than ever Ii meanwhile she has taken also to heart a practice of seeing only the brighter ! side of things, of forgetting herself and remembering others, of looking into the next life as into further stage of the delights of this. if she has filled her life and her soul with pity and compassion and tenderness, with love of God and of l her fellow-beings, age, even when 1t ] brings white hair and withered throat ard dropping check. will seem not to i have any trail Of cid, but rather to be a l different and beautiful youth.