The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-02-08
WOMEN AND AGE.
Art. Nature and Common Sense have Done
Much for Wo1nalalzind
st. Louis Republic.

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man to be self-centered, she must still
not confound interest, simple and
honest, and the most common and
disagreeable Of tendencies to meddle'
[ know two women whose particular
mission in life seems to be to visit
orphan asylums. Both, | know, are
about the same age. One wears her
hair very straight and severe, and the
other wears hers becomingly fluffy.
One says it is worldly" to wear very
modish bonnets, and the other insists
upon her milliner making hers very
fetching. One wears gowns that may
be quite out of style for all she cares,
and the others have a nice little air
about them. One looks al the little
feet to see if shoes and stockings are
warm enough, and if they seem too
thin or worn she sends out box Of
new ones. The other talks about
reforms. and declares the lax man
agement of the institution (she al
ways says institution, with capital y
is simply shocking, and that the good
little matron is not firm enough, and
should not allow the children to frisk
in and out of their little beds-after
the manner Of children-when the
clock has chimed s.
Now, one of these women is chari-
table and the other meddlesome. Can
you guess which is which? Oh, yes,
1 know it is not particularly respect
full to call any woman who visits or
phan asylums meddlesome, but some
body is bound to do it sooner or later,
and so I might as well be first. And,
besides, I am only giving an object
lesson. am ambitious to add to the
art of staying young and good to look
upor, and 1 have discovered that many
a wrinkle is added by the persistent
desire that some women indulge in of
having the whole world run by their
own methods.
Men and women do not marry as
young in these ending days of the
century as they did in it's early days.
There, you see, is a very practical
reason for both desiring to keep
youthful in looks and ways. 1t has
been pointed out before, so the fact is
by this time pretty we'll absorbed,
that the novelist has advanced the
age of his heroines. "Sweet sixteen
only answers now for the lightest sort
of fiction. "Sweet sixteen is very
sweet, indeed, but somehow those Of us
of to-day would rather think of "sweet
sixteen" in the schoolroom and very
innocent and girlish, indeed, than
mixed up in the affairs of the heart
and of the world that try the souls of
men and women.
How much we owe to the novelist
for the vanishing of woman's age it
would be hard to tell, but certain it is
that Du Maurier, by his determined
portraying of tall women, made tall
women the fashion, and statistics
show that women are really taller now
than they were generation ago. May
be if we persist in calling women
young that we will find that the foun-
tain Of perpetual youth has really been
discovered.
But joking aside, ism it really very
nice to look about and find health
ier, happier and more youthful appear
ing lot of men and women than one
used to see?
The woman is wise who refuses to
call herself old, but she must remem
Der that when her first youth has real
ly past dignity and seriousness be-
come her better than fippancy and
frivolity. There is strength and
beauty in mature womanhood, and
nothing in manner or dress should be
allowed to dim it.
If you are a woman, and find when
you look in your mirror that your face
is certainly not as fresh and fair as it
used to be, make these two resolves
to take better care of your health than
you ever have before, and to carefully
rub out all the little lines night and
morning with the very best cold cream
that is in the market, for "be good
and you'll be beautiful is not wholly
true 1t needs another little clause
to make the sentence read: "Be good,
and healthy, and well-kept and you II
be beautiful. p"
MARGARET HANNls.
How Long lie Would Wait.