The times., 1899-08-27

for the preservation or stimulation of their
exquisite freshness
On his list of girlish matrons Mrs. Will
ian Sloan stands at the head Though she
] has had the life CT an average busy con-
| SeientiouS wife, mother, capable house
keeper. and ardent lover of social pleas
| ures; though she has married off two tall
daughters, she retains the appearance of a
woman well under thirty. Her richly abun-
| dant red gold hair shines with all the glory
of great youthfulness, and with slim, erect
| figure, and complexion as smoothly pink
as that of Dresden china shepherdess it
! is quite impossible to realize that she is
| in middle life
Perhaps her nearest rivals in retention
| OF youthfulneSs are Mrs. Belle Wilson and
Mrs. Fred Grant. When Mrs. Wilson stands
beside her daughter. Mrs George Remp.
there is not line. hair, a tint of skin,
or a curve of figure to indicate that there
is nearly twenty-five years difference in
| their ages. Almost as striking likeness
exists between the future Princess Ca
| tacuzene and her mother. In point of true
beauty Mrs Grant is the fairer woman of
the two, and stranger at Newport was
not even laughed at when seeing the
mother and daughter together he asked
which was the betrothed of the Russian
Prince.
Mrs. Henry Clews and Mrs. Van Rens-
selear CrUger both came in for first places
@nd exclamation points TO the amazed En-
glishman's list. Mrs. Clews is the mother
of daughter who has been four years in
society, and women who were Mrs. Cru
gers contemporaries as debutanteS are the
proud grandparents of en-year-cld boys
and girls. For all that Mrs. Cruger shows
complexion that an eighteen-year- r-old
girl might envy and pair of shoulders a
creek Venus would regard with approval.
Though younger woman, Mrs. Clews is
likely to retain her fine coloring, her beau
tif9i brown hair and her svelt figure as
long as Mrs. Cruger has.
Quite as remarkable as either of these
ladies are Mrs. Henry Poor, Mrs John
Wilmerding. and Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
The last mentioned lady is bringing into
society young daughter this season and
at nrst the Englishman fatty refused to
peiieve that grown-up daughter could
call the slight, viyacious little lady moth
er, and when he asked for an explanation
oil these remarkably preserved beauties
his informant made clear to him that by
exquisite care, temperance and good sense
our women have learned to keep their
ioyeiiness long after mere youth has gone.
Or all the women mentioned not one but
takes care never to let her appetite get
the better of her, to invariably catch nine
hours sleep out OF the twenty-four, to
spend three hours daily in the open air.
and to rely on massage cold water baths.
and physical exercise for the rest Mrs
Cruger. for example, did not in ten years
let so much as morsel of cake, one bon
bon, or spoonful OF sweet dessert to pass
her lips. Rain or shine she rode five
miles day on horseback, and after
winter of active gaities spent the summer
in the strictest country retirement.
Mrs. Clews is equally temperate at ia
BILE, regulating her food to Just go many
ounces day. and for exercise she walks
Mrs Sloan drives a great deal, looks after
her housekeeping actively and refuses to
worry. She drives away annoying refiec-
tion by keeping the mind and hands thor
oughly occupied with her home and So
cial duties and charities, and has taught
herself to drop into easy. natural sleep In
a moment.