Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-18
HOW THE GRANDMOTHER May Enter Triumphantly the Fa-
 tal 45th Year. BEAUTY LIKE A GARDEN Only Blooms Under Constant Care and Cult- yation-A Belle in Middle
 Life.
BY DIANE DE MoRNY.

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 "The all-seeing sun ne'er saw her match since the world begun"
 q glory in the charms of the up-to- date grandmother-the woman who re- fuses to grow old and persists in being beautiful and fascinating-to the end of the chapter and the idol of her family. From 40 to 55 woman is in her intel lectual prime, just as man is. If she will take care of herself, eat the proper food, take the right sort of exercise and enough of it--live the right sort of life, and keep her soul in the clear and inspir- ing atmosphere of gentle charity and sweet unselfishneSs she may be even more lovely to the outward eye during the latter part of her life than before. We have all seen women of 60 who were beautiful in that perfect loveliness which marks the passing of happy, use ful years We have seen in many cid faces the sweet and majestic peace of life which has been well worth living and such an old age is not without it's compensation.
 Between Middle and Old Age.
 But, in the meantime, from 40 until we become octogenarians, what is there for us? While our hearts are still young, our bodies still vigorous and our minds in the golden age of harvesting are we 
 thin and dyspeptic 50? l wot not. There is no sense, there is no justice and there is no wisdom in giving up at 40, or 50 or 60-and it is to women on the shady side of that awful period which is preceded by a death knell in every feminine heart the 40 year line-that l address this talk.
 Phenomenal Beauties
 We have all read of the wonderful Mi non de l. Enclos and her marvellous beau- ty, which never waned until after she was 60. We know that Helen of Troy did most of the mischief of her life after she was 45, and that Mime. Recamier was So beautiful at 56 that the street sweepers used to cease their labor to gaze and ex- claim "See the beautiful lady" as she passed, but we want to know how they did it. Among modern women whose names it is proper to mention publicly Mime. Adelina Patti Nicolini must be awarded the palm for the maintenance of her youth in face, form and complex ion until past her 50th year. But Mime. Patti has always since her girlhood been cared for in the most perfect fashion physically-she has never suffered any great sorrow and she has been systemat- ically spared all mental shocks and dis turbances-so that, beautiful and charm ing as she is today looking not an hour over 30, she is scarcely representative woman for the disapproval of the too
 
 fore forty"
 An Every Day Woman.
 Three weeks ago I made one of large house party, given in the Berkshires- we numbered sixteen-and the belle of the weeks pleasure was beautiful young grandmother, the mother of our hostess. The woman in question was be- tween 40 and 5O She is the most charm ing creature possible to imagine
 Picture to yourselves, all you dear readers who have dreamed about and meditated over and dreaded getting old and yet have felt that it was inevitable --and that as French writer says Q woman dies twice, once when she sees her beauty gone-and such an hour was In store for you, and this woman of splendid physique weighing 40 pounds, and measuring feet 6 inches with perfect figure 1.-the, round and svelte- a beautiful intellectual brow, with rip bling brown hair, violet blue eyes, merry and yet infinitely tender strong, straight nose, a red Tipped but rather large mouth, regular white teeth, dim pled chin, clear, firm skin, lovely throat and shoulders, dressed to perfection-and consider that am telling you very re- cent bit of history when l say that with two young maidens of the smart set, pair of debutantes of quite noted beauty and most lovely daughter, belle in her first season, the grandmother was the undisputed center of attraction of delightful week.
 Grandmother's Varied Charms.
 It was she who spoke the purest French with our young count and fluent German with the foreign attache where the rest of us would have helplessly fioundered she who played and sang, who never tired, whose endless wit and bright fepartee sent us to bed thinking delight ful things of her at night, she would delight us each morning afresh by her beauty, her dainty toilets and her gem uine enthusiasm and responsiveness.
 It was the grandmother who surpassed us all as a horsewoman, and in most correct bicycle costume mounted her wheel as gracefully as though she were stepping into her carriage. It was she again who had read every new book and knew the latest views concerning the most discussed prnb'A'''- nf the day o""